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. 9.6% 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%
- 3.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 9.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +10% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
China
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research?
By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (856 and 186 works in 2022-now).
Brazil
Spain
Vietnam
Japan
IndiaHow 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.
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Which institutions lead Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research?
By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research, followed by Anhui University of Finance and Economics and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
25 works
- 2
Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina
20 works
- 3
Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina
10 works
- 4
Guangxi Normal UniversityChina
9 works
- 5
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
9 works
- 6
Peking UniversityChina
9 works
- 7
University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur
Indonesia
8 works
- 8
Beijing Normal UniversityChina
8 works
- 9
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico
7 works
- 10
University of BrawijayaIndonesia
7 works
Who are the leading researchers in Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis include Xiaogang Wang, Harry Eugene Stanley and Michael E. Porter.
- 1
Xiaogang Wang
China
260k citations
- 2
Harry Eugene Stanley
United States
198k citations
- 3
Michael E. Porter
United States
165k citations
- 4
M. Hashem Pesaran
United States
150k citations
- 5
Robert F. Engle
United States
139k citations
- 6
Jin Li
China
132k 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-now 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-now
Where it is the local speciality
- BengbuCN · 20.3 works52×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis?
Among universities, judged by research, Peking University, Anhui University of Finance and Economics 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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking UniversityChina |
60.0 | 19.5% | 3.2× | 9 | +45.6% |
| 2 | Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina |
53.3 | 3.3% | 110.4× | 20 | +248.1% |
| 3 | Guangxi Normal UniversityChina |
21.6 | 1.6% | 30.5× | 9 | +566.0% |
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 Economic and Spatial Analysis, country by countryIs Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis.
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Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.
Fractional works of Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis 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.
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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