Most cited papers in Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis?
The most cited paper in Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis is "Local Indicators of Spatial Association—LISA" (Luc Anselin, 1995), with 13,022 citations. Next come "Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially Dependent Panel Data" (6,735) and "Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment" (6,049).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,018 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Local Indicators of Spatial Association—LISA Luc Anselin · Geographical Analysis | Apr 1995 | 13,022 |
| 2 | Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially Dependent Panel Data John C. Driscoll, Aart Kraay · The Review of Economics and Statistics | Nov 1998 | 6,735 |
| 3 | Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment Ron A. Boschma · Regional Studies | 14 Jan 2005 | 6,049 |
| 4 | Technology, Geography, and Trade Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum · Econometrica | Sep 2002 | 4,512 |
| 5 | The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market David Autor, David A. Dorn · American Economic Review | Aug 2013 | 3,871 |
| 6 | Geographically Weighted Regression: A Method for Exploring Spatial Nonstationarity Chris Brunsdon, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Martin E. Charlton · Geographical Analysis | Oct 1996 | 3,582 |
| 7 | Growth Empirics: A Panel Data Approach Nazrul Islam · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1995 | 3,560 |
| 8 | Booming Sector and De-Industrialisation in a Small Open Economy W. M. Corden, J. Peter Neary · The Economic Journal | Dec 1982 | 3,295 |
| 9 | Formulation and estimation of dynamic models using panel data T. W. Anderson, Cheng Hsiang Hsiao · Journal of Econometrics | 1982 | 2,900 |
| 10 | R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production. David Bruce Audretsch, Maryann P. Feldman · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) | 1994 | 2,730 |
| 11 | GMM estimation with cross sectional dependence Timothy G. Conley · Journal of Econometrics | Sep 1999 | 2,714 |
| 12 | Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy Michael Storper, Anthony J. Venables · Journal of Economic Geography | Aug 2004 | 2,616 |
| 13 | One size fits all? Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl · Research Policy | 18 Jul 2005 | 2,570 |
| 14 | Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2019 | 2,501 |
| 15 | Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Regional Economic Growth Koen Frenken, Frank G. Van Oort, Thijs Verburg · Regional Studies | Jul 2007 | 2,455 |
| 16 | Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts Ann Markusen · Economic Geography | Jul 1996 | 2,447 |
| 17 | Path dependence and regional economic evolution Ron Martin, Peter Sunley · Journal of Economic Geography | 5 Jul 2006 | 2,413 |
| 18 | The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment Raj G. Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz · American Economic Review | 28 Mar 2016 | 2,336 |
| 19 | Regional economic resilience, hysteresis and recessionary shocks Richard W. Martin · Journal of Economic Geography | 7 Sep 2011 | 2,297 |
| 20 | Chapter 49 Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange · Handbook of regional and urban economics | 2004 | 2,264 |
| 21 | Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea? Ron G. Martin, Peter Sunley · Journal of Economic Geography | 26 Dec 2002 | 2,233 |
| 22 | The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it) Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose · Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society | 29 Dec 2017 | 2,175 |
| 23 | Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser · Journal of Political Economy | Oct 1997 | 2,151 |
| 24 | Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation Xavier Gabaix · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1999 | 2,083 |
| 25 | The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply * Albert Sáiz · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 2010 | 2,035 |
| 26 | On bias, inconsistency, and efficiency of various estimators in dynamic panel data models Jan F. Kiviet · Journal of Econometrics | Jul 1995 | 1,965 |
| 27 | On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation Ron Martin, Peter Sunley · Journal of Economic Geography | 24 Jun 2014 | 1,960 |
| 28 | The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal Kevin Morgan · Regional Studies | Jul 1997 | 1,941 |
| 29 | Bridging ties: a source of firm heterogeneity in competitive capabilities Bill McEvily, Akbar Zaheer · Strategic Management Journal | Dec 1999 | 1,898 |
| 30 | Simple diagnostic tests for spatial dependence Luc Anselin, Anil K. Bera, Raymond J.G.M. Florax et al. · Regional Science and Urban Economics | Feb 1996 | 1,882 |
| 31 | Zipf Distribution of U.S. Firm Sizes Robert L. Axtell · Science | 7 Sep 2001 | 1,856 |
| 32 | World Urbanization Prospects Philippe Bocquier · Demographic Research | 4 May 2005 | 1,772 |
| 33 | Patents and innovation counts as measures of regional production of new knowledge Zoltán J. Ács, Luc Anselin, Attila Varga · Research Policy | Sep 2002 | 1,764 |
| 34 | Applied Spatial Econometrics: Raising the Bar J. Paul Elhorst · Spatial Economic Analysis | 27 Feb 2010 | 1,728 |
| 35 | Local Geographic Spillovers between University Research and High Technology Innovations Luc Anselin, Attila Varga, Zoltán J. Ács · Journal of Urban Economics | Nov 1997 | 1,688 |
| 36 | Innovation in cities: Maryann P. Feldman, David Bruce Audretsch · European Economic Review | Feb 1999 | 1,673 |
| 37 | Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990 Michael R. Kremer · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1993 | 1,629 |
| 38 | The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later Michael Storper · European Urban and Regional Studies | Jul 1995 | 1,595 |
| 39 | What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser, William Revill Kerr · American Economic Review | Jun 2010 | 1,592 |
| 40 | THE CASE FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION: PLACE‐BASED VERSUS PLACE‐NEUTRAL APPROACHES* Fabrizio Barca, Philip McCann, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose · Journal of Regional Science | 31 Jan 2012 | 1,588 |
| 41 | Geographically Weighted Regression Chris Brunsdon, Stewart Fotheringham, Martin E. Charlton · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) | Sep 1998 | 1,588 |
| 42 | Testing for Serial Correlation in Linear Panel-data Models David M. Drukker · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Jun 2003 | 1,577 |
| 43 | A universal model for mobility and migration patterns Filippo Simini, Marta Claudia González, Amos Maritan et al. · Nature | 24 Feb 2012 | 1,546 |
| 44 | Cities and the Creative Class Richard L. Florida · City and Community | Mar 2003 | 1,529 |
| 45 | Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life Cycle of Products Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga · American Economic Review | Dec 2001 | 1,524 |
| 46 | The Origins of Scaling in Cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt · Science | 20 Jun 2013 | 1,515 |
| 47 | A Generalized Moments Estimator for the Autoregressive Parameter in a Spatial Model Harry H. Kelejian, Ingmar R. Prucha · International Economic Review | May 1999 | 1,504 |
| 48 | The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities Michael Batty · Science | 7 Feb 2008 | 1,438 |
| 49 | Equilibrium Locations of Vertically Linked Industries Anthony J. Venables · International Economic Review | May 1996 | 1,432 |
| 50 | Proximity and Localization André Torre, Alain Rallet · Regional Studies | 14 Jan 2005 | 1,427 |
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