OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Geography 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	134
Chinese firms bridging the standardization gap in 3GPP: liabilities of outsidership and the role of technological shifts	93
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	50
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	40
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	28
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	26
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	25
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	23
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	23
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	22
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	22
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	22
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds	21
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	19
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	18
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	18
Consumption zones	16
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	15
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	14
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	14
Regional development through simultaneous strategic coupling: the uneven formation and matching of regional assets with global production networks	13
Sovereignty, civic capital, and local development. A historical perspective in economic geography	13
Risk in networks: the role of finance in governing Denmark’s green hydrogen production network	13
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	12
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	12

Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	12
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	12
Lead firm strategies in the global textile and apparel industry: Are disruptions reconfiguring the geographies of production?	12
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	11
Structural change and spatial concentration of high-income earners: evidence from French regions since 1960	11
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	11
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	11
Ne me quitte pas! School closures and electoral outcomes in France	11
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	10
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	10
Rethinking evolutionary economic geography through a gender lens	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	10
Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	9
Close to home: bundled consumption, relatedness, and urban resilience in Seoul	9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	8
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
COVID, coup, and crises of social reproduction: exploring the effects of Myanmar’s polycrisis on migrant workers in global seafood production networks in Thailand	8
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	8
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?	7
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	7
The geography of standards—a regional analysis of ISO management system standards adoption in Germany	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Correction to: The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	7
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	6
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
Geography of medical care	6
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	6
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Does jurisdictional fragmentation cause sprawl?	6
Exploring labour regime circulation: the dynamic circulation of capital and labour in Norwegian shipyards	6
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
The effects of immigration restrictions on innovation: lessons from the age of mass migration in the USA	5
The making and unmaking of uneven development: the role of anchor firms in creating and overcoming industrial decline in East Germany	5
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5

Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	4
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	4
Merge or perish? Critical reflections on the economic geographies of university mergers	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	3
Caught in the coop: local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza	3
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	3
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: the example of the Chinese pesticide industry	3
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	3
Matching and sorting across regions	3
Political rotation of city leaders and unrelated diversification in China	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	3
The economic geography of climate change: recent progress and open questions	3
Workforce patterns and income disparities in a growing US city	3
Measuring firm activity from outer space	3
Green transition for whom? Garment production networks and the politics of climate crisis in Bangladesh	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Culture and cross-border commuting	3
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Publisher’s note on: Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
Do research universities recession-proof their regions? Evidence from state flagship college towns	2
Don’t stand so close to me: foreign and domestic incumbents and new business births	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography	2
Development in global production networks? Wind energy and socio-ecological conflicts in La Guajira, Colombia	2
Does polycentric regional development promote economic resilience? Empirical evidence from urban agglomerations in China	2
Fragmented governance, informal migrant workers and post-pandemic economic resilience: perspectives from the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India	2
Shaping gender inequality in urban geometric divergence: Evidence from China	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Cap-and-trade policies and regional environmental innovation: evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System	2
Culture, cities, and economic geography	2
The abandoned, the depressed, and the sacrificed: stretching the terms of the economic geographical debate on left-behind places	2
The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers	2