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Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry

Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 9.8k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to information science and technology development, including the impact of digital technology, foresight methods, knowledge management, big data, innovation, media, ontology, and semantic search. The papers explore the intersection of information science with various fields such as economics, education, neuroscience, sociology, and environmental studies.

  • Information Science
  • Technology
  • Foresight
  • Digital Economy
  • Knowledge Management
  • Big Data
  • Innovation
  • Media
  • Ontology
  • Semantic Search
Research works
9.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
978
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry

Which countries lead Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.4k and 465 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.4k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 465 works
  3. 3 United States 251 works
  4. 4 China 73 works
  5. 5 Germany 63 works
  6. 6 Poland 61 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 49 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 41 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 36 works
  10. 10 Belarus 36 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: 56.6%Ukraine: 18.8%United States: 10.2%China: 2.9%6 others listed: 11.5%57%largest
Russia1,400 · 56.6%Ukraine465 · 18.8%United States251 · 10.2%China73 · 2.9%6 others listed285 · 11.5%

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

Which institutions lead Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research, followed by Weatherford College and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 238 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 90 works
  3. 3 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 40 works
  4. 4 Russian State LibraryRussia 39 works
  5. 5 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 30 works
  6. 6 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 27 works
  7. 7 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 26 works
  8. 8 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 26 works
  9. 9 Financial UniversityRussia 25 works
  10. 10 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry include Karl John Friston, Herbert A. Simon and Chris Frith.

  1. 1 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  2. 2 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k citations
  4. 4 Raymond J. Dolan United Kingdom 165k 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 Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry?

The most cited paper in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry is "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." (George Miller, 1994), with 17,321 citations. Next come "The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution" (1,314) and "A person-oriented approach in research on developmental psychopathology" (1,308).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review 1994 17,321
2 The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution Susan Oyama 28 Feb 1986 1,314
3 A person-oriented approach in research on developmental psychopathology Lars R. Bergman, David Mag­nusson · Development and Psychopathology Jun 1997 1,308
4 Mechanisms of Self-Regulation: A Systems View Paul Karoly · Annual Review of Psychology 1993 1,098
5 Foundations of transdisciplinarity Manfred A. Max-Neef · Ecological Economics 12 Mar 2005 1,078
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research done?

The largest centres of Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Weatherford (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saratov.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 593 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 200 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 151 works
  4. 4 WeatherfordUnited States 90 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 64 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 51 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 41 works
  8. 8 SamaraRussia 35 works
  9. 9 Kazan’Russia 34 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-DonRussia 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SaratovRU · 28.7 works42×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Financial University and 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.

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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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 63.912.6%25.7×90 +148.4%
2Financial UniversityRussia 54.116.4%43.4×25 +76.0%
3Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 48.112.0%39.5×28 -6.4%
4Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 47.115.8%23.8×13 -34.2%
5Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine 45.512.6%73.2×17 +32.0%
6Saratov State UniversityRussia 43.513.5%78.1×17 +108.7%
7Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 43.39.2%17.9×40 -22.1%
8Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 42.89.3%24.1×17 -43.9%
9Moscow State Linguistic UniversityRussia 40.313.0%106.5×12 +90.6%
10National Research Nuclear University MEPhIRussia 39.214.6%27.6×9 -35.4%

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 Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry, country by country

Is Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry.

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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 Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry 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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