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 2021-05-01 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
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	11
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
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	10
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
‘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