| Local social capital and entrepreneurship H Westlund, R Bolton Small business economics 21, 77-113, 2003 | 890 | 2003 |
| Why some rural areas decline while some others not: An overview of rural evolution in the world Y Li, H Westlund, Y Liu Journal of Rural Studies 68, 135-143, 2019 | 798 | 2019 |
| What is smart rural development? L Naldi, P Nilsson, H Westlund, S Wixe Journal of rural studies 40, 90-101, 2015 | 506 | 2015 |
| Social capital in the knowledge economy: Theory and empirics H Westlund Springer, 2006 | 477 | 2006 |
| Social capital and economic performance: A meta-analysis of 65 studies H Westlund, F Adam European planning studies 18 (6), 893-919, 2010 | 451 | 2010 |
| Bottom-up initiatives and revival in the face of rural decline: Case studies from China and Sweden Y Li, H Westlund, X Zheng, Y Liu Journal of Rural Studies 47, 506-513, 2016 | 275 | 2016 |
| The spatial dimension of social capital R Rutten, H Westlund, F Boekema European Planning Studies 18 (6), 863-871, 2010 | 229 | 2010 |
| Urban–rural transformation in relation to cultivated land conversion in China: Implications for optimizing land use and balanced regional development Y Li, Y Li, H Westlund, Y Liu Land use policy 47, 218-224, 2015 | 196 | 2015 |
| Start-ups and local entrepreneurial social capital in the municipalities of Sweden H Westlund, JP Larsson, AR Olsson Entrepreneurship in a Regional Context, 36-56, 2017 | 190 | 2017 |
| Measuring enterprises’ investments in social capital: A pilot study H Westlund, E Nilsson Regional Studies 39 (8), 1079-1094, 2005 | 153 | 2005 |
| Building social capital for social entrepreneurship H Westlund, M Gawell Annals of public and cooperative economics 83 (1), 101-116, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| An interaction-cost perspective on networks and territoryInteraction-cost perspective on networks H Westlund The Annals of Regional Science 33 (1), 93-121, 1999 | 103 | 1999 |
| Physical Capital, Human Capital, and Social Capital: The Changing Roles in C hina's Economic Growth Y Li, X Wang, H Westlund, Y Liu Growth and change 46 (1), 133-149, 2015 | 88 | 2015 |
| Urban-rural relations in the post-urban world H Westlund In the post-urban world, 70-81, 2017 | 83* | 2017 |
| Attributes influencing self-employment propensity in urban and rural Sweden K Eliasson, H Westlund The annals of regional science 50, 479-514, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| Multidimensional entrepreneurship: theoretical considerations and Swedish empirics H Westlund Regional science policy & practice 3 (3), 199-219, 2011 | 67 | 2011 |
| Social capital and rural development in the knowledge society H Westlund, K Kobayashi Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| An unplanned green wave: settlement patterns in Sweden during the 1990s H Westlund Environment and Planning A 34 (8), 1395-1410, 2002 | 61 | 2002 |
| Determinants of net migration to rural areas, and the impacts of migration on rural labour markets and self-employment in rural Sweden K Eliasson, H Westlund, M Johansson European planning studies 23 (4), 693-709, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| Social capital and the life cycle model: The transformation of the destination of Åre S Nordin, H Westlund Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal 57 (3), 259-284, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |