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Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

Spatial and Panel Data Analysis is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on spatial econometrics and spatial data analysis, covering topics such as panel data models, spatial autocorrelation, geographically weighted regression, dynamic panel data models, spatial statistics, spatial dependence, spatial modeling, network autocorrelation, and local statistics.

  • Spatial Econometrics
  • Panel Data Models
  • Spatial Autocorrelation
  • Geographically Weighted Regression
  • Dynamic Panel Data Models
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Spatial Dependence
  • Spatial Modeling
  • Network Autocorrelation
  • Local Statistics
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (656 and 461 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 656 works
  2. 2 United States 461 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 156 works
  4. 4 Italy 110 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 107 works
  6. 6 Japan 93 works
  7. 7 Germany 76 works
  8. 8 Brazil 75 works
  9. 9 France 63 works
  10. 10 Spain 62 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: 35.3%United States: 24.8%Indonesia: 8.4%Italy: 5.9%6 others listed: 25.6%35%largest
China656 · 35.3%United States461 · 24.8%Indonesia156 · 8.4%Italy110 · 5.9%6 others listed475 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

Who are the leading researchers in Spatial and Panel Data Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spatial and Panel Data Analysis include Ronald C. Kessler, Donald B. Rubin and Peter M. Bentler.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  3. 3 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  4. 4 Benn K. D. Sartorius South Africa 208k 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 Spatial and Panel Data Analysis?

The most cited paper in Spatial and Panel Data Analysis is "Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations" (Manuel Arellano, Stephen Bond, 1991), with 33,547 citations. Next come "Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models" (22,634) and "Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models" (20,111).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations Manuel Arellano, Stephen Bond · The Review of Economic Studies Apr 1991 33,547
2 Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models Richard W. Blundell, Stephen Bond · Journal of Econometrics Nov 1998 22,634
3 Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models Manuel Arellano, Olympia Bover · Journal of Econometrics Jul 1995 20,111
4 Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance Gordon W. Cheung, Roger B. Rensvold · Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal Apr 2002 16,242
5 Local Indicators of Spatial Association—LISA Luc Anselin · Geographical Analysis Open access Apr 1995 13,022
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Where is Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 132 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 43 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 39 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 36 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 28 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 24 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 22 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Spatial and Panel Data Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Wuhan University, Peking University and Renmin University of China 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%10%20%30%mean 12.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wuhan UniversityPeking UniversityRenmin University of…Xiamen 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
1Wuhan UniversityChina 82.026.9%3.8×12 +30.5%
2Peking UniversityChina 81.617.9%2.9×13 +18.8%
3Renmin University of ChinaChina 57.314.2%13.6×10 +30.3%
4Xiamen UniversityChina 50.714.2%4.8×9 +41.1%
5The University of Texas at DallasUnited States 50.210.8%22.9×10 -37.8%
6University of BolognaItaly 46.513.6%4.8×9 +159.0%
7Universidade de São PauloBrazil 44.09.9%2.2×10 +17.3%
8Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina 42.911.1%36.5×8 +15.1%
9Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 36.50.8%11.9×11 -3.9%
10China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 36.03.2%9.7×10 -

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 Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, country by country

Is Spatial and Panel Data Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% 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 Spatial and Panel Data Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0092% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Spatial and Panel Data Analysis 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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