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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	98
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	65
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	28
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	26
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	22
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	21
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	21
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	21
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	20
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	20
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	19
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	17
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	16
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	16
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	15
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds	15
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	14
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	14
Consumption zones	14
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	12
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	12
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	10
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10

Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	10
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	9
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	9
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	9
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry	8
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	8
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	8
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	7
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	7
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	7
Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?	7
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	7
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	6
Correction to: The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	6
Geography of medical care	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	5
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	5
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	5
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	5
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	5
Exploring labour regime circulation: the dynamic circulation of capital and labour in Norwegian shipyards	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	4
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	4
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	4
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	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 culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	3
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	3
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	3
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	3
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	3
Culture and cross-border commuting	3
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	3
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	3
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	2
The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
Matching and sorting across regions	2
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	2
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	2
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: the example of the Chinese pesticide industry	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
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2