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Business Process Modeling and Analysis

Business Process Modeling and Analysis is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 44k 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 workflow mining, business process management, and process modeling. It covers topics such as discovering process models from event logs, conformance checking, flexibility in workflows, semantic business process management, and predictive process monitoring.

  • Workflow Mining
  • Business Process Management
  • Process Models
  • Event Logs
  • Process Modeling Languages
  • Conformance Checking
  • Flexibility in Workflows
  • Semantic Business Process Management
  • Process Performance Measurement
  • Predictive Process Monitoring
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Business Process Modeling and Analysis

Which countries lead Business Process Modeling and Analysis research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (842 and 701 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 842 works
  2. 2 United States 701 works
  3. 3 China 399 works
  4. 4 India 240 works
  5. 5 Italy 229 works
  6. 6 France 163 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 160 works
  8. 8 Brazil 156 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 151 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 146 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.

Germany: 26.4%United States: 22.0%China: 12.5%India: 7.5%6 others listed: 31.6%26%largest
Germany842 · 26.4%United States701 · 22.0%China399 · 12.5%India240 · 7.5%6 others listed1,006 · 31.6%

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

Which institutions lead Business Process Modeling and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, RWTH Aachen University publishes the most Business Process Modeling and Analysis research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Eindhoven University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 89 works
  2. 2 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 46 works
  3. 3 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 42 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 37 works
  6. 6 Technical University of MunichGermany 37 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 31 works
  8. 8 Optima Neuroscience (United States)United States 27 works
  9. 9 KU LeuvenBelgium 25 works
  10. 10 University of PotsdamGermany 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Business Process Modeling and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Business Process Modeling and Analysis include Kai You Wang, Juan Jesús Carrero and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Juan Jesús Carrero Sweden 222k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Martin J. White France 183k 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 Process Modeling and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Business Process Modeling and Analysis is "Harvard Business Review" (J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff, 1988), with 18,225 citations. Next come "Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications" (10,641) and "Design science in information systems research" (7,717).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Harvard Business Review J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff · International Journal of Forecasting 1988 18,225
2 Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications Tadao Murata · Proceedings of the IEEE Apr 1989 10,641
3 Design science in information systems research Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Systems Mar 2004 7,717
4 Ontologies: principles, methods and applications Mike Uschold, Michael Grüninger · The Knowledge Engineering Review Jun 1996 3,520
5 The interdisciplinary study of coordination Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston · ACM Computing Surveys Open access Mar 1994 3,479
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Business Process Modeling and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Business Process Modeling and Analysis research in 2022-now are Aachen (Germany), Beijing (China), Munich (Germany) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Alachua, Sankt Augustin and Bolzano.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AachenGermany 96 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 86 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 70 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 54 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 53 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 53 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 51 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  10. 10 EindhovenNetherlands 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AlachuaUS · 27.3 works428×
  2. Sankt AugustinDE · 29.7 works90×
  3. BolzanoIT · 23.0 works28×
  4. AachenDE · 96.1 works21×
  5. EindhovenNL · 43.3 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Business Process Modeling and Analysis than the world average.

See Business Process Modeling and Analysis on the map

Where is the best place to study Business Process Modeling and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, University of Tartu and Eindhoven University of Technology 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 24.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TartuKU LeuvenRWTH Aachen UniversityEindhoven 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.

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
1RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 71.317.5%25.7×89 +53.0%
2University of TartuEstonia 69.938.1%21.6×19 -26.9%
3Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 67.016.1%26.7×42 -28.9%
4KU LeuvenBelgium 64.324.8%6.0×26 +14.9%
5Free University of Bozen-BolzanoItaly 62.918.6%52.5×23 +43.9%
6University of St.GallenSwitzerland 61.526.2%35.5×16 +45.6%
7Technical University of MunichGermany 59.215.6%9.4×37 +8.9%
8University of MannheimGermany 58.735.9%33.4×14 +154.5%
9Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 57.821.9%15.1×23 -27.3%
10Sapienza University of RomeItaly 57.425.4%3.4×18 +22.1%

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 Business Process Modeling and Analysis, country by country

Is Business Process Modeling and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Business Process Modeling and Analysis.

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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 Process Modeling and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Business Process Modeling and Analysis0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Business Process Modeling and Analysis 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 Process Modeling and Analysis9.9% 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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