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Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability

Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 1.4k research works in it since 2008. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of sustainable development, corporate compliance, and global governance, with a focus on environmental protection, innovation, legal regulation, social responsibility, and ethical practices. It delves into the impact of digital transformation on economic growth and the implementation of sustainable business models. The papers also discuss the role of technology in promoting sustainable development and the challenges and benefits of internal investigations in business management.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Corporate Compliance
  • Environmental Protection
  • Innovation
  • Legal Regulation
  • Social Responsibility
  • Digital Transformation
  • Economic Growth
  • Ethical Practices
  • Governance
Research works
1.4k
fractional, since 2008
In the world top 10%
141
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+675%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability

Which countries lead Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research?

By volume, Brazil and Indonesia publish the most (416 and 246 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 416 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 246 works
  3. 3 Russia 102 works
  4. 4 United States 55 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 44 works
  6. 6 India 25 works
  7. 7 ?? 24 works
  8. 8 China 21 works
  9. 9 Vietnam 21 works
  10. 10 Kazakhstan 21 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.

Brazil: 42.7%Indonesia: 25.2%Russia: 10.4%United States: 5.7%6 others listed: 16.0%43%largest
Brazil416 · 42.7%Indonesia246 · 25.2%Russia102 · 10.4%United States55 · 5.7%6 others listed156 · 16.0%

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

Which institutions lead Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tashkent State University of Law publishes the most Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research, followed by Weatherford College and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 11 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 11 works
  3. 3 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 10 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 10 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 10 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 10 works
  7. 7 Integral Consulting (United States)United States 9 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 9 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 8 works
  10. 10 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability include P. S. Aithal.

  1. 1 P. S. Aithal 18k 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 Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability is "Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches" (Rika Preiser, Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos et al., 2018), with 583 citations. Next come "Which internal corporate governance mechanisms drive corporate sustainability?" (224) and "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills" (127).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches Rika Preiser, Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2018 583
2 Which internal corporate governance mechanisms drive corporate sustainability? Paul W. Ludwig, Remmer Sassen · Journal of Environmental Management Oct 2021 224
3 Virtual and Augmented Reality for Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills Chara Papoutsi, Athanasios S. Drigas, Charalabos A. Skianis · International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering Science & IT (iJES) Open access 27 Sep 2021 127
4 Waste Management in Green and Smart Cities: A Case Study of Russia Zhanna Mingaleva, Natalia Vuković, Irina Volkova et al. · Sustainability Open access 21 Dec 2019 97
5 Socio-Cognitive Awareness of Inmates through an Encrypted Innovative Educational Platform Hera Antonopoulou, Athanasios Giannoulis, Leonidas Theodorakopoulos et al. · International Journal of Learning Teaching and Educational Research Open access 30 Sep 2022 71
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Moscow (Russia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tashkent.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 54 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 47 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 44 works
  4. 4 TashkentUzbekistan 32 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 32 works
  6. 6 BrasíliaBrazil 24 works
  7. 7 SemarangIndonesia 18 works
  8. 8 Belo HorizonteBrazil 18 works
  9. 9 ManausBrazil 17 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TashkentUZ · 32.3 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State University of Law, Weatherford College and Universidade de São Paulo 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%10%20%mean 9.04444%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Weatherford CollegeUniversidade de São …Tashkent State Unive…
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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
1Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 62.08.0%113.8×12 +173.3%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58.09.3%7.4×11 +602.6%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 54.99.3%4.6×10 +225.0%
4Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 54.49.9%23.6×10 +121.4%
5Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 54.316.2%9.5×8 -
6Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 41.15.3%47.4×10 +117.9%
7Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 39.97.0%13.7×10 -
8Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 37.58.3%13.7×8 +480.8%
9Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 32.38.1%36.9×8 -

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 Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability, country by country

Is Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 675% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability.

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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 Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability 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%Governance, Compliance, and Sustainability10.2% in 2025

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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