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Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis

Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1951. 6.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application and development of spatial shift-share analysis in understanding economic changes, regional employment trends, tourism competitiveness, and industrial structure evolution. It also explores the dynamics of regional growth and the use of spatial econometrics to analyze regional disparities in economic development.

  • Spatial Shift-Share Analysis
  • Economic Development
  • Regional Employment
  • Tourism Competitiveness
  • Structural Decomposition
  • Regional Disparity
  • Industrial Structure
  • Dynamic Analysis
  • Spatial Econometrics
  • Regional Growth
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
6.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-73%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (822 and 180 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 822 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 180 works
  3. 3 United States 74 works
  4. 4 Mexico 52 works
  5. 5 Brazil 32 works
  6. 6 Spain 30 works
  7. 7 Vietnam 29 works
  8. 8 Japan 27 works
  9. 9 Russia 23 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 19 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: 63.8%Indonesia: 14.0%United States: 5.8%Mexico: 4.0%6 others listed: 12.4%64%largest
China822 · 63.8%Indonesia180 · 14.0%United States74 · 5.8%Mexico52 · 4.0%6 others listed160 · 12.4%

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

Which institutions lead Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Anhui University of Finance and Economics publishes the most Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research, followed by Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research and Guangxi Normal University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 20 works
  2. 2 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChina 10 works
  3. 3 Guangxi Normal UniversityChina 9 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 8 works
  5. 5 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 7 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 7 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 7 works
  8. 8 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 7 works
  9. 9 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 6 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis include David Autor and Luc Anselin.

  1. 1 David Autor United States 3k citations
  2. 2 Luc Anselin United States 2.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 138 works
  2. 2 Guangzhou China 46 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 46 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 37 works
  5. 5 Wuhan China 35 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 26 works
  7. 7 Xi'an China 25 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou China 24 works
  9. 9 Bengbu China 20 works
  10. 10 Chongqing China 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BengbuCN · 20.3 works52×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Peking University and Guangxi Normal University 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.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 48.04.2%99.1×20 -85.4%
2 Peking UniversityChina 31.029.1%3.5×8 -81.9%
3 Guangxi Normal UniversityChina 27.30.0%27.1×8 -91.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 73% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2011.

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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.

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.