OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 8. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	115
Regional income disparities, monopoly and finance	56
Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re)theorising	52
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	44
Towards an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison	41
The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment: an investigation of social and political attitudes in 30 European countries	41
Regional foundations of energy transitions	40
Golfing with Trump. Social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US	29
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	27
Jiehebuor suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies	24
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	23
Rethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and inclusion	22
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	21
The riskscapes of re/insurance	17
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	17
From globalising to regionalising to reshoring value chains? The case of Japan’s semiconductor industry	17
Urbanising climate justice: constructing scales and politicising difference	16
Discontent and its geographies	15
Theorising in urban and regional studies: negotiating generalisation and particularity	15
Reshoring by small firms: dual sourcing strategies and local subcontracting in value chains	14
Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change	14
Scalar postpolitics, inclusive growth and inclusive economies: challenging the Greater Manchester agglomeration model	13
Labour market polarisation as a localised process: evidence from Sweden	13
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	12
Racialised uneven development and multiple exposure: sea-level rise and high-risk neighbourhoods in Stockton, CA	12

Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	11
Climate change, the politics of anticipation and future riskscapes in Africa	11
Diversity in leading and laggard regions: living standards, residual income and regional policy	10
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	10
The strange case of urban theory	10
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	10
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions	10
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	10
‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan	10
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	10
Disrupting the riskscapes of inequities: a case study of planning for resilience in Canada’s Metro Vancouver region	9
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	9
Placing the platform economy: the emerging, developing and upgrading of Taobao villages as a platform-based place making phenomenon in China	9
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: insights from Edmonton, Canada	9
Environmental change, risk and vulnerability: poverty, food insecurity and HIV/AIDS amid infrastructural development and climate change in Southern Africa	9
Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice	8
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	8
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	8
Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China	8
Energy political ecologies in the South Pacific: the politics of energy transitions in Vanuatu	8
COVID Keynesianism: locating inequality in the Anglo-American crisis response	8
Regional hierarchies of discontent: an accessibility approach	8
Ecospatiality: transforming Kerala’s post-flood ‘riskscapes’	8
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	8