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Safety Research research

Safety Research is a subfield of Social Sciences. Science Explorer counts 251k research works in it since 1950. 21.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: research discipline.

Research works
251k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
55k
per year above
Top-10% rate
21.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
19
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+30%
the tick is no change

What is Safety Research research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2019–23, its most used keywords are Fairness, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Algorithmic Bias, Ethics, Economic Experiments. Gaining share since 2009–13: Mixed Methods, Research, Algorithmic Bias, Ethics, Economic Development. Losing share: Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, Combat Sports, Martial Arts.

▲ gaining share of this field◆ holding its share▼ losing share

Size is the world's fractional works in 2019–23 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2009–13. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Fairness14k▲ 1.52×2 topics
  2. Conditional Cash Transfers9,126◆ 1.06×1 topic
  3. School Subsidies9,126◆ 1.06×1 topic
  4. Algorithmic Bias7,886▲ 8.2×1 topic
  5. Ethics7,886▲ 8.2×1 topic
  6. Economic Experiments6,501▼ 0.77×1 topic
  7. Social Preferences6,501▼ 0.77×1 topic
  8. Extracurricular Activities4,882◆ 1.11×1 topic
  9. Youth Development Programs4,882◆ 1.11×1 topic
  10. Career Development4,212▲ 1.67×1 topic
  11. Social Cognitive Theory4,212▲ 1.67×1 topic
  12. Self-Determination3,881▲ 1.24×1 topic
  13. Universal Design for Learning3,881▲ 1.24×1 topic
  14. Child Welfare3,824▼ 0.80×1 topic
  15. Foster Care3,824▼ 0.80×1 topic
  16. Poverty3,048◆ 1.06×2 topics
  17. Academic Dishonesty2,907▲ 1.22×1 topic
  18. Plagiarism2,907▲ 1.22×1 topic
  19. Epidemiological Study2,725▲ 1.28×1 topic
  20. Social Model of Disability2,725▲ 1.28×1 topic
  21. Globalization2,605▼ 0.60×2 topics
  22. Labor Market2,282▼ 0.63×1 topic
  23. Social Policy2,282▼ 0.63×1 topic
  24. Digital Literacy1,965▲ 1.74×1 topic
  25. Thematic Analysis1,965▲ 1.74×1 topic
  26. Mixed Methods1,667▲ 11×1 topic
  27. Research1,667▲ 11×1 topic
  28. Combat Sports1,604▼ 0.32×1 topic
  29. Martial Arts1,604▼ 0.32×1 topic
  30. Economic Development1,549▲ 6.4×1 topic
  31. University Impact1,549▲ 6.4×1 topic
  32. Chemical Imaging1,356▼ 0.80×1 topic
  33. Fingermark Residue1,356▼ 0.80×1 topic
  34. Communities of Practice1,164▼ 0.59×1 topic
  35. Knowledge Sharing1,164▼ 0.59×1 topic
  36. Agricultural Economics1,087▼ 0.17×1 topic
  37. Rural Development1,087▼ 0.17×1 topic
  38. Curriculum Development1,073▼ 0.74×1 topic
  39. Safety Awareness1,073▼ 0.74×1 topic
  40. Economic Inequality323▼ 0.44×1 topic

Which countries lead Safety Research research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, the United States, the United Kingdom and China rank highest in Safety Research. By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (14k and 3.3k works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States · #1 all time 21.5% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom · #2 all time 28.2% top 10% · 3.3k works
  3. 3 China · #5 all time 26.7% top 10% · 3.2k works
  4. 4 Germany · #3 all time 27.6% top 10% · 2k works
  5. 5 Australia · #4 all time 31.3% top 10% · 1.7k works
  6. 6 India · #11 all time 13.8% top 10% · 3k works
  7. 7 Canada · #6 all time 23.6% top 10% · 1.8k works
  8. 8 Netherlands · #7 all time 33.9% top 10% · 954 works
  9. 9 Spain · #10 all time 18.6% top 10% · 1.7k works
  10. 10 Italy · #9 all time 23.9% top 10% · 1.2k works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 52 countries ranked in Safety Research. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Safety Research

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 14k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 3.3k works
  3. 3 China 3.2k works
  4. 4 India 3k works
  5. 5 Germany 2k works
  6. 6 Poland 1.9k works
  7. 7 Canada 1.8k works
  8. 8 Spain 1.7k works
  9. 9 Australia 1.7k works
  10. 10 Brazil 1.6k 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.

United States: 40.6%United Kingdom: 9.9%China: 9.3%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 31.3%41%largest
United States14k · 40.6%United Kingdom3,342 · 9.9%China3,157 · 9.3%India2,996 · 8.9%6 others listed11k · 31.3%

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

Which institutions lead Safety Research research?

University of Oxford (United Kingdom) ranks first in Safety Research on research quality in 2022–2025, followed by Carnegie Mellon University and University College London.

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom · Oxford · #1 all time 36.1% top 10% · 144 works
  2. 2 Carnegie Mellon University United States · Pittsburgh · #22 all time 42.7% top 10% · 89 works
  3. 3 University College London United Kingdom · London · #20 all time 34.0% top 10% · 144 works
  4. 4 Monash University Australia · Melbourne · #36 all time 38.0% top 10% · 98 works
  5. 5 University of Toronto Canada · Toronto · #26 all time 25.4% top 10% · 170 works
  6. 6 University of Michigan United States · Ann Arbor · #4 all time 28.2% top 10% · 137 works
  7. 7 Stanford University United States · Stanford · #2 all time 34.1% top 10% · 106 works
  8. 8 University of Washington United States · Seattle · #9 all time 31.9% top 10% · 113 works
  9. 9 Delft University of Technology Netherlands · Delft · #72 all time 41.4% top 10% · 76 works
  10. 10 University of Amsterdam Netherlands · Amsterdam · #27 all time 39.8% top 10% · 93 works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 92 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Safety Research.

Top 100 Safety Research institutions

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 175 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 173 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 170 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 144 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 144 works
  6. 6 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 142 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 137 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 137 works
  9. 9 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 137 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 135 works

Who are the leading researchers in Safety Research?

Among the most productive authors in Safety Research, Amartya Sen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta and Martin McKee rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  2. 2 Zulfiqar A Bhutta Pakistan · #29 worldwide 7k citations · 258 works
  3. 3 Martin McKee United Kingdom · #78 worldwide 5.4k citations · 369 works
  4. 4 Richard M. Ryan United States · #153 worldwide 10k citations · 118 works
  5. 5 Anil K. Jain United States · #178 worldwide 6.3k citations · 275 works
  6. 6 Jean Tirole France · #189 worldwide 4.4k citations · 118 works
  7. 7 Charles R. Newton Kenya · #226 worldwide 3.8k citations · 117 works
  8. 8 Manuel Castells United States · #259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 160 works
  9. 9 Paul Slovic United States · #421 worldwide 3.5k citations · 119 works
  10. 10 George Patton Australia · #435 worldwide 4.6k citations · 104 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 4,152 highest-output authors in Safety Research. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Safety Research researchers

Where is Safety Research research done?

The largest centres of Safety Research research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kakamega.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 850 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 650 works
  3. 3 New York United States 548 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 498 works
  5. 5 Warsaw Poland 452 works
  6. 6 Moscow Russia 405 works
  7. 7 Madrid Spain 396 works
  8. 8 Toronto Canada 360 works
  9. 9 Melbourne Australia 348 works
  10. 10 Sydney Australia 337 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KakamegaKE · 33.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Safety Research than the world average.

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Safety Research research by country

The best places for Safety Research research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Safety Research?

Among universities, judged by research, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and University College London 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%20%40%mean 28.11%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: 175, 10.9%Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw: 142, 9.9%University College London: 144, 34.0%University of Johannesburg: 135, 28.1%Carnegie Mellon University: 89, 42.7%University of Amsterdam: 93, 39.8%Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków: 123, 11.7%University of Oxford: 144, 36.1%The University of Dodoma: 38, 25.1%Utrecht University: 78, 42.8%University College L…University of Johann…John Paul II Catholi…Cardinal Stefan Wysz…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 66.910.9%18.4×175 +243.6%
2 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 57.79.9%19.2×142 +88.3%
3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.334.0%1.9×144 +85.1%
4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 55.028.1%3.8×135 +93.4%
5 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 54.742.7%3.9×89 +38.8%
6 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 54.439.8%3.2×93 +44.0%
7 Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakówPoland 54.211.7%33.9×123 +50.7%
8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.036.1%2.0×144 +47.2%
9 The University of DodomaTanzania 54.025.1%7.7×38 +227.5%
10 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 53.942.8%2.6×78 +66.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Safety Research research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 30% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Social impacts of COVID-19, Human Resources and Workforce and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI.

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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.

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.

  1. Social impacts of COVID-19+1985%
  2. Human Resources and Workforce+944%
  3. Ethics and Social Impacts of AI+594%
  4. Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education+560%
  5. Career Development and Diversity+164%
  6. Disability Rights and Representation+155%
  7. Agricultural economics and policies-13%
  8. Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education-35%
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Growth in output from 2005–09 to 2015–19. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Safety Research include?

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 33k fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 28k fractional worksExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies: 27k fractional worksChild Welfare and Adoption: 19k fractional worksYouth Development and Social Support: 18k fractional worksAgricultural economics and policies: 17k fractional worksDisability Education and Employment: 16k fractional worksCareer Development and D…16kCareer Development and Diversity: 16k fractional worksEmployment, Labor, and Gender Studies: 13k fractional worksDisability Rights and Representation: 11k fractional worksAcademic integrity and plagiarism: 10k fractional worksMartial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education: 10k fractional works

Area is fractional works in that topic. Every name below is a page of its own.