OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Regional Science is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Firm growth in the Portuguese footwear industry: the location dilemma	54
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	41
Does private education pay off?	41
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	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	40
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	32
The longer the daily commute to school, the lower the student attendance: evidence from Brazil	29
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	22
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	21
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	20
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	20
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	19
Self-employment career patterns in the Netherlands: exploring individual and regional differences	19
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	19
Geographical accessibility to upper secondary education: an Italian regional case study	18
Modelling health mobility for equity distribution services in the emergency health sector	17
What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning	17
Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles	17
Economic vulnerability in US metropolitan areas	16
Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level?	15
How regional economic structure matters in the era of COVID-19: resilience capacity of U.S. states	15
Income inequality in Italian regions: an empirical study on the mitigating role of organisation-based volunteering	15
Remote work and location preferences: a study of post-pandemic trends in Italy	14
The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities	14
Study on the impact of the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway on regional economic equity based on economic performance	14

The spatial spillover effect of carbon emission trading scheme on green innovation in China’s cities	14
The relationship between patriotism and regional identification: a cross-country analysis	13
What makes German manufacturing plants move locations?	13
Is Europe prepared to live without emissions? A dynamic analysis of the energy transition in economic sectors	13
Entrepreneurship and geography—some thoughts about a complex relationship	13
The impact of 2010–11 Christchurch earthquakes on the individuals’ income by sector and income level	12
The role of commuter rail accessibility in the formation of residential land values: exploring spatial heterogeneity in peri-urban and remote areas	12
Labor force diversity and new firm formation	12
Uneven spatial patterns and disparate socioeconomic impacts of intercity labor mobility in China	11
Migrations in Spain: econometric models with demographic and economic variables (1950–2021)	10
Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: evidence from Italian provinces	10
Simple geographies for complex problems? Revisiting long-term urbanization and settlement population mismatches using elasticity indicators and context-based nonparametric analysis	9
Dynamics of collaboration among high-growth firms: results from an agent-based policy simulation	9
Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis	9
Does FDI quality boost the city-level green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China?	9
An uneven landscape of public services for people of color: identifying endogeneity in the relationship between local race composition and public expenditure	8
The role of collaboration and external knowledge for innovation in small food firms	8
Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions	7
Exploring the direct rebound effects for residential electricity demand in urban environments: evidence from Nice	7
Entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict regions: evidence from Ukraine	7
Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation”	7
Correction to: Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	7
Knowledge networks in joint research projects, innovation and economic growth across European regions	7
The growth and development of Nordic regional science research 1982–2022: bibliometric evidence from thirteen regional science journals	7
The impact of short-term rental activity on house prices: evidence from coastal Virginia	7
Understanding rural development policies: a proposal for a typology of the seven main policy repertoires in Europe and locally, based on French case studies	6
The spatiotemporal effects of green fiscal expenditure on low-carbon transition: empirical evidence from china’s low-carbon pilot cities	6
Welfare costs of shopping trips	6
Inter-municipal cooperation and public employment: evidence from French municipalities	6
Integrating perspectives for conversations on territory: turning to indigenous knowledge to inform policy and practice	6
Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects	6
The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base	6
Piped water supply and usage and the question of services of general interest: a spatial panel data analysis	6
Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps	6
Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019	6
Can digital economy reshape urban spatial structure? Evidence from the perspective of urban sprawl	6
Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout	6
The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions	6
Green and digital entrepreneurship in smart cities	5
Do municipal mergers internalise spatial spillover effects? empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities	5
Technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries: regional development and risk of poverty in the European regions	5
Does intermunicipal cooperation favor higher firm creation? French evidence from a natural experiment	5
Do city borders constrain ethnic diversity?	5
Cooperation bias in regional policy: Is competition neglected?	5
An aggregate approach to estimating quality of life in micropolitan areas	5
Face-to-face contact and university–industry collaboration: evidence from mobile signaling data in Beijing	5
Ranking the Spanish regions according to their resilience capacity during 1965–2011	5
Analysis of the income effect by the digital divide: focus on Korean farmers	5
Club convergence of regional housing prices in China: evidence from 70 major Cities	5
Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy	5

Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model	5
Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders	5
Air pollution and income inequality: a spatial econometric approach	5
Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy	5
Macroeconomic and environmental consequences of circular economy measures in a small open economy	4
Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics	4
Where does ethnic discrimination occur most intensely? the role of city size and location in labour discrimination: the Ecuadorian case	4
Unveiling urban spatial dynamics in climate and air quality indicators: a local estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve and the impact of green infrastructure	4
The rise and fall of urban concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries	4
Locational error in the estimation of regional discrete choice models using distance as a regressor	4
Industrial robots, social networks, and the gig economy	4
One size does not fit all: evaluating the impact of microenterprise measurement on policy evaluation	4
Spatial machine learning: new opportunities for regional science	4
The uneven geography of the health system and its effect on the individual probability of death by COVID-19	4
Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue	4
Land-cover/land-use change dynamics modeling based on land change modeler	4
Anxiety about the pandemic and trust in financial markets	4
How does regional integration affect CO2 emission intensity? A natural experiment based on the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, China	4
Correction to: The role of collaboration and external knowledge for innovation in small food firms	4