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Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Culture, Economy, and Development Studies is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of culture, institutions, and historical legacies on economic and social development. It delves into topics such as the impact of ethnic diversity, religion, colonial legacy, and social capital on economic growth, trust, and human capital formation. The role of cultural norms, language, and historical experiences in shaping institutions and development outcomes is a central theme.

  • Culture
  • Institutions
  • Economic Development
  • Ethnic Diversity
  • Religion
  • Colonial Legacy
  • Social Capital
  • Trust
  • Human Capital
  • Historical Impact
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Which countries lead Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (671 and 237 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 671 works
  2. 2 China 237 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 211 works
  4. 4 Germany 168 works
  5. 5 Italy 115 works
  6. 6 France 76 works
  7. 7 Canada 61 works
  8. 8 India 60 works
  9. 9 Spain 59 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 57 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: 39.1%China: 13.8%United Kingdom: 12.3%Germany: 9.8%6 others listed: 25.0%39%largest
United States671 · 39.1%China237 · 13.8%United Kingdom211 · 12.3%Germany168 · 9.8%6 others listed428 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research, followed by University of Chicago and London School of Economics and Political Science.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  2. 2 University of ChicagoUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 21 works
  4. 4 Stanford UniversityUnited States 19 works
  5. 5 George Mason UniversityUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 13 works
  9. 9 Princeton UniversityUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 Renmin University of ChinaChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Culture, Economy, and Development Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Culture, Economy, and Development Studies include Andrei Shleifer, David Tilman and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  2. 2 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  6. 6 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k 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 Culture, Economy, and Development Studies?

The most cited paper in Culture, Economy, and Development Studies is "A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation" (Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt, 1999), with 11,313 citations. Next come "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" (8,584) and "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply" (6,126).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Aug 1999 11,313
2 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review Dec 2001 8,584
3 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review Open access Oct 2012 6,126
4 Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History Joyce E. Berg, John W. Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe · Games and Economic Behavior Jul 1995 5,694
5 ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition Gary Eugene Bolton, Axel Ockenfels · American Economic Review Mar 2000 5,583
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research done?

The largest centres of Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 74 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 58 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 37 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 29 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 28 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 27 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 25 works
  10. 10 CambridgeUnited States 21 works
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Where is the best place to study Culture, Economy, and Development Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Chicago and Stanford 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%10%20%mean 15.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →London School of Eco…University of OxfordStanford UniversityUniversity of Chicago
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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
1London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 82.920.0%42.9×21 -29.2%
2University of ChicagoUnited States 75.611.1%12.4×22 +81.0%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 71.716.2%6.2×19 -11.0%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 62.816.6%5.7×16 -27.6%
5George Mason UniversityUnited States 59.617.7%25.8×17 -26.3%
6University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 59.418.0%11.4×11 +2.2%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 55.712.0%5.8×9 +32.2%
8New York UniversityUnited States 52.08.8%6.5×15 -36.9%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.911.3%3.5×11 +38.7%
10University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 49.921.4%4.4×9 -31.0%

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 Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, country by country

Is Culture, Economy, and Development Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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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 Culture, Economy, and Development Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Culture, Economy, and Development Studies0.0081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Culture, Economy, and Development Studies 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%Culture, Economy, and Development Studies11.1% 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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