Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 8.3k research works in it since 1952. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of cross-border regions in Europe and North America, focusing on territorial governance, European integration, border cooperation, regional identity, transnational collaboration, spatial planning, metropolitan integration, policy networks, and cross-border mobility.
- Cross-Border Regions
- Territorial Governance
- European Integration
- Border Cooperation
- Regional Identity
- Transnational Collaboration
- Spatial Planning
- Metropolitan Integration
- Policy Networks
- Cross-Border Mobility
- Research works
- 8.3k fractional, since 1952
- In the world top 10%
- 878 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- -7% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Germany
14% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research?
By volume, Germany and Russia publish the most (153 and 147 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Germany
153 works
- 2
Russia
147 works
- 3
China
136 works
- 4
United States
129 works
- 5
Poland
128 works
- 6
France
120 works
- 7
Indonesia
78 works
- 8
Spain
64 works
- 9
United Kingdom
64 works
- 10
Italy
53 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research?
By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Saarland University.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Russian Academy of SciencesRussia
35 works
- 2
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
33 works
- 3
Saarland UniversityGermany
16 works
- 4
Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland
14 works
- 5
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
13 works
- 6
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityRussia
11 works
- 7
Eötvös Loránd University
Hungary
10 works
- 8
University of Helsinki
Finland
8 works
- 9
Université de LorraineFrance
8 works
- 10
Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland
8 works
Who are the leading researchers in Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration include David R. Smith.
- 1
David R. Smith
United States
107k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research done?
The largest centres of Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Budapest (Hungary), Paris (France) and Warsaw (Poland).
Where is the best place to study Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration?
Among universities, judged by research, Saarland University, University of Luxembourg 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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saarland UniversityGermany |
83.9 | 20.1% | 39.5× | 16 | +148.9% |
| 2 | University of LuxembourgLuxembourg |
34.9 | 11.3% | 34.0× | 13 | -73.1% |
| 3 | Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland |
32.7 | 5.6% | 21.8× | 14 | +15.7% |
| 4 | Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary |
31.9 | 12.6% | 20.6× | 10 | +105.9% |
| 5 | Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityRussia |
26.5 | 11.6% | 98.6× | 11 | -7.8% |
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 Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration, country by countryIs Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.
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 Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.
Fractional works of Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration 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.
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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