OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 31. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	208
Regional innovation impact of universities	136
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	109
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	86
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	61
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	59
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	59
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland	59
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?	55
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach	52
Making the Ontario craft beer market	50
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	49
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	49
Studying human agency in regional development	45
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	44
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	44
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	42
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	40
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy	40
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	40
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	39
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	39
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	39
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups	38
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	37

Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	37
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	36
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	35
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	34
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	34
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	31
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	31
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	31