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Business and Economic Development

Business and Economic Development is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment of sustainable development indicators, strategies, and impacts, including renewable energy, green investments, energy efficiency, social safety, information economy, environmental management, financial security, innovation development, and macroeconomic stability. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the intersection of economic, environmental, and social factors in the pursuit of sustainable development.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Renewable Energy
  • Green Investments
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Social Safety
  • Information Economy
  • Environmental Management
  • Financial Security
  • Innovation Development
  • Macroeconomic Stability
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Business and Economic Development

Which countries lead Business and Economic Development research?

By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (4.2k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 4.2k works
  2. 2 Russia 1.5k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 668 works
  4. 4 China 668 works
  5. 5 United States 654 works
  6. 6 Poland 535 works
  7. 7 India 482 works
  8. 8 Romania 221 works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 207 works
  10. 10 ?? 159 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.

Ukraine: 45.5%Russia: 15.7%Indonesia: 7.2%China: 7.2%6 others listed: 24.4%45%largest
Ukraine4,209 · 45.5%Russia1,454 · 15.7%Indonesia668 · 7.2%China668 · 7.2%6 others listed2,257 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Business and Economic Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Lviv Polytechnic National University publishes the most Business and Economic Development research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and West Ukrainian National University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 206 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 179 works
  3. 3 West Ukrainian National UniversityUkraine 179 works
  4. 4 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 163 works
  5. 5 Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym HetmanUkraine 151 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 120 works
  7. 7 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 117 works
  8. 8 Sumy State UniversityUkraine 116 works
  9. 9 Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of EconomicsUkraine 113 works
  10. 10 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 113 works

Who are the leading researchers in Business and Economic Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Business and Economic Development include Richard M. Ryan and Jay Bryan Barney.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k 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 Business and Economic Development?

The most cited paper in Business and Economic Development is "Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage" (Jay Bryan Barney, Mark H Hansen, 1994), with 2,103 citations. Next come "Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach" (1,096) and "Artificial intelligence and business models in the sustainable development goals perspective: A systematic literature review" (1,093).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage Jay Bryan Barney, Mark H Hansen · Strategic Management Journal 1994 2,103
2 Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach Surabhi Verma, Anders Gustafsson · Journal of Business Research Open access 2 Jul 2020 1,096
3 Artificial intelligence and business models in the sustainable development goals perspective: A systematic literature review Assunta Di Vaio, Rosa Palladino, Rohail Hassan et al. · Journal of Business Research Review 11 Sep 2020 1,093
4 Relationship between innovation capability, innovation type, and firm performance R.P. Jayani Rajapathirana, Yan Hui · Journal of Innovation & Knowledge Open access 31 Aug 2017 1,036
5 Corporate social disclosure practice: a comparative international analysis James E. Guthrie, Lee David Parker · ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) 1990 994
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Business and Economic Development research done?

The largest centres of Business and Economic Development research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Kharkiv (Ukraine) and Lviv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Irpin, Mukacheve and Khmelnytskyi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 1.2k works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 571 works
  3. 3 KharkivUkraine 457 works
  4. 4 LvivUkraine 417 works
  5. 5 OdesaUkraine 229 works
  6. 6 TernopilUkraine 215 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 191 works
  8. 8 DniproUkraine 182 works
  9. 9 SumyUkraine 173 works
  10. 10 TashkentUzbekistan 123 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IrpinUA · 21.6 works152×
  2. MukacheveUA · 24.4 works112×
  3. KhmelnytskyiUA · 82.6 works97×
  4. KropyvnytskyiUA · 41.9 works96×
  5. TernopilUA · 215.3 works88×
  6. SumyUA · 172.9 works75×
  7. ChernihivUA · 30.2 works74×
  8. Kryvyi RihUA · 51.6 works70×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Business and Economic Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Business and Economic Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Silesian University of Technology, University of Johannesburg and WSB University score highest, combining citation 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 25.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Johann…University of ŽilinaWSB UniversitySilesian University …
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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.

Citation 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
1Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 69.731.4%13.6×37 +68.7%
2University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 62.842.6%2.2×15 +348.0%
3WSB UniversityPoland 61.434.3%51.8×13 +116.0%
4University of ŽilinaSlovakia 56.439.9%14.6×18 -14.4%
5Sumy State UniversityUkraine 56.317.9%105.8×116 -40.7%
6Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 55.915.7%30.1×55 +42.2%
7Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 53.97.5%71.8×206 +0.9%
8Weatherford CollegeUnited States 52.06.2%8.2×120 +107.1%
9Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 51.933.1%1.4×10 +112.2%
10Tomas Bata University in ZlínCzechia 51.625.6%15.7×9 -24.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Business and Economic Development, country by country

Is Business and Economic Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Business and Economic Development.

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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 Business and Economic Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.050% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Business and Economic Development0.042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Business and Economic Development 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%Business and Economic Development10.5% in 202520102020

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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