Regional Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 29. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
City preparedness for the climate crisis. A multidisciplinary approach99
Regional innovation impact of universities68
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city68
Understanding affordability: The economics of housing markets66
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China57
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic51
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 192649
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms47
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties47
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?46
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence45
Editorial Board 202444
Policy change and innovation in multilevel governance Policy change and innovation in multilevel governance , by Arthur Benz, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2021. vi + 189 pp43
Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies42
Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data41
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?40
Understanding green regional path development: a systematic study of the Nordic regions39
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment37
Industry evolution, resilience and regional embeddedness: the case of the Danish microbrewing industry37
Unseen costs: the inequities of the geography of innovation36
Global financial networks, municipal offshore financing and state-sponsored city-regional development35
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes35
Contents of volume 5635
The city and quality of life33
Regional capability, evolutionary economic geography and global production networks32
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-1931
Regional development, power and topological reach: to reach out or fold in?31
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand30
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers30
Corruption versus efficiency in water allocation under uncertainty: is there a trade-off?29
Keep calm and carry on emitting: cap-and-trade rules, local emissions and growth29
COVID-19 and labour market resilience: evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour29
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