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Local Governance and Development

Local Governance and Development is a research topic within Geography, Planning and Development. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1953. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on rural village development and governance, including topics such as the Village Fund, local government financial accountability, community empowerment, sustainable development goals, village-owned enterprises, and economic independence. It also addresses issues related to digital inequalities and social innovation in rural areas.

  • Village Fund
  • Local Government
  • Rural Development
  • Community Empowerment
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Village-Owned Enterprises
  • Financial Accountability
  • Economic Independence
  • Social Innovation
  • Digital Inequalities
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
96% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Local Governance and Development

Which countries lead Local Governance and Development research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (14k and 328 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 14k works
  2. 2 ?? 328 works
  3. 3 Malaysia 73 works
  4. 4 United States 69 works
  5. 5 Canada 48 works
  6. 6 India 32 works
  7. 7 Philippines 24 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 21 works
  9. 9 Russia 21 works
  10. 10 China 20 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.

Indonesia: 95.6%??: 2.3%Malaysia: 0.5%United States: 0.5%6 others listed: 1.2%96%largest
Indonesia14k · 95.6%??328 · 2.3%Malaysia73 · 0.5%United States69 · 0.5%6 others listed166 · 1.2%

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

Which institutions lead Local Governance and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitas Patria Artha publishes the most Local Governance and Development research, followed by University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur and Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 303 works
  2. 2 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 247 works
  3. 3 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 242 works
  4. 4 University of MataramIndonesia 205 works
  5. 5 State University of GorontaloIndonesia 191 works
  6. 6 State University of PadangIndonesia 183 works
  7. 7 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 183 works
  8. 8 Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 168 works
  9. 9 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 164 works
  10. 10 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 156 works

Who are the leading researchers in Local Governance and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Local Governance and Development include Agus Sudaryanto, Ernoiz Antriyandarti and Marijn Janssen.

  1. 1 Agus Sudaryanto Indonesia 54k citations
  2. 2 Ernoiz Antriyandarti Indonesia 42k citations
  3. 3 Marijn Janssen Netherlands 41k 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 Local Governance and Development?

The most cited paper in Local Governance and Development is "PENGEMBANGAN DESA WISATA BERBASIS PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT LOKAL DI DESA WISATA JATILUWIH TABANAN, BALI" (Made Heny Urmila Dewi, 2013), with 320 citations. Next come "Model Participation Action Research Dalam Pemberdayaan Masyarakat" (253) and "Konsep Umum Pelaksanaan Kebijakan Publik" (224).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PENGEMBANGAN DESA WISATA BERBASIS PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT LOKAL DI DESA WISATA JATILUWIH TABANAN, BALI Made Heny Urmila Dewi · Jurnal Kawistara Open access 17 Aug 2013 320
2 Model Participation Action Research Dalam Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Abdul Rahmat, Mira Mirnawati · Aksara Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan Nonformal Open access 15 Jan 2020 253
3 Konsep Umum Pelaksanaan Kebijakan Publik Abdullah Ramdhani, Muhammad Ali Ramdhani 18 Feb 2017 224
4 Youth and Society. Exploring the Social Dynamics of Youth Experience Rob White, Johanna Wyn · Australian Journal of Social Issues Open access Nov 2004 210
5 Village Governance, Community Life, and the 2014 Village Law in Indonesia Hans Antlöv, Anna Wetterberg, Leni Dharmawan · Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 2 Mar 2016 200
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Where is Local Governance and Development research done?

The largest centres of Local Governance and Development research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia), Makassar (Indonesia) and Medan (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Banten, Sumbawa Besar and Maumere.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 1.1k works
  2. 2 SurabayaIndonesia 875 works
  3. 3 MakassarIndonesia 808 works
  4. 4 MedanIndonesia 750 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 731 works
  6. 6 MalangIndonesia 536 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 473 works
  8. 8 SemarangIndonesia 471 works
  9. 9 BengkuluIndonesia 408 works
  10. 10 DenpasarIndonesia 371 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BantenID · 76.7 works105×
  2. Sumbawa BesarID · 28.9 works75×
  3. MaumereID · 30.3 works49×
  4. ProbolinggoID · 33.4 works45×
  5. SumenepID · 22.1 works43×
  6. PolewaliID · 21.6 works42×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Local Governance and Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Local Governance and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Brawijaya, University of Indonesia and Sebelas Maret 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%mean 12.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Brawij…University of Indone…Sebelas Maret Univer…University of Pemban…
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
1University of BrawijayaIndonesia 73.217.9%17.0×183 +21.1%
2University of IndonesiaIndonesia 68.615.6%10.6×152 +12.9%
3Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 66.513.3%13.6×156 +41.6%
4University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 66.310.5%29.9×247 +202.8%
5State University of SemarangIndonesia 64.412.5%14.3×133 +41.0%
6Islamic University of IndonesiaIndonesia 63.818.3%9.9×40 +90.0%
7Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 62.57.4%31.8×303 +19.7%
8Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 62.08.2%14.0×242 +43.0%
9Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 61.610.5%13.2×121 +88.7%
10University of MataramIndonesia 61.49.2%20.6×205 +96.5%

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 Local Governance and Development, country by country

Is Local Governance and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Local Governance and 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 Local Governance and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Local Governance and Development0.052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Local Governance and 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%Local Governance and Development9.5% in 20252020

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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