OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Planning Studies is 6. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	107
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities	68
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks	67
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	56
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	53
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal	45
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	43
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	43
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	37
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	33
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	31
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation	31
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town	31
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	31
Correction	30
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements	30
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions	27
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective	26
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency	25
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations	24
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece	24
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency	23
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France	23
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges	23
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	22

A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	22
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls	22
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?	22
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law	21
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	20
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry	19
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?	19
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland	19
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond	18
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen	18
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context	18
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts	17
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities	17
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)	16
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	15
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing	15
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stron	15
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	14
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area	14
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view	14
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’	14
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s	14
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters	14
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology	14
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds	14
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully	13
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design	13
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future	12
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan	12
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions	12
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India	12
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas	12
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future	12
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis	12
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake	11
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises	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
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings	11
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	11
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions	11
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	11
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective	10
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply	10
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools	10
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	10
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)	10
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity	10
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region	10
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway	10
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries	10

The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland	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
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	10
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection	9
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	9
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	9
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	9
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn	9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	9
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	9
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands	9
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	9
Branding soft spaces	9
Mining activity and island landscape issues: evidence from Cyclades islands, Greece	9
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	9
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?	9
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)	9
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries	8
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam	8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	8
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model	8
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	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
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	8
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	8
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development	8
Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present)	8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden	8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	8
Publishers’ Note	8
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies	8
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe	7
Just city planning competitions in Helsinki: between the power of image and many images of power	7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions	7
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective , edited by M	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
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain	7
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously	7
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level	7
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination	7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)	7
Responsible innovation for addressing grand societal challenges: the role of social innovation, exaptation, and retrovation	6
The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes	6
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning	6
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region	6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)	6
‘Transitory urbanism’ for the creative industries in a top-down regeneration process (Nantes, France)	6
Identifying the determinants of vacuum tube high-speed train development with technology roadmapping – a study from Poland	6
Courtyards of Krakow’s old town: greenery in the context of improving the housing environment	6
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe	6
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region	6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	6
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal	6
The Korean approach to Industry 4.0: the 4th Industrial Revolution from regional perspectives	6
Star architecture projects and the geographies of innovation across the construction supply chain: the case of the Elbphilharmonie	6
Towards a greener future? Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions	6
Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?	6
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions	6
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	6
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	6
Behind the Big Box: understanding the planning-development dialectic of large distribution centres in Europe	6
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges	6
Moving beyond townscape to eventscape: comparison of Lisbon and Istanbul	6