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Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies

Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to labor markets, social policies, work-life balance, employment relations, and the impact of globalization on the workforce. It delves into issues such as precarious work, gender equality in the workplace, the role of trade unions, and the challenges of achieving work-life balance in modern economies.

  • Labor Market
  • Social Policy
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Employment Relations
  • Globalization
  • Gender Equality
  • Precarious Work
  • Welfare State
  • Trade Unions
  • Flexibility
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies

Which countries lead Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (674 and 285 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 674 works
  2. 2 Mexico 285 works
  3. 3 Argentina 181 works
  4. 4 Colombia 133 works
  5. 5 Chile 124 works
  6. 6 Ecuador 84 works
  7. 7 United States 75 works
  8. 8 Peru 73 works
  9. 9 Brazil 71 works
  10. 10 France 48 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.

Spain: 38.5%Mexico: 16.3%Argentina: 10.4%Colombia: 7.6%6 others listed: 27.2%39%largest
Spain674 · 38.5%Mexico285 · 16.3%Argentina181 · 10.4%Colombia133 · 7.6%6 others listed476 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research, followed by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universitat de València.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 64 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 44 works
  3. 3 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 31 works
  4. 4 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 27 works
  5. 5 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 26 works
  6. 6 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 24 works
  7. 7 Universidad de MurciaSpain 23 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 22 works
  9. 9 Instituto Nacional de Seguridad y Salud en el TrabajoSpain 20 works
  10. 10 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán Colombia 216k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  4. 4 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  6. 6 Salvador Moncada United Kingdom 152k citations
  7. 7 Gary S. Becker United States 148k citations
  8. 8 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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, Labor, and Gender Studies?

The most cited paper in Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies is "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for ‘the woman's voice’" (María C. Lugones, Elizabeth V. Spelman, María C. Lugones et al., 1983), with 763 citations. Next come "La dominación masculina" (466) and "La Cultura del nuevo capitalismo" (331).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Have we got a theory for you! Feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for ‘the woman's voice’ María C. Lugones, Elizabeth V. Spelman, María C. Lugones et al. · Women s Studies International Forum 1983 763
2 La dominación masculina Pierre Bourdıeu · Revista de Estudios de Género La Ventana Open access 1996 466
3 La Cultura del nuevo capitalismo Marcelo Salas · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) 2009 331
4 Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism. Jack Ray Thomas, Brian E. Loveman · Hispanic American Historical Review Aug 1980 258
5 El Estado y la sociedad civil en la gobernanza moderna Renate Mayntz · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Open access Oct 2001 199
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research done?

The largest centres of Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Santiago (Chile). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Murcia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 206 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 89 works
  3. 3 Buenos AiresArgentina 82 works
  4. 4 SantiagoChile 68 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 64 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 50 works
  7. 7 ValenciaSpain 36 works
  8. 8 LimaPeru 35 works
  9. 9 SevilleSpain 27 works
  10. 10 MurciaSpain 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MurciaES · 26.1 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de València 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 17.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat Autònoma…Universitat Jaume IUniversitat de Valèn…Universidad Complute…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 63.311.7%41.7×64 +12.2%
2Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 62.018.9%23.1×26 -12.2%
3Universitat de ValènciaSpain 59.613.9%32.8×31 +7.4%
4Universitat Jaume ISpain 57.016.1%61.6×16 +47.9%
5Universidad Internacional De La RiojaSpain 56.824.0%43.9×10 +32.5%
6Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain 56.526.8%35.2×16 -10.9%
7Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 56.011.0%20.3×27 +13.8%
8Universidad de MálagaSpain 55.520.6%32.9×18 +40.0%
9Universidad de OviedoSpain 53.812.3%38.5×17 +80.2%
10Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSpain 52.022.4%43.6×9 +187.0%

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, Labor, and Gender Studies, country by country

Is Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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, Labor, and Gender Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Employment, Labor, and Gender 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, Labor, and Gender Studies10.2% 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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