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Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends

Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the transformation of rural settlement patterns, demographic dynamics, and labor market trends in Russia. It covers topics such as migration, agriculture, food security, regional development, and the impact of global crises on rural areas. The papers also delve into the challenges and opportunities associated with youth migration, spatial patterns of settlement, and the role of geographical analysis in understanding rural transformation.

  • Rural Transformation
  • Migration
  • Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Regional Development
  • Demographic Dynamics
  • Spatial Patterns
  • Labor Market
  • Youth Migration
  • Geographical Analysis
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
67% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends

Which countries lead Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (4.8k and 682 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 4.8k works
  2. 2 United States 682 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 531 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 307 works
  5. 5 China 293 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 190 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 101 works
  8. 8 Belarus 98 works
  9. 9 Poland 96 works
  10. 10 Germany 69 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.

Russia: 67.1%United States: 9.5%Ukraine: 7.4%Kazakhstan: 4.3%6 others listed: 11.8%67%largest
Russia4,831 · 67.1%United States682 · 9.5%Ukraine531 · 7.4%Kazakhstan307 · 4.3%6 others listed846 · 11.8%

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

Which institutions lead Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research, followed by Anna Needs Neuroblastoma Answers and N&N Pharmaceuticals (United States).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 861 works
  2. 2 Anna Needs Neuroblastoma AnswersUnited States 156 works
  3. 3 N&N Pharmaceuticals (United States)United States 123 works
  4. 4 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 121 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 104 works
  6. 6 Financial UniversityRussia 100 works
  7. 7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 99 works
  8. 8 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 87 works
  9. 9 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 67 works
  10. 10 Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 66 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends include F. Stuart Chapin and Andrew Gelman.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Andrew Gelman United States 132k 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 Socio-Economic Development Trends?

The most cited paper in Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends is "World Urbanization Prospects" (Philippe Bocquier, 2005), with 1,772 citations. Next come "THE STEPPING STONE MODEL OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE DECREASE OF GENETIC CORRELATION WITH DISTANCE" (1,768) and "Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families: An Example of Formal Theory Construction" (1,341).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 World Urbanization Prospects Philippe Bocquier · Demographic Research Open access 4 May 2005 1,772
2 THE STEPPING STONE MODEL OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE DECREASE OF GENETIC CORRELATION WITH DISTANCE Motoo Kimura, George H. Weiss · Genetics Apr 1964 1,768
3 Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families: An Example of Formal Theory Construction Vern L. Bengtson, ROBERT EDMUND ROBERTS · Journal of Marriage and the Family Nov 1991 1,341
4 Institutional analysis and the role of ideas in political economy John L. Campbell · Theory and Society Jun 1998 954
5 Social Indifference Curves Paul Anthony Samuelson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Feb 1956 858
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Where is Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research done?

The largest centres of Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Yekaterinburg (Russia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zionsville, Blagoveshchensk and Tsarskoye Selo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 1.6k works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 333 works
  3. 3 YekaterinburgRussia 242 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 158 works
  5. 5 ZionsvilleUnited States 156 works
  6. 6 NovosibirskRussia 144 works
  7. 7 AlmatyKazakhstan 127 works
  8. 8 RockvilleUnited States 123 works
  9. 9 SamaraRussia 116 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-DonRussia 113 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZionsvilleUS · 155.8 works568×
  2. BlagoveshchenskRU · 66.7 works106×
  3. Tsarskoye SeloRU · 34.1 works84×
  4. MarshallUS · 23.4 works74×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends?

Among universities, judged by research, Financial University, Moscow State University and Lomonosov Moscow State 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.

0%20%40%mean 15.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Financial UniversityMoscow State Univers…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Weatherford College
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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
1Financial UniversityRussia 69.117.1%63.8×100 +16.7%
2Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 66.415.6%31.9×60 -13.0%
3Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 65.913.6%16.6×99 -8.1%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 62.19.4%11.0×104 +57.7%
5National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 61.919.4%30.3×87 -21.8%
6L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityKazakhstan 59.414.5%39.1×42 +89.1%
7Baikal State UniversityRussia 55.714.1%90.2×36 +9.1%
8Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 55.530.9%8.8×8 -
9Ural Federal UniversityRussia 53.912.1%31.1×63 -15.3%
10Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 51.810.1%74.8×66 -12.9%

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 Socio-Economic Development Trends, country by country

Is Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Socio-Economic Development Trends as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends 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.

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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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