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Life-span and Life-course Studies research

Life-span and Life-course Studies is a subfield of Social Sciences. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: duration of life for an organism.

Research works
11k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
2
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Life-span and Life-course Studies

Which countries lead Life-span and Life-course Studies research?

On research quality in 2022-now, Spain, Türkiye and Indonesia rank highest in Life-span and Life-course Studies. By volume, Spain and Indonesia publish the most (573 and 538 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain #1 all time 1.32× excellence · 0.99× journals · 100% breadth 14.6% top 10% · 525 works
  2. 2 Türkiye #6 all time 0.92× excellence · 0.14× journals · 100% breadth 6.5% top 10% · 346 works
  3. 3 Indonesia #8 all time 0.82× excellence · 0.06× journals · 100% breadth 6.6% top 10% · 431 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 3 countries ranked in Life-span and Life-course Studies. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Life-span and Life-course Studies

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 573 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 538 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 397 works
  4. 4 United States 242 works
  5. 5 Mexico 204 works
  6. 6 Colombia 180 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 173 works
  8. 8 India 146 works
  9. 9 Chile 115 works
  10. 10 Argentina 107 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.

Spain: 21.4%Indonesia: 20.1%Türkiye: 14.8%United States: 9.1%6 others listed: 34.5%21%largest
Spain573 · 21.4%Indonesia538 · 20.1%Türkiye397 · 14.8%United States242 · 9.1%6 others listed924 · 34.5%

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

Which institutions lead Life-span and Life-course Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Central University of Ecuador publishes the most Life-span and Life-course Studies research, followed by Universidad de Granada and Binus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Central University of EcuadorEcuador 31 works
  2. 2 Universidad de GranadaSpain 28 works
  3. 3 Binus UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  4. 4 Universidad de MurciaSpain 24 works
  5. 5 Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain 23 works
  6. 6 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 22 works
  7. 7 University of GuayaquilEcuador 21 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 20 works
  9. 9 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 20 works
  10. 10 University of the Basque CountrySpain 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Life-span and Life-course Studies?

Counting only their work in Life-span and Life-course Studies, Pere Lavega Burgués, José Devís‐Devís and Luis Miguel García López have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Pere Lavega Burgués Spain · #2,922,574 worldwide overall 9.3 of 38 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 José Devís‐Devís Spain · #833,442 worldwide overall 8.0 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Luis Miguel García López Spain · #4,547,169 worldwide overall 4.8 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Corey Seemiller United States · #1,458,840 worldwide overall 3.8 of 4 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Mónika Garai-Fodor Hungary · #1,323,276 worldwide overall 4.4 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Jennifer Chicca United States · #2,564,221 worldwide overall 2.7 of 3 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Óscar L. Veiga Spain · #900,163 worldwide overall 3.4 of 10 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Isabel Balaguer Spain · #2,391,970 worldwide overall 3.8 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Melchor Gutiérrez Spain · #1,669,902 worldwide overall 3.8 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Meghan Grace United States · #1,769,455 worldwide overall 3.2 of 3 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Life-span and Life-course Studies alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 38,092 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Life-span and Life-course Studies researchers

What are the most cited papers in Life-span and Life-course Studies?

The most cited paper in Life-span and Life-course Studies is "CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF BODY HAIR GROWTH IN WOMEN" (DAVID G. FERRIMAN, J. D. GALLWEY, 1961), with 2,522 citations. Next come "Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing" (1,630) and "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before" (1,309).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF BODY HAIR GROWTH IN WOMEN DAVID G. FERRIMAN, J. D. GALLWEY · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Nov 1961 2,522
2 Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing Jean M. Twenge, Stacy McIlraith Campbell, Brian James Hoffman et al. · Journal of Management Mar 2010 1,630
3 Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before Jean M. Twenge 4 Apr 2006 1,309
4 Multigeneration Employees: Strategies for Effective Management Betty R. Kupperschmidt · The Health Care Manager Sep 2000 1,012
5 Information technology and Gen Z: The role of teachers, the internet, and technology in the education of young people Andrzej Szymkowiak, Boban Melović, Marina Dabić et al. · Technology in Society 28 Mar 2021 896
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Life-span and Life-course Studies research done?

The largest centres of Life-span and Life-course Studies research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Madrid (Spain), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Bandung (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 99 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 96 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 77 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 64 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 62 works
  6. 6 BudapestHungary 53 works
  7. 7 SantiagoChile 52 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 45 works
  9. 9 SurabayaIndonesia 42 works
  10. 10 BarcelonaSpain 41 works
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Life-span and Life-course Studies research by country

The best places for Life-span and Life-course Studies research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Life-span and Life-course Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Murcia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de València score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, 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%30%mean 18.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Obuda UniversityUniversidad de MurciaUniversitat de Valèn…Universitat Autònoma…
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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.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad de MurciaSpain 79.5- (#1)13.2%21.5×24 -29.5%
2Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 41.4- (#2)6.9%5.1×12 -65.7%
3Universitat de ValènciaSpain 40.1- (#3)12.1%11.3×22 -40.1%
4Obuda UniversityHungary 36.8-26.1%39.5×11 +82.1%
5Universidad de GranadaSpain 35.3- (#4)20.0%13.8×28 -15.4%
6Central University of EcuadorEcuador 34.7-12.4%81.0×31 +75.7%
7Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain 34.0-27.8%33.3×23 -21.5%
8Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 32.0-17.5%11.5×18 +19.5%
9University of Castilla-La ManchaSpain 31.7-18.9%16.9×16 -3.3%
10Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain 30.7-26.8%10.4×9 +42.0%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Life-span and Life-course Studies, country by country

Is Life-span and Life-course Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Generational Differences and Trends.

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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 Life-span and Life-course Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Life-span and Life-course Studies0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Life-span and Life-course Studies 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%Life-span and Life-course Studies10.2% 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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