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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	83
Erratum to: Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural-urban migration in China	59
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	47
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation	47
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	46
Matching and sorting across regions	33
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	29
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	24
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	20
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	18
Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood	17
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	17
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	15
Welcome back! The impact of ‘return initiatives’ on return migration to rural regions	15
What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation?	14
Quantifying land-use regulation and its determinants	13
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	13
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	12
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	12
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime	11
Local border reforms and economic activity	11
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	11
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	11
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	10
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	10

‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	10
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	10
Close competitors? Bilateral bank competition and spatial variation in firms’ access to credit	10
Local sectoral specialization in a warming world	10
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	10
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	9
Mitigating local bias in equity crowdfunding: a financial ecology perspective	9
The Journal of Economic Geography in 2024 and beyond	9
A conjunctural approach to global production networks: the case of India’s software services industry	9
Home market effects and increasing returns with non-constant marginal costs	8
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	8
Temporary trade shocks and regional development: evidence from the closure of Abidjan port	8
Land valuation in the metaverse: location matters	8
The great recession and the public sector in rural America	8
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	8
Boosting, sorting and complexity—urban scaling of innovation around the world	7
Citizens’ attitude towards subnational borders: evidence from the merger of French regions	7
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	7
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	7
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	6
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	6
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	6
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	6
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	6
Urban regeneration projects and crime: evidence from Glasgow	6
The Geography of Knowledge and R&D-led Growth	6
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	6
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	5
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	5
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	5
Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?	5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	5
The price of remoteness: product availability and local cost of living in Ethiopia	4
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	4
Beyond “buzz”: knowledge interactions, innovation, and neighborhood characteristics	4
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	4
Geographies of dissociation: informality, ethical codes and fragmented labour regimes in the Sri Lankan apparel industry	4
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	4
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	4
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	4
Quality of communications infrastructure, local structural transformation, and inequality	4
Labor regimes, long-distance commuting, and the spaces of production and social reproduction in large-scale mining	4
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	4
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	4
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	4
Deep trade agreements and international migration: the role of visa provisions	3
Immigration history, entry jobs and the labor market integration of immigrants	3
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	3

Agglomeration and the Italian North–South divide	3
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	3
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales	3
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	3
Wage variations and commuting distance	3
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	3
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	3
Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity	3
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	3
Cycles of regional innovative growth	3
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	2
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	2
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics	2
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	2
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	2
The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London	2
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	2
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	2
Correction to: Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	2
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	2
Localized effects of confiscated and re-allocated real estate mafia assets	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
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	2
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	2
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	2
Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis	2
Geographical stratification of urban green areas in European cities	2
On the economic geography of climate change	2
International applicability of education and migration aspirations	2