OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	132
Coastal towns as ‘left-behind places’: economy, environment and planning	48
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	48
When local business faded away: the uneven impact of Airbnb on the geography of economic activities	48
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	33
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	29
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	26
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	25
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	25
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	22
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	21
Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg	19
Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)	17
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	16
Electoral Politics of Disaster: how earthquake and pandemic relief was used to earn votes	16
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	15
Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses: was weak executive federalism a curse or a blessing for COVID-19 management in the USA?	14
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	13
Construction minerals as part of an urban circular economy? A multi-scalar study of the city of Oslo and its hinterland	12
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	12
Impacts and implications for the post-COVID city: the case of Toronto	11
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	11
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	11
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	10
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: the case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA	10

Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	10
Pandemic polycentricity? Mobility and migration patterns across New York over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic	10
The green transition and its potential territorial discontents	10
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	9
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	9
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	9
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	9
‘Left behind places’: what are they and why do they matter?	9
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	8
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	8
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	8
‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan	8
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	8
Places that matter: Australia’s crisis intervention framework and voter response	8
Territorial and institutional obduracy in regional transition: politicising the case of Flanders’ energy distribution system	8
The post-Covid city	8
The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies	7
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	7
Beyond remain vs. leave: understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands	7
Correction to: Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	7
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	7
Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector	7
Empowering left-behind places in Southwest China: participation in coffee value chains as place-based development	7
Regional foundations of energy transitions	6
Platforms, blockchains and the challenges of decentralization	6
Critical geographies of the circular economy	6
Global digital networks	6
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	6
FinTech platform regulation: regulating with/against platforms in the UK and China	6
The role of time and space in the identification of left behind regions: a case study of Denmark	6
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	6
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	6
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	6
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	6
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	5
Editorial Statement	5
COVID-19 vaccines: a geographic, social and policy view of vaccination efforts in Ontario, Canada	5
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
A tale of two recoveries: uncovering the imbalance between state-driven production and private consumption in post-pandemic Wuhan, China	5
Greening the cloud: oligopoly-driven institutional transformations of the US electricity grid for commercial and industrial power purchases	5
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	5
Covid-19 and a state in crisis: what can the UK learn from its own history?	5
Deglobalization: three scenarios	4
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	4
High-tech development for “left behind” places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem	4
Reflections on the post-Covid city	4
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	4
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	4

Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	4
Crisis and the welfare state: the role of public employment services for job placement and the Danish flexicurity system during COVID-19	4
Evolutionary economic geography: the role of economics and why consilience matters	4
Upward job mobility in local economies	4
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	3
From globalising to regionalising to reshoring value chains? The case of Japan’s semiconductor industry	3
The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment: an investigation of social and political attitudes in 30 European countries	3
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	3
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	3
Localised waste reduction networks, global destruction networks and the circular economy	3
Tensions and duality in developing a circular fashion economy in Kenya	2
Referees 2021	2
COVID Keynesianism: locating inequality in the Anglo-American crisis response	2
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	2
Editorial Statement	2
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	2
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	2
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	2
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	2
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	2
Reacting to the 2008 crisis: Competitiveness performances of Southern Italy and CEE regions	2
The symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects: inter-referencing, legitimating strategies and circulating practices in three Latin American megaprojects	2
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	2
Rethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and inclusion	2
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	2
Referees 2022	2
Global forces and local impacts: megatrends in regional development	2
Responsibility fixes: patching up circular economy value chains	2
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	2
Regional value chains in the Global South: governance implications for producers and workers?	2
Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?	2
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	2