OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Economics is 12. 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
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	25
Editorial Board	25
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	25
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	24
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	23
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	23
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	22
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	22
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	22
Spatial inequality and housing in China	21
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	21
Commuting, gender and children	20
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	20
Editorial Board	20
Cities and the sea level	20
Editorial Board	20
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	19
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	18
Pushing towards shared mobility	18
Editorial Board	17
Foundations of cities	17
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	16
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	16
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	16
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	16
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	16
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	15
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	14
Highways and segregation	14
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	14
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	14
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	13
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	13
Editorial Board	12
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	12
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	12
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	12
Editorial Board	12