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Quality and Management Systems

Quality and Management Systems is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of various management systems, such as quality, environmental, and occupational health and safety management, to improve organizational efficiency and sustainability. It explores the challenges, benefits, and strategies for implementing integrated management systems, particularly in small and medium enterprises. The cluster also discusses the role of ISO standards, risk analysis, and certification in the development of integrated management systems.

  • Integration
  • Management Systems
  • ISO Standards
  • Sustainability
  • Risk Analysis
  • Quality Management
  • Environmental Management
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Certification
  • Organizational Development
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
15% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Quality and Management Systems

Which countries lead Quality and Management Systems research?

By volume, India and Poland publish the most (156 and 138 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 156 works
  2. 2 Poland 138 works
  3. 3 United States 132 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 126 works
  5. 5 Russia 115 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 101 works
  7. 7 Brazil 82 works
  8. 8 China 71 works
  9. 9 Germany 62 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 53 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.

India: 15.1%Poland: 13.4%United States: 12.7%Indonesia: 12.2%6 others listed: 46.7%15%largest
India156 · 15.1%Poland138 · 13.4%United States132 · 12.7%Indonesia126 · 12.2%6 others listed484 · 46.7%

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

Which institutions lead Quality and Management Systems research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 16 works
  2. 2 Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 15 works
  3. 3 Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 14 works
  4. 4 Universidad de LimaPeru 13 works
  5. 5 Technical University of KošiceSlovakia 13 works
  6. 6 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 13 works
  7. 7 Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 10 works
  8. 8 Peruvian University of Applied SciencesPeru 10 works
  9. 9 University of MinhoPortugal 9 works
  10. 10 University of BelgradeSerbia 8 works

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

The most cited paper in Quality and Management Systems is "General and Industrial Management" (Nancy M. Carter, Henri Fayol, 1986), with 2,269 citations. Next come "A framework for quality management research and an associated measurement instrument" (1,975) and "Development and Validation of TQM Implementation Constructs" (1,781).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 General and Industrial Management Nancy M. Carter, Henri Fayol · Academy of Management Review Apr 1986 2,269
2 A framework for quality management research and an associated measurement instrument Barbara Bechler Flynn, Roger G. Schroeder, Sadao Sakakibara · Journal of Operations Management Mar 1994 1,975
3 Development and Validation of TQM Implementation Constructs Sanjay Laxman Ahire, Damodar Y. Golhar, Matthew A. Waller · Decision Sciences Mar 1996 1,781
4 The relationship between total quality management practices and operational performance Danny A. Samson, Milé Terziovski · Journal of Operations Management 10 May 1999 1,539
5 The genealogy of lean production Matthias Holweg · Journal of Operations Management 8 May 2006 1,480
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Quality and Management Systems research done?

The largest centres of Quality and Management Systems research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Lima (Peru), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lima.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 44 works
  2. 2 LimaPeru 30 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 26 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 19 works
  6. 6 GliwicePoland 17 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 17 works
  8. 8 KyivUkraine 16 works
  9. 9 RzeszówPoland 15 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LimaPE · 30.3 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Rzeszów University of Technology, Technical University of Košice 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%10%20%mean 9.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Rzeszów University o…Technical University…Silesian University …University of Johann…
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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
1Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 75.620.9%86.4×14 -23.9%
2Technical University of KošiceSlovakia 65.516.7%49.3×13 -31.0%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 63.95.8%11.2×13 +153.3%
4Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 60.59.1%36.4×16 -57.0%
5University of MinhoPortugal 59.512.2%13.8×9 -35.5%
6Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 59.212.4%88.6×15 -56.1%
7Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 37.78.4%37.2×10 -63.1%
8Universidad de LimaPeru 36.10.2%110.0×13 -
9University of BelgradeSerbia 21.74.8%6.8×8 -38.9%
10Peruvian University of Applied SciencesPeru 20.90.3%61.2×10 -29.4%

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 Quality and Management Systems, country by country

Is Quality and Management Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Quality and Management Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Quality and Management Systems0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Quality and Management Systems 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%Quality and Management Systems10.9% 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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