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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	40
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	34
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	31
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	30
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	19
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	19
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	17
The benefits of being a multi-capital: The economic impact of the international and European institutions and interest groups	17
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	17
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	15
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	14
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	14
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	13
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	13
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	11
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	11
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	11
Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden	11
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	10
Beyond renovation: Addressing Europe’s long housing crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	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”	10
Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives	10
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	9
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	9
Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities	8

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	8
Anticipating demand shocks: Patient capital and the supply of housing	8
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	8
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	8
In search of social equity in entrepreneurialism: The case of Israel’s municipal regeneration agencies	7
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	7
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	7
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: a BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas	6
Greening of regional industrial paths and the role of sectoral characteristics: A study of the maritime and petroleum sectors in an Arctic region	6
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	6
Exploring the effects of coworking in two European cities: Financialisation flows and consumption patterns in Athens and Berlin	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	6
From production to consumption-oriented development: New planning strategies in science parks? The case of Sophia-Antipolis	6
Temporality of agency in regional development	5
A clean and civil city: Local associations and the moral bordering of Parisian public space	5
The regularity of informality: Reframing the formal–informal relationship with the help of informal housing in London	4
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland	4
Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations	4
Three theses on informal housing in Europe	4
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories	4
Corrigendum	4
Exploring the network of the short-term rental financial complex	4
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece	4
Social innovation and austerity governance in Athens and Madrid: Rethinking the changing contours of policy and practice	3
The assetisation of housing: A macroeconomic resource	3
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system	3
Publication Notice	3
Housing markets and geographical labour mobility to high-productivity regions: The case of Stockholm	3
Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States	3
Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva	3
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times	2
The cultural and creative economy in Italy: Spatial patterns in peripheral areas	2
Local labour market segmentation and migrant workers’ experiences: The case of the hotel industry in Venice	2
The permanent regime of temporary solutions: Housing of forced migrants in Europe as a policy challenge	2
Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy	2
The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash	2
Winners of the 2023 Jim Lewis Prize	2
Polycentricity of daily urban systems: A misconceived concept and buzzword in ‘metropolitan’ planning practice	2
‘The countryside starts here’: How the urban-rural divide continues to matter in post-urban Flanders	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