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Digital Economy and Transformation

Digital Economy and Transformation is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 3.6k research works in it since 1970. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of digital economy, sustainable development, and global competitiveness. It covers topics such as digital transformation, sustainable development goals, economic performance, innovation networks, knowledge management, industrial policy, human capital management, entrepreneurial leadership, and the impact of social media on politics. The papers provide insights into the challenges, opportunities, and prospects in the evolving landscape of the digital economy and its implications for global sustainable development.

  • Digital Transformation
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Economic Performance
  • Innovation Networks
  • Global Competitiveness
  • Knowledge Management
  • Industrial Policy
  • Human Capital Management
  • Entrepreneurial Leadership
  • Social Media and Politics
Research works
3.6k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
360
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Economy and Transformation

Which countries lead Digital Economy and Transformation research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.1k and 232 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.1k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 232 works
  3. 3 United States 138 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 100 works
  5. 5 China 57 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 56 works
  7. 7 Belarus 50 works
  8. 8 Tajikistan 19 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 18 works
  10. 10 Poland 17 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.

Russia: 62.4%Ukraine: 12.7%United States: 7.6%Uzbekistan: 5.5%6 others listed: 11.9%62%largest
Russia1,142 · 62.4%Ukraine232 · 12.7%United States138 · 7.6%Uzbekistan100 · 5.5%6 others listed218 · 11.9%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Economy and Transformation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Digital Economy and Transformation research, followed by Financial University and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Economy and Transformation?

The most cited paper in Digital Economy and Transformation is "Digital Economy as a Factor in the Technological Development of the Mineral Sector" (Vladimir S. Litvinenko, 2019), with 563 citations. Next come "A Maturity Model for Assessing the Digital Readiness of Manufacturing Companies" (353) and "Digital transformation in the maritime transport sector" (290).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Digital Economy as a Factor in the Technological Development of the Mineral Sector Vladimir S. Litvinenko · Natural Resources Research Open access 23 Oct 2019 563
2 A Maturity Model for Assessing the Digital Readiness of Manufacturing Companies Anna De Carolis, Marco Macchi, Elisa Negri et al. · IFIP advances in information and communication technology Conference paperOpen access 2017 353
3 Digital transformation in the maritime transport sector Edvard Tijan, Marija Jović, Saša Aksentijević et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 25 May 2021 290
4 On the Strategy for the Development of the Information Society of the Russian Federation for 2017-2030 A. P. Isaev, Vladimir Nikolaevich Naumov, Y. V. Sablina · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access Jun 2019 282
5 Digitalization in Economy and Innovation: The Effect on Social and Economic Processes Margarita Alekseevna Afonasova, Elena Evgenevna Panfilova, Marina A. Galichkina et al. · Polish Journal of Management Studies Open access Jun 2019 216
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Economy and Transformation research done?

The largest centres of Digital Economy and Transformation research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Grozny.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 469 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 106 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 59 works
  4. 4 TashkentUzbekistan 59 works
  5. 5 WeatherfordUnited States 49 works
  6. 6 YekaterinburgRussia 46 works
  7. 7 Kazan’Russia 40 works
  8. 8 MinskBelarus 37 works
  9. 9 SamaraRussia 36 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-DonRussia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GroznyRU · 23.3 works153×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Economy and Transformation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital Economy and Transformation?

Among universities, judged by research, Financial University, Lomonosov Moscow State University and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 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 11.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →V. N. Karazin Kharki…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Financial UniversityWeatherford College
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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
1Financial UniversityRussia 62.812.8%151.6×60 +6.2%
2Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 58.516.7%11.1×17 +11.1%
3V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 56.719.1%33.1×12 +129.1%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 53.78.3%20.6×49 +327.9%
5Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 52.78.8%234.0×52 +4.9%
6Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 52.29.1%29.2×14 +44.5%
7Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 43.08.5%68.4×21 +49.3%
8West Ukrainian National UniversityUkraine 40.211.6%70.3×11 +270.5%
9Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 40.07.8%52.6×19 -38.8%
10Moscow University «Synergy»Russia 38.510.1%309.4×15 +275.9%

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 Digital Economy and Transformation, country by country

Is Digital Economy and Transformation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Economy and Transformation.

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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 Digital Economy and Transformation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0057% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Economy and Transformation 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%Digital Economy and Transformation10.6% in 20252020

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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