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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	132
Regional income disparities, monopoly and finance	60
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	48
The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment: an investigation of social and political attitudes in 30 European countries	48
Regional foundations of energy transitions	48
Golfing with Trump. Social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US	33
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	29
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	26
Jiehebuor suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies	25
Rethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and inclusion	25
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	25
From globalising to regionalising to reshoring value chains? The case of Japan’s semiconductor industry	19
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	18
Reshoring by small firms: dual sourcing strategies and local subcontracting in value chains	18
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	17
The green transition and its potential territorial discontents	16
Discontent and its geographies	16
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	15
Theorising in urban and regional studies: negotiating generalisation and particularity	15
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	14
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	13
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
The post-Covid city	12
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions	11
Placing the platform economy: the emerging, developing and upgrading of Taobao villages as a platform-based place making phenomenon in China	11

Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	11
FinTech platform regulation: regulating with/against platforms in the UK and China	11
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: insights from Edmonton, Canada	10
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	10
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	10
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	10
‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan	10
Regional hierarchies of discontent: an accessibility approach	9
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	9
Regionalisation or domesticalisation? Configurations of China’s emerging domestic market-driven industrial robot production networks	9
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	9
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	9
Frugal innovation in energy transitions: insights from solar energy cases in Brazil	8
Reflections on the post-Covid city	8
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	8
Energy political ecologies in the South Pacific: the politics of energy transitions in Vanuatu	8
Platforms, blockchains and the challenges of decentralization	8
Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China	8
COVID Keynesianism: locating inequality in the Anglo-American crisis response	8
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	8
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	8
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	7
Offshore, re-shore, re-offshore: what happened to global manufacturing location between 2007 and 2014?	7
Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses: was weak executive federalism a curse or a blessing for COVID-19 management in the USA?	7
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	7
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	7
Impacts and implications for the post-COVID city: the case of Toronto	7
Productivity divergence: state policy, corporate capture and labour power in the USA	7
The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland	7
Places that matter: Australia’s crisis intervention framework and voter response	7
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	6
The political economy of places from a Sustainable Human Development perspective: the case of Emilia-Romagna	6
‘Left behind places’: what are they and why do they matter?	6
Pandemic polycentricity? Mobility and migration patterns across New York over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	6
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	6
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	6
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	6
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	6
Greening the cloud: oligopoly-driven institutional transformations of the US electricity grid for commercial and industrial power purchases	6
Beyond remain vs. leave: understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands	6
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	6
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	5
Regional value chains in the Global South: governance implications for producers and workers?	5
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	5
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	5
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: the case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA	5
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	5
Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis	5

Territorial and institutional obduracy in regional transition: politicising the case of Flanders’ energy distribution system	5
Creative strategies for spatial policy making in Brazilian ‘new left regionalism’: fighting inequalities and COVID-19 in the north-east region	4
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	4
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	4
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	4
Mobility, environment and inequalities in the post-COVID city	4
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	4
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	4
Recognising the geography of discontent in the USA: “Building Back Better” by countering regional divergence	4
COVID-19 vaccines: a geographic, social and policy view of vaccination efforts in Ontario, Canada	4
Electoral Politics of Disaster: how earthquake and pandemic relief was used to earn votes	4
Aligning industry interests with urban priorities to foster energy transitions: insights from two Chinese cities	3
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	3
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	3
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	3
Uneven geographies of economic recovery and the stickiness of individual displacement	3
When local business faded away: the uneven impact of Airbnb on the geography of economic activities	3