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Global Economic and Social Development

Global Economic and Social Development is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 3.7k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to inclusive development, economic growth, public-private partnerships, sustainable development, regional policies, the agricultural sector, globalization, social inequality, financial stability, and entrepreneurship. The papers discuss various aspects of economic development, governance, and social progress in different regions and countries around the world.

  • Inclusive Development
  • Economic Growth
  • Public-Private Partnership
  • Sustainable Development
  • Regional Policy
  • Agricultural Sector
  • Globalization
  • Social Inequality
  • Financial Stability
  • Entrepreneurship
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
374
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Economic and Social Development

Which countries lead Global Economic and Social Development research?

By volume, Ukraine and the United States publish the most (205 and 103 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 205 works
  2. 2 United States 103 works
  3. 3 Russia 86 works
  4. 4 Germany 63 works
  5. 5 Poland 39 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 32 works
  7. 7 China 28 works
  8. 8 India 23 works
  9. 9 Italy 21 works
  10. 10 France 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.

Ukraine: 33.2%United States: 16.7%Russia: 13.9%Germany: 10.3%6 others listed: 25.9%33%largest
Ukraine205 · 33.2%United States103 · 16.7%Russia86 · 13.9%Germany63 · 10.3%6 others listed160 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Global Economic and Social Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Global Economic and Social Development research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 18 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 16 works
  4. 4 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 12 works
  5. 5 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 10 works
  6. 6 Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym HetmanUkraine 9 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 9 works
  8. 8 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 8 works
  9. 9 University of JubaSouth Sudan 8 works
  10. 10 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Economic and Social Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Economic and Social Development include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Michael E. Porter and Amartya Kumar Sen.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Amartya Kumar Sen United States 117k citations
  4. 4 Richard A. Young United States 116k citations
  5. 5 Douglass C. North United States 115k 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 Global Economic and Social Development?

The most cited paper in Global Economic and Social Development is "Path dependence in historical sociology" (James Mahoney, 2000), with 3,444 citations. Next come "Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe" (1,168) and "Global Transformations" (831).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Path dependence in historical sociology James Mahoney · Theory and Society Aug 2000 3,444
2 Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe Andreas Nölke, Arjan Vliegenthart · World Politics Open access 26 Aug 2009 1,168
3 Global Transformations Cecilia Ann Winters · Journal of Economic Issues Mar 2000 831
4 CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Richard M. Lerner, Rachel M. Hershberg, Lacey J. Hilliard et al. · Developmental Science Book chapter 4 Oct 2010 789
5 On the Rise and Decline of Nations Charles Poor Kindleberger · International Studies Quarterly Mar 1983 685
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global Economic and Social Development research done?

The largest centres of Global Economic and Social Development research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Hamburg (Germany) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kyiv and Hamburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 69 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 45 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 22 works
  4. 4 KharkivUkraine 20 works
  5. 5 LvivUkraine 17 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 13 works
  8. 8 VinnytsiaUkraine 12 works
  9. 9 DniproUkraine 12 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KyivUA · 69.1 works28×
  2. HamburgDE · 21.7 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Global Economic and Social Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine and Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman 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 19.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vinnytsia National A…National University …Kyiv National Econom…Weatherford College
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 80.040.8%213.3×10 -51.4%
2National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 29.414.4%93.3×8 -20.1%
3Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym HetmanUkraine 28.413.3%161.3×9 -7.3%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 18.09.3%8.4×9 -29.8%

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 Global Economic and Social Development, country by country

Is Global Economic and Social Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Global Economic and Social Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Global Economic and Social Development0.0032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Global Economic and Social 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%Global Economic and Social Development11.2% 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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