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E-commerce and Technology Innovations

E-commerce and Technology Innovations is a research topic within Business and International Management. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the drivers, barriers, and implications of cross-border e-commerce, particularly within the context of logistics, digital technologies, supply chain integration, risk assessment, and economic development. It explores topics such as the role of digital technologies and capabilities, adoption of technological innovations, impact on international trade, risk assessment using text mining and fuzzy reasoning, and the development of cross-border e-commerce platforms.

  • Cross-Border E-Commerce
  • Logistics
  • Digital Technologies
  • Supply Chain
  • International Trade
  • Risk Assessment
  • Fuzzy Theory
  • B2B Context
  • Economic Development
  • Big Data Analytics
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+116%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
81% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
E-commerce and Technology Innovations

Which countries lead E-commerce and Technology Innovations research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (8.5k and 478 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8.5k works
  2. 2 India 478 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 359 works
  4. 4 United States 332 works
  5. 5 ?? 195 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 181 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 140 works
  8. 8 Philippines 136 works
  9. 9 South Korea 121 works
  10. 10 Thailand 110 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.

China: 80.5%India: 4.5%Indonesia: 3.4%United States: 3.2%6 others listed: 8.4%81%largest
China8,497 · 80.5%India478 · 4.5%Indonesia359 · 3.4%United States332 · 3.2%6 others listed883 · 8.4%

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

Which institutions lead E-commerce and Technology Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Wuhan Business University publishes the most E-commerce and Technology Innovations research, followed by Anhui University of Finance and Economics and Wuhan University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Wuhan Business UniversityChina 99 works
  2. 2 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 93 works
  3. 3 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 71 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71 works
  5. 5 Shandong Institute of Commerce & TechnologyChina 69 works
  6. 6 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 60 works
  7. 7 Shanghai UniversityChina 55 works
  8. 8 Wuhan Donghu UniversityChina 54 works
  9. 9 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 52 works
  10. 10 Guangzhou Vocational College of Science and TechnologyChina 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in E-commerce and Technology Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on E-commerce and Technology Innovations include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 E-commerce and Technology Innovations?

The most cited paper in E-commerce and Technology Innovations is "Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in the Challenging Age: An Empirical Study" (Afrina Yasmin, Sadia Tasneem, Kaniz Fatema, 2015), with 443 citations. Next come "Resources and digital export: An RBV perspective on the role of digital technologies and capabilities in cross-border e-commerce" (424) and "A blockchain-based framework of cross-border e-commerce supply chain" (369).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in the Challenging Age: An Empirical Study Afrina Yasmin, Sadia Tasneem, Kaniz Fatema · THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Open access 2015 443
2 Resources and digital export: An RBV perspective on the role of digital technologies and capabilities in cross-border e-commerce Stefano Elia, Maria Grazia Giuffrida, Marcello M. Mariani et al. · Journal of Business Research Open access 22 Apr 2021 424
3 A blockchain-based framework of cross-border e-commerce supply chain Zhiyong Liu, Zipei Li · International Journal of Information Management 24 Dec 2019 369
4 Handover decision using fuzzy MADM in heterogeneous networks Wenhui Zhang Conference paper 19 Oct 2004 366
5 Electronic commerce development in small and medium sized enterprises Suhasini Subba Rao, Glenn A. Metts, Carlo A. Mora‐Monge · Business Process Management Journal Feb 2003 362
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is E-commerce and Technology Innovations research done?

The largest centres of E-commerce and Technology Innovations research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuhan (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guangzhou and Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 904 works
  2. 2 WuhanChina 499 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 414 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 388 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 287 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 277 works
  7. 7 JinanChina 262 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 247 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 247 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 245 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Guangzhou41.5 works35×
  2. BengbuCN · 99.7 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in E-commerce and Technology Innovations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study E-commerce and Technology Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University of Technology, Sichuan International Studies University and Hong Kong Polytechnic 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%20%40%mean 20.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Zhejiang University …Sichuan Internationa…Henan University of …
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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
1Zhejiang University of TechnologyChina 66.626.6%4.7×26 +309.0%
2Sichuan International Studies UniversityChina 65.525.8%39.8×14 +557.9%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 64.929.5%1.2×10 +288.4%
4Henan University of Economic and LawChina 62.520.8%51.8×24 +211.1%
5Amity UniversityIndia 62.523.2%2.8×12 +158.4%
6Telkom UniversityIndonesia 62.424.0%3.2×16 +877.8%
7Shanghai UniversityChina 60.611.3%7.8×55 +86.6%
8Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 60.58.1%9.0×71 +21.6%
9Shandong Institute of Business and TechnologyChina 60.018.4%31.2×25 +369.2%
10Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 59.520.6%2.4×16 +1033.1%

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 E-commerce and Technology Innovations, country by country

Is E-commerce and Technology Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 116% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are E-commerce and Technology Innovations.

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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 E-commerce and Technology Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.064% in 2024.

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Fractional works of E-commerce and Technology Innovations 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%E-commerce and Technology Innovations10.4% 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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