OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics is 27. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	136
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	121
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	90
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	79
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	69
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	60
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	52
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	47
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	46
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	45
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	42
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	41
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	41
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	40
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	39
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	38
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	34
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	31
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	31
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	30
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	30
Editorial Board	29
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28

Editorial Board	28
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	27