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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	99
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	75
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	55
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	40
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	27
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	21
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	20
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	19
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	18
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	17
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	16
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	14
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	14
Consumption zones	13
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	13
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	12
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	11
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	11

The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	11
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	10
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	9
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	9
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	9
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	9
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	9
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	9
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	8
International knowledge spillovers	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	7
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	6
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	5
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	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
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4

Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	4
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	3
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	3
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	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
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	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
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	2
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	2
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	2
Matching and sorting across regions	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2