| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Neo‐Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks* | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 1992 | 838 |
| 2 | Integrating multi-criteria evaluation with geographical information systems | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 1991 | 779 |
| 3 | A Mark 1 Geographical Analysis Machine for the automated analysis of point data sets | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 1987 | 383 |
| 4 | The Re-Emergence of Regional Economies? The Mythical Geography of Flexible Accumulation | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space | 1990 | 317 |
| 5 | Tiers of Engagement by Universities in their Region's Development | Regional Studies | 2003 | 235 |
| 6 | University students and city centres – the formation of exclusive geographies | Geoforum | 1999 | 197 |
| 7 | The remit of financial geography--before and after the crisis | Journal of Economic Geography | 2009 | 151 |
| 8 | Islamic banking and finance: postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 2007 | 148 |
| 9 | The Internationalization of R & D and the Development of Global Research Networks | Regional Studies | 1990 | 138 |
| 10 | Shifting horizons in local and regional development | Regional Studies | 2017 | 115 |
| 11 | The regional distribution of innovative manufacturing establishments in Britain | Regional Studies | 1980 | 113 |
| 12 | Indicators of Quality of Life: Some Methodological Issues | Environment and Planning A | 1989 | 98 |
| 13 | Telecommunications and the Reconstruction of Regional Comparative Advantage | Environment and Planning A | 1988 | 91 |
| 14 | Regional Development Agencies and the Knowledge Economy: Harnessing the Potential of Universities | Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science | 1999 | 90 |
| 15 | Geographical Inequalities: The Spatial Bias of the New Communications Technologies | Journal of Communication | 1989 | 89 |
| 16 | Regional incentives and the quality of mobile investment in the less favoured regions of the EC | Progress in Planning | 1994 | 89 |
| 17 | The geography of technological change in the information economy | Regional Studies | 1986 | 78 |
| 18 | Some evidence of regional variations in the introduction and diffusion of industrial products and processes within British manufacturing industry | Regional Studies | 1982 | 76 |
| 19 | Where Is the Value Added in the Cluster Approach? Hermeneutic Theorising, Economic Geography and Clusters as a Multiperspectival Approach | Urban Studies | 2004 | 76 |
| 20 | Technological change, mobile plants and regional development | Regional Studies | 1978 | 70 |
| 21 | Migration and Longer-Distance Commuting in Rural England | Regional Studies | 2009 | 70 |
| 22 | Ownership, organisation and industrial linkage: A case study in the Northern Region of England | Regional Studies | 1979 | 69 |
| 23 | Bringing Britain Together? | Local Economy | 2000 | 69 |
| 24 | Structuration Theory: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities for Empirical Research | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space | 1987 | 68 |
| 25 | Economic Geographies of Brands and Branding | Economic Geography | 2013 | 67 |
| 26 | The survival and non survival of micro firms in the UK | Review of Industrial Organization | 1996 | 66 |
| 27 | The Emergence of a Working Poor: Labour Markets, Neoliberalisation and Diverse Economies in Post-Socialist Cities | Antipode | 2008 | 64 |
| 28 | Changes in Corporate Control in the British Urban System, 1972–1977 | Environment and Planning A | 1978 | 63 |
| 29 | Developments in the Location, Technology and Industrial Organization of Computer Services: Some Trends and Research Issues | Regional Studies | 1987 | 63 |
| 30 | Corporate Restructuring and Cohesion in the New Europe | Regional Studies | 1992 | 62 |
| 31 | Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space | 2018 | 62 |
| 32 | Innovation and regional growth in small high technology firms: Evidence from Britain and the USA | Regional Studies | 1984 | 61 |
| 33 | Energy poverty and gender in England: A spatial perspective | Geoforum | 2019 | 59 |
| 34 | Smaller enterprises and innovation in the UK: the SPRU innovations database revisited | Research Policy | 1997 | 58 |
| 35 | Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe | Environment and Planning A | 1992 | 56 |
| 36 | A spatial analysis of proximate greenspace and mental wellbeing in London | Applied Geography | 2019 | 56 |
| 37 | The adoption of new technology in the American machinery industry | Regional Studies | 1984 | 53 |
| 38 | Discrepant legacies: Premature mortality in two industrial towns | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 50 |
| 39 | Defining regions for locality health care planning: a multidimensional approach | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 50 |
| 40 | Toward an Interim Politics of Resourcefulness for the Anthropocene | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2015 | 48 |
| 41 | Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography | Geoforum | 2008 | 47 |
| 42 | Technological Change and Regional Development: Some Evidence on Regional Variations in Product and Process Innovation | Environment and Planning A | 1982 | 45 |
| 43 | The Impact of Government-Assisted Management Training and Development on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Britain | Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science | 1993 | 45 |
| 44 | Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move | Population, Space and Place | 2017 | 44 |
| 45 | Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2013 | 43 |
| 46 | The Role of Services in Urban and Regional Development: Recent Debates and New Directions | Environment and Planning A | 1992 | 42 |
| 47 | Daily Urban Systems in Britain: From Theory to Practice | Environment and Planning A | 1979 | 41 |
| 48 | Planning for the Information City: the Challenge and Response | Urban Studies | 1990 | 40 |
| 49 | The Changing Corporate Head Office and its Spatial Implications | Regional Studies | 1992 | 40 |
| 50 | Public Policy and Population Distribution: Developing Appropriate Indicators of Settlement Patterns | Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science | 2001 | 40 |
