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Sharing Economy and Platforms

Sharing Economy and Platforms is a research topic within Marketing. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of the sharing economy on consumption, focusing on collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer accommodation, sustainability, trust and reputation, access-based consumption, digital platforms, consumer behavior, hospitality industry, and regulation. It examines the motivations, implications, challenges, and opportunities associated with the sharing economy in various sectors.

  • Sharing Economy
  • Collaborative Consumption
  • Peer-to-Peer Accommodation
  • Sustainability
  • Trust and Reputation
  • Access-Based Consumption
  • Digital Platforms
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Hospitality Industry
  • Regulation
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sharing Economy and Platforms

Which countries lead Sharing Economy and Platforms research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 777 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 777 works
  3. 3 India 460 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 338 works
  5. 5 Spain 263 works
  6. 6 Germany 257 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 241 works
  8. 8 Italy 215 works
  9. 9 France 183 works
  10. 10 Australia 178 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: 28.0%United States: 19.2%India: 11.4%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 33.1%28%largest
China1,131 · 28.0%United States777 · 19.2%India460 · 11.4%United Kingdom338 · 8.4%6 others listed1,336 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Sharing Economy and Platforms research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Sharing Economy and Platforms research, followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Binus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  2. 2 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 31 works
  3. 3 Binus UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 20 works
  5. 5 Tongji UniversityChina 19 works
  6. 6 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 19 works
  7. 7 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 18 works
  8. 8 University of Hong KongChina 17 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 16 works
  10. 10 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sharing Economy and Platforms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sharing Economy and Platforms include Michael I. Jordan, H. Vincent Poor and Fred D. Davis.

  1. 1 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Fred D. Davis United States 153k 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 Sharing Economy and Platforms?

The most cited paper in Sharing Economy and Platforms is "The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption" (Juho Hamari, Mimmi Sjöklint, Antti Ukkonen, 2015), with 3,320 citations. Next come "Electronic word-of-mouth in hospitality and tourism management" (3,120) and "You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online" (2,952).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption Juho Hamari, Mimmi Sjöklint, Antti Ukkonen · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2 Jun 2015 3,320
2 Electronic word-of-mouth in hospitality and tourism management Stephen Wayne Litvin, Ronald Earl Goldsmith, Bing Pan · Tourism Management 30 Jun 2007 3,120
3 You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online Russell W. Belk · Journal of Business Research 16 Oct 2013 2,952
4 Building Effective Online Marketplaces with Institution-Based Trust Paul A. Pavlou, David Gefen · Information Systems Research Mar 2004 2,509
5 Smart tourism: foundations and developments Ulrike Gretzel, Marianna Sigala, Zheng Xiang et al. · Electronic Markets Open access 31 Jul 2015 2,472
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sharing Economy and Platforms research done?

The largest centres of Sharing Economy and Platforms research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), London (United Kingdom) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Macao.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 171 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 96 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 68 works
  5. 5 Hong KongChina 68 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 59 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 56 works
  8. 8 JakartaIndonesia 54 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 49 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MacaoCN · 35.2 works6.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sharing Economy and Platforms than the world average.

See Sharing Economy and Platforms on the map

Where is the best place to study Sharing Economy and Platforms?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Amsterdam and University of Macau 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 24.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…University of MacauHong Kong Polytechni…Hong Kong 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 80.522.9%6.2×31 +2.1%
2University of AmsterdamNetherlands 71.234.4%3.5×12 +40.3%
3University of MacauChina 70.029.3%6.6×12 +232.6%
4Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 67.422.3%5.2×12 +81.8%
5University of Hong KongChina 64.421.0%3.1×17 +116.4%
6City University of MacauChina 59.824.0%9.7×9 +210.9%
7The University of SydneyAustralia 57.221.4%2.9×20 -4.2%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 53.829.0%2.1×10 +27.7%
9University of SurreyUnited Kingdom 53.230.2%6.5×9 -13.3%
10University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 52.113.7%3.0×15 +20.0%

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 Sharing Economy and Platforms, country by country

Is Sharing Economy and Platforms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Sharing Economy and Platforms.

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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 Sharing Economy and Platforms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sharing Economy and Platforms 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%Sharing Economy and Platforms10.3% in 2025200020102020

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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