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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	93
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	86
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	70
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities	60
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	51
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	44
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	43
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town	42
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation	42
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	37
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	35
Emerging social innovation ecosystems – a case study of urban development in Finland	35
Correction	28
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece	28
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency	28
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	27
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations	27
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions	27
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law	26
Spatio-temporal analysis of built-up area dispersion: evidence from South Aegean Islands	26
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective	25
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges	25
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland	25
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France	23
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?	23

The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	22
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls	21
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	19
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?	19
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts	19
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry	19
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds	18
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)	18
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters	18
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond	17
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area	17
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view	17
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management	16
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context	16
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities	16
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology	15
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing	15
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen	15
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India	14
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future	14
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’	14
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	14
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s	14
Regional inequality in Türkiye: a new determination method	13
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future	13
Are spatial plans transformative for biodiversity and ecosystem services? Insights from seven European countries	13
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas	12
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake	12
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions	12
Who supports what? How startups navigate through the support organizations of an entrepreneurial ecosystem	12
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions	12
Incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent situations and complementary opportunities	12
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises	12
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis	11
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design	11
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	11
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning	11
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings	11
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully	11
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden	10
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	10
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries	10
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective	10
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)	10
China's Belt and Road Initiative, Marine Transportation and Energy Infrastructure at Sines, Portugal and Piraeus, Greece with the ‘Athenian Riviera’ Mass Tourism Gigaproject	10
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region	10
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply	9
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity	9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	9

Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway	9
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland	9
Branding soft spaces	9
Asset sourcing dynamics for green industry path development	9
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools	9
A comprehensive review of regional innovation policy research: policy paradigms, evolution and underexplored topics	9
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	9
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	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
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	8
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	8
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	8
Cluster emergence, development and organisation in contrasting institutional settings: insights from United Kingdom and Norway	8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden	8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	8
Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present)	8
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)	8
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	8
The role of industry 4.0 and open innovation practices in the renewal path of an industrial cluster	8
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	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
Science and productivity in European firms: how do regional innovation modes matter?	7
Small-town renaissance: bridging technology, heritage and planning in shrinking Italy	7
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions	7
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	7
Toward an urban logistics design: programming logistics in mixed-use urban projects in Île-de-France	7
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective	7
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain	6
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	6
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously	6
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination	6
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning	6
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions	6
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region	6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	6
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies	6
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region	6
Air transport impact on the regional development of Western Europe: a study on potential airport accessibility and international border effects	6
‘Transitory urbanism’ for the creative industries in a top-down regeneration process (Nantes, France)	6
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe	6
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development	6
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies	6
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal	6
Predicting land-use dynamics in the Venlo-Düsseldorf borderland: a GIS-based study	6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)	6