Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance presents the award for the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper published in 2025 to Maria Tysiachniouk, Svetlana Tulaeva & Juha Kotilainen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Laura Henry, (Bowdoin College, USA) for their paper ‘‘Liberal spaces in an illiberal regime: environmental NGOs, state […]
Watch as Jennifer Clark, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, presents the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper award to Flavio Pinheiro, (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, & Harvard University (Growth Lab), USA ); Dominik Hartmann, (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) and Ron Boschma (Utrecht University, the […]
Watch as Ugo Fratesi, Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Massimo Giannini of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, for his paper ‘A spatial stochastic frontier model with fixed effects and endogenous environmental variables’ https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2024.2414962 You can find the Spatial Stochastic […]
Watch as Ugo Fratesi, Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis, presents the award for the 2026 Spatial Economic Analysis Best Referee to Elias Giannakis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Eric Helleiner, (University of Waterloo, Canada) for his paper entitled ‘International Finance and the Global Polycrisis’ Read the paper at https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2514272
Watch as Louis Yi Liu, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, Regional Science presents the 2026 Award for the Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Referee to Kaixuan Huang, of Peking University in China.
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the 2026 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Stefanos Ioannou (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Sam Unsworth (Division of Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Bartlett School of Energy, Environment and Resources (BSEER), UCL, UK) for his paper entitled We don’t want to be colonialism […]
Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, presents the award for the 2026 Best Referee to Sayd Randle (Singapore Management University, Singapore).
Watch as John Harrison, Editor of the Urban and Regional Horizons section of the academic journal, Regional Studies, presents the award for the Best Paper published in Urban and Regional Horizons to Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) for her paper entitled: Regional counter-institutionalisation: contestation and propositions for alternative regionalities. Read the open access […]
Watch as Phil Tomlinson, Editor of the Policy Debates section of Regional Studies, presents the 2026 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper to Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha (University of Essex, UK) for his paper: Smart city governance: assessing modes of active citizen engagement. Read the open access paper at https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2399262
Watch as Louis Yi Liu, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, Regional Science presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Martin Henning, Rikard Eriksson, Petrus Garefelt, Hanna Martin and Zoltán Elekes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Umeå University, Sweden; ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary & Umeå University, Sweden for their […]
2026 is the 20th anniversary of the first issue of Spatial Economic Analysis being published. To mark this occasion, the journal has published a special issue looking back at two decades of research and forward to the questions that matter most right now. When Spatial Economic Analysis (SEA) published its first issue in 2006, globalisation was […]
Digital Media Editor (one position available) The Regional Studies Association (RSA) seeks to appoint a Digital Media Editor to its journal Regional Studies, Regional Science. The successful candidate will join the existing team of Editors dedicated to enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication in the field of regional studies and regional science, ensuring […]
Read our journals with an RSA membership RSA members enjoy exclusive access to the full range of our journals, offering insight and debate across the issues shaping the world today. To give you a taste of what’s available, we’ve highlighted the most-read articles from each journal in 2025. Members can read these articles in full […]
A quick summary of the Index Listing and Impact Factors of the RSA journals. Journal Metrics – Regional Studies Indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Indexed by Scopus More info at the T&F Regional Studies metrics page Journal Metrics – Territory Politics Governance Indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) […]
We would like to welcome the new co-editors for Spatial Economic Analysis, a pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics, published by RSA and the RSAI-BIS. Alex Shuai Shi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of the University of Hong Kong, Hong […]
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Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS) is an open access journal covering regional and urban issues in geography, economics, regional science, environmental studies, planning and governance. It explores a wide range of topics across the social sciences at various spatial scales, generally subnational (such as metropolitan regions and planning regions), but can cross jurisdictional boundaries (such […]
We are recruiting Editors to the RSA Journals: Regional Studies, Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Studies, Regional Science.
Several RSA journals have open calls for special issues, offering the opportunity to contribute to focused debates on key topics in regional studies. Each call outlines specific themes and deadlines for manuscript submission. Below you will find a summary of the current opportunities. Simply click on the journal name to find full details of each […]
Deadline: 30 September 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association (RSA) and Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section (RSAI-BIS) seek to appoint a Co-Editor to the journal, Spatial Economic Analysis. The successful candidates will join the existing team of Co-Editors in managing the peer review of general submissions in their area of […]
Deadline: 30 September 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association (RSA) and Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section (RSAI-BIS) seek to appoint a Digital Media Editor to the journal, Spatial Economic Analysis. The successful candidate will join the existing team of editors dedicated to enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication […]
Deadline: 30 September 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint two Editors to the journal, Regional Studies, Regional Science. The successful candidate will join the existing team of Editors in managing the peer review of general submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication in the […]