You have spent years on a thesis, or eighteen months steering a paper through peer review. It is finally out. And then… very little happens. A few colleagues download it, your supervisor sends congratulations, and the work settles quietly into a database. It doesn’t have to be that way. A short, well-written blog post is […]
The Regional Studies Association is delighted to welcome several new members to its journal editorial teams. We welcome the new co-editors of Area Development and Policy, who will guide the journal’s continued commitment to publishing research on development and territorial change worldwide. Regional Studies, Regional Science welcomes a new digital media editor and a media […]
Application deadline: 6th November 2026. The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint one Early Career Editor to the journal Area Development and Policy. Apply for the role by filling out the form About the role Early Career Editor (one position available) The Early Career Editor appointment is open to candidates who are within five years […]
Watch as Junxi Qian, Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal, Area, Development and Policy presents the 2026 Area Development and Policy Best Paper Award to the authors of the paper entitled ‘Accessibility, (dis)advantage and everyday mobility practices and experiences: the cases of Maputo and Freetown’ authored by Daniel Oviedo and Alexandria Chong, both of […]
Watch as Shenjing He, one of the Editors in Chief of the journal Area, Development and Policy, presents the award for the 2026 Area Development and Policy Best Referee to Yi Li, of Hohai University in China.
Apply for the role by filling out our form About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint an Editor 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 […]
Apply for the role by filling in our form Deadline: 25 September 2026 The Regional Studies Association (RSA) seeks to appoint Editors for the international journal Regional Studies (RS) published by Routledge. Applicants are called on to join the existing team of Editors in managing the peer review of general submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation […]
To mark the 20th special issue in this series, we are delighted to present 20 years of Spatial Economic Analysis: evolution, achievements and perspectives on the field. The articles are now available to download until the end of August 2026. This anniversary issue brings together an exceptional line-up of contributors to reflect on two decades […]
Watch as Jennifer Clark, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, presents the 2026 Award for the Regional Studies Best Referees to Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of Economics, UK), Erica Santini (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy), and Piers Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK).
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) […]
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 […]