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Socio-political and Technological Issues

Socio-political and Technological Issues is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 665 research works in it since 1952. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of global challenges and inequalities in the modern world, including topics such as globalization, inequality, public health, social justice, human rights, migration, economic policy, environmental sustainability, crisis management, and democracy. The papers discuss various issues related to these topics from different perspectives and provide insights into the complexities of addressing these challenges on a global scale.

  • Globalization
  • Inequality
  • Public Health
  • Social Justice
  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Economic Policy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Crisis Management
  • Democracy
Research works
665
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
67
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+91%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Socio-political and Technological Issues

Which countries lead Socio-political and Technological Issues research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (131 and 37 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 131 works
  2. 2 India 37 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 29 works
  4. 4 Australia 14 works
  5. 5 Russia 14 works
  6. 6 Germany 14 works
  7. 7 Canada 10 works
  8. 8 Spain 10 works
  9. 9 China 9 works
  10. 10 Poland 9 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.

United States: 47.1%India: 13.5%United Kingdom: 10.5%Australia: 5.2%6 others listed: 23.6%47%largest
United States131 · 47.1%India37 · 13.5%United Kingdom29 · 10.5%Australia14 · 5.2%6 others listed65 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Socio-political and Technological Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, CHDI Foundation publishes the most Socio-political and Technological Issues research, followed by Don State Agrarian University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 CHDI FoundationUnited States 10 works
  2. 2 Don State Agrarian UniversityRussia 4 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 3 works
  4. 4 Indira Gandhi National Open UniversityIndia 3 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 3 works
  6. 6 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 3 works
  7. 7 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 3 works
  8. 8 Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 2 works
  9. 9 Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 2 works
  10. 10 University of EssexUnited Kingdom 2 works

What are the most cited papers in Socio-political and Technological Issues?

The most cited paper in Socio-political and Technological Issues is "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation" (David Autor, 2015), with 3,836 citations. Next come "Mental health outcomes in times of economic recession: a systematic literature review" (657) and "Beliefs about Inequality: Americans' Views of What is and What Ought to Be." (457).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation David Autor · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access 30 Jul 2015 3,836
2 Mental health outcomes in times of economic recession: a systematic literature review Diana Frasquilho, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Ferdinand Salonna et al. · BMC Public Health ReviewOpen access Dec 2015 657
3 Beliefs about Inequality: Americans' Views of What is and What Ought to Be. John A. Fleishman, James R. Kluegel, Eliot R. Smith · Social Forces Jun 1988 457
4 Reactions to suffering of others under conditions of indirect responsibility. Melvin J. Lerner, Gail Matthews · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1967 207
5 The Great Recession, unemployment and suicide Thor Norström, Hans Grönqvist · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health Open access 22 Oct 2014 202
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Where is Socio-political and Technological Issues research done?

The largest centres of Socio-political and Technological Issues research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Moscow (Russia) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 15 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 11 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 8 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  5. 5 BudapestHungary 5 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 5 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 4 works
  9. 9 Rostov-on-DonRussia 4 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 4 works
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Is Socio-political and Technological Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 91% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Socio-political and Technological Issues.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Socio-political and Technological Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00069% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Socio-political and Technological Issues 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-political and Technological Issues11.1% in 2025

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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