OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Planning Studies is 7. 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
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks	104
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	64
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	63
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities , By Babu Jacob	53
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	52
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal	47
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	44
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	43
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	39
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town	36
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	36
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation	30
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	30
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	30
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	30
Correction	29
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations	29
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law	26
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements	26
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	25
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions	24
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective	24
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency	23
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece	23
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland	22

In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces	22
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations	22
Diagrams as a comparative tool to understand the territorial evolution of port city regions	22
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges	21
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?	21
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	20
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France	20
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency	20
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	19
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls	18
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry	18
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?	18
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area	17
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view	17
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond	17
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology	17
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen	17
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context	15
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities	15
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters	15
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s	14
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)	14
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stron	14
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts	14
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	14
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds	14
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’	13
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future	13
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	13
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing	13
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully	13
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	13
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design	13
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions	12
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India	12
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future	12
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake	11
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis	11
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings	11
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning , by Vedik Basetti, Chandan Kumar	11
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan	11
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective	11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions	11
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas	11
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	11
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises	11
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region	10
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland	10
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)	10
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification	10

Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	10
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply , by Quintin Bradle	10
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway	10
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools	10
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity	10
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden	10
Integrating green infrastructures in spatial planning: a scrutiny of regional tools in Sardinia, Italy	10
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?	9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
Mining activity and island landscape issues: evidence from Cyclades islands, Greece	9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	9
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	9
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	9
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	9
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries	9
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection	9
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	9
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	9
Branding soft spaces	9
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	9
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn	9
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	9
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	9
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)	8
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra	8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden	8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	8
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam	8
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	8
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	8
Publishers’ Note	8
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands	8
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries	8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model	8
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	8
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	8
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously	7
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom	7
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe	7
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies	7
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	7
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)	7
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination	7
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies	7
Revealing the circularities in farmers’ market networked infrastructure of Western Anatolia	7
Just city planning competitions in Helsinki: between the power of image and many images of power	7
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development	7
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level	7