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Regional Development and Policy

Regional Development and Policy is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of European Union Cohesion Policy, Smart Specialization, and Structural Funds on regional development and convergence within the European Union. It delves into the role of institutions, innovation policies, and territorial capital in shaping regional growth and addresses the challenges and opportunities for implementing smart specialization strategies in less-developed regions.

  • Smart Specialization
  • European Union Cohesion Policy
  • Regional Growth
  • Institutional Quality
  • Structural Funds
  • Innovation Policy
  • Territorial Capital
  • Administrative Capacity
  • Knowledge Economy
  • Regional Disparities
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
13% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Regional Development and Policy

Which countries lead Regional Development and Policy research?

By volume, Italy and the United States publish the most (300 and 287 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 300 works
  2. 2 United States 287 works
  3. 3 Poland 275 works
  4. 4 Hungary 272 works
  5. 5 Romania 246 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 221 works
  7. 7 Russia 216 works
  8. 8 France 176 works
  9. 9 Germany 161 works
  10. 10 Spain 156 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.

Italy: 13.0%United States: 12.4%Poland: 11.9%Hungary: 11.8%6 others listed: 50.9%13%largest
Italy300 · 13.0%United States287 · 12.4%Poland275 · 11.9%Hungary272 · 11.8%6 others listed1,175 · 50.9%

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

Which institutions lead Regional Development and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Bucharest University of Economic Studies publishes the most Regional Development and Policy research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Ludovika University of Public Service.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 57 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 41 works
  3. 3 Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 41 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 40 works
  5. 5 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 36 works
  6. 6 European CommissionBelgium 29 works
  7. 7 Corvinus University of BudapestHungary 26 works
  8. 8 Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 24 works
  9. 9 Bratislava University of Economics and BusinessSlovakia 22 works
  10. 10 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regional Development and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional Development and Policy include Ronald C. Kessler, Martin McKee and Andrei Shleifer.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  4. 4 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k 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 Policy?

The most cited paper in Regional Development and Policy is "Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment" (Ron A. Boschma, 2005), with 6,049 citations. Next come "WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN REGIONAL SCIENCE?" (3,417) and "On the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2009)" (3,313).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment Ron A. Boschma · Regional Studies 14 Jan 2005 6,049
2 WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN REGIONAL SCIENCE? Torsten Hägerstraand · Papers of the Regional Science Association Open access 1970 3,417
3 On the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2009) André Vanoli · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2010 3,313
4 R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production. David Bruce Audretsch, Maryann P. Feldman · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) 1994 2,730
5 One size fits all? Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl · Research Policy 18 Jul 2005 2,570
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Regional Development and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Regional Development and Policy research in 2022-now are Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania), Moscow (Russia) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pécs.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BudapestHungary 158 works
  2. 2 BucharestRomania 109 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 86 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 68 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 63 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 61 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 60 works
  8. 8 BrusselsBelgium 48 works
  9. 9 BratislavaSlovakia 44 works
  10. 10 MilanItaly 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PécsHU · 34.1 works39×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Regional Development and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, University of Thessaly and London School of Economics and Political Science 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 25.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Cardiff UniversityUniversity of ThessalyPolitecnico di MilanoLondon School of Eco…
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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
1Politecnico di MilanoItaly 74.026.8%8.2×22 +9.8%
2University of ThessalyGreece 59.328.3%11.7×10 +83.4%
3London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 56.225.8%15.9×14 -36.4%
4Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 56.229.5%6.9×11 -2.1%
5University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 56.133.6%3.7×9 +12.6%
6University of PaduaItaly 54.223.6%3.6×11 +41.5%
7Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 54.17.3%32.6×36 +16.6%
8Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 53.434.7%3.1×8 -30.7%
9University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 52.731.3%2.7×8 +100.7%
10Sapienza University of RomeItaly 51.916.8%4.8×20 +35.6%

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 Policy, country by country

Is Regional Development and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% 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 Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Regional Development and Policy0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regional Development and Policy 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 Policy10.8% 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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