OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	100
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	68
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	49
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	42
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux	35
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	34
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	27
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	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	26
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	25
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	23
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	22
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	22
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	21
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	20
Deglobalization: three scenarios	20
Upward job mobility in local economies	19
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	19
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	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	17
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	17
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	16
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	16

Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China	16
Referees 2023	16
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	15
Reply: What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’?	14
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	14
The age of crisis	14
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	14
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	12
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	12
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	12
Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends	12
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	12
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	12
Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline	12
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	11
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	11
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	11
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	11
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	11
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	10
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	10
Referees 2025	10
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	9
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	9
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	9
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	8
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	8
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	8
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	8
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	8
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	8
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	8
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	6
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	6
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	6
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	6
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	6
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	6
Correction to: the following papers	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	5

The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	5
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	5
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	5
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Global digital networks	5
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	5
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	5
What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra	5
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
Referees 2024	4
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	4
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	4
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	4
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
Electoral Politics of Disaster: how earthquake and pandemic relief was used to earn votes	3
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	3
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	3
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	3
When local business faded away: the uneven impact of Airbnb on the geography of economic activities	3
Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector	3
Lock-in, resilience and path development in old industrial regions: an agency-based explanation	3
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	3
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	3
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	3
State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber	3
The role of time and space in the identification of left behind regions: a case study of Denmark	3
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	3
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	3
Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions	3
Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)	3
The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies	3