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

Article	Citations
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	181
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	68
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	64
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	62
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	58
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	38
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	36
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	32
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	29
Geographies of discontent: sources, manifestations and consequences	28
Regional policy narratives and the ‘geographies of discontent’	25
Upward job mobility in local economies	25
Deglobalization: three scenarios	25
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	22
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	21
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	21
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	20
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	18
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	18
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	17
Referees 2021	17
State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina	16
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	16
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	15
Referees 2023	15

Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	14
The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	14
The age of crisis	14
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	14
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	14
Discontent with democracy in Latin America	13
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	13
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	13
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	13
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	13
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	12
Politics of discontent in Spain: the case of Vox and the Catalonian independence movement	12
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	12
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	12
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
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	11
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	11
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	10
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	10
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	10
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	10
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	10
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	9
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	9
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	8
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	8
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	8
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	7
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	7
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	7
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	7
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	7
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	6
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	6
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	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
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	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
Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany	5
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	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

The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	5
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	5
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	5
Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	5
The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai	5
Global digital networks	5
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
Referees 2024	4
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	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
Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies	4
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	4
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Escaping and creating lock-ins in accelerating low-carbon transitions: conceptual reflections and empirical insights from electricity and auto-mobility transitions in Europe, the USA and China	4
The UK ‘geography of discontent’: narratives, Brexit and inter-regional ‘levelling up’	4
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	4
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers	4