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Real estate and construction management

Real estate and construction management is a research topic within Architecture. Science Explorer counts 2.5k research works in it since 1951. 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 urban development, sustainable architecture, and regional planning. It includes research on sustainable development, renewable energy, public engagement, corporate governance, data mining, spatial economics, and environmental policy. The papers explore innovative conceptions of natural light, floating architecture for flood preparedness, energy-efficient technologies, and the integration of renewable energy sources in urban development.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Urban Planning
  • Renewable Energy
  • Architectural Design
  • Public Engagement
  • Corporate Governance
  • Data Mining
  • Spatial Economics
  • Regional Development
  • Environmental Policy
Research works
2.5k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
243
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Real estate and construction management

Which countries lead Real estate and construction management research?

By volume, Germany and Russia publish the most (339 and 60 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 339 works
  2. 2 Russia 60 works
  3. 3 Austria 60 works
  4. 4 United States 41 works
  5. 5 Switzerland 28 works
  6. 6 France 21 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 18 works
  8. 8 China 10 works
  9. 9 Italy 9 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 9 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.

Germany: 57.1%Russia: 10.1%Austria: 10.0%United States: 7.0%6 others listed: 15.8%57%largest
Germany339 · 57.1%Russia60 · 10.1%Austria60 · 10.0%United States41 · 7.0%6 others listed94 · 15.8%

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

Which institutions lead Real estate and construction management research?

By volume in 2022-now, TU Wien publishes the most Real estate and construction management research, followed by München Klinik and Austrian Foundry Research Institute.

Who are the leading researchers in Real estate and construction management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Real estate and construction management include Jens Juul Holst and Thomas J. Meyer.

  1. 1 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations
  2. 2 Thomas J. Meyer United States 80k 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 Real estate and construction management?

The most cited paper in Real estate and construction management is "Productivity and employee satisfaction in flexible workplaces" (D.J.M. van der Voordt, 2004), with 312 citations. Next come "Curating the “Third Place”? Coworking and the mediation of creativity" (252) and "Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales" (235).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Productivity and employee satisfaction in flexible workplaces D.J.M. van der Voordt · Journal of Corporate Real Estate Open access Apr 2004 312
2 Curating the “Third Place”? Coworking and the mediation of creativity Julie Brown · Geoforum Open access 11 Apr 2017 252
3 Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales Anita Füzi · Regional Studies Regional Science Open access 2015 235
4 “Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking? Clay Spinuzzi, Zlatko Bodrožić, Giuseppe Scaratti et al. · Journal of Business and Technical Communication Open access 11 Dec 2018 207
5 The ambivalence of coworking: On the politics of an emerging work practice Greig de Peuter, Nicole S. Cohen, Francesca Saraco · European Journal of Cultural Studies 11 Oct 2017 167
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Where is Real estate and construction management research done?

The largest centres of Real estate and construction management research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vienna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 34 works
  2. 2 ViennaAustria 31 works
  3. 3 BerlinGermany 30 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 18 works
  5. 5 StuttgartGermany 13 works
  6. 6 LeobenAustria 11 works
  7. 7 HamburgGermany 11 works
  8. 8 LucerneSwitzerland 10 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 10 works
  10. 10 MünsterGermany 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ViennaAT · 31.5 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Real estate and construction management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Real estate and construction management?

Among universities, judged by research, TU Wien, Technische Universität Dresden and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts 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.

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
1TU WienAustria 85.04.8%119.9×21 -
2Technische Universität DresdenGermany 35.35.3%25.1×8 -49.5%
3Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsSwitzerland 16.61.5%356.1×10 +297.8%

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 Real estate and construction management, country by country

Is Real estate and construction management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Real estate and construction management.

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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 Real estate and construction management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Real estate and construction management 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%Real estate and construction management9.8% 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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