Regional Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Studies is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010111
Making the Ontario craft beer market81
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises75
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China69
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions56
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?54
Regional innovation impact of universities49
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions49
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development48
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach48
Studying human agency in regional development48
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers47
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 India44
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?43
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events41
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions41
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach41
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system40
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry36
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development35
Dualism and payroll shares across US states35
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France35
An economic topology of the Brexit vote33
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?33
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK33
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions32
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China32
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market31
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies31
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation30
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia30
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups30
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions30
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities29
The Covid-19 shock in European regions29
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis28
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan28
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension28
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations27
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model26
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective26
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?26
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters25
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions25
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?25
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge25
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography24
Correction24
Correction24
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment24
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation23
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis23
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England23
The triumph of the placeless23
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country22
Regions beyond Industry 4.022
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions22
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils21
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job21
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population21
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock21
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms21
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies20
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues20
Regional Studies 2021 Awards20
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth20
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta19
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds19
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition19
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation19
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia19
Regions in Covid-19 recovery19
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective19
Population decline and changes in food store access19
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations18
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors18
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence18
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible18
Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium18
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,18
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times17
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?17
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents17
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system17
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system17
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions17
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal16
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms16
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law16
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards16
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland16
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)16
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies15
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture15
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data15
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies15
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany14
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy14
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy14
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures14
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone14
A capability-approach perspective on regional development14
The Routledge handbook of regional design14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy14
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises14
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology14
Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies14
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy14
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China13
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy13
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce13
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities13
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China13
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities13
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective13
Contents of volume 5612
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation12
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers12
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions12
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster12
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states12
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia12
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence12
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China12
Correction12
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis11
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France11
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1511
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?11
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city11
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement11
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK11
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region11
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective11
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence11
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade10
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals10
Regional Studies10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia10
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship10
Beer, brewing, and regional studies10
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives10
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation10
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization10
Contents of volume 5710
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity10
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets10
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities10
Regional Studies10
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles9
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics9
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies9
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda9
The foundational economy and regional development9
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas9
Protected areas and local economic development9
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils9
Machine learning and the identification of Smart Specialisation thematic networks in Arctic Scandinavia9
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia9
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems9
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 9
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe9
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late9
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts9
Volume index, 20218
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent8
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives8
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces8
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions8
Correction8
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?8
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain8
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization8
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions8
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action8
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies8
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy8
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market8
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU8
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context7
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland7
Smart cities and sustainable development7
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool7
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses7
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth7
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession7
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?7
Correction7
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China7
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan7
Urban competitiveness in developing economies7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries7
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions7
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs7
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy7
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions6
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development6
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges , edited by6
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms6
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-196
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison6
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes6
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective6
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance6
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts6
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies6
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China6
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China6
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments6
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 19266
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies6
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach6
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?6
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile6
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties6
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future6
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment6
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand6
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country6
Innovation for the masses: how to share the benefits of the high-tech economy5
Territories, environments, politics: Explorations in territoriology5
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