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Disability Rights and Representation

Disability Rights and Representation is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents an interdisciplinary study of disability and society, encompassing topics such as the social model of disability, epidemiological studies, intersectionality, human rights, poverty, feminist theory, identity, inclusion, ableism, and the global South. The papers critically examine the experiences, challenges, and rights of individuals with disabilities from various perspectives and advocate for a more inclusive and equitable society.

  • Social Model of Disability
  • Epidemiological Study
  • Intersectionality
  • Human Rights
  • Poverty
  • Feminist Theory
  • Identity
  • Inclusion
  • Ableism
  • Global South
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+59%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Disability Rights and Representation

Which countries lead Disability Rights and Representation research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (882 and 465 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 882 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 465 works
  3. 3 Canada 262 works
  4. 4 Australia 226 works
  5. 5 India 208 works
  6. 6 South Africa 139 works
  7. 7 China 113 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 103 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 78 works
  10. 10 Spain 75 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: 34.6%United Kingdom: 18.2%Canada: 10.3%Australia: 8.8%6 others listed: 28.1%35%largest
United States882 · 34.6%United Kingdom465 · 18.2%Canada262 · 10.3%Australia226 · 8.8%6 others listed716 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Disability Rights and Representation research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Disability Rights and Representation research, followed by Stellenbosch University and The University of Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 39 works
  2. 2 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 22 works
  3. 3 The University of SydneyAustralia 22 works
  4. 4 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 20 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 20 works
  6. 6 University of CalgaryCanada 19 works
  7. 7 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 17 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 16 works
  9. 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 16 works
  10. 10 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Disability Rights and Representation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Disability Rights and Representation include Ali H. Mokdad and Elie A. Akl.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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 Rights and Representation?

The most cited paper in Disability Rights and Representation is "Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" (Alize J Ferrari et al., 2024), with 4,996 citations. Next come "Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice" (2,382) and "The social model of disability: thirty years on" (1,624).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Alize J Ferrari et al. · The Lancet Open access1,328 authors 17 Apr 2024 4,996
2 Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice MICHAEL J. OLIVER 13 Nov 1995 2,382
3 The social model of disability: thirty years on Mike Oliver · Disability & Society 22 Jul 2013 1,624
4 Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers Kristen Bottema‐Beutel, Steven K. Kapp, Jessica Nina Lester et al. · Autism in Adulthood Open access 3 Sep 2020 1,258
5 Prevalence and risk of violence against children with disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies Lisa Jones, Mark A Bellis, Sara K. Wood et al. · The Lancet ReviewOpen access 12 Jul 2012 1,236
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Where is Disability Rights and Representation research done?

The largest centres of Disability Rights and Representation research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stellenbosch.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 101 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 70 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 50 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 45 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 37 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 34 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 30 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 27 works
  10. 10 BrisbaneAustralia 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StellenboschZA · 21.8 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Disability Rights and Representation?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Toronto and Stellenbosch 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%mean 16.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →London School of Hyg…Stellenbosch Univers…University College L…University of Toronto
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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
1London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 78.221.5%26.7×14 +9.9%
2University of TorontoCanada 72.414.2%5.7×39 +15.3%
3Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 64.315.8%17.2×22 +34.4%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 61.815.0%3.7×20 +35.8%
5University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 61.415.6%8.4×15 +53.3%
6Brandeis UniversityUnited States 60.923.1%32.6×8 +54.0%
7University of British ColumbiaCanada 58.216.4%4.0×16 +101.2%
8University of SussexUnited Kingdom 57.322.9%9.9×8 +538.6%
9The University of SydneyAustralia 56.710.7%5.2×22 +28.1%
10Trinity College DublinIreland 56.414.0%8.6×12 +22.3%

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 Rights and Representation, country by country

Is Disability Rights and Representation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Disability Rights and Representation.

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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 Rights and Representation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Disability Rights and Representation 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 Rights and Representation10.2% 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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