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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	90
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	60
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	25
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	24
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	21
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	20
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	19
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	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	18
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	15
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	15
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	14
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	14
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	14
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
Consumption zones	13
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	12
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	12
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
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10

Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	10
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	9
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	8
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	8
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	8
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	8
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	8
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	7
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	7
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
International knowledge spillovers	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
Geography of medical care	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	6
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	6
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6