OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux	160
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	71
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	51
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	41
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	36
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	34
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	32
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	31
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	31
Mobilising for local energy democracy in the United States: confronting political lock-in and private capture in the campaign for public power	28
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Sponge City for flood control: implementation, challenges and opportunities	26
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	26
What do we owe a place? How the debate about left-behind places is challenging how we distribute public funding and the problems it should address	23
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	21
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	21
Deglobalization: three scenarios	20
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	20
From theory to practice: evaluating civic participation in Naples’ remunicipalised water service	20
Upward job mobility in local economies	19
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	18
Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China	18
State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina	18
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	17
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	17

Correction to: The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	17
Referees 2023	16
Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China	15
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	15
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	15
Reply: What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’?	14
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
The age of crisis	13
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	13
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	13
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	13
Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends	13
Referees 2025	12
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	12
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	12
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	12
Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline	12
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	11
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	11
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	11
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	11
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	11
Critical geographies of the circular economy	11
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	11
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	10
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	10
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	10
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	9
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	9
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	9
Correction to: Escaping and creating lock-ins in accelerating low-carbon transitions: conceptual reflections and empirical insights from electricity and auto-mobility transitions in Europe, the USA an	9
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	8
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Municipalising housing policy: place-based alternatives to neoliberalism in Chile	7
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
Correction to: the following papers	7
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	7
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	7
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	7
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	7
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	7
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	7
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	7
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	6
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	6
Global digital networks	6
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	6

Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	6
What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	6
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	6
Publicness and local public service delivery choices: the role of place-based institutions	6
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	6
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	6
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	5
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	5
Referees 2024	5
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	5
Remunicipalisation and resistance to privatisation of local water services: lessons from Argentina	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	5
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	5
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	5
Remunicipalisation and the prospects for more equitable place-based development	4
Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions	4
Rethinking path dependence and lock-ins in regions, economy and society	4
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
Escaping and creating lock-ins in accelerating low-carbon transitions: conceptual reflections and empirical insights from electricity and auto-mobility transitions in Europe, the USA and China	4
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	4
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	4
Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)	4