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Robert Hassink

Robert Hassink

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
7909
World Ranking
5009
National Ranking
137

Robert Hassink publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Hassink sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Robert Hassink D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Hassink sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert Hassink is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on regional resilience and development, regional economics and spatial analysis, and regional development and policy. Their work also covers cultural industries and urban development, diverse aspects of tourism research, global trade, sustainability, and social impact, as well as university-industry-government innovation models.

Hassink has contributed extensively to fields such as economics, econometrics and finance, social sciences, and business, management and accounting. Within these broader fields, their specific subfields of study include economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, strategy and management, sociology and political science, and management of technology and innovation.

The most frequent venues for Hassink's publications include:

  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • Regional Studies
  • Review of Regional Research
  • European Planning Studies

Some of the recent papers authored by Hassink are:

  • "Regional Resilience in Times of a Pandemic Crisis: The Case of COVID-19 in China" (2020), published in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • "Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China" (2020), published in Cities
  • "Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks" (2022), published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re)theorising" (2020), published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Regional foundations of energy transitions" (2021), published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society

Frequent co-authors with Hassink include:

  • Huiwen Gong
  • Han Chu
  • Xiaohui Hu
  • Michaela Trippl
  • Juntao Tan

Best Publications

  • How to unlock regional economies from path dependency? From learning region to learning cluster

    Robert Hassink

  • Regional resilience: a promising concept to explain differences in regional economic adaptability?

    Robert Hassink;Robert Hassink

  • Towards a comprehensive understanding of new regional industrial path development

    Robert Hassink;Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • Locked in Decline? On the Role of Regional Lock-ins in Old Industrial Areas

    Robert Hassink

  • AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON TOURISM AREA DEVELOPMENT

    Mulan Ma;Robert Hassink

  • The restructuring of old industrial areas in Europe and Asia

    Robert Hassink;Dong-Ho Shin

  • Six critical questions about smart specialization

    Robert Hassink;Huiwen Gong

  • Advancing Evolutionary Economic Geography by Engaged Pluralism

    Robert Hassink;Claudia Klaerding;Pedro Marques

  • Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China

    Juntao Tan;Xiaohui Hu;Robert Hassink;Jianwei Ni

  • Regional Resilience in Times of a Pandemic Crisis: The Case of COVID-19 in China.

    Huiwen Gong;Robert Hassink;Juntao Tan;Dacang Huang

  • Technology transfer agencies and regional economic development

    Robert Hassink

  • From the old path of shipbuilding onto the new path of offshore wind energy? The case of northern Germany

    Dirk Fornahl;Robert Hassink;Claudia Klaerding;Ivo Mossig

  • The Dilemmas of Interregional Institutional Learning

    Robert Hassink;Arnoud Lagendijk

  • The Strength of Weak Lock-Ins: The Renewal of the Westmünsterland Textile Industry

    Robert Hassink

  • Exploring the clustering of creative industries

    Huiwen Gong;Robert Hassink

  • Exploring adaptation and adaptability in uneven economic resilience: a tale of two Chinese mining regions

    Xiaohui Hu;Robert Hassink

  • Co-evolution in contemporary economic geography: towards a theoretical framework

    Huiwen Gong;Robert Hassink

  • Regional Innovation Support Systems: Recent Trends in Germany and East Asia

    Robert Hassink

  • Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

    Dirk Fornahl;Robert Hassink;Max-Peter Menzel

  • The End of the Learning Region as We Knew It; Towards Learning in Space

    Robert Hassink;Claudia Klaerding

  • Guest Editorial

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Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Pike
Andy Pike Newcastle University
Michaela Trippl
Michaela Trippl University of Vienna
Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Richard Harris
Richard Harris University of Bristol
Arne Isaksen
Arne Isaksen University of Agder
Ron Boschma
Ron Boschma Utrecht University
Simona Iammarino
Simona Iammarino London School of Economics and Political Science
Mei-Po Kwan
Mei-Po Kwan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort Erasmus University Rotterdam

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