Martijn Burger

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Martijn Burger is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Martijn Burger has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 37 papers in Social Psychology and 19 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Martijn Burger's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (33 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (31 papers) and International Business and FDI (12 papers). Martijn Burger is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (33 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (31 papers) and International Business and FDI (12 papers). Martijn Burger collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, South Africa and United States. Martijn Burger's co-authors include Evert Meijers, Frank van Oort, Marloes Hoogerbrugge, Gert‐Jan Linders, Efstratia Arampatzi, Bert van der Knaap, Spyridon Stavropoulos, Emma Pleeging, Ronald Wall and Job van Exel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Martijn Burger

108 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

On the Specification of the Gravity Model of Trade: Zeros... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. On the Specification of the Gravity Model of Trade: Zeros, Excess Zeros and Zero-inflated Estimation
    2009 371 citations Martijn Burger, Frank van Oort et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Martijn Burger Netherlands 36 2.1k 846 791 702 667 111 4.6k
Charlotta Mellander Sweden 26 1.5k 0.7× 445 0.5× 993 1.3× 226 0.3× 944 1.4× 62 3.3k
Frank van Oort Netherlands 38 4.3k 2.0× 493 0.6× 745 0.9× 1.5k 2.1× 667 1.0× 115 6.5k
Richard Shearmur Canada 37 2.0k 0.9× 855 1.0× 701 0.9× 717 1.0× 876 1.3× 148 4.1k
John F. McDonald United States 32 3.7k 1.7× 1.2k 1.5× 842 1.1× 320 0.5× 441 0.7× 157 6.0k
Stuart S. Rosenthal United States 38 5.5k 2.6× 535 0.6× 1.6k 2.0× 323 0.5× 564 0.8× 82 6.6k
Mark D. Partridge United States 50 4.6k 2.2× 728 0.9× 2.1k 2.7× 176 0.3× 539 0.8× 195 6.7k
Roberta Capello Italy 39 3.9k 1.8× 369 0.4× 740 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 630 0.9× 214 6.0k
Ivan Turok United Kingdom 38 1.7k 0.8× 343 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 474 0.7× 2.3k 3.5× 179 5.2k
Michael Dunford United Kingdom 34 1.4k 0.6× 278 0.3× 898 1.1× 679 1.0× 585 0.9× 100 4.0k
John D. Kasarda United States 34 1.1k 0.5× 556 0.7× 2.7k 3.5× 889 1.3× 525 0.8× 92 5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Martijn Burger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martijn Burger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Martijn Burger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Martijn Burger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Martijn Burger. Martijn Burger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burger, Martijn & Efstratia Arampatzi. (2025). Vision 2030 and Subjective Well-Being in Saudi Arabia. Sustainability. 17(15). 6856–6856. 2 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2025). Dark Triad and Resilience to Personal Loss: Evidence from the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 4287608515–4287608515. 1 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2024). Fairness perceptions mediate the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being: evidence from Türkiye. Applied Economics Letters. 32(16). 2344–2348. 2 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, Martijn Hendriks, & Elena Ianchovichina. (2023). Economic Crises, Subjective Well-Being, and Vote Switching: The Case of Brazil’s 2018 Presidential Election. Journal of Happiness Studies. 24(8). 2831–2853. 3 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2023). Subjective Well-Being and Populist Voting in the Netherlands. Journal of Happiness Studies. 24(7). 2331–2352. 5 indexed citations
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Hoogerbrugge, Marloes, Martijn Burger, & Frank van Oort. (2021). Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe. Regional Studies. 56(1). 75–86. 30 indexed citations
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Veenhoven, Ruut, et al.. (2021). Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive. SAGE Open. 11(1). 20 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, Κωνσταντίνος Κουνετάς, Oreste Napolitano, & Spyridon Stavropoulos. (2021). Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance. Regional Studies. 56(10). 1655–1670. 11 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2020). Difference in mood at work and home. An additional indicator of job satisfaction. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 4(3). 347–367. 1 indexed citations
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Pleeging, Emma, Martijn Burger, & Job van Exel. (2020). Hope Mediates the Relation between Income and Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies. 22(5). 2075–2102. 20 indexed citations
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Bakker, Arnold B., et al.. (2020). Raise of Happiness Following Raised Awareness of How Happy One Feels: A Follow-Up of Repeated Users of the Happiness Indicator Website. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology. 5(3). 153–187. 12 indexed citations
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Hendriks, Martijn & Martijn Burger. (2019). Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants: The role of shifting reference points and faltering perceptions of the host society. Journal of Happiness Studies. 1 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2019). Did the Easterlin Paradox apply in South Korea between 1980 and 2015? A case study. International Review of Economics. 66(4). 325–351. 5 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2018). Happiness in Rotterdam: Analysis of 7 city surveys. International Advances in Economic Research. 6(2). 82–100. 1 indexed citations
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Arampatzi, Efstratia, et al.. (2018). Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction With Life on the Eve of the Arab Spring. Review of Income and Wealth. 64(s1). 44 indexed citations
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Meijers, Evert & Martijn Burger. (2017). Stretching the concept of ‘borrowed size’. 6 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, et al.. (2014). The Geography of Multinational Corporations in CEE Countries: Perspectives for Second-Tier City Regions and European Cohesion Policy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations
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Oort, Frank van, Martijn Burger, Joris Knoben, & Otto Raspe. (2012). MULTILEVEL APPROACHES AND THE FIRM‐AGGLOMERATION AMBIGUITY IN ECONOMIC GROWTH STUDIES. Journal of Economic Surveys. 26(3). 468–491. 81 indexed citations
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Thissen, Mark, Martijn Burger, & Frank van Oort. (2010). House Prices, Bubbles and City Size. RePub (Erasmus University, Rotterdam). 2 indexed citations
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Burger, Martijn, Frank van Oort, & Bert van der Knaap. (2008). A Treatise on the Geographical Scale of Agglomeration Externalities and the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 16 indexed citations

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