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Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues

Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 55k 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 various aspects of elderly care, aging population, societal impact, and policy implications. It covers topics such as challenges in providing care for the elderly, changing patterns of youth employment in urban areas, intergenerational relationships, residential mobility during retirement, and the impact of cultures on family support for the elderly. The papers also discuss the implications of aging on healthcare systems, social support structures, and the overall quality of life for the elderly population.

  • Elderly
  • Aging
  • Caregiving
  • Social Support
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement
  • Quality of Life
  • Community Living
  • Societal Impact
  • Policy Implications
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 2.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 2.1k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 761 works
  4. 4 Australia 611 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 478 works
  6. 6 India 464 works
  7. 7 China 372 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 282 works
  9. 9 Canada 275 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 244 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.

France: 29.5%United States: 26.7%Indonesia: 9.6%Australia: 7.7%6 others listed: 26.5%30%largest
France2,353 · 29.5%United States2,130 · 26.7%Indonesia761 · 9.6%Australia611 · 7.7%6 others listed2,115 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation publishes the most Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency FoundationUnited States 763 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 644 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 594 works
  4. 4 Herbalife (Australia)Australia 535 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 284 works
  6. 6 Université de LyonFrance 97 works
  7. 7 Université de LorraineFrance 61 works
  8. 8 Universitas Sulawesi TenggaraIndonesia 57 works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 57 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues include David Moher, Yoshua Bengio and Rob Knight.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  3. 3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  6. 6 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k 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, Elder Care, and Social Issues?

The most cited paper in Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues is "Dementia prevention, intervention, and care" (Gill Livingston et al., 2017), with 6,271 citations. Next come "The World Report on Ageing and Health" (2,904) and "The global burden of neurological disorders: translating evidence into policy" (1,310).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dementia prevention, intervention, and care Gill Livingston et al. · The Lancet 20 Jul 2017 6,271
2 The World Report on Ageing and Health John Beard, Alana M. Officer, Andrew Cassels · The Gerontologist 18 Mar 2016 2,904
3 The global burden of neurological disorders: translating evidence into policy Valery L. Feigin, Theo Vos, Emma L. Nichols et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access 5 Dec 2019 1,310
4 The prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Shanghai, China: Impact of age, gender, and education Mingyuan Zhang, Robert Katzman, David P. Salmon et al. · Annals of Neurology Apr 1990 1,080
5 A Genetic Algorithm for Function Optimization: A Matlab Implementation Christopher R. Houck, Jeffery A. Joines, Michael G. Kay 1996 832
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research done?

The largest centres of Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research in 2022-now are Sebastopol (United States), Paris (France), Weatherford (United States) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sebastopol, Camerton and Bondowoso.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SebastopolUnited States 763 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 690 works
  3. 3 WeatherfordUnited States 594 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 547 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 288 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 210 works
  7. 7 LyonFrance 142 works
  8. 8 SamarkandUzbekistan 126 works
  9. 9 ToulouseFrance 103 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 85 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SebastopolUS · 763.0 works787×
  2. CamertonGB · 23.0 works652×
  3. BondowosoID · 36.2 works192×
  4. BristolUS · 26.8 works79×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Université de Yaoundé I and Cheikh Anta Diop University score highest, combining citation 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 16.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →HES-SO University of…Université de Yaound…Cheikh Anta Diop Uni…Weatherford College
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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.

Citation 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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 65.29.7%52.5×594 +11613.1%
2Université de Yaoundé ICameroon 56.620.7%9.5×12 +48.8%
3Cheikh Anta Diop UniversitySenegal 56.414.5%9.4×9 +87.3%
4HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western SwitzerlandSwitzerland 54.326.6%11.0×9 -6.3%
5Université d'Abomey-CalaviBenin 50.715.4%11.7×9 +90.7%
6Kurgan State UniversityRussia 49.218.9%29.2×11 +267.0%
7Université de SherbrookeCanada 47.819.4%6.4×12 -11.8%
8University of LoméTogo 47.314.1%25.7×12 +194.8%
9King UniversityUnited States 46.99.7%100.8×27 -
10Université Paris CitéFrance 46.414.9%8.6×55 -44.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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, Elder Care, and Social Issues, country by country

Is Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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, Elder Care, and Social Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues 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%Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues9.6% 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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