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Contemporary Social and Economic Issues

Contemporary Social and Economic Issues is a research topic within General Social Sciences. Science Explorer counts 1.3k research works in it since 1970. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of interdisciplinary studies in social sciences, including urbanism, development policy, globalization, democracy and development, social welfare, environmental risks, and sociological analysis. It explores topics such as the European model, cultural capitalism, social exclusion, and the impact of globalization on various aspects of society.

  • Urbanism
  • Development Policy
  • Sociological Analysis
  • Globalization
  • Social Exclusion
  • European Model
  • Cultural Capitalism
  • Democracy and Development
  • Social Welfare
  • Environmental Risks
Research works
1.3k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
134
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
95% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Contemporary Social and Economic Issues

Which countries lead Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (304 and 4 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 304 works
  2. 2 United States 4 works
  3. 3 Czechia 3 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 3 works
  5. 5 Italy 2 works
  6. 6 Germany 2 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 1 works
  8. 8 Portugal 1 works
  9. 9 Croatia 1 works
  10. 10 ?? 1 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.

Poland: 94.7%United States: 1.2%Czechia: 0.8%Ukraine: 0.8%6 others listed: 2.4%95%largest
Poland304 · 94.7%United States4 · 1.2%Czechia3 · 0.8%Ukraine3 · 0.8%6 others listed8 · 2.4%

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

Which institutions lead Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań publishes the most Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research, followed by Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 29 works
  2. 2 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 26 works
  3. 3 University of WarsawPoland 20 works
  4. 4 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 16 works
  5. 5 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 12 works
  6. 6 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 11 works
  7. 7 University of GdańskPoland 11 works
  8. 8 Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 10 works
  9. 9 Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 10 works
  10. 10 University of ŁódźPoland 10 works

What are the most cited papers in Contemporary Social and Economic Issues?

The most cited paper in Contemporary Social and Economic Issues is "S.Czaja, B.Fiedor, A.Graczyk, Z.Jakubczyk, Podstawy ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, C.C.Beck, Warszawa 2001" (Grzegorz Dobrzański, 2001), with 133 citations. Next come "Daniel Kahneman – „Pułapki myślenia: O myśleniu szybkim i wolnym”" (113) and "Zrównoważony rozwój perspektywą dalszego postępu cywilizacyjnego" (57).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 S.Czaja, B.Fiedor, A.Graczyk, Z.Jakubczyk, Podstawy ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, C.C.Beck, Warszawa 2001 Grzegorz Dobrzański 2001 133
2 Daniel Kahneman – „Pułapki myślenia: O myśleniu szybkim i wolnym” Tadeusz Tyszka · Decyzje 2012 113
3 Zrównoważony rozwój perspektywą dalszego postępu cywilizacyjnego Antoni Skowroński · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2006 57
4 Polish Philosophy in the Inter-War Period and Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought-Styles and Thought-Collectives Jerzy Giedymin · Boston studies in the philosophy of science Book chapter 1986 49
5 Wybrane problemy metodologii pomiaru nowego paradygmatu rozwoju – polskie doświadczenia Tadeusz Borys · Optimum Economic Studies Open access 2014 32
All 103 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research done?

The largest centres of Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krakow, Poznań and Lublin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 72 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 57 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 32 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 23 works
  5. 5 KatowicePoland 15 works
  6. 6 ŁódźPoland 14 works
  7. 7 GdańskPoland 12 works
  8. 8 BydgoszczPoland 12 works
  9. 9 WrocławPoland 11 works
  10. 10 ToruńPoland 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrakowPL · 56.5 works113×
  2. PoznańPL · 31.7 works107×
  3. LublinPL · 23.0 works101×
  4. WarsawPL · 71.8 works77×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Contemporary Social and Economic Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Contemporary Social and Economic Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Jagiellonian University, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 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%10%20%mean 10.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kazimierz Wielki Uni…Jagiellonian Univers…University of WarsawAdam Mickiewicz Univ…
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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
1Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 57.412.7%144.7×26 +63.5%
2Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 57.421.0%507.5×10 +115.5%
3Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 54.410.0%264.6×29 +31.2%
4University of WarsawPoland 50.010.7%142.9×20 +26.7%
5Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 30.813.8%322.5×11 +33.6%
6University of GdańskPoland 25.45.0%181.2×10 +9.9%
7John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 24.29.2%269.1×12 +52.2%
8University of ŁódźPoland 21.07.7%128.0×10 +15.1%
9University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 20.96.6%143.6×8 +31.0%
10Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 16.98.6%413.4×10 +35.2%

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 Contemporary Social and Economic Issues, country by country

Is Contemporary Social and Economic Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Contemporary Social and Economic Issues.

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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 Contemporary Social and Economic Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00083% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Contemporary Social and Economic Issues 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%Contemporary Social and Economic Issues10.2% 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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