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Economic and Business Studies

Economic and Business Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 2.8k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics including globalization, economic policy, public health, COVID-19, international trade, leadership, financial stability, regional development, organizational economics, and sustainable development. The papers analyze the intersection of global economics and public health policy from various perspectives and provide insights into the challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing world.

  • Globalization
  • Economic Policy
  • Public Health
  • COVID-19
  • International Trade
  • Leadership
  • Financial Stability
  • Regional Development
  • Organizational Economics
  • Sustainable Development
Research works
2.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
274
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic and Business Studies

Which countries lead Economic and Business Studies research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (354 and 63 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 354 works
  2. 2 United States 63 works
  3. 3 Austria 47 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 32 works
  5. 5 China 31 works
  6. 6 India 26 works
  7. 7 Switzerland 25 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 15 works
  9. 9 Italy 13 works
  10. 10 France 10 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.

Germany: 57.5%United States: 10.2%Austria: 7.6%United Kingdom: 5.2%6 others listed: 19.6%57%largest
Germany354 · 57.5%United States63 · 10.2%Austria47 · 7.6%United Kingdom32 · 5.2%6 others listed120 · 19.6%

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

Which institutions lead Economic and Business Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Economic and Business Studies research, followed by München Klinik and Austrian Foundry Research Institute.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 15 works
  2. 2 München KlinikGermany 12 works
  3. 3 Austrian Foundry Research InstituteAustria 8 works
  4. 4 Vienna University of Economics and BusinessAustria 6 works
  5. 5 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 6 works
  6. 6 Klinikum ItzehoeGermany 6 works
  7. 7 University of CologneGermany 6 works
  8. 8 Richmond, The American International University in LondonUnited Kingdom 5 works
  9. 9 FernUniversität in HagenGermany 5 works
  10. 10 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic and Business Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic and Business Studies include Jens Juul Holst, Oliver E. Williamson and Robert J. Barro.

  1. 1 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations
  2. 2 Oliver E. Williamson United States 113k citations
  3. 3 Robert J. Barro United States 110k 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 Economic and Business Studies?

The most cited paper in Economic and Business Studies is "Target loans, current account balances and capital flows: the ECB’s rescue facility" (Hans‐Werner Sinn, Timo Wollmershäuser, 2012), with 259 citations. Next come "Strategic Management Theory in a Post‐Pandemic and Non‐Ergodic World" (185) and "The regional innovation system in Baden-Wurttemberg" (151).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Target loans, current account balances and capital flows: the ECB’s rescue facility Hans‐Werner Sinn, Timo Wollmershäuser · International Tax and Public Finance Open access 29 May 2012 259
2 Strategic Management Theory in a Post‐Pandemic and Non‐Ergodic World Michael A. Hitt, Jean-Luc Arrègle, Robert Michael Holmes · Journal of Management Studies Open access 4 Oct 2020 185
3 The regional innovation system in Baden-Wurttemberg Philip Cooke, Kevin Morgan · International Journal of Technology Management 1994 151
4 Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft Klaus Kraemer, Florian Brugger · Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft Book chapter 2021 136
5 Pharmaceutical policies in European countries in response to the global financial crisis Sabine Vogler, Nina A. Zimmermann, Christine Leopold et al. · Southern Med Review Open access 3 Dec 2011 136
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Where is Economic and Business Studies research done?

The largest centres of Economic and Business Studies research in 2022-now are Vienna (Austria), Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vienna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ViennaAustria 29 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 28 works
  3. 3 BerlinGermany 25 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 19 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am MainGermany 17 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 14 works
  8. 8 HamburgGermany 14 works
  9. 9 EssenGermany 11 works
  10. 10 LeobenAustria 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ViennaAT · 29.0 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic and Business Studies than the world average.

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Is Economic and Business Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Economic and Business Studies.

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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 Economic and Business Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Economic and Business 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.

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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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