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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps	197
Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality	81
Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development	65
Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems	42
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	40
Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA	34
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary	30
The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe	29
Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation	26
An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China	25
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy	23
First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy	22
Correction to: The power of platforms—precarity and place	21
Platforming populism: the services transition, precarious urbanization, and digital platforms in the rise of illiberal populism in the Philippines	21
Upward job mobility in local economies	19
Deglobalization: three scenarios	19
Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models	19
The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA	18
Can social housing help to integrate divided cities?	17
Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China	17
State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina	17
Referees 2023	16
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres	16
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks	16

The impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel pattern and flow structure: evidence from Wuhan	15
Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China	15
Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes	15
Economic stimulus measures in the pandemic: the role of fiscal decentralisation	14
Uneven development: convergence, divergence and politics	14
The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique	14
How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany	14
The age of crisis	13
Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia	13
The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions	12
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?	11
Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis	11
Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation	11
Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession	11
Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent	11
Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects	11
Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring	11
Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends	11
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil	10
Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments	10
Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris	10
Critical geographies of the circular economy	10
Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs	10
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model	10
Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level	9
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework	9
The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies	8
What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’	8
Tasks, occupations and slowbalisation: on the limits of fragmentation	8
Inventors, firms and localities: insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces	8
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: ecosystem perspectives	8
Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state	8
Rethinking Spatial Policy in an Era of Multiple Crises	8
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?	8
The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations	7
Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city	7
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA	7
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards	7
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places	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	6
Reframing spatial policy through targeting diagnostic tools: potential and deprivation	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
Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century	6
A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts	6
The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth	6
The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city	5
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography	5

Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state	5
Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development	5
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market	5
Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis	5
Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area	5
Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment	5
Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected	5
Novelty, dynamics and competition: a commentary on the nature of economic evolution	5
Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany	5
Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labour organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia	5
Global digital networks	5
Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography	4
Understanding the post-COVID state and its geographies	4
Who gets left behind by left behind places?	4
Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action	4
Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises	4
Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU	4
‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them?	4
Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan	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
Referees 2024	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
Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification	4