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Institute for Economic Research

In research, Institute for Economic Research stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,112 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics and Econometrics (Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 12.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,936
of 22,385 · #13,525 all time
Rank in Slovenia
#25
of 50
Research works
602
▲ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.6k
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
61%
world 18%
Institute for Economic Research

What is Institute for Economic Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #7,112 of 9,585 12.3%93 #5121

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute for Economic Research sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Institute for Economic Research work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at Institute for Economic Research is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Economics, Econometrics and Finance (28%), Social Sciences (20%), Business, Management and Accounting (15%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 101 fractional works · 66.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 42 fractional works · 27.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 28 fractional works · 18.6% of its workFinance: 8 fractional works · 5.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 20.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 13 fractional works · 8.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 fractional works · 5.2% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 23 fractional works · 14.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 9 fractional works · 5.9% of its workAccounting: 7 fractional works · 4.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 33 fractional works · 21.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 13 fractional works · 8.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 7.0% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAnatomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.3% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitute forEconomic Research152fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences66%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4227.6%
    2. Social Sciences3120.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting2314.9%
    4. Decision Sciences31.8%
    5. Psychology10.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.8%
    1. Environmental Science138.7%
    2. Engineering74.4%
    3. Energy53.2%
    4. Computer Science42.7%
    5. Mathematics21.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy21.1%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Health Professions53.3%
    2. Medicine53.1%
    3. Nursing10.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences74.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.5%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Institute for Economic Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 12.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 41.9 works13×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 28.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.35× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.50× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.29× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.76× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.12× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.26× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 1.05× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.63× its world share, 23 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.84× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12.89× its world share, 42 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.59× its world share, 31 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 12.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.89×42 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting4.63×23 works
  3. Energy3.50×5 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.84×3 works
  5. Environmental Science1.76×13 works
  6. Social Sciences1.59×31 works
  7. Health Professions1.26×5 works
  8. Mathematics1.12×2 works
  9. Nursing1.05×1 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.91×6 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.63×0 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.50×2 works
  13. Computer Science0.35×4 works
  14. Psychology0.30×1 works
  15. Engineering0.29×7 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.29×1 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×0 works
  18. Medicine0.16×5 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×0 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×1 works
  21. Neuroscience0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Institute for Economic Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Kaja Primc, Renata Slabe‐Erker and Valentina Prevolnik Rupel lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute for Economic Research.

  1. 1 Kaja Primc Slovenia · #923,799 worldwide 720 citations · 33 works
  2. 2 Renata Slabe‐Erker Slovenia · #950,169 worldwide 1.1k citations · 67 works
  3. 3 Valentina Prevolnik Rupel Slovenia · #1,104,267 worldwide 1.5k citations · 104 works
  4. 4 Miha Dominko Slovenia · #1,318,704 worldwide 466 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Marko Ogorevc Slovenia · #1,523,705 worldwide 713 citations · 53 works
  6. 6 Boris Majcen Slovenia · #1,879,666 worldwide 1.5k citations · 66 works
  7. 7 Nika Murovec Slovenia · #2,112,123 worldwide 715 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Andrej Srakar Slovenia · #2,365,999 worldwide 495 citations · 86 works
  9. 9 Vladimir Lavrač Slovenia · #3,034,148 worldwide 68 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Nada Stropnik Slovenia · #3,045,590 worldwide 177 citations · 44 works
All ranked researchers at Institute for Economic Research

What are the most cited papers from Institute for Economic Research?

The most cited paper from Institute for Economic Research is "Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries" (Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano, 1990), with 691 citations. Next come "Patterns of low and lowest-low fertility in Europe" (578) and "Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies" (509).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano · NBER Macroeconomics Annual Open access 1990 691
2 Patterns of low and lowest-low fertility in Europe Francesco Candeloro Billari, Hans‐Peter Kohler · Population Studies 27 May 2004 578
3 Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies Michael Lechner · The Review of Economics and Statistics May 2002 509
4 On Bayesian Modeling of Fat Tails and Skewness Carmen Fernández, Mark F. J. Steel · Journal of the American Statistical Association Mar 1998 476
5 Absorptive capacity, its determinants, and influence on innovation output: Cross-cultural validation of the structural model Nika Murovec, Igor Prodan · Technovation 14 Jun 2009 472
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Institute for Economic Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Innovation, Globalization, Renewable Energy, Economic Development and Regional Development.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth16▲ 13×22 topics
  2. Sustainability15▲ 4.0×29 topics
  3. Sustainable Development14▲ 5.8×27 topics
  4. Globalization12▲ 4.1×30 topics
  5. Climate Change12▲ 2.9×27 topics
  6. Renewable Energy11▲ 4.8×18 topics
  7. Innovation10▲ 6.5×25 topics
  8. Economic Development9▲ 7.2×16 topics
  9. Regional Development8▲ 16×12 topics
  10. Environmental Impact7▲ 2.7×17 topics
  11. Political Economy6▲ 16×12 topics
  12. Monetary Policy6▲ 17×7 topics
  13. Labor Market6▲ 14×10 topics
  14. Energy Efficiency6▲ 4.2×9 topics
  15. Digital Transformation6▲ 6.9×13 topics
  16. Environmental Management6▲ 9.2×7 topics
  17. Fiscal Policy6▲ 18×7 topics
  18. Human Capital5▲ 22×8 topics
  19. Corporate Governance5▲ 4.2×10 topics
  20. Economic Security5▲ 14×7 topics
  21. Consumer Behavior4▲ 4.8×6 topics
  22. Regulation4▲ 5.3×8 topics
  23. Financial Crisis4▲ 24×6 topics
  24. Financial Stability4▲ 14×7 topics
  25. Urbanization4▲ 6.6×6 topics
  26. Financial Development4▲ 17×3 topics
  27. Panel Data Analysis4▲ 16×2 topics
  28. Governance4▲ 7.5×7 topics
  29. Income Inequality4▲ 16×5 topics
  30. Circular Economy3▲ 8.3×5 topics
  31. Entrepreneurship3▲ 5.8×10 topics
  32. Finance3▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Financial Security3▲ 19×3 topics
  34. Geopolitics3▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Liquidity3▲ 27×3 topics
  36. CO2 Emissions3▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Environmental Policy3▲ 9.6×4 topics
  38. Institutional Quality3▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Energy Consumption3▲ 8.5×3 topics
  40. Firm Performance3▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does Institute for Economic Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Corporate Finance and Governance and Business and Economic Development.

Energy, Environment, Eco…3Energy, Environment, Economic Growth: 3 fractional worksBanking stability, regul…2Banking stability, regulation, efficiency: 2 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 2 fractional worksBusiness and Economic Development: 2 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksGlobal Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics: 2 fractional worksGlobal Trade and Competitiveness: 2 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, and…2Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies: 2 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis and Policies: 2 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsFinanceAccountingManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  2. 2 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 2 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 2 works
  4. 4 Business and Economic Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  6. 6 Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  7. 7 Global Trade and Competitiveness Strategy and Management 2 works
  8. 8 Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2 works
  9. 9 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 2 works
  10. 10 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available69.9%not open30.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors60.9%domestic only39.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Institute for Economic Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Institute for Economic Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00063% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Institute for Economic Research0.00055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Institute for Economic Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Institute for Economic Research11.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.3% in 2019.

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