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Transport and Economic Policies

Transport and Economic Policies is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of railway deregulation, privatization, and competition on efficiency, infrastructure charging, market entry barriers, vertical separation, and regulatory reform. It analyzes the effects of open access, franchising, and vertical/horizontal restructuring in various European and international railway systems.

  • Railway Deregulation
  • Competition
  • Efficiency
  • Privatization
  • Infrastructure Charging
  • Market Entry Barriers
  • Vertical Separation
  • Franchising
  • Regulatory Reform
  • Open Access
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transport and Economic Policies

Which countries lead Transport and Economic Policies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (329 and 198 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 329 works
  2. 2 United States 198 works
  3. 3 Russia 92 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 86 works
  5. 5 France 71 works
  6. 6 India 58 works
  7. 7 Germany 54 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 53 works
  9. 9 Brazil 41 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 40 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: 32.1%United States: 19.4%Russia: 9.0%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 31.1%32%largest
China329 · 32.1%United States198 · 19.4%Russia92 · 9.0%United Kingdom86 · 8.4%6 others listed318 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Transport and Economic Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Jiaotong University publishes the most Transport and Economic Policies research, followed by Southwest Jiaotong University and Tashkent State Transport University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 44 works
  2. 2 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 27 works
  3. 3 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 16 works
  4. 4 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 16 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 Russian University of TransportRussia 12 works
  8. 8 University of ŽilinaSlovakia 10 works
  9. 9 China Academy of Railway SciencesChina 9 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transport and Economic Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transport and Economic Policies include Gordon Brent Mills, Michael C. Jensen and D. Gareth Evans.

  1. 1 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  2. 2 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  3. 3 D. Gareth Evans United Kingdom 137k 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 Transport and Economic Policies?

The most cited paper in Transport and Economic Policies is "The Resource Dependence Role of Corporate Directors: Strategic Adaptation of Board Composition in Response to Environmental Change" (Amy J. Hillman, Albert A. Cannella, Ramona L. Paetzold, 2000), with 1,795 citations. Next come "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A “Market Access” Approach *" (1,244) and "Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership" (979).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Resource Dependence Role of Corporate Directors: Strategic Adaptation of Board Composition in Response to Environmental Change Amy J. Hillman, Albert A. Cannella, Ramona L. Paetzold · Journal of Management Studies Mar 2000 1,795
2 Railroads and American Economic Growth: A “Market Access” Approach * Dave Donaldson, Richard A. Hornbeck · The Quarterly Journal of Economics 28 Feb 2016 1,244
3 Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz, Isabel Tecu · The Journal of Finance Open access 25 May 2018 979
4 AN ORGANIZATION-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY TURNOVER. Jason D. Shaw, John E. Delery, G. Douglas Jenkins et al. · Academy of Management Journal Open access Oct 1998 837
5 Tourism planning: policies, processes and relationships Kaye Thorn · Tourism Management Oct 2001 730
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Where is Transport and Economic Policies research done?

The largest centres of Transport and Economic Policies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Chengdu (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tashkent and Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 111 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 38 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 33 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 31 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 25 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 23 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 15 works
  9. 9 OxfordUnited Kingdom 14 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TashkentUZ · 25.3 works10.0×
  2. Saint PetersburgRU · 22.5 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transport and Economic Policies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transport and Economic Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University and Tashkent State Transport University score highest, combining citation 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 8.57143%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Jiaotong U…Tashkent State Trans…Beijing Jiaotong Uni…University of Oxford
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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.

Citation 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
1Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 83.414.9%49.4×44 +40.3%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 82.019.0%23.4×26 +47.3%
3Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 70.415.3%177.7×16 +491.2%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 44.53.0%6.8×14 +394.4%
5University of ŽilinaSlovakia 35.47.7%57.6×10 -6.8%
6Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 31.60.1%163.4×16 +123.7%
7Russian University of TransportRussia 24.70.0%127.3×12 +54.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Transport and Economic Policies, country by country

Is Transport and Economic Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Transport and Economic Policies.

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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 Transport and Economic Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0066% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Transport and Economic Policies0.0065% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transport and Economic Policies 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%Transport and Economic Policies11.1% 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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