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Open Source Software Innovations

Open Source Software Innovations is a research topic within Computer Science Applications. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1959. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of open source innovation, emphasizing collaboration, crowdsourcing, and user-generated content. It delves into the principles of free/libre open source software, community-based innovation, and the lead user method. The research also highlights the significance of virtual customer environments and the role of user participation in driving innovation.

  • Open Source Software
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration
  • Crowdsourcing
  • User-Generated Content
  • Community-Based Innovation
  • Lead User Method
  • Virtual Customer Environments
  • Free/Libre Open Source Software
  • User Participation
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Open Source Software Innovations

Which countries lead Open Source Software Innovations research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (524 and 314 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 524 works
  2. 2 China 314 works
  3. 3 Germany 239 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 140 works
  5. 5 Brazil 134 works
  6. 6 India 103 works
  7. 7 Canada 100 works
  8. 8 France 96 works
  9. 9 Italy 86 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 74 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.

United States: 28.9%China: 17.3%Germany: 13.2%United Kingdom: 7.7%6 others listed: 32.8%29%largest
United States524 · 28.9%China314 · 17.3%Germany239 · 13.2%United Kingdom140 · 7.7%6 others listed594 · 32.8%

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

Which institutions lead Open Source Software Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Open Source Software Innovations research, followed by Carnegie Mellon University and Utrecht University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  2. 2 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 13 works
  3. 3 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 12 works
  4. 4 English HeritageUnited Kingdom 11 works
  5. 5 Nanjing UniversityChina 11 works
  6. 6 University of WashingtonUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 10 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 10 works
  9. 9 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 10 works
  10. 10 University of StuttgartGermany 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Open Source Software Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Open Source Software Innovations include Christian M. Ringle, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Fred D. Davis.

  1. 1 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  2. 2 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt United States 169k citations
  3. 3 Fred D. Davis United States 153k 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 Open Source Software Innovations?

The most cited paper in Open Source Software Innovations is "Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology" (Henry W. Chesbrough, 2003), with 9,417 citations. Next come "Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation" (8,411) and "Co-creation experiences: The next practice in value creation" (6,452).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology Henry W. Chesbrough Mar 2003 9,417
2 Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid · Organization Science Feb 1991 8,411
3 Co-creation experiences: The next practice in value creation C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy · Journal of Interactive Marketing Open access 15 Jul 2004 6,452
4 Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms Keld Laursen, Ammon J. Salter · Strategic Management Journal Open access 21 Nov 2005 6,313
5 The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits Morten T. Hansen · Administrative Science Quarterly Mar 1999 5,861
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Where is Open Source Software Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Open Source Software Innovations research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 55 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 27 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 25 works
  5. 5 MontrealCanada 22 works
  6. 6 BerlinGermany 22 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 21 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 21 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 21 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Open Source Software Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Carnegie Mellon University, Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 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%20%40%mean 14.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…Copenhagen Business …Carnegie Mellon Univ…Utrecht 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
1Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 77.218.5%13.2×13 -39.1%
2Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 70.515.4%6.9×12 +0.5%
3Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 70.130.5%8.8×8 +21.8%
4Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 59.320.7%25.3×10 -17.0%
5University of WashingtonUnited States 48.919.2%3.9×10 -20.7%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 44.97.9%5.1×10 -14.3%
7Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 44.67.5%9.9×8 -9.2%
8Nanjing UniversityChina 43.75.2%5.0×11 +87.0%
9Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 41.19.6%6.4×9 +12.3%
10University of StuttgartGermany 38.713.6%11.1×9 -16.3%

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 Open Source Software Innovations, country by country

Is Open Source Software Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Open Source Software Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Open Source Software Innovations 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%Open Source Software Innovations10.4% 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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