OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Geography is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	92
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	67
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	51
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	50
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	50
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	36
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	26
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	21
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	18
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	18
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	16
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	16
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	16
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	13
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	13
Consumption zones	12
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	12
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	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	11
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10

The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	10
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	10
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	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
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	8
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	7
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	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
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6