OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 30. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland	156
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	103
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	90
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	67
Making the Ontario craft beer market	65
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	60
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	58
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	55
Regional innovation impact of universities	54
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	53
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach	52
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?	49
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	48
Studying human agency in regional development	48
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	46
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	45
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	43
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective	43
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	41
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	40
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	37
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	37
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy	36
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	35
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	33

Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	32
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	31
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	30
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension	30
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	30
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	30