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Global Trade and Competitiveness

Global Trade and Competitiveness is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 37k 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 explores the concept and measurement of regional competitiveness, focusing on indices, revealed comparative advantage, global competitiveness reports, and their implications for regional development policy. It delves into the relationship between international specialization, sustainable development, and firm competitiveness, while also examining trade patterns and the application of Michael Porter's framework in assessing national productivity.

  • Competitiveness Indices
  • Revealed Comparative Advantage
  • Global Competitiveness Report
  • Regional Development Policy
  • International Specialization
  • Sustainable Development
  • Firm Competitiveness
  • Trade Patterns
  • Michael Porter's Framework
  • National Productivity
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Trade and Competitiveness

Which countries lead Global Trade and Competitiveness research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (1.3k and 702 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 702 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 500 works
  4. 4 India 377 works
  5. 5 United States 308 works
  6. 6 Russia 279 works
  7. 7 Mexico 253 works
  8. 8 Poland 168 works
  9. 9 Romania 158 works
  10. 10 Brazil 134 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.

Indonesia: 31.9%China: 16.6%Türkiye: 11.8%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 30.8%32%largest
Indonesia1,347 · 31.9%China702 · 16.6%Türkiye500 · 11.8%India377 · 8.9%6 others listed1,301 · 30.8%

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

Which institutions lead Global Trade and Competitiveness research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Global Trade and Competitiveness research, followed by Bucharest University of Economic Studies and Padjadjaran University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 71 works
  2. 2 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 48 works
  3. 3 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 36 works
  4. 4 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 32 works
  5. 5 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 30 works
  6. 6 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 28 works
  7. 7 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 28 works
  8. 8 Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 28 works
  9. 9 University of BelgradeSerbia 28 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Trade and Competitiveness?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Trade and Competitiveness include Donald B. Rubin, Claes Fornell and Michael E. Porter.

  1. 1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  2. 2 Claes Fornell United States 198k citations
  3. 3 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  4. 4 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k 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 Trade and Competitiveness?

The most cited paper in Global Trade and Competitiveness is "The Correlates of Entrepreneurship in Three Types of Firms" (Danny L. Miller, 1983), with 5,819 citations. Next come "Multivariate Data Analysis" (3,596) and "The Competitive Exclusion Principle" (3,534).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Correlates of Entrepreneurship in Three Types of Firms Danny L. Miller · Management Science Jul 1983 5,819
2 Multivariate Data Analysis Oliver Bürgel · ZEW economic studies Book chapter 2000 3,596
3 The Competitive Exclusion Principle Garrett Hardin · Science 29 Apr 1960 3,534
4 The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade David Hummels, Jun Ishii, Kei‐Mu Yi · Journal of International Economics Jun 2001 3,254
5 International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain Gary Gereffi · Journal of International Economics Jun 1999 3,210
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Where is Global Trade and Competitiveness research done?

The largest centres of Global Trade and Competitiveness research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Bandung (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 162 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 148 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 119 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 105 works
  5. 5 BogorIndonesia 98 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 82 works
  7. 7 BucharestRomania 79 works
  8. 8 MedanIndonesia 73 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 72 works
  10. 10 BelgradeSerbia 69 works
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Where is the best place to study Global Trade and Competitiveness?

Among universities, judged by research, Corvinus University of Budapest, IPB University and University of Belgrade 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 16.56%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Corvinus University …Universidad César Va…University of BelgradeIPB University
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
1Corvinus University of BudapestHungary 70.330.9%22.5×13 +12.7%
2IPB UniversityIndonesia 65.610.4%20.6×71 +4.1%
3University of BelgradeSerbia 60.825.3%6.8×28 -36.5%
4Universidad César VallejoPeru 59.329.3%5.7×10 +144.7%
5Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇Türkiye 56.614.9%13.0×21 +106.9%
6Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 56.27.7%4.9×16 +281.5%
7Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 54.28.3%47.5×48 +4.8%
8Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 50.911.9%4.2×24 +77.3%
9University of Novi SadSerbia 49.216.0%11.6×22 -46.9%
10Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 49.010.9%4.1×24 +6.0%

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 Trade and Competitiveness, country by country

Is Global Trade and Competitiveness research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Global Trade and Competitiveness.

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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 Trade and Competitiveness as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Global Trade and Competitiveness0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Global Trade and Competitiveness 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 Trade and Competitiveness10.4% 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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