OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Geography is 7. 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
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
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
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	14
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	14
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
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
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 role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	11
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
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
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
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
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	8
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
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
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