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Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency

In research, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,393 of 20,462 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#11,992 of 21,541 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#27,012
of 28,054 · #16,330 all time
Rank in South Korea
#411
of 417
Research works
519
▼ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
8.4k
16.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
67%
world 28%

What is Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #6,393 of 20,462 14.6%188
Physical SciencesDomain #11,992 of 21,541 12.6%188

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.51× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.80× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.74× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 7.05× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.78× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.54× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 5.03× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.14× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 1.49× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 9.70× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.52× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.78× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency?

Ranked on the composite score, Eun‐A Kim, Seong‐Kyu Kang and Kyung Yong Rhee lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency.

  1. 1 Eun‐A Kim South Korea · #591,519 worldwide 54 citations · 36 works
  2. 2 Seong‐Kyu Kang South Korea · #846,194 worldwide 20 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Kyung Yong Rhee South Korea · #936,105 worldwide 10 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Yong-Hoon Lee South Korea · #1,249,704 worldwide 40 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Sang‐Gil Lee South Korea · #1,541,465 worldwide 25 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency

Which keywords describe research at Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Health Effects, Occupational Safety, Accident Prevention, Safety Culture, Risk Assessment, Risk Perception, Workplace Safety and Construction Safety.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Health Effects7▲ 16×10 topics
  2. Occupational Safety7▲ 98×2 topics
  3. Accident Prevention7▲ 124×2 topics
  4. Safety Culture7▲ 124×2 topics
  5. Risk Assessment6▲ 13×7 topics
  6. Oxidative Stress6▲ 4.7×10 topics
  7. Risk Perception6▲ 27×3 topics
  8. Workplace Safety5▲ 50×3 topics
  9. Construction Safety5▲ 98×2 topics
  10. Safety Management5▲ 100×2 topics
  11. Employee Behavior5▲ 83×2 topics
  12. Organizational Culture5▲ 16×1 topic
  13. Safety Climate5▲ 73×1 topic
  14. Cardiovascular Disease4▲ 5.0×9 topics
  15. Biomonitoring4▲ 68×2 topics
  16. Environmental Monitoring4▲ 14×4 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome3▲ 5.5×7 topics
  18. DNA Damage3▲ 55×2 topics
  19. Health Impact3▲ 73×2 topics
  20. Particulate Matter3▲ 27×2 topics
  21. BAP1 mutations3▲ 232×1 topic
  22. Bayesian Networks3▲ 44×1 topic
  23. Comet Assay3▲ 253×1 topic
  24. Fault Tree Analysis3▲ 80×1 topic
  25. Genotoxicity Testing3▲ 253×1 topic
  26. Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma3▲ 232×1 topic
  27. Mortality3▲ 6.5×2 topics
  28. Environmental Risk Assessment3▲ 40×2 topics
  29. Air Pollution3▲ 27×2 topics
  30. Occupational Health3▲ 29×3 topics
  31. Environmental Exposure2▲ 32×3 topics
  32. Fatigue2▲ 28×2 topics
  33. Fine Particulate Air Pollution2▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Global Burden of Disease2▲ 13×1 topic
  35. Toxicity2▲ 6.7×6 topics
  36. Occupational Asthma2▲ 322×1 topic
  37. Shift Work2▲ 91×1 topic
  38. Sleep Deprivation2▲ 91×1 topic
  39. Work-Related Exposure2▲ 322×1 topic
  40. Traditional Chinese Medicine2▲ 22×2 topics

Which research topics does Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Occupational Health and Safety Research, Occupational and environmental lung diseases, Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment and Risk and Safety Analysis.

Occupational Health and …5Occupational Health and Safety Research: 5 fractional worksOccupational and environ…3Occupational and environmental lung diseases: 3 fractional worksCarcinogens and Genotoxi…3Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment: 3 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis3Risk and Safety Analysis: 3 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 2 fractional worksSleep and Work-Related Fatigue: 2 fractional worksOccupational exposure an…2Occupational exposure and asthma: 2 fractional worksChemical Safety and Risk Management: 2 fractional worksEffects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals: 2 fractional worksIndoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure: 1 fractional works
Radiological and Ultrasound TechnologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Occupational Health and Safety Research Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 5 works
  2. 2 Occupational and environmental lung diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment Cancer Research 3 works
  4. 4 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 3 works
  5. 5 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  6. 6 Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Occupational exposure and asthma Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  8. 8 Chemical Safety and Risk Management Chemical Health and Safety 2 works
  9. 9 Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  10. 10 Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available67.4%not open32.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.5%domestic only93.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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