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Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1954. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the psychological effects of social exclusion, including ostracism, mortality salience, and the impact on self-esteem. It delves into neural responses to social pain, emotional reactions to rejection, and the role of terror management theory in understanding human behavior. The research also investigates the influence of social exclusion on cognitive processes, interpersonal relationships, and prosocial behavior.

  • Social Exclusion
  • Ostracism
  • Mortality Salience
  • Self-Esteem
  • Neural Responses
  • Terror Management Theory
  • Emotional Reactions
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Cognitive Processes
  • Prosocial Behavior
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Which countries lead Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (753 and 456 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 753 works
  2. 2 China 456 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 186 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 170 works
  5. 5 Germany 134 works
  6. 6 India 110 works
  7. 7 Canada 90 works
  8. 8 Iran 86 works
  9. 9 Australia 82 works
  10. 10 Italy 77 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: 35.1%China: 21.3%Türkiye: 8.7%United Kingdom: 7.9%6 others listed: 27.0%35%largest
United States753 · 35.1%China456 · 21.3%Türkiye186 · 8.7%United Kingdom170 · 7.9%6 others listed580 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research, followed by University of Richmond and Renmin University of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 21 works
  2. 2 University of RichmondUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Renmin University of ChinaChina 14 works
  4. 4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 11 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 10 works
  6. 6 University of ChicagoUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 10 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 9 works
  9. 9 The University of SydneyAustralia 9 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion include George Davey Smith, Richard M. Ryan and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k 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 Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion?

The most cited paper in Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion is "The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation." (Roy Frederick Baumeister, Mark R. Leary, 1995), with 21,989 citations. Next come "On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being" (11,546) and "High Self‐Control Predicts Good Adjustment, Less Pathology, Better Grades, and Interpersonal Success" (6,649).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Roy Frederick Baumeister, Mark R. Leary · Psychological Bulletin May 1995 21,989
2 On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 2001 11,546
3 High Self‐Control Predicts Good Adjustment, Less Pathology, Better Grades, and Interpersonal Success June Price Tangney, Roy Frederick Baumeister, Angie Luzio Boone · Journal of Personality 23 Feb 2004 6,649
4 Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein · Annual Review of Psychology Review 27 Jan 2004 6,105
5 Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. John T. Jost, Jack Glaser, Arie W. Kruglanski et al. · Psychological Bulletin 2003 4,990
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Where is Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research done?

The largest centres of Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Istanbul (Türkiye) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 71 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 37 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 36 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 31 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 29 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 26 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 23 works
  10. 10 WarsawPoland 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion?

Among universities, judged by research, Renmin University of China, The University of Sydney and University of Chicago 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%mean 8.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Renmin University of…The University of Sy…Beijing Normal Unive…University of Chicago
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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
1Renmin University of ChinaChina 77.916.2%15.5×14 +127.3%
2The University of SydneyAustralia 63.715.1%2.6×9 +16.8%
3University of ChicagoUnited States 60.85.0%4.2×10 +94.7%
4Beijing Normal UniversityChina 57.79.7%4.9×11 +122.2%
5University of RichmondUnited States 57.55.8%62.8×14 -
6Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 52.27.5%13.1×10 +70.6%
7University of TorontoCanada 50.512.3%1.6×9 -6.6%
8Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 49.10.0%4.6×21 +51.6%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 47.55.6%0.9×8 +3.4%
10University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 44.76.0%2.1×10 +11.5%

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 Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, country by country

Is Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion.

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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 Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion 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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