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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Chinese firms bridging the standardization gap in 3GPP: liabilities of outsidership and the role of technological shifts	147
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	99
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	57
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	46
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	30
Contested clocks: uniformity and resistance in global time zone standardization	29
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	29
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	26
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	26
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	25
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	25
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	25
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	24
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds	23
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	22
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	20
Consumption zones	18
Europe’s two towers: the uneven regional geography of telecommunication standard essential patents	18
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	18
Regional development through simultaneous strategic coupling: the uneven formation and matching of regional assets with global production networks	16
Sovereignty, civic capital, and local development. A historical perspective in economic geography	15
Risk in networks: the role of finance in governing Denmark’s green hydrogen production network	15
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	14
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	14
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	13

The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	13
Ne me quitte pas! School closures and electoral outcomes in France	13
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	13
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	13
Lead firm strategies in the global textile and apparel industry: Are disruptions reconfiguring the geographies of production?	12
Structural change and spatial concentration of high-income earners: evidence from French regions since 1960	12
Structural embeddedness and brokerage in property markets: an iterative approach to evolving market architectures	12
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	12
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	11
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	11
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	10
Rethinking evolutionary economic geography through a gender lens	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
Close to home: bundled consumption, relatedness, and urban resilience in Seoul	10
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	10
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	10
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	10
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	9
Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry	9
COVID, coup, and crises of social reproduction: exploring the effects of Myanmar’s polycrisis on migrant workers in global seafood production networks in Thailand	9
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	9
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	9
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	8
Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?	8
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	8
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
The geography of standards—a regional analysis of ISO management system standards adoption in Germany	8
Correction to: The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	7
Care in economic geography: foundation and frontier	7
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	7
The local economic and innovation spillover effects of mega firm subsidiaries	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Crowdfunding and industrial diversification	6
Geography of medical care	6
Decentralization, ethnic fractionalization, and public services: evidence from Kenyan healthcare	6
Does jurisdictional fragmentation cause sprawl?	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
Exploring labour regime circulation: the dynamic circulation of capital and labour in Norwegian shipyards	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
The effects of immigration restrictions on innovation: lessons from the age of mass migration in the USA	5
The making and unmaking of uneven development: the role of anchor firms in creating and overcoming industrial decline in East Germany	5
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	5
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	5

Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	5
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
Fiber broadband, geography of work, and digital premium gaps: evidence from housing market responses	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
Merge or perish? Critical reflections on the economic geographies of university mergers	4
Culture and cross-border commuting	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	3
The economic geography of climate change: recent progress and open questions	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	3
Intellectual property rights and the efficiency of international production networks: evidence from the automotive industry	3
Matching and sorting across regions	3
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Navigating the polycrisis: resilience strategies of firms in global production networks	3
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: the example of the Chinese pesticide industry	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Measuring firm activity from outer space	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	3
Caught in the coop: local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
Workforce patterns and income disparities in a growing US city	3
The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers	2
The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Green transition for whom? Garment production networks and the politics of climate crisis in Bangladesh	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Fragmented governance, informal migrant workers and post-pandemic economic resilience: perspectives from the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India	2
Planetary boundaries as spatial constraints: rethinking regional development under ecological limits	2
Culture, cities, and economic geography	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
Shaping gender inequality in urban geometric divergence: Evidence from China	2
Cap-and-trade policies and regional environmental innovation: evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Political rotation of city leaders and unrelated diversification in China	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
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2