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Economic Zones and Regional Development

Economic Zones and Regional Development is a research topic within General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the economic impact, development potential, and challenges of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in various countries, with a focus on regional development, industrial clusters, global trade, ethnic diversity, sustainable development, FDI attraction, and labor conditions. The papers provide insights into the role of SEZs in shaping economic policies and fostering growth in emerging economies.

  • Special Economic Zones
  • Export Processing Zones
  • Economic Impact
  • Regional Development
  • Industrial Clusters
  • Global Trade
  • Ethnic Diversity
  • Sustainable Development
  • FDI Attraction
  • Labor Conditions
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic Zones and Regional Development

Which countries lead Economic Zones and Regional Development research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (601 and 163 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 601 works
  2. 2 United States 163 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 110 works
  4. 4 Vietnam 107 works
  5. 5 Mexico 102 works
  6. 6 Brazil 86 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 79 works
  8. 8 Russia 71 works
  9. 9 France 69 works
  10. 10 Spain 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.

China: 41.6%United States: 11.2%Indonesia: 7.6%Vietnam: 7.4%6 others listed: 32.2%42%largest
China601 · 41.6%United States163 · 11.2%Indonesia110 · 7.6%Vietnam107 · 7.4%6 others listed465 · 32.2%

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

Which institutions lead Economic Zones and Regional Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Economic Zones and Regional Development research, followed by Shenzhen University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  2. 2 Shenzhen UniversityChina 20 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 14 works
  5. 5 University of ZagrebCroatia 12 works
  6. 6 Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 12 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina 11 works
  8. 8 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 11 works
  9. 9 Renmin University of ChinaChina 10 works
  10. 10 University of MauritiusMauritius 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic Zones and Regional Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic Zones and Regional Development include Joseph E. Stiglitz and Jianwei Wang.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Jianwei Wang China 100k 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 Zones and Regional Development?

The most cited paper in Economic Zones and Regional Development is "Location and the Multinational Enterprise: A Neglected Factor?" (John H. Dunning, 1998), with 2,455 citations. Next come "Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems" (1,933) and "Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras" (1,633).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Location and the Multinational Enterprise: A Neglected Factor? John H. Dunning · Journal of International Business Studies Open access Mar 1998 2,455
2 Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems Ulf Hannerz · American Anthropologist 13 Feb 2006 1,933
3 Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon Hanson · Journal of International Economics May 1997 1,633
4 Cities in a World Economy Saskia Sassen · Gebr. Mann Verlag eBooks Book chapter 2019 1,406
5 The Chinese Economy. Transitions and Growth Peter J. Yang · Asian Business & Management 25 Nov 2008 1,261
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Economic Zones and Regional Development research done?

The largest centres of Economic Zones and Regional Development research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ho Chi Minh City and Zagreb.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 124 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 56 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 40 works
  4. 4 Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 40 works
  5. 5 HanoiVietnam 38 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 29 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 28 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 28 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ho Chi Minh CityVN · 40.0 works12×
  2. ZagrebHR · 26.6 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic Zones and Regional Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic Zones and Regional Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime University, Ocean University of China and Shenzhen 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 14.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ocean University of …Dalian Maritime Univ…Hainan UniversityShenzhen University
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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
1Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 70.942.7%14.5×11 +74.9%
2Ocean University of ChinaChina 58.045.7%8.0×8 +77.4%
3Shenzhen UniversityChina 53.42.9%13.5×20 -15.5%
4Hainan UniversityChina 48.025.5%10.5×9 +207.1%
5Peking UniversityChina 45.35.2%3.3×14 +17.3%
6Renmin University of ChinaChina 44.815.1%15.8×10 +115.9%
7Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 42.33.5%13.6×12 +33.8%
8University of MauritiusMauritius 41.31.0%108.3×10 +8.0%
9University of ZagrebCroatia 36.11.1%8.7×12 +9.0%
10Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 25.92.8%32.6×9 +215.5%

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 Economic Zones and Regional Development, country by country

Is Economic Zones and Regional Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Economic Zones and Regional Development.

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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 Zones and Regional Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Economic Zones and Regional Development 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%Economic Zones and Regional Development10.4% 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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