OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux	154
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	91
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	69
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	47
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	40
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	39
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	33
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	33
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	31
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	29
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Upward job mobility in local economies	29
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	29
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	27
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	27
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	27
Deglobalization: three scenarios	26
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	23
From theory to practice: evaluating civic participation in Naples’ remunicipalised water service	23
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	20
Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China	20
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	19
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	19
Referees 2023	18

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

The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	7
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	7
Referees 2024	6
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	6
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	6
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	6
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	6
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	6
What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra	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
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	6
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	6
Publicness and local public service delivery choices: the role of place-based institutions	6
Global digital networks	6
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
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	5
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	5
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	5
Rethinking path dependence and lock-ins in regions, economy and society	5
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
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	5
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	5