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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities	77
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	71
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	59
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal	56
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	51
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	48
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	45
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	37
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks	37
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town	35
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	34
Emerging social innovation ecosystems – a case study of urban development in Finland	34
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	33
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	32
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation	31
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions	30
Correction	30
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective	27
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency	26
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece	25
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations	24
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland	24
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
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls	23

A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	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	22
Improving incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent development of metropolitan types in the US and Europe	21
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency	20
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	20
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?	19
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	19
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry	18
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen	18
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts	18
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond	18
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities	17
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)	17
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view	16
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stron	16
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area	15
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s	15
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds	15
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters	14
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context	14
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	14
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology	14
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
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design	13
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’	13
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises	12
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully	12
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	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
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future	12
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	11
Who supports what? How startups navigate through the support organizations of an entrepreneurial ecosystem	11
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis	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
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas	11
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden	10
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions	10
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity	10
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings	10
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan	10
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries	10
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions	10
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake	10
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland	9
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools	9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	9

Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)	9
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply	9
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region	9
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective	9
China's Belt and Road Initiative, Marine Transportation and Energy Infrastructure at Sines, Portugal and Piraeus, Greece with the ‘Athenian Riviera’ Mass Tourism Gigaproject	9
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway	9
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	9
Asset sourcing dynamics for green industry path development	9
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection	9
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
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)	8
Branding soft spaces	8
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?	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
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	8
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	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
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	8
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	8
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	8
The role of industry 4.0 and open innovation practices in the renewal path of an industrial cluster	7
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	7
Just city planning competitions in Helsinki: between the power of image and many images of power	7
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	7
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	7
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries	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
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model	7
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam	7
Publishers’ Note	7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions	7
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal	6
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe	6
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies	6
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously	6
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)	6
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region	6
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain	6
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination	6
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level	6
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development	6
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region	6
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	6
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	6
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies	6