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Strategic Planning and Analysis

Strategic Planning and Analysis is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 4.9k research works in it since 1970. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the utilization of SWOT analysis in strategic planning across various industries and domains. It explores the application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP), value focused thinking, and quantitative methods in conducting SWOT analysis for decision-making. The papers also cover specific case studies such as forest certification, textile firms, tourism management, and strategic management tools.

  • SWOT Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Analytic Hierarchy Process
  • AHP
  • Forest Certification
  • Textile Firm
  • Value Focused Thinking
  • Tourism Management
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Strategic Management Tools
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
498
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+60%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Strategic Planning and Analysis

Which countries lead Strategic Planning and Analysis research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (658 and 175 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 658 works
  2. 2 China 175 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 147 works
  4. 4 United States 79 works
  5. 5 India 60 works
  6. 6 Iran 55 works
  7. 7 ?? 35 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 34 works
  9. 9 Kenya 33 works
  10. 10 Thailand 31 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.

Indonesia: 50.4%China: 13.4%Türkiye: 11.2%United States: 6.0%6 others listed: 19.0%50%largest
Indonesia658 · 50.4%China175 · 13.4%Türkiye147 · 11.2%United States79 · 6.0%6 others listed249 · 19.0%

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

Which institutions lead Strategic Planning and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Bandung Institute of Technology publishes the most Strategic Planning and Analysis research, followed by IPB University and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 46 works
  2. 2 IPB UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 15 works
  4. 4 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 12 works
  5. 5 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 12 works
  6. 6 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 11 works
  7. 7 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 10 works
  8. 8 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 10 works
  9. 9 State University of MalangIndonesia 10 works
  10. 10 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Strategic Planning and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Strategic Planning and Analysis include Steve Walker.

  1. 1 Steve Walker United Kingdom 99k 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 Strategic Planning and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Strategic Planning and Analysis is "Exploring SWOT analysis – where are we now?" (Marilyn Michelle Helms, Judy C. Nixon, 2010), with 998 citations. Next come "Utilizing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in SWOT analysis — a hybrid method and its application to a forest-certification case" (950) and "The Concept of Corporate Strategy" (865).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exploring SWOT analysis – where are we now? Marilyn Michelle Helms, Judy C. Nixon · Journal of strategy and management 10 Aug 2010 998
2 Utilizing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in SWOT analysis — a hybrid method and its application to a forest-certification case Mikko Kurttila, Mauno Pesonen, Jyrki Kangas et al. · Forest Policy and Economics May 2000 950
3 The Concept of Corporate Strategy Hugo Alberto Rivera Rodríguez, Hugo Alberto · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access Dec 2009 865
4 The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage Robert S. Kaplan, D. P. Norton, Shahid L. Ansari · The Accounting Review 30 Jun 2010 760
5 Strategic development and SWOT analysis at the University of Warwick Robert G. Dyson · European Journal of Operational Research 7 Apr 2003 752
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Strategic Planning and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Strategic Planning and Analysis research in 2022-now are Bandung (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Bogor (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi, Bogor and Bandung.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BandungIndonesia 99 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 83 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 47 works
  4. 4 BogorIndonesia 32 works
  5. 5 MalangIndonesia 29 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 26 works
  7. 7 SemarangIndonesia 26 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 25 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 25 works
  10. 10 YogyakartaIndonesia 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 20.8 works14×
  2. BogorID · 31.9 works11×
  3. BandungID · 99.0 works11×
  4. JakartaID · 83.2 works5.7×
  5. SurabayaID · 47.0 works5.6×
  6. MalangID · 29.3 works5.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Strategic Planning and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Strategic Planning and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Bandung Institute of Technology, IPB University and Islamic Azad University, Tehran 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%5%10%mean 5.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Islamic Azad Univers…University of Indone…IPB UniversityBandung Institute of…
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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
1Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 64.72.5%44.8×46 +452.9%
2IPB UniversityIndonesia 64.17.3%22.3×20 +69.0%
3Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 59.810.4%5.8×15 -45.2%
4University of IndonesiaIndonesia 47.78.6%6.7×12 +50.2%
5State University of MalangIndonesia 41.77.7%6.4×10 +659.5%
6Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 41.64.0%10.5×11 +111.5%
7University of BrawijayaIndonesia 39.74.0%7.2×10 +40.1%
8Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 38.66.9%7.2×9 +242.5%
9Telkom UniversityIndonesia 29.54.8%14.8×12 -38.6%
10University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 25.51.0%9.9×10 +744.4%

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 Strategic Planning and Analysis, country by country

Is Strategic Planning and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Strategic Planning and Analysis.

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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 Strategic Planning and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0061% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Strategic Planning and Analysis0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Strategic Planning and 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.

still counting5%10%15%Strategic Planning and Analysis10.4% 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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