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Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives

Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 1.7k research works in it since 1969. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of collaborative housing and its role in promoting sustainable living, community design, and social innovation. It encompasses a wide range of topics including ecovillages, senior cohousing, urban development, and self-managed housing. The papers discuss the potential for collaborative housing to drive sustainability transitions and redefine social and environmental relations.

  • Collaborative Housing
  • Sustainable Living
  • Community Design
  • Ecovillages
  • Social Innovation
  • Urban Development
  • Senior Cohousing
  • Environmental Relations
  • Self-Managed Housing
  • Sustainability Transitions
Research works
1.7k
fractional, since 1969
In the world top 10%
177
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+61%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
16% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives

Which countries lead Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (68 and 66 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 68 works
  2. 2 China 66 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 51 works
  4. 4 Germany 44 works
  5. 5 Italy 40 works
  6. 6 Spain 37 works
  7. 7 Austria 34 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 29 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 29 works
  10. 10 Poland 23 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.

United States: 16.1%China: 15.8%United Kingdom: 12.1%Germany: 10.6%6 others listed: 45.5%16%largest
United States68 · 16.1%China66 · 15.8%United Kingdom51 · 12.1%Germany44 · 10.6%6 others listed192 · 45.5%

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

Which institutions lead Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research?

By volume in 2022-now, TU Wien publishes the most Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research, followed by Delft University of Technology and Politecnico di Milano.

Who are the leading researchers in Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives include David E. Clapham.

  1. 1 David E. Clapham United States 74k 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 Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives?

The most cited paper in Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives is "The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People" (Janine L. Wiles, Annette Leibing, Nancy Guberman et al., 2011), with 1,993 citations. Next come "Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue" (998) and "Alternative marketplaces in the 21st century: Building community through sharing events" (556).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People Janine L. Wiles, Annette Leibing, Nancy Guberman et al. · The Gerontologist Open access 7 Oct 2011 1,993
2 Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue François Schneider, Giorgos Kallis, Joan Martínez Alier · Journal of Cleaner Production 25 Jan 2010 998
3 Alternative marketplaces in the 21st century: Building community through sharing events Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera · Journal of Consumer Behaviour Open access Jul 2012 556
4 Deconstructing Communicative Rationality: A Critique of Habermasian Collaborative Planning Mark Tewdwr‐Jones, Phil Allmendinger · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space Nov 1998 435
5 Community action for sustainable housing: Building a low-carbon future Gill Seyfang · Energy Policy Open access 16 Nov 2009 340
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research done?

The largest centres of Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research in 2022-now are Vienna (Austria), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Milan (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vienna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ViennaAustria 30 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 10 works
  4. 4 MilanItaly 10 works
  5. 5 DelftNetherlands 10 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 8 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 8 works
  8. 8 BarcelonaSpain 8 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 8 works
  10. 10 CopenhagenDenmark 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ViennaAT · 29.8 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives?

Among universities, judged by research, Delft University of Technology and TU Wien 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.

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
1Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 57.515.8%21.5×9 +9.8%
2TU WienAustria 35.00.9%131.8×25 -

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 Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives, country by country

Is Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives.

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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 Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives 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%Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives10.6% 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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