OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Urban and Regional Studies is 2. 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 border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	63
Work from home and big city out-migration before and after the pandemic	21
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	19
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	19
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	16
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	16
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	15
Winners of the 2025 Jim Lewis Prize	15
Urban circularity as a planning challenge: The ‘forgotten’ pillar of circular city agendas?	15
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class	15
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	14
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	14
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	13
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	13
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors	11
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	11
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona	11
Smart(er) rural areas: Framing ‘smart villages’ for conceptual development and EU policy	11
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	11
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	10
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	10
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	10
Corrigendum to “Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy”	9
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	9
‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	8

The financialization of rental housing 3.0	8
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	8
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	7
Anticipating demand shocks: Patient capital and the supply of housing	7
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	7
Small and smart municipalities: The evolving priorities and readiness for smart development	7
Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities	7
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	7
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	7
Permanence and change in urban segregation: Segregation trends in different neighbourhoods of Athens, 1991–2021	6
Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	6
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	6
The spatial division of precarious labour across the European Union regions: A composite index analysis of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis effects and COVID-19 initial implications	5
Exploring the effects of coworking in two European cities: Financialisation flows and consumption patterns in Athens and Berlin	5
In search of social equity in entrepreneurialism: The case of Israel’s municipal regeneration agencies	5
In search of divided spaces: socio-economic vulnerability and foreign citizens’ settlement patterns in some major cities of northern and southern Italy	5
A clean and civil city: Local associations and the moral bordering of Parisian public space	5
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	5
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	5
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: a BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas	5
Navigating regional opportunity spaces: Labour branching towards growing jobs	4
The regularity of informality: Reframing the formal–informal relationship with the help of informal housing in London	4
Exploring the network of the short-term rental financial complex	4
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland	4
Three theses on informal housing in Europe	4
Corrigendum	4
Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations	3
Housing markets and geographical labour mobility to high-productivity regions: The case of Stockholm	3
Publication Notice	3
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece	3
The assetisation of housing: A macroeconomic resource	3
Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy	3
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories	3
Violence reduction in a changing European urban context: Frontline practitioner’s understanding of the roots of violence, and why it matters for policy and prevention	3
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system	3
Phantom participation in European post-socialist cities: The Belgrade Waterfront expansion	3
The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash	2
Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva	2
The cultural and creative economy in Italy: Spatial patterns in peripheral areas	2
The permanent regime of temporary solutions: Housing of forced migrants in Europe as a policy challenge	2
Income and immigrant segregation in urban Spain	2
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times	2
Polycentricity of daily urban systems: A misconceived concept and buzzword in ‘metropolitan’ planning practice	2
Local labour market segmentation and migrant workers’ experiences: The case of the hotel industry in Venice	2
Strengthening the local heart of Europe	2
Winners of the 2023 Jim Lewis Prize	2
Enabling the emergence of shared housing for young adults in post-industrial cities: Between common interests and regulatory challenges	2
Smart and social? Assessing social value in the EU LEADER programme in rural Estonia	2
New scales of migration governance in the Mediterranean: Regional cities in the spotlight	2
Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark	2