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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	73
Housing supply elasticity and growth: evidence from Italian cities	59
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe	53
Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising?	44
The urbanising force of global warming: the role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population	38
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	37
Local sectoral specialization in a warming world	35
Putting the case for a pluralistic economic geography	29
The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	28
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	27
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	27
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions	24
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration	23
Colonial legacies: Shaping African cities	22
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	21
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses	18
Historical industrialisation, path dependence and contemporary culture: the lasting imprint of economic heritage on local communities	17
Immigrant diversity, integration and worker productivity: uncovering the mechanisms behind ‘diversity spillover’ effects	16
Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA	15
What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation?	15
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	14
Automobiles and urban density	14
How do firms in co-located clusters interact? Evidence from Greater Montreal	13
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	13
Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	13

The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics	12
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	12
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	11
The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome	11
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	10
Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis	9
Brexit and the discursive construction of the corporation	9
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	9
Local border reforms and economic activity	9
The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935–2015	9
Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions	9
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation	9
The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London	8
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	8
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	8
Do border effects alter regional development: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	7
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	7
Rival guests or defiant hosts? The local economic impact of hosting refugees	7
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	7
Accident externality of driving: evidence from the London Congestion Charge	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
The ‘China Shock’ revisited: insights from value added trade flows	6
Exposure to OFDI and regional labour markets: evidence for routine and non-routine jobs in Great Britain	6
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	6
Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy	6
National elections, sub-national growth: the politics of Turkey’s provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule	6
Immigration history, entry jobs and the labor market integration of immigrants	6