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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	100
Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re)theorising	50
Regional income disparities, monopoly and finance	50
The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment: an investigation of social and political attitudes in 30 European countries	39
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	38
Towards an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison	37
Regional foundations of energy transitions	36
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	24
Golfing with Trump. Social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US	24
Jiehebuor suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies	23
Rethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and inclusion	19
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	18
The riskscapes of re/insurance	17
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	16
Urbanising climate justice: constructing scales and politicising difference	16
From globalising to regionalising to reshoring value chains? The case of Japan’s semiconductor industry	16
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	16
Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change	14
Scalar postpolitics, inclusive growth and inclusive economies: challenging the Greater Manchester agglomeration model	13
Theorising in urban and regional studies: negotiating generalisation and particularity	13
Discontent and its geographies	13
Racialised uneven development and multiple exposure: sea-level rise and high-risk neighbourhoods in Stockton, CA	12
Reshoring by small firms: dual sourcing strategies and local subcontracting in value chains	12
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	11
Labour market polarisation as a localised process: evidence from Sweden	11

Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	10
The strange case of urban theory	10
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	10
Diversity in leading and laggard regions: living standards, residual income and regional policy	10
‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan	10
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: insights from Edmonton, Canada	9
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions	9
Climate change, the politics of anticipation and future riskscapes in Africa	9
Environmental change, risk and vulnerability: poverty, food insecurity and HIV/AIDS amid infrastructural development and climate change in Southern Africa	9
Disrupting the riskscapes of inequities: a case study of planning for resilience in Canada’s Metro Vancouver region	8
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	8
Ecospatiality: transforming Kerala’s post-flood ‘riskscapes’	8
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
The post-Covid city	7
Places that matter: Australia’s crisis intervention framework and voter response	7
Energy political ecologies in the South Pacific: the politics of energy transitions in Vanuatu	7
Riskscapes, politics of scaling and climate change: towards the post-carbon society?	7
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	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
From a comparative gesture to structured comparison: an analysis of air pollution control in Beijing and Delhi	6
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	6
Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice	6
Greening the cloud: oligopoly-driven institutional transformations of the US electricity grid for commercial and industrial power purchases	6
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	6
Productivity divergence: state policy, corporate capture and labour power in the USA	6
Offshore, re-shore, re-offshore: what happened to global manufacturing location between 2007 and 2014?	6
Stuck inside the urban with the dialectical blues again: abstraction and generality in urban theory	6
Regional hierarchies of discontent: an accessibility approach	6
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	6
The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland	6
Beyond remain vs. leave: understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands	6
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	5
Frugal innovation in energy transitions: insights from solar energy cases in Brazil	5
The political economy of places from a Sustainable Human Development perspective: the case of Emilia-Romagna	5
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	5
Impacts and implications for the post-COVID city: the case of Toronto	5
Regionalisation or domesticalisation? Configurations of China’s emerging domestic market-driven industrial robot production networks	5
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	5
‘They know they’re not coming back’: resilience through displacement in the riskscape of Southwest Washington, DC	5
FinTech platform regulation: regulating with/against platforms in the UK and China	5
Riskscapes of gender, disaster and climate change in Indonesia	5
Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China	5
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	5
Placing the platform economy: the emerging, developing and upgrading of Taobao villages as a platform-based place making phenomenon in China	5
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	5
Creative strategies for spatial policy making in Brazilian ‘new left regionalism’: fighting inequalities and COVID-19 in the north-east region	4
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	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
Territorial and institutional obduracy in regional transition: politicising the case of Flanders’ energy distribution system	4
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	4
Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis	4
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	4
Reflections on the post-Covid city	4
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	4
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: the case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA	4
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	4
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
Platforms, blockchains and the challenges of decentralization	4
Pandemic polycentricity? Mobility and migration patterns across New York over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic	4