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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	103
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	78
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	56
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	41
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	27
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	22
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	21
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	20
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	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	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
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	14
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	14
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	13
Consumption zones	13
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	13
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	13
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	12
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	11
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	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	10
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	10
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	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
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	9
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	8
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	8
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
International knowledge spillovers	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	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	7
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
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
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	6
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	6
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	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
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	6
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	5
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
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	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	4
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4

Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	4
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	3
Matching and sorting across regions	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	3
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	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
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
Corrigendum to: Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	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
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	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