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Aging and Gerontology Research

Aging and Gerontology Research is a research topic within Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of aging on emotional experience, cognition, and well-being, with a focus on successful aging, ageism, wisdom, and memory. It delves into topics such as the positivity effect in attention and memory, emotional memory in older adults, age-related differences in affect, and the impact of stereotype embodiment. The papers also discuss the role of social relationships, motivation, and subjective well-being in the context of aging.

  • Aging
  • Emotion
  • Successful Aging
  • Ageism
  • Wisdom
  • Memory
  • Subjective Well-being
  • Motivation
  • Social Relationships
  • Cognition
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aging and Gerontology Research

Which countries lead Aging and Gerontology Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 708 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 708 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 332 works
  4. 4 Canada 285 works
  5. 5 Germany 240 works
  6. 6 Australia 212 works
  7. 7 India 193 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 186 works
  9. 9 Japan 162 works
  10. 10 Spain 159 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: 44.3%China: 15.9%United Kingdom: 7.5%Canada: 6.4%6 others listed: 25.9%44%largest
United States1,972 · 44.3%China708 · 15.9%United Kingdom332 · 7.5%Canada285 · 6.4%6 others listed1,153 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Aging and Gerontology Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Aging and Gerontology Research research, followed by Washington University in St. Louis and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 40 works
  2. 2 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 35 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 34 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 29 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 Peking UniversityChina 28 works
  7. 7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 26 works
  9. 9 National University of SingaporeSingapore 26 works
  10. 10 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aging and Gerontology Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aging and Gerontology Research include Guido Kroemer, Ronald C. Kessler and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  8. 8 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Aging and Gerontology Research?

The most cited paper in Aging and Gerontology Research is "Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living" (M. Powell Lawton, Elaine Brody, 1969), with 18,798 citations. Next come "Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report" (15,217) and "Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index." (6,548).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living M. Powell Lawton, Elaine Brody · The Gerontologist Sep 1969 18,798
2 Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report Jerome Albert Yesavage, T. L. Brink, Terence L. Rose et al. · Journal of Psychiatric Research Open access 1982 15,217
3 Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. Ed Diener · American Psychologist 2000 6,548
4 A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys Mary Elizabeth Hughes, Linda J. Waite, Louise C. Hawkley et al. · Research on Aging Open access 20 Sep 2004 4,869
5 Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health Peggy A. Thoits · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Jun 2011 4,128
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Aging and Gerontology Research research done?

The largest centres of Aging and Gerontology Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ramat Gan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 112 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 82 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 68 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 66 works
  6. 6 Hong KongChina 65 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 61 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 58 works
  9. 9 SingaporeSingapore 53 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ramat GanIL · 26.9 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Aging and Gerontology Research?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Singapore, Peking University and Stanford University 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%10%20%mean 16.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityStanford UniversityNational University …Washington Universit…
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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.

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
1National University of SingaporeSingapore 73.918.0%4.0×26 +55.6%
2Peking UniversityChina 69.322.6%2.5×28 +104.5%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 68.019.5%2.7×22 +51.5%
4Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 63.712.3%8.9×35 +58.6%
5International Institute for Population SciencesIndia 61.122.5%70.0×12 +208.6%
6University of MichiganUnited States 60.713.4%4.1×34 +3.3%
7Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 60.711.6%17.9×26 +27.4%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 59.912.9%1.7×29 +41.6%
9University of British ColumbiaCanada 59.613.0%3.6×24 +61.3%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 59.216.3%3.8×27 +11.1%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Aging and Gerontology Research, country by country

Is Aging and Gerontology Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Aging and Gerontology Research.

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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 Aging and Gerontology Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Aging and Gerontology Research 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.

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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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