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Indian Economic and Social Development

Indian Economic and Social Development is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the economic reforms, globalization, and development policies in India since 1991. It explores the impact of liberalization, industrialization, and the role of information technology on India's economy. The papers also delve into the political economy and neo-liberalism in the context of Indian economic growth.

  • India
  • Economic Reforms
  • Globalization
  • Development
  • Policy
  • Industrialization
  • Democracy
  • Information Technology
  • Political Economy
  • Neo-liberalism
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
71% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indian Economic and Social Development

Which countries lead Indian Economic and Social Development research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 320 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 320 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 110 works
  4. 4 Australia 104 works
  5. 5 Pakistan 92 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 66 works
  7. 7 China 66 works
  8. 8 Russia 56 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 50 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 40 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.

India: 70.6%United States: 10.4%United Kingdom: 3.6%Australia: 3.4%6 others listed: 12.0%71%largest
India2,170 · 70.6%United States320 · 10.4%United Kingdom110 · 3.6%Australia104 · 3.4%6 others listed369 · 12.0%

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

Which institutions lead Indian Economic and Social Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Government of Western Australia publishes the most Indian Economic and Social Development research, followed by G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce College and Mangalore University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 75 works
  2. 2 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 57 works
  3. 3 Mangalore UniversityIndia 53 works
  4. 4 University of DelhiIndia 49 works
  5. 5 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 45 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  7. 7 Galgotias UniversityIndia 23 works
  8. 8 Amity UniversityIndia 22 works
  9. 9 Government of KarnatakaIndia 21 works
  10. 10 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 20 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indian Economic and Social Development include Rinaldo Bellomo, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Anil Kumar Jain.

  1. 1 Rinaldo Bellomo Australia 182k citations
  2. 2 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  3. 3 Anil Kumar Jain United States 160k citations
  4. 4 Amartya Kumar Sen United States 117k 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 Indian Economic and Social Development?

The most cited paper in Indian Economic and Social Development is "A Structural Theory of Imperialism" (Johan Galtung, 1971), with 1,751 citations. Next come "The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales" (1,017) and "State directed development political power and industrialization in the global periphery" (911).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Structural Theory of Imperialism Johan Galtung · Journal of Peace Research Jun 1971 1,751
2 The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 1976 1,017
3 State directed development political power and industrialization in the global periphery Atul Kohli 2005 911
4 Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India Petia B. Topalova · American Economic Journal Applied Economics Open access Oct 2010 674
5 Globalisation and the postcolonial world the new political economy of development Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt 1997 607
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Indian Economic and Social Development research done?

The largest centres of Indian Economic and Social Development research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Bengaluru (India), Canberra (Australia) and Pune (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Akola and Nanded.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 233 works
  2. 2 BengaluruIndia 127 works
  3. 3 CanberraAustralia 79 works
  4. 4 PuneIndia 67 works
  5. 5 KolkataIndia 60 works
  6. 6 MangaluruIndia 57 works
  7. 7 AkolaIndia 57 works
  8. 8 HyderabadIndia 54 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 50 works
  10. 10 AhmedabadIndia 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AkolaIN · 56.6 works52×
  2. NandedIN · 22.0 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Mangalore University, Graphic Era University and G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce College 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 15.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Mangalore UniversityGraphic Era UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Uni…G.S. Science, Arts A…
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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
1Mangalore UniversityIndia 90.337.1%139.8×53 +89.6%
2Graphic Era UniversityIndia 57.836.2%9.0×10 +20.9%
3G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 56.44.5%109.9×57 +72.7%
4Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 54.610.6%76.6×45 -2.7%
5Amity UniversityIndia 51.48.9%16.6×22 +15.9%
6University of DelhiIndia 50.95.7%23.1×49 -4.9%
7Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 49.011.9%19.9×20 +16.7%
8O. P. Jindal Global UniversityIndia 48.811.1%45.4×12 +21.4%
9Galgotias UniversityIndia 45.87.9%32.1×23 +559.3%
10Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia 45.525.2%5.4×8 +72.3%

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 Indian Economic and Social Development, country by country

Is Indian Economic and Social Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Indian Economic and Social 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 Indian Economic and Social Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Indian 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%Indian Economic and Social Development10.6% 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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