OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Urban and Regional 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 2021-06-01 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
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
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	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
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	13
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	13
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
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	11
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
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	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
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
In search of social equity in entrepreneurialism: The case of Israel’s municipal regeneration agencies	7
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
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