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Agriculture and Farm Safety

Agriculture and Farm Safety is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of farming on the health and safety of individuals, with a focus on mental health, agricultural injuries, all-terrain vehicle accidents, and the well-being of farm workers. It addresses the prevalence of depression, stress, and anxiety among farmers, as well as the risk factors and preventive measures for farm-related injuries. Additionally, it delves into the unique challenges faced by rural communities and the implications for occupational health in agricultural settings.

  • Farm Injuries
  • Mental Health
  • Agricultural Safety
  • All-Terrain Vehicles
  • Occupational Health
  • Rural Communities
  • Depression
  • Youth Injuries
  • Farm Workers
  • Suicide
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agriculture and Farm Safety

Which countries lead Agriculture and Farm Safety research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (778 and 229 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 778 works
  2. 2 India 229 works
  3. 3 China 144 works
  4. 4 Australia 108 works
  5. 5 Canada 103 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 102 works
  7. 7 Brazil 89 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 71 works
  9. 9 Italy 60 works
  10. 10 Japan 51 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: 44.9%India: 13.2%China: 8.3%Australia: 6.2%6 others listed: 27.4%45%largest
United States778 · 44.9%India229 · 13.2%China144 · 8.3%Australia108 · 6.2%6 others listed475 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture and Farm Safety research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Florida publishes the most Agriculture and Farm Safety research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and The Ohio State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of FloridaUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 21 works
  3. 3 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 University of California, DavisUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 University of GuelphCanada 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agriculture and Farm Safety?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agriculture and Farm Safety include Dan J. Stein, Rakhi Dandona and Ted R. Miller.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  2. 2 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k citations
  3. 3 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 G Anil Kumar United States 244k 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 Agriculture and Farm Safety?

The most cited paper in Agriculture and Farm Safety is "Exposing some important barriers to health care access in the rural USA" (Nathan T. Douthit, Sakal Kiv, Tzvi Dwolatzky et al., 2015), with 1,203 citations. Next come "Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children" (956) and "Chronic Pain in a Geographically Defined General Population" (704).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exposing some important barriers to health care access in the rural USA Nathan T. Douthit, Sakal Kiv, Tzvi Dwolatzky et al. · Public Health 28 May 2015 1,203
2 Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children Michelle M. Stein, Cara Lynn Hrusch, Justyna Gozdz et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 3 Aug 2016 956
3 Chronic Pain in a Geographically Defined General Population H. Ingemar Andersson, Göran Ejlertsson, Ido Leden et al. · Clinical Journal of Pain Sep 1993 704
4 Predicting Forage Quality by Infrared Replectance Spectroscopy Karl H. Norris, Robert F. Barnes, John Edmund Moore et al. · Journal of Animal Science Oct 1976 672
5 Global Estimates of the Burden of Injury and Illness at Work in 2012 Jukka Takala, Päivi Hämäläinen, Kaija Leena Saarela et al. · Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Open access 12 Nov 2013 557
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Where is Agriculture and Farm Safety research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture and Farm Safety research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Gainesville (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gainesville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 31 works
  2. 2 GainesvilleUnited States 26 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 24 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  5. 5 ColumbusUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 17 works
  8. 8 DavisUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GainesvilleUS · 26.1 works9.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Agriculture and Farm Safety?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Guelph, University of California, Davis and The University of Melbourne 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 15.15%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Me…University of GuelphUniversity of Califo…University of Florida
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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
1University of GuelphCanada 74.024.9%17.6×11 +30.1%
2University of California, DavisUnited States 73.022.6%8.5×15 +53.5%
3The University of MelbourneAustralia 60.126.2%3.5×8 +31.5%
4University of FloridaUnited States 57.74.3%11.2×26 +8.5%
5Massey UniversityNew Zealand 50.112.2%23.0×9 +19.3%
6The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 49.67.4%7.2×19 +22.5%
7Colorado State UniversityUnited States 48.611.8%15.7×12 +9.5%
8University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 47.015.0%6.1×11 +149.0%
9University of MichiganUnited States 40.519.1%2.5×8 +62.2%
10West Virginia UniversityUnited States 34.98.0%13.7×9 +69.3%

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 Agriculture and Farm Safety, country by country

Is Agriculture and Farm Safety research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agriculture and Farm Safety.

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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 Agriculture and Farm Safety as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Agriculture and Farm Safety 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%Agriculture and Farm Safety10.5% 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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