OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics is 26. 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.)

Article	Citations
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	171
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	113
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	104
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	91
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	89
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	81
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	69
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	67
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	67
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	65
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	49
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	48
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	45
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	43
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	40
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	39
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	35
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	33
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	31
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	29
Editorial Board	29
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28

Editorial Board	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	26
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
Editorial Board	26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	26