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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	111
Making the Ontario craft beer market	81
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	75
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	69
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	56
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	54
Regional innovation impact of universities	49
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	49
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	48
Studying human agency in regional development	48
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	48
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	47
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	44
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	44
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	43
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	41
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	41
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	41
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system	40
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	36
Dualism and payroll shares across US states	35
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	35
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	33
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	33

An economic topology of the Brexit vote	33
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	32
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	32
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	31
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	31
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	30
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups	30
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	30
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	30