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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	179
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	68
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	62
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	57
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	56
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	37
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	36
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	31
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	28
Upward job mobility in local economies	27
Deglobalization: three scenarios	26
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	25
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	25
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	25
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	24
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	21
Referees 2021	21
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	19
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	19
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	18
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	17
Referees 2023	17
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	16
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	16
The age of crisis	15

The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	15
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	14
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	14
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	14
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	14
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	13
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	13
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	13
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	12
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	12
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	12
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	12
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	12
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	12
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	11
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	11
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	11
Critical geographies of the circular economy	11
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	10
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	10
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	10
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	10
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	10
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	10
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	9
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	9
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	9
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	9
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	8
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	7
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	7
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	7
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	7
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	7
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	6
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	6
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	6
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	6
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	6
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	6
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	6
Referees 2024	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
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	5
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	5
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	5
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	5
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	5
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	5
Global digital networks	5
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	5
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	4
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	4
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	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
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4
Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)	4
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
Electoral Politics of Disaster: how earthquake and pandemic relief was used to earn votes	4
Recognising the geography of discontent in the USA: “Building Back Better” by countering regional divergence	4
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4