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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. 10.3% 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%
573
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
South Korea
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Korean Urban and Social Studies

Which countries lead Korean Urban and Social Studies research?

By volume, South Korea and China publish the most (260 and 256 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 South Korea 260 works
  2. 2 China 256 works
  3. 3 Japan 235 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 116 works
  5. 5 United States 111 works
  6. 6 India 45 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 22 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 20 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 17 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: 23.7%China: 23.4%Japan: 21.5%Indonesia: 10.6%6 others listed: 20.9%24%largest
South Korea260 · 23.7%China256 · 23.4%Japan235 · 21.5%Indonesia116 · 10.6%6 others listed229 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Korean Urban and Social Studies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 21 works
  2. 2 The University of TokyoJapan 13 works
  3. 3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 10 works
  4. 4 Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 10 works
  5. 5 Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  6. 6 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  7. 7 Chiba UniversityJapan 8 works
  8. 8 Kyushu UniversityJapan 8 works
  9. 9 Korea UniversitySouth Korea 7 works
  10. 10 Osaka Metropolitan UniversityJapan 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Korean Urban and Social Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Korean Urban and Social Studies include Peter M. Bentler and S. W. Lee.

  1. 1 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  2. 2 S. W. Lee Germany 131k 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 Korean Urban and Social Studies?

The most cited paper in Korean Urban and Social Studies is "An Introduction to Latent Class Growth Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling" (Tony Jung, Kandauda A. S. Wickrama, 2007), with 3,231 citations. Next come "A Purposeful Approach to the Constant Comparative Method in the Analysis of Qualitative Interviews" (2,986) and "Latent Class Analysis: A Guide to Best Practice" (2,216).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Introduction to Latent Class Growth Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling Tony Jung, Kandauda A. S. Wickrama · Social and Personality Psychology Compass 6 Dec 2007 3,231
2 A Purposeful Approach to the Constant Comparative Method in the Analysis of Qualitative Interviews Hennie Boeije · Quality & Quantity Nov 2002 2,986
3 Latent Class Analysis: A Guide to Best Practice Bridget E. Weller, Natasha K. Bowen, Sarah J. Faubert · Journal of Black Psychology Open access May 2020 2,216
4 Clustering Countries on Attitudinal Dimensions: A Review and Synthesis Simcha Ronen, Oded Shenkar · Academy of Management Review Jul 1985 1,453
5 The Decomposition of Effects in Path Analysis Duane F. Alwin, Robert M. Hauser · American Sociological Review Feb 1975 1,450
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Korean Urban and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Korean Urban and Social Studies research in 2022-now 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 Busan, Seoul and Kyoto.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 112 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 57 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 39 works
  4. 4 KyotoJapan 20 works
  5. 5 BusanSouth Korea 20 works
  6. 6 OsakaJapan 19 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  8. 8 JakartaIndonesia 18 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 16 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BusanKR · 20.3 works18×
  2. SeoulKR · 112.4 works12×
  3. KyotoJP · 20.4 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.

See Korean Urban and Social Studies on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, Seoul National University, Hanyang University and Chung-Ang University score highest, combining citation 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 12.0429%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hanyang UniversitySeoul National Unive…Chung-Ang UniversityYonsei 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.

Citation 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
1Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 83.915.8%17.0×21 -5.7%
2Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 69.529.6%18.5×9 +27.6%
3Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea 59.814.1%28.1×9 +143.5%
4Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 49.012.9%10.3×10 -11.0%
5Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 42.39.2%22.1×10 +140.7%
6The University of TokyoJapan 22.01.5%9.5×13 -33.9%
7Chiba UniversityJapan 20.01.2%28.3×8 +31.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Korean Urban and Social Studies, country by country

Is Korean Urban and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Korean Urban and Social Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0071% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Korean Urban and Social Studies0.0058% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Korean Urban and Social Studies 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%Korean Urban and Social Studies10.8% 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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