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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. 29.3% 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%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
29.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+47%
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Which countries lead Disability Education and Employment research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.5k and 190 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 190 works
  3. 3 Canada 178 works
  4. 4 Australia 141 works
  5. 5 Spain 111 works
  6. 6 India 100 works
  7. 7 South Africa 92 works
  8. 8 Brazil 89 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 70 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 65 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: 59.0%United Kingdom: 7.5%Canada: 7.0%Australia: 5.6%6 others listed: 20.9%59%largest
United States1,492 · 59.0%United Kingdom190 · 7.5%Canada178 · 7.0%Australia141 · 5.6%6 others listed528 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Disability Education and Employment research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Kansas publishes the most Disability Education and Employment research, followed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Vanderbilt University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of KansasUnited States 38 works
  2. 2 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at CharlotteUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 19 works
  7. 7 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 18 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SevillaSpain 16 works
  9. 9 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works

Where is Disability Education and Employment research done?

The largest centres of Disability Education and Employment research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Lawrence (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lawrence and Richmond.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 42 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C. United States 41 works
  3. 3 Lawrence United States 38 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 35 works
  5. 5 Toronto Canada 35 works
  6. 6 Sydney Australia 30 works
  7. 7 Pretoria South Africa 27 works
  8. 8 Melbourne Australia 26 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 26 works
  10. 10 Chicago United States 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LawrenceUS · 37.5 works35×
  2. RichmondUS · 22.7 works12×
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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, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Universidad de Sevilla and University of Kansas 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%25%50%mean 31.92%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University: 10, 57.2%Universidad de Sevilla: 16, 44.9%University of Kansas: 38, 26.3%Vanderbilt University: 20, 34.1%Michigan State University: 15, 35.2%Virginia Commonwealth University: 20, 28.6%George Mason University: 13, 23.0%University of South Africa: 18, 21.1%Trinity College Dublin: 9, 24.0%Mississippi State University: 10, 24.8%Prince Sattam Bin Ab…Universidad de SevillaVanderbilt UniversityUniversity of Kansas
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 74.057.2%11.3×10 —
2 Universidad de SevillaSpain 69.644.9%8.8×16 +492.8%
3 University of KansasUnited States 65.226.3%35.2×38 +121.7%
4 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 56.734.1%14.6×20 +27.7%
5 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 51.835.2%5.8×15 +236.4%
6 Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 50.728.6%17.9×20 -3.5%
7 George Mason UniversityUnited States 49.023.0%11.6×13 +99.7%
8 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 47.121.1%11.5×18 +33.3%
9 Trinity College DublinIreland 46.724.0%8.1×9 +168.5%
10 Mississippi State UniversityUnited States 46.524.8%14.9×10 +98.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Disability Education and Employment research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Disability Education and Employment.

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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.