Research Lines
Cultural Economics · Cultural Indicators · Regional Economics · Spatial Analysis · Cultural and Creative Industries · Creative Economy
Work in Progress
Gómez-Vega, M., Boal, I. (forthcoming). The creative dimensions of World Heritage Cities
Hernández-Correa, E., Gómez-Vega, M., Alonso-Villa, P., Boal, I. (forthcoming). Tourism competitiveness in Asia-Pacific destinations: is the level of globalization a key factor?
Herrero-Prieto, L.C., Leoruge, R., Boal, I. (work in progress). Deep-rooted culture and subjective well-being. Revisting cardinal virtues to build a composite welfare index por Europe.
Journal articles
Gómez-Vega, M., Boal, I., Santos-Gargallo, A. (2026). Expert-based and selected endogenous weighting in composite indicators: evidence from the cultural and creative cities index. Quality & Quantity https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-026-02850-7
SJR Q1. Social Sciences.
Boal, I., Pérez-González, M.D.C., Maza-Ávila, F.J. (2026). Assessing regional efficiency of the creative economy: a territorial development perspective in Spain. European Planning Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2026.2677703
WoS-JCR 2024: Q1 (JIF Percentile: 85.9 ; 25/174). Geography; Q2 (JIF Percentile: 75.5 ; 14/55). Regional&Urban Planning.
Boal, I., Alonso-Villa, P., Gómez-Vega, M. (2026). Spatiotemporal dynamics of creative performance and innovation capacity in Europe: a multidimensional perspective. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2026.2661731
WoS-JCR 2024: Q1 (JIF Percentile: 76.7 ; 145/620). Economics.
Gómez Vega, M., Boal, I., Alonso-Villa, P. (2024). Does the accumulation of creative capital influence the competitiveness of the tourism sector in European regions? Tourism Economics, 30(8), 1951-1972. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166241240630
WoS-JCR 2024: Q1 (JIF Percentile: 82.2 ; 111/620). Economics.
Boal, I., Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2020). Reliability of Creative Composite Indicators with Territorial Specification in the EU. Sustainability, 12(8), 3070. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083070
WoS-JCR 2020: Q2 (JIF Percentile: 54.96 ; 124/274). Environmental Sciences.
Boal, I., Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2020). Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Cultural and Creative Industries with Micro-Geographic Disaggregation. Sustainability, 12(16), 6376. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166376
WoS-JCR 2020: Q2 (JIF Percentile: 54.96 ; 124/274). Environmental Sciences.
Herrero-Prieto, L.C., Boal, I., Gómez-Vega, M. (2019). Deep-Rooted Culture and Economic Development: Taking the Seven Deadly Sins to Build a Well-Being Composite Indicator. Social Indicators Research, 144(2), 601-624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02067-2
WoS-JCR 2019: Q2 (JIF Percentile: 72.69 ; 30/108). Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary.
Boal, I., Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2018). Where are the artists? Analysing economies of agglomeration in Castile and León, Spain. Papers in Regional Science, 97(4), 995-1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12314
WoS-JCR 2018: Q1 (JIF Percentile: 75.6 ; 43/174). Geography; Q2 (JIF Percentile: 72.59 ; 100/363).
Book Chapters
Boal, I., Wang, J. (2021). Medición del potencial cultural y creativo en China a partir de un indicador sintético. En L.C. Herrero-Prieto y J. Prieto-Rodrígez (Eds.), La Economía de la Cultura: una disciplina joven. Estudios en homenaje al profesor Víctor Fernández Blanco (pp.111-126). Universidad de Oviedo.
Boal, I. (2019). The geography of creative and cultural industries in Spain: Location and economies of agglomeration. In Commentary on cultural industry in China (Vol.27, pp. 153-185). Cultural Industry Innovation & Development Academy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
Boal, I., Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2017). La distribución espacial de las actividades culturales y creativas en Castilla y León: un análisis mediante técnicas de econometría espacial. En La economía de las actividades creativas: una perspectiva desde España y México (pp. 169-194). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74536
Boal, I. (2015). Sector cultural y creativo en Castilla y León: análisis espacial y desarrollo económico. Diputación Provincial de Palencia.
Working Papers
Herrero-Prieto, L.C., Boal-San Miguel, I., Gómez-Vega, M. (2018). Deep-Rooted Culture and Economic Development: Taking the Seven Deadly Sins to Build a Well-Being Composite Indicator. ACEI Working Paper Series, AWP-04-2018, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Jul. 2018. https://ideas.repec.org/p/cue/wpaper/awp-11-2016.html
Boal-San Miguel, I., Herrero-Prieto, L.C. (2016). Where are the artists? Analyzing Economies of Agglomeration in Spain. ACEI Working Paper Series, AWP-11-2016, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Oct. 2016. https://ideas.repec.org/p/cue/wpaper/awp-11-2016.html