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Socio-economic Development and Sustainability

Socio-economic Development and Sustainability is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 2.1k research works in it since 1962. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of sustainable development, economic growth, and information and communication technologies in the context of European countries. It delves into topics such as energy efficiency, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the knowledge economy, with a focus on regional development and social policy.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Economic Growth
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Global Economy
  • Innovation
  • Knowledge Economy
  • Regional Development
  • Social Policy
Research works
2.1k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
210
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Socio-economic Development and Sustainability

Which countries lead Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research?

By volume, Ukraine and Poland publish the most (112 and 64 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 112 works
  2. 2 Poland 64 works
  3. 3 Lithuania 58 works
  4. 4 Romania 33 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 31 works
  6. 6 United States 27 works
  7. 7 Russia 21 works
  8. 8 Latvia 16 works
  9. 9 China 16 works
  10. 10 Albania 14 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.

Ukraine: 28.6%Poland: 16.4%Lithuania: 14.8%Romania: 8.3%6 others listed: 31.9%29%largest
Ukraine112 · 28.6%Poland64 · 16.4%Lithuania58 · 14.8%Romania33 · 8.3%6 others listed125 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Vilnius University publishes the most Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research, followed by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Human Growth Foundation.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 14 works
  2. 2 Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityLithuania 9 works
  3. 3 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 6 works
  5. 5 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 6 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 Kaunas University of TechnologyLithuania 5 works
  8. 8 Vytautas Magnus UniversityLithuania 4 works
  9. 9 Lviv UniversityUkraine 4 works
  10. 10 Odessa National Maritime UniversityUkraine 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Socio-economic Development and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Socio-economic Development and Sustainability include Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas.

  1. 1 Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas Lithuania 56k 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 Socio-economic Development and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Socio-economic Development and Sustainability is "SELECTION OF RATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHOD BY APPLYING NEW STEP‐WISE WEIGHT ASSESSMENT RATIO ANALYSIS (SWARA)" (Violeta Keršulienė, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis, 2010), with 1,550 citations. Next come "STATE OF ART SURVEYS OF OVERVIEWS ON MCDM/MADM METHODS" (916) and "MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING (MCDM) METHODS IN ECONOMICS: AN OVERVIEW / DAUGIATIKSLIAI SPRENDIMŲ PRIĖMIMO METODAI EKONOMIKOJE: APŽVALGA" (831).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SELECTION OF RATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHOD BY APPLYING NEW STEP‐WISE WEIGHT ASSESSMENT RATIO ANALYSIS (SWARA) Violeta Keršulienė, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis · Journal of Business Economics and Management Open access 30 Jun 2010 1,550
2 STATE OF ART SURVEYS OF OVERVIEWS ON MCDM/MADM METHODS Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis, Simona Kildienė · Technological and Economic Development of Economy Open access 26 Mar 2014 916
3 MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING (MCDM) METHODS IN ECONOMICS: AN OVERVIEW / DAUGIATIKSLIAI SPRENDIMŲ PRIĖMIMO METODAI EKONOMIKOJE: APŽVALGA Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis · Technological and Economic Development of Economy Open access 24 Jun 2011 831
4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY MULTIMOORA AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR TRANSITION ECONOMIES / PROJEKTŲ VADYBA SU MULTIMOORA KAIP PRIEMONĖ PEREINAMOJO LAIKOTARPIO ŪKIAMS Willem K. Brauers, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas · Technological and Economic Development of Economy Open access 16 Mar 2010 647
5 The Comparative Analysis of MCDA Methods SAW and COPRAS Valentinas Podvezko · Engineering Economics 28 Apr 2011 410
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Where is Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research in 2022-now are Vilnius (Lithuania), Kyiv (Ukraine), Kaunas (Lithuania) and Bucharest (Romania). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vilnius and Kyiv.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 VilniusLithuania 34 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 34 works
  3. 3 KaunasLithuania 15 works
  4. 4 BucharestRomania 14 works
  5. 5 KharkivUkraine 13 works
  6. 6 WarsawPoland 12 works
  7. 7 LvivUkraine 11 works
  8. 8 OdesaUkraine 10 works
  9. 9 TiranaAlbania 10 works
  10. 10 RigaLatvia 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VilniusLT · 34.2 works110×
  2. KyivUA · 33.8 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Socio-economic Development and Sustainability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Socio-economic Development and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Vilnius 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.

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
1Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityLithuania 50.014.9%199.2×9 -67.0%
2Vilnius UniversityLithuania 30.05.4%121.8×14 -29.9%

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 Socio-economic Development and Sustainability, country by country

Is Socio-economic Development and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% 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 Socio-economic Development and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Socio-economic Development and Sustainability0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Socio-economic Development and Sustainability 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%Socio-economic Development and Sustainability10.2% 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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