OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Regional Science is 5. 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
Firm growth in the Portuguese footwear industry: the location dilemma	56
The longer the daily commute to school, the lower the student attendance: evidence from Brazil	41
Willingness to pay for green buildings post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: differences between high- and low-income areas and high- and low-price settlements	34
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	30
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	26
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	26
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	25
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	24
Does private education pay off?	23
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	21
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	21
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	20
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	19
What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning	19
Economic vulnerability in US metropolitan areas	19
Self-employment career patterns in the Netherlands: exploring individual and regional differences	19
Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles	16
Geographical accessibility to upper secondary education: an Italian regional case study	16
Social capital and the internal mobility of graduates: a gravity model at the Italian provincial level	16
How regional economic structure matters in the era of COVID-19: resilience capacity of U.S. states	16
Modelling health mobility for equity distribution services in the emergency health sector	16
Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level?	15
Income inequality in Italian regions: an empirical study on the mitigating role of organisation-based volunteering	15
Is Europe prepared to live without emissions? A dynamic analysis of the energy transition in economic sectors	15
What makes German manufacturing plants move locations?	14

Remote work and location preferences: a study of post-pandemic trends in Italy	13
The spatial spillover effect of carbon emission trading scheme on green innovation in China’s cities	12
The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities	12
Does FDI quality boost the city-level green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China?	11
The relationship between patriotism and regional identification: a cross-country analysis	11
Simple geographies for complex problems? Revisiting long-term urbanization and settlement population mismatches using elasticity indicators and context-based nonparametric analysis	10
The impact of 2010–11 Christchurch earthquakes on the individuals’ income by sector and income level	10
Migrations in Spain: econometric models with demographic and economic variables (1950–2021)	10
Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis	10
The role of commuter rail accessibility in the formation of residential land values: exploring spatial heterogeneity in peri-urban and remote areas	10
Correction to: Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	9
Uneven spatial patterns and disparate socioeconomic impacts of intercity labor mobility in China	9
Skill-related thickness and employment growth in China’s urban labour market	9
Dynamics of collaboration among high-growth firms: results from an agent-based policy simulation	9
Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: evidence from Italian provinces	9
Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation”	8
Digital divide and income inequality: causal evidence from Italian provinces	8
The impact of short-term rental activity on house prices: evidence from coastal Virginia	8
Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions	8
Entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict regions: evidence from Ukraine	8
Understanding rural development policies: a proposal for a typology of the seven main policy repertoires in Europe and locally, based on French case studies	8
An uneven landscape of public services for people of color: identifying endogeneity in the relationship between local race composition and public expenditure	8
Exploring the direct rebound effects for residential electricity demand in urban environments: evidence from Nice	8
The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base	8
The growth and development of Nordic regional science research 1982–2022: bibliometric evidence from thirteen regional science journals	8
Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps	7
The spatiotemporal effects of green fiscal expenditure on low-carbon transition: empirical evidence from china’s low-carbon pilot cities	7
Can digital economy reshape urban spatial structure? Evidence from the perspective of urban sprawl	7
Face-to-face contact and university–industry collaboration: evidence from mobile signaling data in Beijing	7
Welfare costs of shopping trips	7
Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019	7
Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model	7
Inter-municipal cooperation and public employment: evidence from French municipalities	7
The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions	7
Integrating perspectives for conversations on territory: turning to indigenous knowledge to inform policy and practice	7
Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout	7
Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects	7
Air pollution and income inequality: a spatial econometric approach	6
Analysis of the income effect by the digital divide: focus on Korean farmers	6
An aggregate approach to estimating quality of life in micropolitan areas	6
EU funds and TFP growth: how the impact changed over time and space	6
Do municipal mergers internalise spatial spillover effects? empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities	6
Ranking the Spanish regions according to their resilience capacity during 1965–2011	6
Does intermunicipal cooperation favor higher firm creation? French evidence from a natural experiment	6
Do city borders constrain ethnic diversity?	6
Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy	6
Piped water supply and usage and the question of services of general interest: a spatial panel data analysis	6
Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders	6
Technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries: regional development and risk of poverty in the European regions	6
Club convergence of regional housing prices in China: evidence from 70 major Cities	6

Estimation of global and regional patterns of flows	6
Where does ethnic discrimination occur most intensely? the role of city size and location in labour discrimination: the Ecuadorian case	5
Unveiling urban spatial dynamics in climate and air quality indicators: a local estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve and the impact of green infrastructure	5
Industrial robots, social networks, and the gig economy	5
Locational error in the estimation of regional discrete choice models using distance as a regressor	5
One size does not fit all: evaluating the impact of microenterprise measurement on policy evaluation	5
Reconstructing high-quality tourism spatial structure: an empirical study of Shanxi Province from the perspective of supply and demand	5
KIBS agglomeration and labor productivity in the Chilean mining sector	5
Anxiety about the pandemic and trust in financial markets	5
Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy	5
How does regional integration affect CO2 emission intensity? A natural experiment based on the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, China	5
The great recession and job loss spillovers: impact of tradable employment shocks on supporting services	5
Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics	5
Cooperation bias in regional policy: Is competition neglected?	5
Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue	5
Land-cover/land-use change dynamics modeling based on land change modeler	5