György Csomós

University of Debrecen · Department of Civil Engineering

Worldwide, due to rapid urbanization, the provision of urban green spaces (UGSs) has become a primary goal of urban planning. As such, research on the benefits, effects, and challenges of UGSs has gained widespread attention among scholars. This paper comprehensively analyzes three decades of UGS research and its evolution; it conducts a bibliometr...

As the open access movement has gained widespread popularity in the scientific community , academic publishers have gradually adapted to the new environment. The pioneer open access journals have turned themselves into megajournals, and the subscription-based publishers have established open access branches and have turned subscription-based journa...

The academic performance indicators of the Doctor of Science title, the highest and most prestigious qualification awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), are key in the national assessment system. The types of performance indicators, as well as their minimum values, are incorporated into the application requirements for academic promot...

Celem artykułu jest odpowiedź na pytanie, czy przychody i funkcje kontrolno-zarządcze miast i wybranych państw i regionów funkcje te są wynikiem wzrostu firm już działających w danym mieście lub kraju, czy też przeniesienia siedziby ich zarządu. Określono również poziom zmian przychodów miast i wybranych regionów świata oraz ich funkcji kontrolno-z...

The provision of urban green spaces (UGS) within a reasonable walking distance/time for each resident has become a major challenge of urban planning. We provide a novel method to map the availability of UGS for different socio-economic groups in cities using a demand–supply composite index (DSCI). Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, has been cho...

The co-editor networks of academic journals are generally examined at the journal level. This paper investigates the geographies of the global co-editor network in oncology through the lens of cities. After using different network methods to analyze the global co-editor network, we found that the network can be characterized by a core-periphery str...

Az elmúlt években egyes városok irányítás és ellenőrzés funkciója jelentősen növekedett, amelynek következtében a világgazdaságban is előkelőbb pozícióba kerültek. A tanulmány fő célja a városok irányítás és ellenőrzés funkciójának vizsgálata, valamint annak feltárása, hogy a vállalatközpontok áthelyezése hogyan befolyásolta az irányítás és ellenőr...

In recent years, some cities have experienced significant growth in terms of command and control functions of cities, and thus have managed to relocate themselves to a much upscale position in the global economy. The main goal of this study is to examine the command-and-control function of cities and the impact of the relocation of corporate headqu...

Since the collapse of communism, countries in Central and Eastern Europe have experienced significant socio-economic changes that have affected the urban landscape and the spatial organization of cities. These processes have also generated significant changes in the availability of urban green spaces for local residents, resulting in new forms of i...

Science is becoming increasingly international in terms of breaking down walls in its pursuit of high impact. Despite geographical location and distance still being major barriers for scientific collaboration, little is known about whether high-impact collaborations are similarly constrained by geography compared to collaborations of average impact...

In Hungary, the highest and most prestigious scientific qualification is considered to be the Doctor of Science (DSc) title being awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The academic performance indicators of the DSc title are of high importance in the evaluation of individuals’ research performance not only when a researcher applies for obta...

In a commentary on high-impact research outputs across 245 cities, György Csomós, Zsófia Viktória Vida and Balázs Lengyel explore changing patterns. In a commentary on high-impact research outputs across 245 cities, György Csomós, Zsófia Viktória Vida and Balázs Lengyel explore changing patterns.

Access to urban green spaces and environmental inequalities are increasingly on the agenda in contemporary cities due to increasing density of people, widening social inequalities, and limited access to Urban Green Spaces (UGS). This is even so in post-socialist cities where recent urban sprawl and suburbanisation could be strongly linked to the sc...

In Hungary, the highest and most prestigious scientific qualification is considered to be the Doctor of Science (DSc) title being awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The academic performance indicators of the DSc title are of high importance in the evaluation of individuals' research performance not only when a researcher applies for obta...

Purpose Spatial bibliometrics and scientometrics have traditionally focused on examining both country and regional levels; however, in recent years, numerous spatial analyses on the city level have been carried out. While city-level scientometric analyses have gained popularity among policymakers and statistical/economic research organizations, res...

A tanulmány célja a MTA X. Földtudományok Osztály szakterület-specifikus publikációs karakterisztikájának és teljesítményének összehasonlító elemezése akadémiai teljesítményindikátorok felhasználásával. A tanulmány a következő aspektusok bemutatására és kiértékelésére fókuszál: az osztály különböző tudományos bizottságaiba tartozó kutatók publikáci...

A kelet-közép-európai országok politikai-társadalmi-gazdasági változásai az 1990-es évek elején lehetővé tették az európai és a globális gazdasági térbe való integrálódást. Az időszak fordulatot hozott a régió országainak tudományos életében is, hiszen a tudomány felszabadult a korábbi politikai és ideológiai kontroll alól. A régió országai viszony...

In the EU programming period of 2014-2020, Hungary's largest-ever transport development project, an intermodal passenger terminal (IPT), is planned to be built in Debrecen. The IPT will integrate all public transport modes operating in Debrecen in a single building, with the modes being as follows: railways, long-distance and local buses, trolley-b...

Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Researchers have suggested that, instead of...

International scientific collaboration, a fundamental phenomenon of science, has been studied from several perspectives for decades. In the spatial aspect of science, cities have been considered by their publication output or by their citation impact. In this visualization, we go beyond these well-known approaches and map international scientific c...

In tandem with the rapid globalisation of science, spatial scientometrics has become an important research sub-field in scientometric studies. Recently, numerous spatial scientometric contributions have focused on the examination of cities' scientific output by using various scientometric indicators. In this paper, I analyse cities' scientific outp...

Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Researchers have suggested that, instead of...

As a result of their rapid economic growth, several powerful corporate giants have emerged in developing countries, especially in China, operating not only in the traditional manufacturing sector, but also in high-tech industries and finance. Major cities in developing countries have gradually become important command and control centres of the glo...

Corporate research and development (R&D) activities have long been highly concentrated in a handful of world cities. This is due to the fact that these cities (e.g., Tokyo, New York, London, and Paris) are home to the largest and most powerful transnational corporations and are globally important sites for innovative start-up firms that operate in...

A tanulmányban a Scopus adatbázisban található adatok alapján azt vizsgáltam meg, hogy 1986 és 2015 között mekkora volt az európai városok tudományos kibocsátása, és abban milyen jellemző tendenciák mutathatók ki, továbbá azt is, hogy a városoknak mely országokkal a legintenzívebb a nemzetközi együttműködése és mely tudományterületeknek legnagyobb...

In this analysis we model the influence of 277 major cities of the global economy on the economic space, from 2006 to 2014.

Global cities are defined, on the one hand, as the major command and control centres of the world economy and, on the other hand, as the most significant sites of the production of innovation. As command and control centres, they are home to the headquarters of the most powerful MNCs of the global economy, while as sites for the production of innov...

Shenzhen is one of the most dynamically growing cities in the world with a population of more than 10 million. Situated in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China it is in the powerhouse of the global economy. Some decades ago Shenzhen was a small fi shing village only, however, after its designation as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) the city has gone...

This analysis has relied on an empirical method to identify and rank cities as centres of the Hungarian economy from 1992 to 2012. After the change in the political and economic system of Hungary, a new economic climate emerged (e.g. Hungary joined the European Union, foreign direct investments appeared in the economy, special taxation regulations...

An important aim of the European Union and national governments all over the world is to increase the contribution of renewable energies to the total energy supply. According to numerous estimates, the proportion of renewable energy sources of the global energy consumption could reach 15 to 20 percent by the middle of the 21th century; moreover the...

A világgazdaság vezető városainak azonosítása döntően két irányzat, a John Friedmann-féle világváros-hipotézis és a Saskia Sassen által jegyzett globálisváros- koncepció mentén történik. Jelentős különbség azonban a két irányzat között, hogy míg előbbi a világvárosok kijelölése szempontjából a hagyományos termelést végző multinacionális vállalatok...

An important goal of university rankings is to make the scientific performance of higher education institutions transparent and comparable. One of the most popular university rankings is the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the most important goal of which is to evaluate the publication performance of u...

An important target of the European Union and national governments is to increase the contribution of renewable energy to the total energy supply. According to numerous estimates, the proportion of renewable energy sources of the global energy consumption could reach 15 to 20 percent by the middle of the 21th century; moreover the total amount of i...

Over the past decade the world economy has undergone significant changes with an impact not only on national economies but also on the key cities from which that world economy is largely being controlled. In this study, we use Forbes’ ‘Global 2000’ data on the headquarter location and size of the world’s leading multinational corporations in order...

Over the past decade the world economy has undergone significant changes with an impact not only on national economies but also on the key cities from which that world economy is largely being controlled. In this study, we use Forbes' 'Global 2000' data on the headquarter location and size of the world's leading multinational corporations in order...

Several recent studies have examined the shifting command and control functions of the leading cities of the global economy. This phenomenon is primarily because developing countries such as China, India, Brazil and Russia have been growing at such a rate that their size, in terms of GDP, is now close to that of the traditionally powerful economies...

Napjainkban a városokkal foglalkozó társadalomtudományi kutatások tekintélyes része fókuszál azokra a városokra, amelyek a globális gazdaságban meghatározó irányító és ellenőrző funkciókkal rendelkeznek. Az 1980-as évek közepétől ezekben a kutatásokban sokszor világvárosokként vagy globális városokként azonosítják a gazdaságirányítás csomópontjait...

Since the mid-1980s, it has become increasingly popular to research contemporary economic globalization through the lens of cities. One strand of research thereby focuses on the global ‘command-and-control function’ of major cities, which is often measured through the presence of corporate headquarters of major multinational enterprises. Following...

In parallel with the change of the political-economic regime, the Hungarian system of public administration faced new challenges. Under state socialism, medium-level public administration was represented by the counties, which exercised strong control over the local governments of settlements in the hierarchic system of public administration. Durin...

Analysis of Leading Cities in Central Europe: Control of Regional Economy Nowadays, one of the characteristic orientations in social science studies focusing on cities is the ranking of cities, as well as the definition of the world's leading cities (world cities, global cities) on the basis of various criteria. Central European countries are given...

According to the defi nition given by the Assembly of European Regions, a region is a legal territorial public body which is created directly under state level and granted with political autonomy. In Hungary, state level is followed by the regions; however, political autonomy remains with counties. The opinion of experts and politicians on territor...

Although France and Hungary are completely different regarding their historical evolution with respect to the past 150 years, they share an inherited monocentric spatial structure. Whereas efforts to promote economic and political centralization can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries, the recognition of the drawbacks originating from mon...

Jelen tanulmány a magyarországi regionális centrumok városhálózatban betöltött pozícióváltozásait követi nyomon a szabad királyi városoktól a NUTS 2 tervezési-statisztikai régiók kialakításáig. A nagyvárosok szempontjából napjaink egyik legfontosabb kérdése, hogy a regionális centrumok (egyúttal pólusvárosok) lesznek-e a NUTS 2 régiók tényleges köz...