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Management Systems and Quality Improvement

Management Systems and Quality Improvement is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 6.3k research works in it since 1957. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to quality management, work environment, ISO standards, risk management, knowledge worker behavior, logistics, innovation, organizational excellence, process improvement, and safety and health in various organizations and industries.

  • Quality Management
  • Work Environment
  • ISO Standards
  • Risk Management
  • Knowledge Worker Behavior
  • Logistics
  • Innovation
  • Organizational Excellence
  • Process Improvement
  • Safety and Health
Research works
6.3k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
623
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-57%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Management Systems and Quality Improvement

Which countries lead Management Systems and Quality Improvement research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (313 and 14 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 313 works
  2. 2 Russia 14 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 11 works
  4. 4 United States 9 works
  5. 5 Romania 6 works
  6. 6 Czechia 5 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 4 works
  8. 8 India 2 works
  9. 9 Serbia 2 works
  10. 10 Germany 2 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: 85.2%Russia: 3.7%Ukraine: 3.0%United States: 2.3%6 others listed: 5.8%85%largest
Poland313 · 85.2%Russia14 · 3.7%Ukraine11 · 3.0%United States9 · 2.3%6 others listed21 · 5.8%

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

Which institutions lead Management Systems and Quality Improvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Military University of Technology in Warsaw publishes the most Management Systems and Quality Improvement research, followed by Częstochowa University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 20 works
  2. 2 Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 15 works
  3. 3 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 13 works
  4. 4 War Studies AcademyPoland 10 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 9 works
  6. 6 University of WarsawPoland 8 works
  7. 7 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 7 works
  8. 8 Krakow University of EconomicsPoland 7 works
  9. 9 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 7 works
  10. 10 Police Academy in SzczytnoPoland 6 works

What are the most cited papers in Management Systems and Quality Improvement?

The most cited paper in Management Systems and Quality Improvement is "The link between total quality management practice and organisational performance" (Milé Terziovski, Danny A. Samson, 1999), with 331 citations. Next come "Total quality management, ISO 9000 certification and performance improvement" (266) and "Life after ISO 9000: An analysis of the impact of ISO 9000 and total quality management on small businesses in Northern Ireland" (175).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The link between total quality management practice and organisational performance Milé Terziovski, Danny A. Samson · International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management Apr 1999 331
2 Total quality management, ISO 9000 certification and performance improvement Hongyi Sun · International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management Mar 2000 266
3 Life after ISO 9000: An analysis of the impact of ISO 9000 and total quality management on small businesses in Northern Ireland Rodney McAdam · Total Quality Management Mar 1999 175
4 TQM in Australian manufacturing: factors critical to success Amrik Singh Sohal, M. Terziovski · International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management Mar 2000 148
5 Employees’ Job Satisfaction and their Work Performance as Elements Influencing Work Safety Szymon T. Dziuba, Manuela Krystyna Ingaldi, Marina Zhuravskaya · System Safety Human - Technical Facility - Environment Open access Mar 2020 130
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Management Systems and Quality Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Management Systems and Quality Improvement research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Łódź (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Warsaw and Poznań.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 74 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 27 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 20 works
  4. 4 ŁódźPoland 19 works
  5. 5 WrocławPoland 17 works
  6. 6 CzęstochowaPoland 15 works
  7. 7 GliwicePoland 14 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 10 works
  9. 9 KatowicePoland 9 works
  10. 10 LublinPoland 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WarsawPL · 73.8 works65×
  2. PoznańPL · 20.2 works56×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Management Systems and Quality Improvement than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Management Systems and Quality Improvement?

Among universities, judged by research, Częstochowa University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology and University of Łódź 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 10.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Częstochowa Universi…University of ŁódźSilesian University …Military University …
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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
1Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 65.819.2%483.6×14 -70.4%
2Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 50.94.9%161.8×13 -68.2%
3University of ŁódźPoland 38.015.7%95.2×9 -55.7%
4Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 33.73.5%648.0×20 -60.0%
5War Studies AcademyPoland 29.716.9%1706.9×10 -64.9%
6University of WarsawPoland 12.33.7%47.1×8 -13.5%

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 Management Systems and Quality Improvement, country by country

Is Management Systems and Quality Improvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Management Systems and Quality Improvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Management Systems and Quality Improvement0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Management Systems and Quality Improvement 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%Management Systems and Quality Improvement11.1% 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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