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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Studying human agency in regional development	128
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	86
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	77
Regional innovation impact of universities	59
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	55
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	53
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	52
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	49
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	48
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	46
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	45
Making the Ontario craft beer market	45
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	45
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	44
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?	43
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	41
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	39
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	38
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	37
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	37
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	36
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	36
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	36
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	34
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	33

Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	33
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis	32
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	32
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	31
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	31
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?	30
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	30