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Technology, Environment, Urban Planning

Technology, Environment, Urban Planning is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 2.8k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the philosophical and ethical implications of technology, including topics such as urban planning, digitalization, telemedicine, Sartre's philosophy, and the ethical challenges posed by technological advancements. It delves into the intersection of technology with humanism, ethics, and societal impact.

  • Technology
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy
  • Urban Planning
  • Digitalization
  • Telemedicine
  • Sartre
  • Infrastructuring
  • Ethical Challenges
  • Humanitarianism
Research works
2.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
275
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Technology, Environment, Urban Planning

Which countries lead Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research?

By volume, Germany and Russia publish the most (503 and 111 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 503 works
  2. 2 Russia 111 works
  3. 3 Austria 55 works
  4. 4 United States 48 works
  5. 5 Switzerland 37 works
  6. 6 Italy 22 works
  7. 7 Poland 17 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 16 works
  9. 9 Spain 14 works
  10. 10 France 13 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.

Germany: 60.1%Russia: 13.3%Austria: 6.6%United States: 5.7%6 others listed: 14.3%60%largest
Germany503 · 60.1%Russia111 · 13.3%Austria55 · 6.6%United States48 · 5.7%6 others listed120 · 14.3%

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

Which institutions lead Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research, followed by University of Vienna and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Technology, Environment, Urban Planning?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Technology, Environment, Urban Planning include Michel Foucault and Th. Müller.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Th. Müller United States 87k 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 Technology, Environment, Urban Planning?

The most cited paper in Technology, Environment, Urban Planning is "Technik und Wissenschaft als ?Ideologie??" (J�rgen Habermas, 1968), with 1,144 citations. Next come "FairGAN: Fairness-aware Generative Adversarial Networks" (351) and "Datafication" (313).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Technik und Wissenschaft als ?Ideologie?? J�rgen Habermas · Continental Philosophy Review Nov 1968 1,144
2 FairGAN: Fairness-aware Generative Adversarial Networks Depeng Xu, Shuhan Yuan, Lu Zhang et al. Conference paper Dec 2018 351
3 Datafication Ulises Ali Mejias, Nick Couldry · Internet Policy Review Open access 29 Nov 2019 313
4 On Technological Expectations Nathan S. Rosenberg · The Economic Journal Sep 1976 241
5 Rights of Non‐humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law Günther Teubner · Journal of Law and Society Open access 8 Nov 2006 172
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Where is Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research done?

The largest centres of Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Moscow (Russia) and Vienna (Austria).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 49 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 35 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 34 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 34 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 20 works
  6. 6 CologneGermany 18 works
  7. 7 StuttgartGermany 14 works
  8. 8 EssenGermany 12 works
  9. 9 DortmundGermany 12 works
  10. 10 MünsterGermany 12 works
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Where is the best place to study Technology, Environment, Urban Planning?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vienna, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 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%mean 9.78889%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Technische Universit…Friedrich-Alexander-…University of ViennaLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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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
1University of ViennaAustria 83.513.2%30.0×13 +269.2%
2Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 57.38.6%12.9×9 +27.5%
3Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 50.415.3%18.9×9 +190.9%
4Technische Universität BerlinGermany 48.017.8%31.0×9 -32.3%
5RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 34.210.5%14.0×9 -33.7%
6Ruhr University BochumGermany 32.414.4%25.6×9 -43.8%
7Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 30.35.2%27.4×8 +12.6%
8TU WienAustria 22.31.8%33.5×8 +90.4%
9University of TübingenGermany 19.71.3%24.1×8 +262.8%

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 Technology, Environment, Urban Planning, country by country

Is Technology, Environment, Urban Planning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Technology, Environment, Urban Planning.

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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 Technology, Environment, Urban Planning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0037% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Technology, Environment, Urban Planning0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Technology, Environment, Urban Planning 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%Technology, Environment, Urban Planning9.0% 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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