| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change | Annals of Regional Science | 2008 | 685 |
| 2 | The impact of residential neighborhood type on travel behavior: A structural equations modeling approach | Annals of Regional Science | 2002 | 454 |
| 3 | Applying social network analysis in economic geography: framing some key analytic issues | Annals of Regional Science | 2009 | 442 |
| 4 | The geography of collaborative knowledge production in Europe | Annals of Regional Science | 2009 | 395 |
| 5 | A multi-scale, multi-model approach for analyzing the future dynamics of European land use | Annals of Regional Science | 2008 | 314 |
| 6 | Regional disparity in China 1985-1994: The effects of globalization and economic liberalization | Annals of Regional Science | 2001 | 308 |
| 7 | High-speed rail in Europe: experience and issues for future development | Annals of Regional Science | 1997 | 276 |
| 8 | Spatial statistical analysis and geographic information systems | Annals of Regional Science | 1992 | 272 |
| 9 | Regional economic dynamics and convergence in the European Union | Annals of Regional Science | 1999 | 267 |
| 10 | The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks | Annals of Regional Science | 2010 | 267 |
| 11 | Start-up activities, individual characteristics, and the regional milieu: Lessons for entrepreneurship support policies from German micro data | Annals of Regional Science | 2004 | 255 |
| 12 | Spatial knowledge spillovers and university research: Evidence from Austria | Annals of Regional Science | 2003 | 234 |
| 13 | Innovation, knowledge creation and systems of innovation | Annals of Regional Science | 2001 | 201 |
| 14 | Cultural diversity and entrepreneurship: a regional analysis for Germany | Annals of Regional Science | 2010 | 195 |
| 15 | The firm relocation decision: An empirical investigation | Annals of Regional Science | 2004 | 194 |
| 16 | Understanding regional variation in entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial attitude in Europe | Annals of Regional Science | 2011 | 188 |
| 17 | Innovation in peripheral regions: Do collaborations compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers? | Annals of Regional Science | 2015 | 183 |
| 18 | High-speed rail transit impact on regional systems: does the Shinkansen contribute to dispersion? | Annals of Regional Science | 1997 | 175 |
| 19 | Economic growth and regional income inequality in Brazil | Annals of Regional Science | 2001 | 175 |
| 20 | Entrepreneurship capital and regional growth | Annals of Regional Science | 2005 | 173 |
| 21 | Entrepreneurship and economic development in cities | Annals of Regional Science | 2015 | 166 |
| 22 | The normalized revealed comparative advantage index | Annals of Regional Science | 2009 | 139 |
| 23 | Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis | Annals of Regional Science | 2018 | 139 |
| 24 | Industrial diversity and economic performance in U.S. areas | Annals of Regional Science | 1986 | 136 |
| 25 | New firm formation: Dynamics and determinants | Annals of Regional Science | 2004 | 136 |
| 26 | Evolutionary economics and regional policy | Annals of Regional Science | 2001 | 134 |
| 27 | Regional economic resilience: the experience of the Italian local labor systems | Annals of Regional Science | 2018 | 134 |
| 28 | Decomposing regional income inequality in China and Indonesia using two-stage nested Theil decomposition method | Annals of Regional Science | 2003 | 133 |
| 29 | Private toll roads: Competition under various ownership regimes | Annals of Regional Science | 2000 | 132 |
| 30 | The propagation of uncertainty through travel demand models: An exploratory analysis | Annals of Regional Science | 2002 | 131 |
| 31 | On the measurement of comparative advantage | Annals of Regional Science | 2006 | 131 |
| 32 | Knowledge networks across Europe: which distance matters? | Annals of Regional Science | 2009 | 131 |
| 33 | Distinct spatial characteristics of industrial and public research collaborations: evidence from the fifth EU Framework Programme | Annals of Regional Science | 2011 | 130 |
| 34 | Modeling knowledge networks in economic geography: a discussion of four methods | Annals of Regional Science | 2014 | 126 |
| 35 | Errors in measuring distances from populations to service centers | Annals of Regional Science | 1978 | 125 |
| 36 | Infrastructure investment, endogenous growth and economic convergence | Annals of Regional Science | 1998 | 125 |
| 37 | Public transport versus private car GIS-based estimation of accessibility applied to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area | Annals of Regional Science | 2011 | 122 |
| 38 | Infrastructure and regional development | Annals of Regional Science | 1989 | 120 |
| 39 | Geographically and technologically mediated knowledge spillovers between European regions | Annals of Regional Science | 2003 | 120 |
| 40 | Pan-European regional income growth and club-convergence | Annals of Regional Science | 2006 | 119 |
| 41 | Penetrating the ``knowledge filter'' in regional economies | Annals of Regional Science | 2005 | 116 |
| 42 | From innovation to commercialization through networks and agglomerations: analysis of sources of innovation, innovation capabilities and performance of Dutch SMEs | Annals of Regional Science | 2013 | 116 |
| 43 | Distribution of regional income and regional funds in Europe 1989–1999: An exploratory spatial data analysis | Annals of Regional Science | 2005 | 114 |
| 44 | The identification of functional regions: theory, methods, and applications | Annals of Regional Science | 2006 | 113 |
| 45 | Are telecommuting and personal travel complements or substitutes? | Annals of Regional Science | 2012 | 110 |
| 46 | Do states optimize? Public capital and economic growth | Annals of Regional Science | 2000 | 107 |
| 47 | Cost-benefit analysis of the high-speed train in Spain | Annals of Regional Science | 1997 | 106 |
| 48 | Local milieu and innovations: Some empirical results | Annals of Regional Science | 1998 | 106 |
| 49 | Introduction to the special issue The regional and urban effects of high-speed trains | Annals of Regional Science | 1997 | 104 |
| 50 | Spatial perspectives on new theories of economic growth | Annals of Regional Science | 1998 | 100 |
