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Regional resilience and development

Regional resilience and development is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 7.5k research works in it since 1954. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concepts, determinants, and measurements of regional economic resilience in response to recessionary shocks, economic crises, and industrial transformations. It delves into the factors such as adaptation, economic structure, industrial diversity, innovation districts, and territorial capital that contribute to the resilience of regional economies. The cluster also examines the impact of socioeconomic performance on the ability of regions to withstand and recover from economic challenges.

  • Regional Economic Resilience
  • Recessionary Shocks
  • Adaptation
  • Economic Structure
  • Regional Employment
  • Economic Crisis
  • Industrial Diversity
  • Territorial Capital
  • Innovation Districts
  • Socioeconomic Performance
Research works
7.5k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
784
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+59%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Regional resilience and development

Which countries lead Regional resilience and development research?

By volume, China and Italy publish the most (904 and 269 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 904 works
  2. 2 Italy 269 works
  3. 3 United States 262 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 176 works
  5. 5 Russia 158 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 105 works
  7. 7 Germany 100 works
  8. 8 France 100 works
  9. 9 Spain 98 works
  10. 10 Romania 95 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: 39.9%Italy: 11.9%United States: 11.6%United Kingdom: 7.8%6 others listed: 28.9%40%largest
China904 · 39.9%Italy269 · 11.9%United States262 · 11.6%United Kingdom176 · 7.8%6 others listed656 · 28.9%

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

Which institutions lead Regional resilience and development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Regional resilience and development research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 25 works
  4. 4 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 24 works
  5. 5 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 23 works
  6. 6 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 19 works
  7. 7 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 15 works
  8. 8 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 12 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 12 works
  10. 10 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regional resilience and development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional resilience and development include Carl Folke, Johan Rockström and Marten Scheffer.

  1. 1 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  2. 2 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k citations
  3. 3 Marten Scheffer Netherlands 122k 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 resilience and development?

The most cited paper in Regional resilience and development is "Social and ecological resilience: are they related?" (William Neil Adger, 2000), with 4,824 citations. Next come "Defining urban resilience: A review" (3,258) and "Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts" (2,447).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social and ecological resilience: are they related? William Neil Adger · Progress in Human Geography Sep 2000 4,824
2 Defining urban resilience: A review Sara Meerow, Joshua Peter Newell, Melissa Stults · Landscape and Urban Planning 30 Dec 2015 3,258
3 Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts Ann Markusen · Economic Geography Jul 1996 2,447
4 Regional economic resilience, hysteresis and recessionary shocks Richard W. Martin · Journal of Economic Geography 7 Sep 2011 2,297
5 Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser · Journal of Political Economy Oct 1997 2,151
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Regional resilience and development research done?

The largest centres of Regional resilience and development research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Nanjing (China) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bucharest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 149 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 61 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 57 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 53 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 49 works
  6. 6 BucharestRomania 48 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 45 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 42 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 39 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BucharestRO · 48.1 works9.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Regional resilience and development on the map

Where is the best place to study Regional resilience and development?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, Lund University and Bucharest University of Economic Studies 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 15.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lund UniversityLondon School of Eco…Politecnico di MilanoBucharest University…
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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 66.98.7%10.7×23 +29.4%
2Lund UniversitySweden 63.825.8%6.0×10 +4.7%
3Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 54.73.1%47.8×24 +127.9%
4London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 53.915.1%13.9×10 +35.0%
5China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 52.931.9%3.7×9 -
6Sapienza University of RomeItaly 52.15.9%5.3×19 +115.3%
7Peking UniversityChina 42.915.0%1.9×12 +24.0%
8University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 42.512.8%3.6×9 +47.0%
9Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 40.915.0%22.2×10 +17.4%
10Nanjing UniversityChina 40.822.4%3.0×8 +252.8%

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 Regional resilience and development, country by country

Is Regional resilience and development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Regional resilience and development.

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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 resilience and development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Regional resilience and development0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regional resilience and development 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 resilience and development10.5% in 202520102020

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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