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Public-Private Partnership Projects

Public-Private Partnership Projects is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1955. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the evaluation, risk assessment, critical success factors, and governance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects in infrastructure development. It covers topics such as risk allocation, financial viability, stakeholder management, and renegotiation of contracts.

  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Risk Allocation
  • Infrastructure Projects
  • Critical Success Factors
  • PPP/PFI Projects
  • Government Ownership
  • Contractual Governance
  • Financial Viability
  • Renegotiation
  • Stakeholder Management
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Public-Private Partnership Projects

Which countries lead Public-Private Partnership Projects research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (324 and 286 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 324 works
  2. 2 United States 286 works
  3. 3 Kenya 161 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 160 works
  5. 5 India 144 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 140 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 128 works
  8. 8 South Africa 122 works
  9. 9 Australia 88 works
  10. 10 Brazil 70 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.

China: 20.0%United States: 17.6%Kenya: 9.9%United Kingdom: 9.9%6 others listed: 42.6%20%largest
China324 · 20.0%United States286 · 17.6%Kenya161 · 9.9%United Kingdom160 · 9.9%6 others listed690 · 42.6%

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

Which institutions lead Public-Private Partnership Projects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology publishes the most Public-Private Partnership Projects research, followed by Kenyatta University and University of Johannesburg.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 39 works
  2. 2 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 35 works
  3. 3 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 27 works
  4. 4 University of NairobiKenya 23 works
  5. 5 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 14 works
  6. 6 University of ZambiaZambia 13 works
  7. 7 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 13 works
  8. 8 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 12 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  10. 10 University of LisbonPortugal 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Public-Private Partnership Projects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Public-Private Partnership Projects include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Элинор Остром and Michael Lawrence Klein.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  3. 3 Michael Lawrence Klein United States 120k 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 Public-Private Partnership Projects?

The most cited paper in Public-Private Partnership Projects is "An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance" (Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi, Stephen Balogh, 2011), with 3,544 citations. Next come "The Reification of Absorptive Capacity: A Critical Review and Rejuvenation of the Construct" (2,865) and "The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons" (1,814).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi, Stephen Balogh · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Open access 2 May 2011 3,544
2 The Reification of Absorptive Capacity: A Critical Review and Rejuvenation of the Construct Peter J. Lane, Balaji R. Koka, Seemantini Madhukar Pathak · Academy of Management Review Oct 2006 2,865
3 The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons Oliver Hart, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Nov 1997 1,814
4 Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice John W. Selsky, Barbara Parker · Journal of Management 8 Nov 2005 1,343
5 Governance Without Government? Rethinking Public Administration B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Apr 1998 1,319
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Public-Private Partnership Projects research done?

The largest centres of Public-Private Partnership Projects research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi, Lusaka and Kampala.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 116 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 46 works
  4. 4 JohannesburgSouth Africa 33 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 32 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 31 works
  7. 7 KampalaUganda 26 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 25 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 24 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 116.0 works48×
  2. LusakaZM · 20.6 works26×
  3. KampalaUG · 26.4 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Public-Private Partnership Projects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Public-Private Partnership Projects?

Among universities, judged by research, Western Sydney University, University College London and University of Johannesburg 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 15.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Western Sydney Unive…University College L…University of Johann…Kenyatta 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
1Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 74.034.3%17.7×12 +29.0%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.233.6%3.0×12 -10.5%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 58.07.4%17.2×27 +112.3%
4Kenyatta UniversityKenya 48.70.0%101.5×35 +63.6%
5Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 47.817.0%21.2×12 -12.0%
6Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 47.20.8%134.2×39 -3.0%
7Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 46.419.6%5.7×8 -1.3%
8Tongji UniversityChina 44.228.5%2.5×10 -13.6%
9University of LisbonPortugal 43.28.9%6.1×12 -1.7%
10University of NairobiKenya 41.20.8%61.9×23 +2.4%

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 Public-Private Partnership Projects, country by country

Is Public-Private Partnership Projects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Public-Private Partnership Projects.

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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 Public-Private Partnership Projects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Public-Private Partnership Projects0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Public-Private Partnership Projects 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%Public-Private Partnership Projects10.9% 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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