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Employment and Welfare Studies

Employment and Welfare Studies is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 56k 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 explores the impact of precarious employment, unemployment, and economic crises on mental and physical health. It investigates the associations between job insecurity, temporary employment, and austerity measures with various health outcomes, including mental health disorders, mortality, and overall well-being. The research emphasizes the social determinants of health within the context of labor market dynamics and economic fluctuations.

  • Precarious Employment
  • Unemployment
  • Mental Health
  • Economic Crisis
  • Job Insecurity
  • Health Outcomes
  • Temporary Employment
  • Austerity Measures
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Labor Market
Research works
56k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Employment and Welfare Studies

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Employment and Welfare Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.4k works
  3. 3 China 870 works
  4. 4 Germany 707 works
  5. 5 India 689 works
  6. 6 Australia 603 works
  7. 7 Canada 551 works
  8. 8 Spain 445 works
  9. 9 Italy 443 works
  10. 10 France 371 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: 29.5%United Kingdom: 16.0%China: 10.1%Germany: 8.2%6 others listed: 36.1%30%largest
United States2,537 · 29.5%United Kingdom1,370 · 16.0%China870 · 10.1%Germany707 · 8.2%6 others listed3,102 · 36.1%

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

Which institutions lead Employment and Welfare Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Employment and Welfare Studies research, followed by University of Oxford and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 78 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 62 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 61 works
  5. 5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 61 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  7. 7 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 58 works
  8. 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 49 works
  9. 9 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  10. 10 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Employment and Welfare Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Employment and Welfare Studies include Ahmedin Jemal, Christopher J L Murray and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  10. 10 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k 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 Employment and Welfare Studies?

The most cited paper in Employment and Welfare Studies is "The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art" (Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti, 2007), with 12,685 citations. Next come "Conceptualizing Stigma" (8,754) and "Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review" (7,360).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti · Journal of Managerial Psychology Open access 15 Mar 2007 12,685
2 Conceptualizing Stigma Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 2001 8,754
3 Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review Julianne Holt‐Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, J. Bradley Layton · PLoS Medicine Open access 27 Jul 2010 7,360
4 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness Richard V. Adkisson · The Social Science Journal 24 Nov 2008 5,678
5 SOCIAL NETWORKS, HOST RESISTANCE, AND MORTALITY: A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY RESIDENTS Lisa F. Berkman, S. Leonard Syme · American Journal of Epidemiology Feb 1979 5,396
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Where is Employment and Welfare Studies research done?

The largest centres of Employment and Welfare Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nuremberg, London and Roskilde.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 369 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 173 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 157 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 150 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 146 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 139 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 130 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 120 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 118 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 115 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NurembergDE · 27.5 works17×
  2. London22.8 works11×
  3. RoskildeDK · 22.0 works10×
  4. TilburgNL · 24.4 works10.0×
  5. ColchesterGB · 22.0 works8.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Employment and Welfare Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Employment and Welfare Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Leeds and University College London 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 17.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LeedsUniversity of GlasgowUniversity of OxfordUniversity College L…
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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 OxfordUnited Kingdom 75.714.8%3.9×66 +13.0%
2University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 71.224.2%4.9×34 +35.9%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 70.412.1%3.1×60 +6.1%
4University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 69.815.8%5.9×47 +53.3%
5University of TorontoCanada 69.714.4%2.5×62 +11.4%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 68.817.8%4.2×43 +31.7%
7Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 66.623.2%4.6×27 +9.5%
8University of MichiganUnited States 64.716.5%2.2×40 +2.1%
9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 64.522.8%1.8×22 +22.0%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 63.814.3%3.3×49 +17.4%

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 Employment and Welfare Studies, country by country

Is Employment and Welfare Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Employment and Welfare Studies.

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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 Employment and Welfare Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.069% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Employment and Welfare Studies0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Employment and Welfare Studies 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%Employment and Welfare Studies10.1% 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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