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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	98
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	65
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	28
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	26
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	22
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	21
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	21
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	21
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	20
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	20
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	19
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
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	16
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	16
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	15
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds	15
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	14
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	14
Consumption zones	14
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	12
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	12
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	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

Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	9
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	9
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	9
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	8
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	8
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	7
Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?	7
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	7
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	6
Correction to: The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	6
Geography of medical care	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6