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Regional Development and Management Studies

Regional Development and Management Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of sustainable development, economic growth, and rural tourism in Serbia. It covers topics such as agricultural sustainability, small and medium enterprises, regional development, organizational culture, leadership emergence, and financial performance. The papers delve into the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the context of economic growth, with a focus on the role of various industries and organizational practices.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Economic Growth
  • Rural Tourism
  • Agricultural Sustainability
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Regional Development
  • Organizational Culture
  • Leadership Emergence
  • Financial Performance
  • Innovation Management
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Serbia
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Regional Development and Management Studies

Which countries lead Regional Development and Management Studies research?

By volume, Serbia and Croatia publish the most (780 and 693 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Serbia 780 works
  2. 2 Croatia 693 works
  3. 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 312 works
  4. 4 Slovenia 148 works
  5. 5 India 132 works
  6. 6 United States 109 works
  7. 7 Bulgaria 78 works
  8. 8 Romania 70 works
  9. 9 Kosovo 67 works
  10. 10 Philippines 60 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.

Serbia: 31.9%Croatia: 28.3%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 12.8%Slovenia: 6.0%6 others listed: 21.0%32%largest
Serbia780 · 31.9%Croatia693 · 28.3%Bosnia and Herzegovina312 · 12.8%Slovenia148 · 6.0%6 others listed515 · 21.0%

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

Which institutions lead Regional Development and Management Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Zagreb publishes the most Regional Development and Management Studies research, followed by University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ZagrebCroatia 199 works
  2. 2 University of BelgradeSerbia 194 works
  3. 3 University of Novi SadSerbia 178 works
  4. 4 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 74 works
  5. 5 University of Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 55 works
  6. 6 University of NisSerbia 54 works
  7. 7 University of RijekaCroatia 43 works
  8. 8 University of OsijekCroatia 41 works
  9. 9 University of SplitCroatia 41 works
  10. 10 University of KragujevacSerbia 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regional Development and Management Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional Development and Management Studies include Edward L. Deci, Tomislav Meštrović and Jay Bryan Barney.

  1. 1 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  2. 2 Tomislav Meštrović United States 154k citations
  3. 3 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k citations
  4. 4 Igor Rudan United Kingdom 146k citations
  5. 5 Željko Reiner Croatia 105k 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 Regional Development and Management Studies?

The most cited paper in Regional Development and Management Studies is "The living company." (Arie de Geus, 1997), with 819 citations. Next come "A new mandate for human resources." (701) and "The functions of the HQ unit in the multibusiness firm" (360).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The living company. Arie de Geus · PubMed 16 Apr 1997 819
2 A new mandate for human resources. David Ulrich · PubMed 3 Apr 1998 701
3 The functions of the HQ unit in the multibusiness firm Alfred D. Chandler · Strategic Management Journal 1991 360
4 Orientalist Variations on the Theme "Balkans": Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics Milica Bakić-Hayden, Robert M. Hayden · Slavic Review 1992 340
5 Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Hungarian Agri–Food Sectors Imre Fertő, Lionel James Hubbard · World Economy Feb 2003 324
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Regional Development and Management Studies research done?

The largest centres of Regional Development and Management Studies research in 2022-now are Belgrade (Serbia), Zagreb (Croatia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Travnik, Dubrovnik and Mostar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BelgradeSerbia 443 works
  2. 2 ZagrebCroatia 344 works
  3. 3 Novi SadSerbia 203 works
  4. 4 SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 99 works
  5. 5 LjubljanaSlovenia 82 works
  6. 6 Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 78 works
  7. 7 PristinaKosovo 67 works
  8. 8 NišSerbia 54 works
  9. 9 RijekaCroatia 54 works
  10. 10 OsijekCroatia 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TravnikBA · 22.6 works640×
  2. DubrovnikHR · 31.2 works378×
  3. MostarBA · 42.4 works296×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Regional Development and Management Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Regional Development and Management Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad and University of Kragujevac 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%30%mean 13.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Kraguj…University of BelgradeUniversity of Monten…University of Novi Sad
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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
1University of BelgradeSerbia 77.515.8%101.1×194 -19.3%
2University of Novi SadSerbia 70.812.4%196.6×178 -30.0%
3University of KragujevacSerbia 70.126.1%120.8×40 -42.4%
4University of MontenegroMontenegro 58.815.3%74.6×15 -40.5%
5University of NisSerbia 57.910.9%113.3×54 -32.6%
6Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 55.915.0%9.9×22 +218.9%
7Univerzitet Union Nikola TeslaSerbia 55.014.8%488.3×34 -28.6%
8University of MariborSlovenia 53.47.9%57.9×34 +106.2%
9University of Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 52.69.5%267.4×55 -44.9%
10University of ZagrebCroatia 51.62.7%102.8×199 -41.1%

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 Regional Development and Management Studies, country by country

Is Regional Development and Management Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Regional Development and Management Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Regional Development and Management Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regional Development and Management Studies 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%Regional Development and Management Studies9.4% 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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