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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	177
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	79
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	55
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	44
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux	43
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	39
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	36
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	36
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	31
Sponge City for flood control: implementation, challenges and opportunities	30
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	28
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	27
Mobilising for local energy democracy in the United States: confronting political lock-in and private capture in the campaign for public power	27
From theory to practice: evaluating civic participation in Naples’ remunicipalised water service	26
Upward job mobility in local economies	24
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	24
Deglobalization: three scenarios	23
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	22
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	21
State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina	21
Correction to: The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	21
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	21
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	19
Referees 2023	19
Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China	19

Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	18
Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China	17
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	16
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	15
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	15
Reply: What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’?	15
The age of crisis	14
How places are contesting the privatisation of local public services	14
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	13
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	13
Referees 2025	13
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	13
Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline	13
Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends	13
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	13
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	13
Critical geographies of the circular economy	12
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	12
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	12
Resilience of consumer city under heatwaves	11
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	11
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	11
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	11
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	11
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	11
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	10
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	10
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	9
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	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
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	9
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	8
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	8
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	8
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	8
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	8
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Municipalising housing policy: place-based alternatives to neoliberalism in Chile	8
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	7
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	7
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	7
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	7
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	7
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	7
Chinese climate statecraft: governing low-carbon transitions through state campaigns, local adaptation and market-making	7
Correction to: the following papers	7
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	7
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	7
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	6
Global digital networks	6

Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	6
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	6
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	6
Publicness and local public service delivery choices: the role of place-based institutions	6
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	6
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	6
Referees 2024	6
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	6
What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra	6
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	6
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	6
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	6
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	5
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	5
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	5
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	5
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	5
Remunicipalisation and the prospects for more equitable place-based development	5
Remunicipalisation and resistance to privatisation of local water services: lessons from Argentina	5
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	5
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	5
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector	4
The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies	4
Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions	4
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
When local business faded away: the uneven impact of Airbnb on the geography of economic activities	4
Consumption at what cost? Neighbourhood complexity and heat hazard	4
Electoral Politics of Disaster: how earthquake and pandemic relief was used to earn votes	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
Platforms, blockchains and the challenges of decentralization	4
State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4
Rethinking path dependence and lock-ins in regions, economy and society	4