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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	157
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	72
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	58
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	54
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	48
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	41
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	35
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	29
Upward job mobility in local economies	26
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	25
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	25
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	24
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	21
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	21
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	21
Referees 2021	20
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	18
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	17
Referees 2023	16
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	15
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	15
The age of crisis	14
Aligning industry interests with urban priorities to foster energy transitions: insights from two Chinese cities	14

Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	14
Frugal innovation in energy transitions: insights from solar energy cases in Brazil	14
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	14
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	12
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	12
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	12
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	12
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	12
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	11
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	11
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	11
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	11
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	10
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	10
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	10
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	10
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	10
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	10
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	9
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	9
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	9
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	9
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	8
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	8
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	8
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	8
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	8
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	8
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	8
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	7
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	7
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	7
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	7
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	6
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	6
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: the case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA	6
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	6
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	6
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	6
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: insights from Edmonton, Canada	6
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	6
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	6

Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	5
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	5
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	5
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	5
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	5
Global digital networks	5
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	5
Territorial and institutional obduracy in regional transition: politicising the case of Flanders’ energy distribution system	5
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	4
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	4
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	4
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
Referees 2024	4
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	4
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	4
Recognising the geography of discontent in the USA: “Building Back Better” by countering regional divergence	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4