OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 26. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Regions in a time of pandemic	109
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	83
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	80
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	64
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	63
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe	60
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	52
Diversifying in green technologies in European regions: does political support matter?	46
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	45
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	38
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	36
Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?	35
Assembling mega-urban projects through state-guided governance innovation: the development of Lingang in Shanghai	35
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	34
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	33
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	33
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	32
Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future	30
The foundational economy and regional development	30
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	30
Regional planning is dead: long live planning regional futures	30
From ‘entrepreneurial’ to ‘engaged’ universities: social innovation for regional development in the Global South	30
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	29
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	29
City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling	28

Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston	27
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	26
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions	26
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	26