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Korean Urban and Social Studies

Korean Urban and Social Studies is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 5.6k research works in it since 1950. 11.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and potentialities of rural sustainable development, including topics such as residential mobility, housing market dynamics, urban regeneration, community planning, public housing critique, and social economic promotion. It also explores factors affecting environmental satisfaction, regional resilience, and the development of mountain village communities.

  • Rural Sustainable Development
  • Housing Market
  • Community Planning
  • Residential Mobility
  • Urban Regeneration
  • Environmental Satisfaction
  • Mountain Village Development
  • Public Housing Critique
  • Regional Resilience
  • Social Economic Promotion
Research works
5.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
626
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+3%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Korean Urban and Social Studies research?

By volume, South Korea and China publish the most (245 and 240 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 South Korea 245 works
  2. 2 China 240 works
  3. 3 Japan 222 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 111 works
  5. 5 United States 107 works
  6. 6 India 43 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 20 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 20 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 16 works
  10. 10 Egypt 14 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.

South Korea: 23.6%China: 23.1%Japan: 21.4%Indonesia: 10.7%6 others listed: 21.2%24%largest
South Korea245 · 23.6%China240 · 23.1%Japan222 · 21.4%Indonesia111 · 10.7%6 others listed220 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Korean Urban and Social Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Seoul National University publishes the most Korean Urban and Social Studies research, followed by The University of Tokyo and Yonsei University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 20 works
  2. 2 The University of TokyoJapan 12 works
  3. 3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  4. 4 Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  5. 5 Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  6. 6 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 8 works
  7. 7 Chiba UniversityJapan 8 works
  8. 8 Kyushu UniversityJapan 7 works
  9. 9 Korea UniversitySouth Korea 7 works
  10. 10 Osaka Metropolitan UniversityJapan 7 works

Where is Korean Urban and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Korean Urban and Social Studies research in 2022–2025 are Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China) and Kyoto (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Seoul.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Seoul South Korea 105 works
  2. 2 Tokyo Japan 54 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 39 works
  4. 4 Kyoto Japan 20 works
  5. 5 Osaka Japan 19 works
  6. 6 Jakarta Indonesia 18 works
  7. 7 Shanghai China 18 works
  8. 8 Busan South Korea 16 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 15 works
  10. 10 Nanjing China 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SeoulKR · 105.4 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Korean Urban and Social Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Korean Urban and Social Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Seoul National University, Hanyang University and Yonsei University 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%30%mean 14.2143%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Seoul National University: 20, 27.7%Hanyang University: 8, 24.3%Yonsei University: 9, 15.0%Chung-Ang University: 9, 13.4%Pusan National University: 9, 13.2%Chiba University: 8, 5.2%The University of Tokyo: 12, 0.7%Seoul National Unive…Hanyang UniversityYonsei UniversityChung-Ang University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 100.027.7%21.4×20 +55.3%
2 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 60.524.3%16.6×8 -30.4%
3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 56.715.0%10.6×9 +6.1%
4 Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea 47.113.4%27.4×9 -35.9%
5 Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 43.513.2%24.0×9 -76.3%
6 Chiba UniversityJapan 38.95.2%29.4×8 +12.3%
7 The University of TokyoJapan 24.10.7%8.6×12 +23.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Korean Urban and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Korean Urban and Social Studies.

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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.

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.