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 economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	41
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	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
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	31
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	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