ICT Impact and Policies

ICT Impact and Policies is a research topic within Media Technology. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure, economic development, and digital divide. It covers topics such as the impact of ICT on economic growth, broadband access in rural areas, network neutrality, and the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services. The cluster also discusses the role of regulation and policy in bridging the digital divide and promoting equitable access to telecommunications technologies.

Telecommunications
Economic Development
Digital Divide
ICT
Broadband
Internet
Regulation
Rural Development
Network Neutrality
Mobile Telecommunications

Research works: 35k
In the world top 10%: 3.5k
Top-10% rate: 10.2%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +14%
Largest producer: United States

ICT Impact and Policies

Which countries lead ICT Impact and Policies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (794 and 491 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 794 works
2 China 491 works
3 India 480 works
4 South Africa 227 works
5 United Kingdom 208 works
6 Nigeria 204 works
7 Indonesia 195 works
8 Germany 151 works
9 Brazil 141 works
10 France 109 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.

United States794 · 26.5%China491 · 16.4%India480 · 16.0%South Africa227 · 7.6%6 others listed1,008 · 33.6%

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

Which institutions lead ICT Impact and Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Johannesburg publishes the most ICT Impact and Policies research, followed by University of South Africa and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

1 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 40 works
2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 29 works
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
4 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 22 works
5 North-West UniversitySouth Africa 17 works
6 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 16 works
7 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 14 works
8 Tashkent State University of EconomicsUzbekistan 14 works
9 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 14 works
10 University of PretoriaSouth Africa 13 works

What are the most cited papers in ICT Impact and Policies?

The most cited paper in ICT Impact and Policies is "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" (Curt Carbonell, 2007), with 5,554 citations. Next come "Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance" (3,327) and "Strategy and the Internet." (3,278).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Curt Carbonell · The Journal of Popular Culture	21 Jul 2007	5,554
2	Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access	Nov 2000	3,327
3	Strategy and the Internet. M E Porter · PubMed	Mar 2001	3,278
4	Two-sided markets: a progress report Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole · The RAND Journal of Economics	Sep 2006	3,075
5	Systems Competition and Network Effects Michael L. Katz, Carl Shapiro · The Journal of Economic Perspectives	May 1994	2,711

All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is ICT Impact and Policies research done?

The largest centres of ICT Impact and Policies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Johannesburg (South Africa), London (United Kingdom) and Pretoria (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 99 works
2 JohannesburgSouth Africa 65 works
3 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works
4 PretoriaSouth Africa 57 works
5 Washington D.C.United States 55 works
6 NairobiKenya 52 works
7 MoscowRussia 41 works
8 New YorkUnited States 41 works
9 BandungIndonesia 37 works
10 ParisFrance 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

NairobiKE · 52.4 works12×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in ICT Impact and Policies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study ICT Impact and Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Johannesburg, Université de Dschang and University of South Africa 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	72.1	13.5%	14.2×	40	+88.5%
2	Université de DschangCameroon	65.2	32.5%	18.0×	8	+320.3%
3	University of South AfricaSouth Africa	59.3	8.8%	14.9×	29	+34.3%
4	Tashkent State University of EconomicsUzbekistan	52.1	16.3%	26.1×	14	+477.6%
5	Symbiosis International UniversityIndia	51.9	19.7%	9.3×	14	+706.2%
6	North-West UniversitySouth Africa	50.9	9.3%	13.2×	17	+75.5%
7	University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa	49.1	3.1%	11.2×	22	+75.2%
8	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	48.2	28.3%	1.8×	12	-23.3%
9	Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina	47.1	23.9%	12.9×	8	-
10	Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia	45.9	17.9%	7.9×	10	+332.5%
11	Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina	45.0	43.9%	1.1×	9	-
12	Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil	44.2	20.1%	16.9×	9	+55.3%
13	University of PretoriaSouth Africa	43.4	8.0%	6.7×	13	+43.3%
14	Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania	39.8	9.1%	16.2×	12	+265.2%
15	Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark	38.1	10.3%	11.5×	8	+45.9%
16	University of NairobiKenya	37.1	4.8%	14.8×	10	+22.7%
17	University of ZambiaZambia	36.4	0.0%	17.3×	11	+56.1%
18	Tsinghua UniversityChina	35.7	19.0%	0.9×	10	+100.5%
19	Tribhuvan UniversityNepal	34.6	16.4%	2.9×	10	+8.0%
20	Durban University of TechnologySouth Africa	34.5	6.4%	14.3×	9	+359.7%
21	George Mason UniversityUnited States	33.9	15.4%	6.0×	9	+7.0%
22	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	32.7	3.9%	2.7×	9	+513.9%
23	Telkom UniversityIndonesia	32.3	0.0%	6.9×	16	+326.1%
24	Tilburg UniversityNetherlands	32.3	6.1%	12.2×	9	-13.0%
25	Kenyatta UniversityKenya	31.9	0.0%	20.3×	13	+216.7%
26	University of NigeriaNigeria	30.0	1.2%	8.3×	10	+33.4%
27	Politecnico di MilanoItaly	29.9	5.7%	2.5×	8	+73.9%
28	University of Cape TownSouth Africa	29.4	3.6%	6.3×	10	-56.0%
29	University of NamibiaNamibia	29.1	0.0%	29.0×	9	+69.8%
30	Villanova UniversityUnited States	28.8	4.2%	28.5×	12	-
31	University of TorontoCanada	27.8	12.5%	0.9×	8	-2.6%
32	Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya	27.5	3.8%	19.3×	10	+5.1%
33	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	26.9	5.9%	2.8×	14	-22.9%
34	The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-EkitiNigeria	22.4	0.0%	15.1×	8	+95.9%
35	Binus UniversityIndonesia	18.7	1.8%	3.4×	8	+538.5%
36	Aalborg UniversityDenmark	18.4	1.7%	3.5×	9	-35.8%
37	University of IndonesiaIndonesia	15.9	10.2%	1.7×	9	-35.6%
38	Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil	11.4	0.5%	3.5×	9	-27.5%

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 ICT Impact and Policies, country by country

Is ICT Impact and Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are ICT Impact and Policies.

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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 ICT Impact and Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

Fractional works of ICT Impact and Policies 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.

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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Which countries lead ICT Impact and Policies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead ICT Impact and Policies research?

By volume, 2022-now

What are the most cited papers in ICT Impact and Policies?

Where is ICT Impact and Policies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study ICT Impact and Policies?

Is ICT Impact and Policies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion