Journal of Regional Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Regional Science is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Migration and the location of MNE activities: Evidence from Italian provinces64
Determinants of tourist employment in Brazilian microregions: A dynamic panel data approach57
Corruption, Government Expenditure and Economic Performance at a Sub‐Regional Level: Evidence From India26
Legal heritage and urban slums25
Rediscovering regional science: Positioning the field's evolving location in science and society25
The spatial scope of agglomeration economies in Brazil23
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Local information and the stabilization role of local government: Evidence from a natural experiment in China20
Within‐city roads and urban growth19
From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?17
Access to credit and economic complexity: Evidence from Italian provinces17
Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the COVID‐19 pandemic14
Is distance really dying? Transportation and knowledge spillovers14
Regional multipliers across the Italian regions14
Home is where the history is: How today's migration in Germany is shaped by regional identity13
Capturing Inter and Intra Sectoral Productivity Spillovers in Industrial Filière: A System of Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Models13
Lights out: The economic impacts of Covid‐19 on cities globally13
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany13
Highway Construction, Labor Reallocation, and Welfare Gains Under Migration Frictions12
Cultural shock of high‐speed rail: Evidence from social trust12
From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy12
Building bridges of trust: Impact of regional digital financial inclusion on social capital in China11
The effect of open space maintenance spending on house prices11
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Taxing ride‐sharing: Which neighborhoods pay more?10
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A socioeconomic impact assessment of three Italian national parks10
COVID‐19 and employment relief programs: A tale of spatially blind policies for a spatially driven pandemic10
Does Greater Knowledge Complexity Promote Structural Upgrading? Evidence From Chinese Cities9
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Unintended distortion of regulating water use: Evidence from China9
Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Curse on Regional Economic Resilience: Evidence From China9
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Estimating National and Foreign Trade Elasticities Using Generalized Transport Costs9
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The task coordination method of intelligence‐alliance innovation team of universities in Western China8
Local employment multipliers for large publicly subsidized firms: Evidence from a synthetic control approach8
Promoting sustainable and high‐quality economic development in China via regional innovation poles8
The drivers of intra‐ and interregional labor mobility over the industry life cycle of the high‐tech sector8
Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany8
Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries8
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Postcrisis recovery in the regions of Europe: Does institutional quality matter?8
Electoral consequences of globalization for social democratic parties across European regions8
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The effects of robots on internal migration: Evidence from China7
Geographic Differences in the Effect of Immigration on the Native Wage Distribution: Evidence from Italian Provinces7
The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities7
Travel and Regional Development: A Quantitative Analysis of China7
Cities in a pandemic: Evidence from China7
Regional borders, local unemployment, and life satisfaction7
Looking ahead in anger: The effects of foreign migration on youth resentment in England6
Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for Portugal between 1991 and 20116
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Premature exit from and delayed entrance into the less developed status: An empirical appraisal of the structural funds allocation criterion6
The Long‐term Socioeconomic Impacts of Renewable Energy Deployment: Lessons From Case Studies in European Rural Regions6
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Regional disparities, transmission channels and country's economic growth6
Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi‐experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach6
Inter‐ and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy6
Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population versus nighttime lights5
Trust as a catalyst for regional growth in a decentralized Europe: The interplay between informal and formal institutions in driving economic growth5
Rationality test in the housing market: Project‐level evidence from China5
Racing to Zipf's law: Race and metropolitan population size 1910–20205
The empirical evidence of digital trends in more disadvantaged European Union regions in terms of income and population density5
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Who Bears the Brunt of Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of Grocery E‐Commerce on Local Retail Competitors5
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