OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Geography is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	88
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	63
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	50
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	49
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	48
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	34
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	33
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	26
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	21
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	18
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	17
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	17
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	16
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	15
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	15
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	14
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	13
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	13
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	11
Accident externality of driving: evidence from the London Congestion Charge	11
Consumption zones	11
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	11
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	10
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	10

The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	10
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	9
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	8
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	8
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	8
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	8
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	6
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	6
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions	5
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	5
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	5
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	5
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	5
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	5
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	4
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	4
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	4
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	4
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	4
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	4
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4

The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	3
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	3
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	3
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935–2015	3
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	3
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	3
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	2
Matching and sorting across regions	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
On the economic geography of climate change	2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	2
Publisher’s note on: Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	2
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	2
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	2