Mike Coombes

Best Publications

• An Efficient Algorithm to Generate Official Statistical Reporting Areas: The Case of the 1984 Travel-to-Work Areas Revision in Britain

  M. G. Coombes;Anne E. Green;S. Openshaw

  326
  Citations

• Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields

  Michael Stuetzer;Michael Stuetzer;Martin Obschonka;Martin Obschonka;David B. Audretsch;Michael Wyrwich

  247
  Citations

• Indicators of Quality of Life: Some Methodological Issues

  R J Rogerson;A M Findlay;A S Morris;M G Coombes

  245
  Citations

• In search of counterurbanisation: some evidence from Devon on the relationship between patterns of migration and motivation.

  Joyce Halliday;Mike Coombes

  235
  Citations

• State of the English Cities

  M Parkinson;T Champion;R Evans;J Simmie

  187
  Citations

• Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England

  John Goddard;Mike Coombes;Louise Kempton;Paul Vallance

  166
  Citations

• Functional regions for the population census of Great Britain

  Coombes Mg;Dixon Js;Goddard Jb;Openshaw S

  164
  Citations

• Migration and Longer-Distance Commuting in Rural England

  Tony Champion;Mike Coombes;David L. Brown

  128
  Citations

• Travel-to-Work Areas: the 2007 review

  MG Coombes;S Bond

  118
  Citations

• The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain: Some comments

  M.G. Coombes;S. Openshaw

  117
  Citations

• Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development: the demise of the Regional Development Agencies in England

  Andy Pike;Mike Coombes;Peter O’Brien;John Tomaney

  105
  Citations

• Defining Locality Boundaries with Synthetic Data

  Mike Coombes

  103
  Citations

• Substantive Issues in the Definition of “Localities”: Evidence from Sub–Group Local Labour Market Areas in the West Midlands

  M. G. Coombes;Anne E. Green;D. W. Owen

  100
  Citations

• The delineation of 21st century local labour market areas: a critical review and a research agenda

  José M. Casado-Díaz;Mike Coombes

  93
  Citations

• Measuring destination attractivity: A migration example

  A. Stewart Fotheringham;Tony Champion;Colin Wymer;Mike Coombes

  92
  Citations

• Daily Urban Systems in Britain: From Theory to Practice:

  M G Coombes;J S Dixon;J B Goddard;S Openshaw

  85
  Citations

• Methodological Steps in the Development of Multivariate Indexes for Urban and Regional Policy Analysis

  M Coombes;C Wong

  84
  Citations

• Changing places: Britain's demographic, economic and social complexion

  A. G. Champion;Anne E. Green;David Owen;D. J. Ellin

  80
  Citations

• Assessing the local and regional impacts of international migration

  AC Stenning;AG Champion;CD Conway;MG Coombes

  80
  Citations

• Counterurbanisation in Britain and Italy: a Comparative Critique of the Concept, Causation and Evidence

  Mike Coombes;Remo Dalla Longga;Simon Raybould

  79
  Citations