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Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems

Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 6.6k research works in it since 1951. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interconnectedness and interdependence of various scientific, societal, and environmental factors, including human population growth, climate change, biodiversity protection, organizational performance, corporate social responsibility, ethical sustainability, and the role of artificial intelligence in shaping human-machine teams. The papers highlight the need for sustainable and responsible approaches to address the complex challenges facing our planet and emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and ethical decision-making.

  • Interdependence
  • Sustainability
  • Climate Change
  • Biodiversity
  • Human Population
  • Organizational Performance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethical Sustainability
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Team Science
Research works
6.6k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
712
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+108%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems

Which countries lead Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (649 and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 649 works
  2. 2 India 268 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 222 works
  4. 4 China 184 works
  5. 5 Germany 174 works
  6. 6 Russia 149 works
  7. 7 France 134 works
  8. 8 Italy 119 works
  9. 9 Spain 101 works
  10. 10 Australia 88 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 States: 31.1%India: 12.8%United Kingdom: 10.6%China: 8.8%6 others listed: 36.6%31%largest
United States649 · 31.1%India268 · 12.8%United Kingdom222 · 10.6%China184 · 8.8%6 others listed765 · 36.6%

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

Which institutions lead Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research, followed by Chechen State University and CHDI Foundation.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  2. 2 Chechen State UniversityRussia 18 works
  3. 3 CHDI FoundationUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  5. 5 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 11 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 University of LausanneSwitzerland 10 works
  9. 9 Salesian UniversityMexico 10 works
  10. 10 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems include Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Seeram Ramakrishna and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  2. 2 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  5. 5 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k 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 Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems?

The most cited paper in Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems is "The Tragedy of the Commons" (Garrett Hardin, 1968), with 23,379 citations. Next come "The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception" (23,143) and "ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS" (5,728).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin · Science 13 Dec 1968 23,379
2 The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Marc H. Bornstein, James J. Gibson · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1980 23,143
3 ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Carl Folke, Thomas P. Hahn, Per G Olsson et al. · Annual Review of Environment and Resources Review 25 Jul 2005 5,728
4 PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL SCIENCE Michael A. Henry · The Journal of the American Dental Association Dec 1995 3,450
5 Siri, Siri, in my hand: Who’s the fairest in the land? On the interpretations, illustrations, and implications of artificial intelligence Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein · Business Horizons 6 Nov 2018 3,074
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Where is Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research done?

The largest centres of Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia), New York (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Grozny.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 61 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 53 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 48 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 46 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 39 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 34 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 26 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 25 works
  9. 9 BucharestRomania 25 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GroznyRU · 20.4 works78×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Oxford and Bucharest University of Economic Studies 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 8.5875%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…University of OxfordUniversity of LausanneBucharest 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
1Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 67.115.6%6.6×8 +420.2%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 62.68.8%2.4×10 +10.5%
3Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 56.66.7%22.4×12 +54.8%
4University of LausanneSwitzerland 49.97.5%7.1×10 -
5Salesian UniversityMexico 47.58.6%682.0×10 -
6Chechen State UniversityRussia 45.50.6%123.9×18 -
7Sapienza University of RomeItaly 44.613.6%2.3×8 +96.7%
8Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 34.87.3%5.8×9 -

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 Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems, country by country

Is Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 108% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems.

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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 Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems 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%Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems11.1% 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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