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Disability Education and Employment

Disability Education and Employment is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1952. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the transition to employment for individuals with disabilities, exploring factors such as self-determination, universal design for learning, employment outcomes, transition planning, post-school success, disability disclosure, workplace accommodations, inclusive higher education, quality of life, and vocational rehabilitation.

  • Self-Determination
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Employment Outcomes
  • Transition Planning
  • Post-School Success
  • Disability Disclosure
  • Workplace Accommodations
  • Inclusive Higher Education
  • Quality of Life
  • Vocational Rehabilitation
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.6k
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
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Disability Education and Employment

Which countries lead Disability Education and Employment research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.7k and 223 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 223 works
  3. 3 Canada 200 works
  4. 4 Australia 160 works
  5. 5 Spain 134 works
  6. 6 India 125 works
  7. 7 Brazil 104 works
  8. 8 South Africa 99 works
  9. 9 China 97 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 91 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: 57.4%United Kingdom: 7.7%Canada: 6.9%Australia: 5.5%6 others listed: 22.5%57%largest
United States1,662 · 57.4%United Kingdom223 · 7.7%Canada200 · 6.9%Australia160 · 5.5%6 others listed650 · 22.5%

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

Which institutions lead Disability Education and Employment research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Kansas publishes the most Disability Education and Employment research, followed by Vanderbilt University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of KansasUnited States 39 works
  2. 2 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 26 works
  3. 3 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 24 works
  4. 4 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 23 works
  5. 5 Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
  7. 7 Universidad de SevillaSpain 19 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at CharlotteUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 19 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Disability Education and Employment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Disability Education and Employment include Ali H. Mokdad, Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  6. 6 Harvey Whiteford Australia 222k citations
  7. 7 Carol Brayne United Kingdom 220k 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 Disability Education and Employment?

The most cited paper in Disability Education and Employment is "Teachers' attitudes towards integration / inclusion: a review of the literature" (Elias Avramidis, Brahm Norwich, 2002), with 2,023 citations. Next come "The social model of disability: thirty years on" (1,624) and "Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition" (1,511).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Teachers' attitudes towards integration / inclusion: a review of the literature Elias Avramidis, Brahm Norwich · European Journal of Special Needs Education Open access Jun 2002 2,023
2 The social model of disability: thirty years on Mike Oliver · Disability & Society 22 Jul 2013 1,624
3 Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition John P. Bean · Research in Higher Education 1980 1,511
4 Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability Subini Ancy Annamma, David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri · Race Ethnicity and Education 30 Oct 2012 1,258
5 Using self‐report questionnaires in OB research: A comment on the use of a controversial method Paul E. Spector · Journal of Organizational Behavior Sep 1994 1,107
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Where is Disability Education and Employment research done?

The largest centres of Disability Education and Employment research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lawrence and Richmond.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 45 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 39 works
  5. 5 LawrenceUnited States 38 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 32 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 32 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 31 works
  9. 9 PretoriaSouth Africa 29 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LawrenceUS · 38.2 works32×
  2. RichmondUS · 25.5 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Disability Education and Employment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Disability Education and Employment?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Sevilla, Vanderbilt University and Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz 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%30%mean 16.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de SevillaPrince Sattam Bin Ab…Vanderbilt UniversityUniversity of Kansas
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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
1Universidad de SevillaSpain 78.627.7%9.3×19 +31.0%
2Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 69.614.6%9.9×26 +32.9%
3Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.520.2%15.1×14 +42.8%
4University of KansasUnited States 60.912.0%21.5×39 -22.8%
5University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 56.912.0%7.7×24 +41.4%
6University of TorontoCanada 55.917.8%3.0×22 +0.4%
7University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 55.810.7%6.9×23 +44.4%
8Deakin UniversityAustralia 52.824.6%5.0×8 +55.2%
9Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 52.211.7%18.7×23 -2.2%
10The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 50.614.4%5.6×17 +11.5%

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 Disability Education and Employment, country by country

Is Disability Education and Employment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Disability Education and Employment.

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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 Disability Education and Employment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Disability Education and Employment0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Disability Education and Employment 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%Disability Education and Employment10.3% 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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