OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society is 4. 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
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	166
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	74
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	65
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	62
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	55
What do we owe a place? How the debate about left-behind places is challenging how we distribute public funding and the problems it should address	50
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	46
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	36
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	34
Upward job mobility in local economies	28
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	27
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	26
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	24
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	24
Deglobalization: three scenarios	23
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	22
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	22
Referees 2021	20
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	19
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	18
Referees 2023	17
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	17
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	16
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	15
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	15

The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	14
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	14
The age of crisis	14
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	14
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	13
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	13
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	12
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	12
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	12
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	12
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	11
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	11
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	11
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	11
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	10
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	10
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	10
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	10
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	10
Of losers and laggards: the interplay of material conditions and individual perceptions in the shaping of EU discontent	10
Where do angry birds tweet? Income inequality and online hate in Italy	10
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	10
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	10
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	10
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	9
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	9
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	8
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	8
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	8
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	8
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	7
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	7
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	7
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: insights from Edmonton, Canada	6
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	6
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	6
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	6
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	6
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	6
Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development	6
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	6

Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	5
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	5
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	5
Global digital networks	5
Territorial and institutional obduracy in regional transition: politicising the case of Flanders’ energy distribution system	5
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: the case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA	5
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	5
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	5
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	4
The Stockholm Syndrome: the view of the capital by the “Places Left Behind”	4
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	4
Recognising the geography of discontent in the USA: “Building Back Better” by countering regional divergence	4
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	4
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	4
Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing	4
The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’	4
Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Referees 2024	4
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	4