OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Economics is 10. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	129
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	113
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	89
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	79
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	73
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	66
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	56
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	47
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	46
Landlords and access to opportunity	43
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	42
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	38
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	36
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	36
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	33
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	31
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	31
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	29
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	29
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	29
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	28
Editorial Board	28
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	28
Editorial Board	27
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	26

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	25
Editorial Board	25
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	25
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	24
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	23
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	22
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	21
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	21
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	21
Editorial Board	21
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	20
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	20
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	20
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	18
Spatial inequality and housing in China	18
Cities and the sea level	17
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	15
Commuting, gender and children	15
Pushing towards shared mobility	14
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	14
Foundations of cities	13
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	13
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	13
Editorial Board	12
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	12
Editorial Board	12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	12
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	12
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	12
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	12
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	11
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	11
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	11
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	11
Highways and segregation	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	10
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	10
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	10
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	10