We are delighted to be able to announce this year’s RSA journals Best Paper and Best Referee awards for journal issues published in 2018. Our awards acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the research and editorial fields of regional studies, crossing thematic and disciplinary fields. We would like to congratulate to all our winners and look forward to celebrating their awards at our Annual Awards Ceremony to be held at the Annual President’s Event in November.
Below you will find the winners for the Best Referee and Best Paper from each of our journals. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has published with us, along with all our referees and our journal editors. Our journals would not exist without author submissions, editors and referees. It is the hard work by many that ensures our publications continue to be global leaders in regional studies.
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Best Referee Regional Studies | SILVIA ROCHETTA, UCD Dublin, Ireland
JUAN CARLOS LEIVA, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica JAMES WILSON, Orkestra – Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Spain |
| Best Paper Regional Studies | Proximity, knowledge base and the innovation process: towards an integrated framework
MILA DAVIDS, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands KOEN FRENKEN, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
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Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis | HARRY KELEJIAN, University of Maryland, USA |
| Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis | Measuring regional inequality: to weight or not to weight?
KONSTANTIN GLUSCHENKO, Novosibirsk State University, Russia |
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Best Referee Territory, Politics, Governance | MIA BENNETT, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Best Paper Territory, Politics, Governance | Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America
NICK CLARE, University of Nottingham, UK VICTORIA HABERMEHL, University of Sheffield, UK LIZ MASON-DEESE, University of Mary Washington, USA |
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Best RefereeRegional Studies, Regional Science | BRIAN WEBB, Cardiff University, UK |
| Best Paper Regional Studies, Regional Science | Students’ consumption expenditures in economic impact studies: assumptions revisited in an input–output approach for Scotland
KRISTINN HERMANNSSON, University of Glasgow PETER MCGREGOR, University of Strathclyde, UK KIM SWALES, University of Strathclyde, UK |
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Best RefereeArea Development and Policy | SU XIAOBO, University of Oregon, USA
KOO YANGMI, Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Best Paper Area Development and Policy | Patronage and politics in a South African city: a case study of Nelson Mandela Bay
CRISPIAN OLVER, Public Affairs Research Institute, South Africa |