OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Regional Science 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
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Urban empires: Cities as global rulers in the new urban world	26
Can regional policies shape migration flows?	25
Do agglomeration economies affect firms’ returns to training? Evidence based on French industrial firms	24
Are old regions less attractive? Interregional labour migration in a context of population ageing	24
Nonparametric prediction for univariate spatial data: Methods and applications	23
Special economic zones and land misallocation: Evidence from Chinese cities	23
The effect of neighborhood composition on ethnic discrimination in the labor market	23
Mental health assimilation of rural–urban migrants in developing countries: Evidence from Indonesia's four cities	21
Unpacking the black box of knowledge externalities: intra-MNE networks vs. spatial spillovers	20
Spatial pattern of aid allocation in the early 21st century: Evidence from 38 sub-Saharan African countries	19
Editorial Board	18
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Issue Information	17
World City Innovation and Service Networks and Economic Growth	16
Land: How the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world	14
Editorial Board	14
The distributional characteristics of Interreg Transnational Programmes and their role in promoting regional cohesion	14
The mutual specialization of port and urban functions: The case of France	14
Skills for smart specialisation: Relatedness, complexity and evaluation of priorities	14
Book review	14
Book review	14
Editorial Board	13
Impact of Marcellus and Utica shale exploitation on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia Regional Economies: A synthetic control analysis	13

A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development: The Uneven Evolution of Cities and Regions	12
Social capital, social economy and economic resilience of Italian provinces	12
Issue Information	12
Does urbanization matter in the expenditure‐happiness nexus?	12
Spatial mobility and overeducation of young workers: New evidence from France	11
Issue Information	11
Neighbourhood change in Genesee and Kent Counties, Michigan, 1970–2019	11
The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?	11
A holistic approach of the labour productivity slowdown in the regions of the European Union	10
São Francisco River Transposition Project: Socio‐economic impacts in Brazilian Northeast semi‐arid region	10
Spatial and interindustry interactions in labour productivity convergence: An Industrial Journey via Galician Shires, 2010–2018	10
Innovation, complexity, and economic evolution: From theory to policy. Pier Paolo Saviotti. New York: Routledge, 2023. 282 pp. Hardback £125.00. ISBN 9781032278148.	10
Cultural heritage sites, tourism and regional economic resilience	10
Does the high‐speed rail network improve economic growth?	10
Information communication technology and manufacturing decentralisation in China	10
One-size-does-not-fit-all: The heterogeneous impact of BITs on regions participating in GPNs	10
Border cities: Out of the shadow	10
Roads and intra‐national trade: Evidence from Italian regions	9
Proposition for an additional input output multiplier metric to access the value contribution of regional cluster industries	9
Tourism and territorial growth determinants in insular regions: A comparison with mainland regions for some European countries (2008–2019)	9
New frontiers of policy evaluation in regional science	9
Acknowledgement to referees	9
Keeping races in their places: The dividing lines that shaped the American city	9
Spatial heterogeneities, institutions, and income: Evidence for Brazil	8
Marshallian and Jacobian externalities in creative industries: Evidence from Chile	8
Does the bullet train exacerbate urban shrinkage? Lessons from Japan	8
Issue Information	8
A spatial origin‐destination approach for the analysis of local tourism demand in Italy	8
Networking and spatial interactions: What contributes most to increasing museums' attractiveness?	8
Government reform and innovation performance in China	8
The impact of natural disasters: How the 2009 earthquake transformed the economy of L’Aquila’s labour market area	8
Creating and maintaining film clusters: Synthetic control method analysis of the enactment and repeal of US state film incentives	8
Unpacking the U‐shaped relationship between related variety and firm sales: Evidence from Japan	8
A longitudinal study of evolving polycentric pattern in Shanghai	7
Mapping regional strengths in a key enabling technology: The distribution of Internet of Things competences across European regions	7
Travel mode choice as a representation of travel utility: A multilevel approach reflecting the hierarchical structure of trip, individual, and neighborhood characteristics	7
Digitalisation, platformisation and the transformations of local labour markets	7
Growth, working capital and refinancing: The geography of post-pandemic regional financial resilience in UK SMEs	7
Issue Information	6
Cultural gravity and redistribution of growth through migration: Cohesion lessons from spatial econometrics and topological data analysis	6
“Natural” disasters and regional governance: Evidence from European NUTS-3 regions	6
Cultural participation in Cultural and Creative Cities: Positive regional outcomes and potential congestion concerns	6
Urbanization and COVID‐19 incidence: A cross‐country investigation	6
Book review	6
Book review of “Regional policy: Theory and practice” by Ugo Fratesi	6
An amenity‐based approach to excellent returning scientists' location choice in China	6
The external effects of public housing developments on informal housing: The case of Medellín, Colombia	6
How to delineate urban gravitational zones? GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis and Huff’s model in urban hierarchy modeling	6
No time for crime? The effect of compulsory engagement on youth crime	6
Book review	6

Economic vulnerability and its effects on conditional convergence clubs in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil