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Social Sciences and Governance

Social Sciences and Governance is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 11.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of social innovation in territorial development, focusing on topics such as economic development, territorial governance, solidarity economy, community engagement, and institutionalization. It delves into the impact of cooperatives, local development initiatives, participative evaluation, and the promotion of citizenship within the context of social innovation. The papers also discuss the challenges and opportunities for fostering social innovation to address various societal and economic issues at the local level.

  • Social Innovation
  • Economic Development
  • Territorial Governance
  • Solidarity Economy
  • Community Engagement
  • Institutionalization
  • Cooperatives
  • Local Development
  • Participative Evaluation
  • Citizenship
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Sciences and Governance

Which countries lead Social Sciences and Governance research?

By volume, France and Canada publish the most (5k and 826 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 5k works
  2. 2 Canada 826 works
  3. 3 ?? 341 works
  4. 4 United States 284 works
  5. 5 Morocco 228 works
  6. 6 Belgium 192 works
  7. 7 Switzerland 125 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 106 works
  9. 9 Spain 66 works
  10. 10 Italy 57 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.

France: 69.2%Canada: 11.4%??: 4.7%United States: 3.9%6 others listed: 10.7%69%largest
France5,000 · 69.2%Canada826 · 11.4%??341 · 4.7%United States284 · 3.9%6 others listed774 · 10.7%

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

Which institutions lead Social Sciences and Governance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Social Sciences and Governance research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université Lille Nord de France.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 1.2k works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 220 works
  3. 3 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 174 works
  4. 4 Université de LorraineFrance 139 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 126 works
  6. 6 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 118 works
  7. 7 Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 109 works
  8. 8 Université Paris NanterreFrance 102 works
  9. 9 Université de MontpellierFrance 97 works
  10. 10 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 92 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Sciences and Governance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Sciences and Governance include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  6. 6 Stephen M. Smith United Kingdom 214k citations
  7. 7 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  8. 8 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  9. 9 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 Social Sciences and Governance?

The most cited paper in Social Sciences and Governance is "Dilemmas in a general theory of planning" (Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber, 1973), with 15,625 citations. Next come "On-the-Job Training: Costs, Returns, and Some Implications" (1,099) and "Resilience as embedded neoliberalism: a governmentality approach" (1,059).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dilemmas in a general theory of planning Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber · Policy Sciences Open access Jun 1973 15,625
2 On-the-Job Training: Costs, Returns, and Some Implications Jacob Mincer · Journal of Political Economy Open access Oct 1962 1,099
3 Resilience as embedded neoliberalism: a governmentality approach Jonathan Joseph · Resilience Open access 14 Mar 2013 1,059
4 Thèse de doctorat d'Etat Évelyne Debard · Geobios 1988 844
5 Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services Taco Brandsen, Victor A. Pestoff · Public Management Review Dec 2006 661
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Where is Social Sciences and Governance research done?

The largest centres of Social Sciences and Governance research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Montreal (Canada) and Lille (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nancy, Guyancourt and Sophia Antipolis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 1.4k works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 351 works
  3. 3 MontrealCanada 295 works
  4. 4 LilleFrance 226 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 174 works
  6. 6 MontpellierFrance 163 works
  7. 7 QuébecCanada 159 works
  8. 8 NantesFrance 143 works
  9. 9 NanterreFrance 137 works
  10. 10 RennesFrance 124 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nancy47.2 works134×
  2. GuyancourtFR · 30.3 works128×
  3. Sophia AntipolisFR · 32.7 works116×
  4. Lyon24.9 works109×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social Sciences and Governance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Social Sciences and Governance?

Among universities, judged by research, Université du Québec, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Université de Montréal 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 17.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université du QuébecUniversité de MontréalUniversité du Québec…Conservatoire Nation…
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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
1Université du QuébecCanada 66.326.9%45.3×54 -2.6%
2Conservatoire National des Arts et MétiersFrance 64.517.1%161.0×89 -6.5%
3Université de MontréalCanada 64.022.6%21.6×82 -13.5%
4Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 63.717.4%69.4×109 -3.7%
5Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 63.610.1%35.7×92 +29.0%
6INSEEC School of Business and EconomicsFrance 60.929.1%414.2×9 +237.0%
7HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western SwitzerlandSwitzerland 60.827.1%25.9×17 -2.9%
8Université de LyonFrance 60.55.7%50.9×220 +11.4%
9Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 60.45.1%63.0×174 +49.3%
10University of GuelphCanada 60.418.7%8.3×16 +654.1%

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 Social Sciences and Governance, country by country

Is Social Sciences and Governance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% 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 Social Sciences and Governance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Social Sciences and Governance0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Social Sciences and Governance 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%Social Sciences and Governance9.9% 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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