OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Geography 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves: Economic Geography, Let’s Dress Up!	128
Splitting Up or Dancing Together? Local Institutional Structure and the Performance of Urban Areas	60
Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks	46
The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream	41
Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification	40
“Expropriation of Capitalist by State Capitalist:” Organizational Change and the Centralization of Capital as State Property	40
Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe	39
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Learning from Cases	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	33
Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All	31
Turning Technological Relatedness into Industrial Strategy: The Productivity Effects of Smart Specialization in Europe	31
Refractive Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North	30
Evolving Market Infrastructures: The Case of Assetization in UK Social Housing	29
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World	27
Smart Specialization in Australia: Between Policy Mobility and Regional Experimentalism?	25
New Path Development in a Semi-peripheral Auto Region: The Case of Ontario	25
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at the Seaport	24
Related Variety and Regional Development: A Critique	23
Dialectics of Association and Dissociation: Spaces of Valuation, Trade, and Retail in the Gemstone and Jewelry Sector	22
Actually Existing Neoliberalism and Enterprise Formation in the Informal Economy: Interrogating the Role of Mediating Social Enterprises in India and South Africa	22
Creating Knowledge Assets under Biocapitalism: Analyzing China’s Biomedical Industry and Its Patent Networks	21
Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentHarnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentBy Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver HarmanAbingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2023	20
Business Services, Income Inequality, and Income Segregation in Metropolitan Areas: Direct and Indirect Links	16

Searching through the Haystack:The Relatedness and Complexity of Priorities in Smart Specialization Strategies	15
Innovative Finance for Development? Vaccine Bonds and the Hidden Costs of Financialization	14
The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling: On the Formation and Evolution of Sino-German Production Networks in Jieyang, China	14
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesUneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesBy Jennifer ClarkNew York: Columbia University Press, 2020.	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
In Real Estate Investment We Trust: State De-risking and the Ownership of Listed US and German Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts	13
Geographies of Knowledge Sourcing and the Complexity of Knowledge in Multilocational Firms	12
Behavioral Explanations of Spatial Disparities in Productivity: The Role of Cultural and Psychological Profiling	10
Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development	8
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities	8
Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy	7
The Role of Relatedness and Unrelatedness for the Geography of Technological Breakthroughs in Europe	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
Exploring the Economic Geographies of Sustainability Transitions: Commentary and Agenda	7
The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap	7
Finding Work in the Age of LGBTQ + Equalities: Labor Market Experiences of Queer and Trans Workers in Deindustrializing Cities	6
Volume 98 Annual Contents	5
Innovation Catalysts: How Multinationals Reshape the Global Geography of Innovation	5
Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions	5
Urban Geographies of Financial Convergence: Situating Indian Financial Centers across Global Production and Financial Networks	5
Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery	5
State–Firm Nexus, Indigenous Coupling, and Social Downgrading in the Aerospace Global Production Network: A Case Study of Embraer, Brazil	5
The Nexus between the Digital Service Economy and Intraregional Wage Inequalities	4
Environmental Upgrading and Downgrading in Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis	4
Relatedness, Cross-relatedness and Regional Innovation Specializations: An Analysis of Technology, Design, and Market Activities in Europe and the US	4
Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy	4
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa	4