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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	92
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	67
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	51
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	50
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	50
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	36
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	26
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	21
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	18
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	18
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	16
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	16
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	16
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	13
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	13
Consumption zones	12
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	12
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	11
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	11
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	11
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10

Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	10
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	10
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	10
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	9
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	8
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	8
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	8
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	7
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	6
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	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
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	5
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	5
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	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	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	4

The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	4
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	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
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	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
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	3
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	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
Corrigendum to: Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	2
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing 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
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	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
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	2
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
Matching and sorting across regions	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
On the economic geography of climate change	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2