Regional Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Regional Studies is 8. 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
Regional development, power and topological reach: to reach out or fold in?31
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-1931
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
Career and family. Women’s century-long journey toward equity28
Female presence in local government and cost efficiency: the case of Italian municipalities28
I will survive! The impact of place-based policies when public transfers fade out28
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe27
The RSA Awards 2023 Regional Studies26
An economist’s review of A research agenda for governance, edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing26
An economist’s and a policymaker’s perspective: introduction26
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France25
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises24
Floods, terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic: the relationship between the (de)centralisation of power and the rally around the flag24
Local currencies for territorial development: lessons from a national survey in France24
Go Home! Beyond the urban–rural divide in France: an analysis of how ‘mental proximity’ benefits territorial development24
The local labour market effects of earthquakes24
Bangers and cash: partisan bias in local government grant allocations across Great Britain23
Still sticky after all those years? The resurgence of Marshallian districts in a world of global production networks23
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective23
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China23
Making the Ontario craft beer market23
Megaregion development, multilocal dwelling and well-being in China22
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India22
Spatial spillover effects of fiscal decentralization on governance and public administration quality22
Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience22
The tidal movements of spatial labour markets: perturbation and resilience22
Is the European Social Progress Index robust? Implications for the design of European Union regional Cohesion Policy21
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers21
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country21
Is biorefinery establishment enhancing the EU labour market on a regional level?20
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–201020
Higher education, regional growth and cohesion: insights from the Spanish case20
Protected Designation of Origin food chain arrangements: leveraging market power for small-scale producers in marginal regions19
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK19
Centralization versus decentralization of traffic law enforcement governance in Spain19
Digital meets smart: towards a technology-enhanced approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy development19
From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning19
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China19
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China19
Entrepreneurship and income inequality in cities: differentiated impacts of new firm formation and self-employment18
Herding and reverse herding in US housing markets: new evidence from a metropolitan-level analysis18
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach18
Disentangling agglomeration economies from selection under policy distortions in China18
Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry17
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement17
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities17
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future17
University graduates in metropolitan and peripheral areas: mobility, occupational choice and outcomes17
Preferential tax treatment – a political or economic tool?16
The relevance of smart cities’ features in exploring urban labour market resilience: the specificity of post-transition economies16
Correction16
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions16
Beer sales in grocery and convenience stores: a glass half-full for craft brewers?16
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states16
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States16
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region16
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?16
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city15
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK15
Waste recycling and yardstick competition among Italian provinces after the EU Waste Framework Directive15
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities15
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments15
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city14
Regional policies and sectoral outputs in Italy14
Smart urbanism in Africa: when theories do not fit with contextual practices14
The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage14
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China14
The economic resilience scorecard: regional policy responses for crises recovery14
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network14
Smart cities and urban inequality14
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China14
Linking place brands and regional innovation: sustainable business strategies leveraging heritage14
A fuzzy expert system for sustainable local development14
The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US listings14
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions14
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?14
Studying human agency in regional development13
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development13
China’s digital and green (twin) transition: insights from national and regional innovation policies13
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions13
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis13
Contribution to the theory of territorial development: a territorial innovations approach13
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence13
Which jobs make cities attractive to migrants? Explaining the changing distribution of migrants from their employment geography in transitional China12
Agglomeration economies: different effects on TFP in high-tech and low-tech industries12
Money and migration: a regional perspective from China12
Industrial robots, and information and communication technology: the employment effects in EU labour markets12
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness12
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1512
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme12
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach11
Analysis of multiple gravitational influences on interregional population migration in South Korea11
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks11
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development11
Asymmetry in the distribution of benefits of cross-border regional innovation systems: the case of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen innovation system11
Subnational leadership in response to environment and climate change11
Place promotion, place branding and social media communication around entrepreneurial ecosystems: a Twitter analysis11
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?10
Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession10
Return to skills and labour market size10
Migrants and refugees in Europe: Work integration in comparative perspective10
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies10
Examining the roles of universities in place-based industrial strategy: which characteristics drive knowledge creation in priority technologies?10
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?10
Handbook on city and regional leadership10
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster10
Structure, agency and local climate governance: how do individual actors exploit local contexts to shape policymaking in smaller cities and towns?10
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?10
Examining system-level agency in the context of spatially embedded industries: a study of Greater Manchester’s domestic retrofit industry10
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension10
Capital shocks, the great recession, and UK regional divergence9
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia9
The geographies of local austerity policies: a quantitative analysis of local budgets in France9
Agricultural economic complexity and regional inequalities: a new approach using census data from Brazil9
Contents of volume 589
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’9
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality9
COVID-19 vaccination rates and neighbourhoods: evidence from Sweden9
The capacity to innovate: Cluster policy and management in the biotechnology sector9
Clusters in times of uncertainty: Japanese and European perspectives9
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach9
The differential effects of exchange rate fluctuations on local housing price growth: evidence from Australia9
Regional recombinant novelty, related and unrelated technologies: a patent-level approach9
Productivity perspectives9
The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth9
Regional resilience and the network structure of inter-industry labour flows9
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform9
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions9
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China9
Zoning and urban restructuring: long-term change in the location of manufacturing in industrialised city-regions8
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?8
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market8
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis8
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities8
Correction8
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments8
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions8
The rise, fall and resurrection of soft spaces? The regional governance of transport policy in Wales8
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events8
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade8
Levelling up: the need for an institutionally coordinated approach to regional and national productivity8
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions8
Brokerage as an urban and regional process between systems and scales8
Networks, SMEs, and the university: The process of collaboration and open innovation8
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions8
Speed of spending and government decentralization: evidence from Italy8
Inclusive innovation in cities: from buzzword to policy8
Localism and the design of political systems8
Beer, brewing, and regional studies8
Facing up to the foundational economy: regional development, public policy and employment in Wales8
Depoliticizing urban futures: visionary planning and the politics of city-regional growth8
Contents of volume 578
Regional Studies8
The impact of the recovery fund on EU regions: a spatial general equilibrium analysis8
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity8
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