OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Regional Science is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of multi-homing in a ride-sharing market	43
Revisiting the growth poles: regional disparity and population redistribution policy	42
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
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	34
Reflecting on a dynamic biennium: The Annals of Regional Science 2022–2023	31
Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps	30
The National Civilized City campaign and corporate green innovation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	28
Location attributes explaining the entry of firms in creative industries: evidence from France	27
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	22
Domestic tourism demand in the North and the South of Europe in the Covid-19 summer of 2020	20
Understanding rural development policies: a proposal for a typology of the seven main policy repertoires in Europe and locally, based on French case studies	20
Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects	19
Sectoral–regional resilience and productive specialization: a comparison among the last three crises	19
Convergence in retail gasoline prices: insights from Canadian cities	17
The rise and fall of industrial clusters: experience from the resilient transformation in South Korea	17
Firm growth in the Portuguese footwear industry: the location dilemma	16
Labour productivity and regional labour markets resilience in Europe	16
The spatiotemporal effects of green fiscal expenditure on low-carbon transition: empirical evidence from china’s low-carbon pilot cities	15
Quality of life, quality of business, and destinations of recent graduates: fields of study matter	15
The roles of KIBS and R&D in the industrial diversification of regions	15
Evolution of the convergence in the European regions: 2000–2019	13
Labor market changes and social inclusiveness across regions: evidence from the rise of the modern office	13
Market fragmentation and the rise of sub-national regulation	12
Reverse causality between urbanization and economic growth: a global test on the validity of urbanization-led economic growth	12
Decomposing local bank impacts with demand thresholds	12

Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019	11
Cohesion policy and household income inequality: evidence from the Greek regions	11
Integrating perspectives for conversations on territory: turning to indigenous knowledge to inform policy and practice	11
Does private education pay off?	11
A decomposition of economic growth decompositions	10
Correction to: Urban environmental quality and out-migration intentions	10
Welfare costs of shopping trips	10
Spatial spillovers and the productivity-compensation gap in the United States	10
A bibliometric portrait of a regional science scholar: in memory of professor Börje Johansson	9
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	9
Economic integration and FDI location: Is there a border effect within the enlarged EU?	8
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	8
The geography of job automation in Ireland: what urban areas are most at risk?	8
The impact of high-speed railway on labor market between the North and South: evidence from China	7
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	7
The teleworking paradox: the geography of residential mobility of workers in pandemic times	7
Searching for a conceptual nexus? A critical analysis of community, place, and territorial approaches to rural development	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base	7
Enhancing the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems: a pathway analysis from the lens of resource orchestration theory	7
Shock absorber and shock diffuser: the multiple roles of industrial diversity in shaping regional economic resilience after the Great Recession	6
Try another municipality or leave the country? A disaggregated approach to determinants of internal migration and emigration for immigrants and natives in Norway	6
Demand-pull versus cost-push: monocentric equilibrium in a spatial network	6
The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions	6
The urban wage premium in a labor market with informality	6
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	6
Can local financial depth and dependence on external funding impact regional creation of new firms in Chile?	6
Inter-municipal cooperation and public employment: evidence from French municipalities	6
Urban density and COVID-19: understanding the US experience	6
Geopolitical risk spillovers and its determinants	6
Building bridges across the plurality of rural development research	6
Do businesses “vote with their feet” Too? Examining firm mobility in response to hurricane risk	6
Regional industrial competitiveness: tales of success and failures from European regions	5
Carbon tax vs. emission trading in a monopolistically competitive market with heterogeneous firms	5
Defining an ‘Epidemiological Risk Index’ to analyse COVID-19 mortality across European regions	5
Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout	5
Do businesses vote with their feet to access credit: local financial structure and business relocation	5
The impact of recreational marijuana dispensaries on crime: evidence from a lottery experiment	5
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	5
Cities and social entrepreneurship	5
Face-to-face contact and university–industry collaboration: evidence from mobile signaling data in Beijing	5
Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model	4
How does real estate market react to the iron ore boom in Australian capital cities?	4
Geography, age, and wellbeing following the COVID-19 shock	4
Self-employment career patterns in the Netherlands: exploring individual and regional differences	4
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	4
Unpacking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional mobility, economy, and sustainability: insights from Asia and beyond	4
Identifying the size and geographic scope of short-term rural cost-of-living increases in the United States	4
Public input and business tax competition in local communities in Brazil	4
Industrial clusters and carbon emission reduction: evidence from China	4
Digital entrepreneurship indicator (DEI): an analysis of the case of the greater Paris metropolitan area	4

Quantitative performance assessment of Asian stellar cities by a DEA cascade system: a capability interpretation	4
Does housing policy impact income sorting near urban amenities? Evidence from Vienna, Austria	4
Economic policy uncertainty, firm carbon emissions and regional heterogeneity: evidence from China's exporters	4
The impacts of privatization on employment, wages, and welfare in the presence of an informal sector	3
Do diverse degree courses matter for university attractiveness?	3
Viability of compact cities in the post-COVID-19 era: subway ridership variations in Seoul Korea	3
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	3
Do population density, socio-economic ranking and Gini Index of cities influence infection rates from coronavirus? Israel as a case study	3
Do municipal mergers internalise spatial spillover effects? empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities	3
Separation between firms’ headquarters and domiciles: an intraprovincial cross-city analysis	3
Economic crises and regional disparities in Brazil in the XXI century	3
Technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries: regional development and risk of poverty in the European regions	3
Frictional unemployment, bargaining, and agglomeration	3
Entrepreneurship in China’s peripheral regions	3
Immigration and the demand for urban housing	3
Foreclosures and housing prices: does neighborhood configuration matter?	3
Single-family home spaciousness and COVID-19	3
Cyclical behavior of hiring discrimination: evidence from repeated experiments in France	3
Piped water supply and usage and the question of services of general interest: a spatial panel data analysis	3
An alternative approach to estimating regional input–output tables: the KFLQ method	3