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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	109
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	73
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	55
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux	45
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	37
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	36
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	30
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	28
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	28
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
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	24
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	23
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	23
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	22
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	22
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	22
Deglobalization: three scenarios	21
Upward job mobility in local economies	21
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	18
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	18
State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina	18
Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China	18
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	17
Referees 2023	17

Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China	16
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	16
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	15
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	15
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	15
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	14
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	14
Reply: What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’?	14
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	14
The age of crisis	14
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	13
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	12
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	12
Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends	12
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	12
Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline	12
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	12
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	11
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	11
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	11
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	11
Referees 2025	11
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	10
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	10
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	9
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	9
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	9
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	9
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	9
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	9
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	9
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	8
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	8
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	8
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	8
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	8
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	8
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	7
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	7
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	6
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	6
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	6
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	6
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	6
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	6
Correction to: the following papers	6

Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	6
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	6
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	6
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	5
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	5
What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra	5
Referees 2024	5
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	5
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	5
Global digital networks	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	5
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	5
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	4
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	4
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
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	4
Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions	4