OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Geography is 3. 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
Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves: Economic Geography, Let’s Dress Up!	122
Splitting Up or Dancing Together? Local Institutional Structure and the Performance of Urban Areas	57
The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream	46
“Expropriation of Capitalist by State Capitalist:” Organizational Change and the Centralization of Capital as State Property	39
Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks	39
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Learning from Cases	38
Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe	38
Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification	38
Psychological Openness and the Emergence of Breakthrough vs. Incremental Innovations: A Regional Perspective	36
The Financial Industry Sets Sights on Institutional Investors: A Relational Approach to Property Investment Outsourcing	33
Relocation Decisions in Uncertain Times: Brexit and Financial Services	31
Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All	29
Evolving Market Infrastructures: The Case of Assetization in UK Social Housing	28
Turning Technological Relatedness into Industrial Strategy: The Productivity Effects of Smart Specialization in Europe	28
Refractive Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North	27
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World	25
Smart Specialization in Australia: Between Policy Mobility and Regional Experimentalism?	24
New Path Development in a Semi-peripheral Auto Region: The Case of Ontario	24
Related Variety and Regional Development: A Critique	23
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at the Seaport	23
Actually Existing Neoliberalism and Enterprise Formation in the Informal Economy: Interrogating the Role of Mediating Social Enterprises in India and South Africa	22
Dialectics of Association and Dissociation: Spaces of Valuation, Trade, and Retail in the Gemstone and Jewelry Sector	21
Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentHarnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentBy Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver HarmanAbingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2023	20
Creating Knowledge Assets under Biocapitalism: Analyzing China’s Biomedical Industry and Its Patent Networks	20
Business Services, Income Inequality, and Income Segregation in Metropolitan Areas: Direct and Indirect Links	16

The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling: On the Formation and Evolution of Sino-German Production Networks in Jieyang, China	15
Searching through the Haystack:The Relatedness and Complexity of Priorities in Smart Specialization Strategies	14
Innovative Finance for Development? Vaccine Bonds and the Hidden Costs of Financialization	14
Labor Regimes, Global Production Networks, and State–Society Relations: Assessing the Impact of the EU–Vietnam Free Trade Agreement on Labor in Vietnam	13
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesUneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesBy Jennifer ClarkNew York: Columbia University Press, 2020.	13
Geographies of Knowledge Sourcing and the Complexity of Knowledge in Multilocational Firms	12
In Real Estate Investment We Trust: State De-risking and the Ownership of Listed US and German Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts	12
Behavioral Explanations of Spatial Disparities in Productivity: The Role of Cultural and Psychological Profiling	10
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities	8
Exploring the Economic Geographies of Sustainability Transitions: Commentary and Agenda	7
Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development	7
The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap	7
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia By Henry Wa	7
The Changing Shape of Spatial Income Disparities in the United States	7
Decoding China’s Export Miracle: A Global Value Chain Analysis	6
Urban Geographies of Financial Convergence: Situating Indian Financial Centers across Global Production and Financial Networks	6
State–Firm Nexus, Indigenous Coupling, and Social Downgrading in the Aerospace Global Production Network: A Case Study of Embraer, Brazil	6
Finding Work in the Age of LGBTQ + Equalities: Labor Market Experiences of Queer and Trans Workers in Deindustrializing Cities	5
Innovation Catalysts: How Multinationals Reshape the Global Geography of Innovation	5
The Role of Relatedness and Unrelatedness for the Geography of Technological Breakthroughs in Europe	5
Volume 98 Annual Contents	4
Environmental Upgrading and Downgrading in Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis	4
Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions	4
Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy	4
Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery	4
Relatedness, Cross-relatedness and Regional Innovation Specializations: An Analysis of Technology, Design, and Market Activities in Europe and the US	3
Variegated Economies	3
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa	3
The Nexus between the Digital Service Economy and Intraregional Wage Inequalities	3