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Local Governance and Planning

Local Governance and Planning is a research topic within Geography, Planning and Development. Science Explorer counts 6.3k research works in it since 1964. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the spatial planning and public administration in Poland, covering topics such as local governance, urban development, community participation, sustainable infrastructure, land use, decentralization, environmental protection, and European Union law.

  • Spatial Planning
  • Public Administration
  • Local Governance
  • Urban Development
  • Community Participation
  • Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Land Use
  • Decentralization
  • Environmental Protection
  • European Union Law
Research works
6.3k
fractional, since 1964
In the world top 10%
627
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
93% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Local Governance and Planning

Which countries lead Local Governance and Planning research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (929 and 15 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 929 works
  2. 2 United States 15 works
  3. 3 Czechia 12 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 12 works
  5. 5 Germany 9 works
  6. 6 Russia 9 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 5 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 4 works
  9. 9 Japan 4 works
  10. 10 ?? 3 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.

Poland: 92.6%United States: 1.5%Czechia: 1.2%Ukraine: 1.2%6 others listed: 3.5%93%largest
Poland929 · 92.6%United States15 · 1.5%Czechia12 · 1.2%Ukraine12 · 1.2%6 others listed36 · 3.5%

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

Which institutions lead Local Governance and Planning research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Szczecin publishes the most Local Governance and Planning research, followed by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and University of Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of SzczecinPoland 55 works
  2. 2 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 49 works
  3. 3 University of WarsawPoland 47 works
  4. 4 University of ŁódźPoland 47 works
  5. 5 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 40 works
  6. 6 University of WrocławPoland 36 works
  7. 7 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 33 works
  8. 8 University of RzeszówPoland 31 works
  9. 9 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 29 works
  10. 10 University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 26 works

What are the most cited papers in Local Governance and Planning?

The most cited paper in Local Governance and Planning is "Cross-Border Regions in Europe" (Markus Perkmann, 2003), with 520 citations. Next come "Measuring Local Autonomy in 39 Countries (1990–2014)" (335) and "The conflicting logics of cross-border reterritorialization: Geopolitics of Euroregions in Eastern Europe" (178).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cross-Border Regions in Europe Markus Perkmann · European Urban and Regional Studies Apr 2003 520
2 Measuring Local Autonomy in 39 Countries (1990–2014) Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim · Regional & Federal Studies 26 May 2016 335
3 The conflicting logics of cross-border reterritorialization: Geopolitics of Euroregions in Eastern Europe Gabriel Popescu · Political Geography 23 Apr 2008 178
4 Sprawling post-communist metropolis: Commercial and residential suburbanization in Prague and Brno, the Czech Republic Luděk Sýkora, Martin Ourednek · ˜The œGeojournal library Book chapter 5 Sep 2007 166
5 Who Governs EU Cohesion Policy? Deconstructing the Reforms of the Structural Funds John Bachtler, Carlos Humberto Méndez · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies 13 Aug 2007 159
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Local Governance and Planning research done?

The largest centres of Local Governance and Planning research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Lublin (Poland) and Łódź (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Radom, Olsztyn and Szczecin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 157 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 90 works
  3. 3 LublinPoland 74 works
  4. 4 ŁódźPoland 65 works
  5. 5 PoznańPoland 63 works
  6. 6 SzczecinPoland 60 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 53 works
  8. 8 OlsztynPoland 49 works
  9. 9 RzeszówPoland 45 works
  10. 10 KatowicePoland 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RadomPL · 22.3 works689×
  2. OlsztynPL · 49.3 works211×
  3. SzczecinPL · 60.3 works179×
  4. RzeszówPL · 45.2 works173×
  5. BiałystokPL · 28.9 works120×
  6. ŁódźPL · 64.8 works101×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Local Governance and Planning than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Łódź, University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 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 9.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ŁódźAdam Mickiewicz Univ…University of Warmia…University of Warsaw
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 ŁódźPoland 73.015.5%189.8×47 -11.8%
2University of WarsawPoland 62.37.2%106.0×47 -31.3%
3Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 62.010.9%139.4×49 -48.0%
4University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 54.310.5%162.0×26 -20.7%
5Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 53.512.7%164.1×9 +18.3%
6Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 53.49.1%69.5×40 -25.7%
7University of SzczecinPoland 50.44.6%445.3×55 +3.1%
8University of WrocławPoland 50.18.6%201.8×36 -41.7%
9University of RzeszówPoland 47.28.3%229.0×31 -9.7%
10University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 45.57.3%86.5×16 -35.8%

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 Planning, country by country

Is Local Governance and Planning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Planning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0040% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Local Governance and Planning0.0043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Local Governance and Planning 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 Planning9.1% 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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