Impact

Academic impact

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  Stanford/Elsevier

  First worldwide in urban and regional planning in the Stanford/Elsevier list of the world’s most cited scientists in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. In the 2026 edition he ranked 441st across all scientific disciplines, up from 685th a year earlier.

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  Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

  Named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate every year since 2020, one of some 260 researchers recognised across the social sciences. The list identifies authors of multiple papers in the top 1% by citations for their field and year.

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  Essential Science Indicators

  As of October 2026 he had thirteen highly cited papers in Clarivate’s Essential Science Indicators, the top 1% in each of the 22 subject areas. Four were also research-front papers.

Profiles

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  Google Scholar profile

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  Web of Science profile

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  Scopus profile

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  ResearchGate profile

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  RePEc profile

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  0000-0002-8041-0856

Impact in economics

In August 2026 he ranked 245th among the world’s economists in RePEc, the main ranking in the field, and 52nd when only the last ten years are counted. He is the highest-ranked geographer on the list.

He was 11th among economists in the United Kingdom, and 4th over the last ten years.

He is among the top ten economists in the world in four fields:

• Economic Geography 4th
• Microeconomic European Issues 6th
• Small Business Management 8th
• Urban and Real Estate Economics 9th

Press

His research is regularly discussed in newspapers and magazines across Europe and the Americas. Recent coverage comes first, followed by the archive.

Recent coverage and interviews

• 17 August 2026

  Vita Italy

  Disuguaglianze territoriali e crisi democratica: la vendetta dei luoghi che non contano

  Interview by Stefano Arduini, first printed in the February issue

• June 2026

  Eje21 Colombia

  Elecciones, populismo y los lugares que no importan

  Column by Juan Manuel Uribe

• 21 December 2025

  Avvenire Italy

  «Vi spiego perché i luoghi che non contano hanno smesso di aspettare»

  Interview by Pietro Saccò

• 10 July 2025

  EFE, via Eje21 Colombia

  Experto español advierte en foro de la OCDE sobre las «trampas del desarrollo»

  Report from the OECD Local Development Forum, Barranquilla

• 29 January 2025

  OBCT, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa Europe

  EU Cohesion Policy, the risks of centralisation

  Interview by Federico Baccini

• 28 February 2024

  Panorama, European Commission Europe

  High-Level Group report sets blueprint for future of EU Cohesion Policy

  Report on the launch in Brussels

• 10 January 2024

  Panorama, European Commission Europe

  High-level group ensures that Cohesion Policy stays focused on development: discussion with Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

  Interview

Commentary by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

• 10 September 2025

  Foundation for European Progressive Studies

  Cohesion needs reform, not nationalisation

• 2025

  Intereconomics

  Discontent is Europe’s main threat

• March 2024

  VoxEU, CEPR

  Forging a sustainable future together: the report of the High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy

• 26 March 2024

  LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP)

  The geography of discontent and the rise of far-right politics in Portugal. With João Almeida

• 6 February 2018

  VoxEU, CEPR

  The revenge of the places that don’t matter

Archive

United Kingdom

Financial Times London

• Post-Brexit UK will need all its growth engines firing Martin Wolf, 24 January 2021
• How to make cities more liveable after Covid-19 Martin Sandbu, 23 November 2020
• US elections: America’s mutating polarisation Martin Sandbu, 5 November 2020
• The everyone economy: how to make capitalism work for all Martin Sandbu, 3 July 2020

The Economist London

• Why Germany has no gilet jaunes protesters 9 February 2019
• Let them fly 8 November 2014

The Guardian London

• A city’s fortunes are not set in stone. Look at modern Madrid Torsten Bell, 9 August 2020
• Britain might look to Germany to heal the north-south divide Torsten Bell, 2 August 2020
• $2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities Elena Moya, 20 December 2010
• Local authorities face credit crunch amid European debt crisis Elena Moya, 21 November 2010
• After the flood: European cities on the edge of a debt crisis Elena Moya, 23 May 2010

United States

The New York Times New York

• There’s a Reason Trump Loves the Truckers Thomas B. Edsall, 16 February 2022
• Bilingual Nationhood, Canadian-Style Chrystia Freeland, 25 December 2014
• Family ties Frank Jacobs, 17 July 2012

The Washington Post Washington

• The economics of secession Ilya Somin, 31 August 2015
• Industry clusters: The modern-day snake oil Vivek Wadhwa, 15 July 2011

Forbes Jersey City

• Should Government Help People Or Places? Adam Millsap, 7 September 2018

Bloomberg New York

• How the 'Places That Don't Matter' Fueled Populism Leonid Bershidsky, 8 February 2018
• The Real Reason Creative Workers Are Good for the Economy Richard Florida, 13 September 2013
• Cities Are Innovative Because They Contain More Ideas to Steal Eric Jaffe, 12 June 2013

The Atlantic Washington, D.C.

• The Myth That Urbanization Means Prosperity Richard Florida, 16 December 2017
• When Rich Places Want to Secede Steven Johnson, 28 October 2017

The Wall Street Journal New York

• Rich Catalonia Embraces Chance to Go It Alone Jon Sindreu and Mike Bird, 2 October 2017

Spain

El País Madrid

• El anticuerpo social Víctor Lapuente, 14 February 2022
• La metamorfosis de la economía que deja la covid Carmen Sánchez-Silva, 26 September 2021
• La batalla para superar la despoblación Pablo Allende, 15 June 2021
• Polarización: cómo la sociedad de trincheras carcome el progreso económico Miguel íngel García Vega, 13 June 2021
• La polarización se revela como un factor de riesgo en la pandemia Javier Salas, 8 January 2021
• ¿Se beneficia Madrid del efecto capitalidad? Jesús Sérvulo González, 27 November 2020
• Una política industrial capaz de transformar la España pos-Covid Eva Arrilucea, 16 October 2020
• La tensión política en Cataluña propicia el ‘sorpasso’ económico de Madrid sobre Barcelona Cristian Segura, 1 September 2020
• Why I voted for Vox Guillermo Abril, 21 February 2020
• La filosofía de las pasiones de Carlota Casiraghi revoluciona el Hay Festival Juan Carlos Galindo, 21 September 2019
• La Europa del descontento Mariangela Paone, 16 May 2019
• Los expertos piden “erradicar la corrupción” para crecer Ignacio Zafra, 18 November 2014
• Del 'café para todos' a la voladura controlada Milagros Pérez Oliva, 19 April 2012
• La crisis, más cerca de usted Editorial, 26 December 2010
• Las autonomías necesitan corsé Alejandro Bolaños, 18 April 2010
• La economía europea necesita inmigrantes Amaya Iríbar, 27 April 2003

El Mundo Madrid

• Historia de dos ciudades: cómo Madrid dejó atrás a Barcelona Sol Acuña, 6 September 2021
• Madrid 8 Barcelona 2 Arcadi Espada, 19 August 2020
• El cabreo rural: del 'Brexit' y Trump... a Vox Quico Alsedo, 28 April 2019
• ¿Qué está lastrando la competitividad de la economía valenciana? Francisco Alvarez, 19 November 2014
• Los expertos recomiendan fusionar municipios y redefinir las diputaciones Marcos Nebreda, 2 October 2011

ABC Madrid

• Predicciones falsas que nos creímos en el confinamiento Beatriz López Echazarreta, 23 October 2021
• ¿Pedirán perdón? Sergi Doria, 12 September 2020

La Vanguardia Barcelona

• Madrid es la gran aspiradora de la migración entre comunidades Alexis Rodríguez-Rata, 17 January 2022
• La advertencia de la Reina Roja Carles Casajuana, 5 October 2020
• España, cuarta economía europea, ¿y siempre periférica? Alexis Rodríguez-Rata, 19 May 2020
• Visión de Europa desde la España vacía Ignacio Orovio, 22 September 2019
• Lugares que no importan Ramón Aymerich, 27 April 2019
• Eficacia sector público y erradicar corrupción, entre factores competitividad Francisco Alvarez, 18 November 2014
• Nacionalismo völkisch y sociología kitsch Germà Bel, 14 January 2014
• Barcelona, ¿una ciudad menguante? Jaume V. Aroca, 13 February 2012

El Periódico Barcelona

• El conflicto social y político en Catalunya frena el impulso económico de Barcelona José Luis Roca, 7 September 2020

La Nueva España Oviedo

• “Rodríguez-Pose: “La política europea de I+D no beneficia a regiones como Asturias” J.L.S., 10 November 2021
• “Donde los gobiernos han ido de la mano la epidemia ha ido mejor” Elena Fernández-Pello, 20 December 2020

El Independiente Madrid

• ¿Es España el país más polarizado de Europa? Ana Alonso, 21 March 2021
• La ira global contra el confinamiento Ana Alonso, 31 January 2021

El Confidencial Madrid

• Un héroe de la retirada para Cataluña José Antonio Zarzalejos, 12 September 2020
• Tres teorías para explicar por qué a Madrid le ha salido un cinturón verde Alfredo Pascual, 13 November 2019

La Voz de Galicia Corunna

• España es un gigante empresarial con pies de barro Nieves D. Amil, 14 April 2008

Germany

Der Spiegel Hamburg

• Wo die Gesellschaft gespalten ist, sterben mehr Menschen an Covid-19 Julia Merlot, 12 January 2021

Handelsblatt Düsseldorf

• Was Corona für Großstädte bedeutet Jens Südekum, 29 September 2020
• Europa braucht weniger Alleingänge Deutschlands Jürgen Großmann, 21 May 2019

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt

• Woher kommt der EU-Verdruss? Andreas Ross, 25 January 2019

Die Zeit Hamburg

• Ignoriert den Osten! Mark Schieritz, 13 June 2019

France

Le Monde Paris

• Après les élections, quels sont les nouveaux clivages européens? Thomas Wieder et al., 15 June 2019

Le Nouvel Observateur Paris

• Pourquoi l'Europe innove moins que les Etats-Unis Régis Chevanaz, 16 May 2012

Les Échos Paris

• Retrouver la bonne clef pour relancer la croissance Eric Le Boucher, 29 November 2013

Italy

Il Manifesto Rome

• Elezioni, la vendetta dei luoghi dimenticati Filippo Barbera, 17 March 2018

La Repubblica Rome

• Serve un capitalismo di comunità Mario Calderini, 28 July 2020

Corriere della Sera Milan

• Quei piccoli Comuni che aiutano l’Italia a diventare grande Giangiacomo Schiavi, 4 July 2019

Sky TG24 Rome

• Covid e smartworking: il Nord si svuota, il Sud riparte. Come cambia la geografia d’Italia 19 August 2020

Huffington Post Italia Rome

• Come uscire dalla trappola del sottosviluppo Gaetano Fausto Esposito, 14 February 2022
• La rivincita delle aree "marginali" e la fine delle grandi città? Guido Castelli, 9 June 2020

Norway

Agenda Magasin Oslo

• Distriktspolitikk angår alle Jonas Stein, 12 December 2020

Stavanger Aftenblad Stavanger

• Einsam og åleine? Gode arenaer for samhandling er avgjerande Marte C. W. Solheim, 11 April 2022
• Stagnasjonsfella og veljarane sin sure hemn Jan Zahl, 10 November 2021
• Kåkånomics prega av korona og økonomisk krise Jan Zahl, 18 October 2020

Turkey

Hürriyet Daily News Istanbul

• Revenge of the places that don’t matter Güven Sak, 7 November 2020

Dünya Istanbul

• Bowling yerine Trump’la golfe Güven Sak, 16 November 2020

Croatia

Total Croatia News Zagreb

• WIRE Conference 2020: Innovations are Grounds to Economic Progress 9 November 2020

Lider Zagreb

• WIRE 2020 – Inovacije pokrecu gospodarski oporavak i povecavaju konkurentnost 9 November 2020

Brazil

Agência Estado São Paulo

• Polarização política provocou aumento de mortes por covid, diz estudo 19 January 2021

Dominican Republic

Diario Libre Santo Domingo

• Atención a las zonas rezagadas Erick Dorrejo, 13 December 2020

Hoy Digital Santo Domingo

• Resalta trascendencia territorio en políticas públicas 16 December 2020

Others

World Economic Forum Geneva

• Is decentralization a panacea for development? Vivin R. Nair, 23 August 2020

The Globe and Mail Toronto

• Business clusters 'irrelevant' for innovation, study finds Naomi Powell, 18 March 2011

The Irish Times Dublin

• Ken Early: Sad truth is Messi has become a problem for Barcelona Ken Early, 17 August 2020

Politiken Copenhagen

• Storbyer i Europa og USA er truet af økonomisk kollaps Rikke Brunsgaard Andersen, 21 December 2010

El Mercurio Santiago de Chile, Valparaíso

• Descentralizar es transferir facultades y recursos Rosa Zamora, 9 August 2015

La Nación Buenos Aires

• Terapia de rehabilitación para los innovadores compulsivos Sebastián Campanario, 17 April 2016

Forsal.pl Warsaw

• Tureckie nierównosci, czyli bogaty Zachód i ubogi Wschód Rafal Wos, 25 October 2020

Also covered in

• USA: New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic Cities, 48 Hills, Richmond Times, Fair Observer, Wichita Voice for Liberty, Global Carolina Business Journal, City Lab, American Prospect, Univisión, Daily Beast, Daily Yonder, Brooklyn Rail, Quartz, AFK Insider
• Canada: Toronto Globe and Mail, the New Brunswick Telegraph, New Brunswick Business Journal
• Spain: El Mundo, El País, Cinco Días, Expansión, ABC, La Razón, La Vanguardia, Levante, El Periódico de Catalunya, RTVE, El Correo Gallego, El Economista, Política Exterior, Newtral, La Nueva España, El Norte de Castilla, La Opinión, Ideal de Granada, Diario Sur, La Rioja, Vozpópuli, Libertad Digital, La Información, El Diario del Puerto, Libre Mercado, Crónica Global, Galicia Diario, Diario Montañés, Xornal de Galicia, Ara, Diari de Tarragona, Noticias de Gipuzcoa, Valencia Plaza, The Objective, Finanzas
• Norway: Stavanger Aftenblad, Bergens Tidende, Fædrelandsvennen, Dagens Næringsliv, Agderposten, Økonomisk Rapport, Sunnmørsposten, Rosenkilden, Dagbladet, VG, Khrono
• UK: The Guardian, The Observer, Bloomberg, Western Mail, About Manchester, Civil Service World, Trust
• France: Nouvel Observateur, Les Échos, Le Nouvel Economiste, Revues.org
• Italy: Il Tempo, Il Messaggero, Blitz Quotidiano, il Post, Startmag, Economia.it, Econopoly, AGI, SKY TG24, Rivista Africa
• Ireland: FinFacts Ireland
• Australia: Sydney Morning Herald
• Denmark: Politiken
• Finland: Helsingin Sanomat, Tyrvään Sanomat, Lempäälän-Vesilahden Sanomat, Maaseudun Tulevaisuus
• Belgium: RTBF, Express
• Poland: Wyborcza, Krytyka Polityczna, Wrota Podlasia, Biznes, Kurzy, OKO.press
• Portugal: Observador, Abril
• Colombia: El Espectador, El Mostrador
• Argentina: Clarín, ArgenPress
• Brazil: Diario do Grande ABC, Jornal de Jundiaí, Exame
• Dominican Republic: El Nuevo Diario
• Chile: Diario Concepción
• Uruguay: El País Uruguay
• Mexico: Televisa
• Bulgaria: Capital
• Romania: Hotnews, Ziare
• Israel: Jerusalem Post
• Turkey: Beyaz Gazete
• Greece: Liberal, Capital, Insider
• Georgia: The Financial
• Vietnam: Taichinh