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Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends

Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends is a research topic within General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the economic impacts of air transportation systems, including the effects of high-speed rail competition, airport efficiency, airline alliances, and the influence of COVID-19 on the industry. It also delves into the relationship between air transportation and economic development, tourism growth, and passenger satisfaction.

  • High-speed Rail
  • Airport Competition
  • Airline Alliances
  • Economic Development
  • COVID-19 Impact
  • Transport Infrastructure
  • Passenger Satisfaction
  • Market Power
  • Tourism Growth
  • Airport Efficiency
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends

Which countries lead Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (859 and 453 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 859 works
  2. 2 United States 453 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 237 works
  4. 4 India 209 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 178 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 140 works
  7. 7 Germany 122 works
  8. 8 Brazil 116 works
  9. 9 Spain 102 works
  10. 10 Italy 82 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 34.4%United States: 18.1%Türkiye: 9.5%India: 8.4%6 others listed: 29.6%34%largest
China859 · 34.4%United States453 · 18.1%Türkiye237 · 9.5%India209 · 8.4%6 others listed740 · 29.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics publishes the most Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research, followed by Beijing Jiaotong University and Civil Aviation University of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 50 works
  2. 2 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 49 works
  3. 3 Civil Aviation University of ChinaChina 42 works
  4. 4 Tarbiat Modares UniversityIran 40 works
  5. 5 Embry–Riddle Aeronautical UniversityUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 28 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 27 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 25 works
  9. 9 Institute of Transportation and Logistic TrisaktiIndonesia 24 works
  10. 10 Civil Aviation Flight University of ChinaChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends include Gordon Brent Mills.

  1. 1 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends?

The most cited paper in Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends is "A review of telework research: findings, new directions, and lessons for the study of modern work" (Diane E. Bailey, Nancy B. Kurland, 2002), with 1,607 citations. Next come "Production frontiers with cross-sectional and time-series variation in efficiency levels" (1,167) and "Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership" (979).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review of telework research: findings, new directions, and lessons for the study of modern work Diane E. Bailey, Nancy B. Kurland · Journal of Organizational Behavior 25 Apr 2002 1,607
2 Production frontiers with cross-sectional and time-series variation in efficiency levels Christopher Mark Cornwell, Peter Schmidt, Robin C. Sickles · Journal of Econometrics Oct 1990 1,167
3 Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz, Isabel Tecu · The Journal of Finance Open access 25 May 2018 979
4 Perceived Risk and Consumer Decision-Making—The Case of Telephone Shopping Donald F. Cox, Stuart U. Rich · Journal of Marketing Research Nov 1964 789
5 Tourism planning: policies, processes and relationships Kaye Thorn · Tourism Management Oct 2001 730
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research done?

The largest centres of Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Daytona, Luocheng and Eskişehir.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 212 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 91 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 79 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 68 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 63 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 53 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 49 works
  8. 8 Hong KongChina 44 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 38 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DaytonaUS · 28.9 works108×
  2. LuochengCN · 21.6 works84×
  3. EskişehirTR · 27.6 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends than the world average.

See Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends on the map

Where is the best place to study Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Beihang University and Beijing Jiaotong University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beihang UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Beijing Jiaotong Uni…Nanjing University o…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 86.127.4%9.8×28 +36.4%
2Beihang UniversityChina 70.829.7%6.9×25 +56.7%
3Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.412.1%24.0×49 +10.1%
4Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 62.010.8%16.9×50 +22.0%
5University of BergamoItaly 58.528.0%28.4×9 +4.3%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 57.029.2%2.2×9 +25.9%
7Civil Aviation University of ChinaChina 54.58.0%89.8×42 +137.8%
8Southeast UniversityChina 52.520.5%2.7×13 +32.2%
9Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 52.326.6%6.5×15 -23.8%
10University of British ColumbiaCanada 52.326.0%2.6×11 -15.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends, country by country

Is Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends.

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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 Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends 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.

still counting5%10%15%Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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