Family Support in Illness

Family Support in Illness is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 parental illness, particularly cancer, on children and families. It covers topics such as psychosocial impact, young carers, emotional and behavioral problems, support needs, and family functioning in the context of parental illness.

Parental Illness
Children
Family
Cancer
Young Carers
Psychosocial Impact
Caregiving
Adolescents
Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Support Needs

Research works: 29k
In the world top 10%: 2.9k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +18%
Largest producer: United States

Family Support in Illness

Which countries lead Family Support in Illness research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.7k and 533 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.7k works
2 United Kingdom 533 works
3 China 407 works
4 Germany 345 works
5 Poland 263 works
6 Canada 261 works
7 Australia 249 works
8 Türkiye 225 works
9 Indonesia 162 works
10 Iran 145 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 States1,742 · 40.2%United Kingdom533 · 12.3%China407 · 9.4%Germany345 · 8.0%6 others listed1,305 · 30.1%

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

Which institutions lead Family Support in Illness research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Family Support in Illness research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 63 works
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 62 works
3 University of TorontoCanada 39 works
4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 34 works
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works
6 University of MichiganUnited States 22 works
7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 21 works
8 Universität HamburgGermany 21 works
9 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 20 works
10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Family Support in Illness?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Family Support in Illness include Freddie Bray, George Davey Smith and Ronald C. Kessler.

1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
5 Isabelle Soerjomataram France 327k citations
6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
7 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
9 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k 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 Family Support in Illness?

The most cited paper in Family Support in Illness is "Detection of Postnatal Depression" (J. L. Cox, Joan Holden, Ruth Sagovsky, 1987), with 14,196 citations. Next come "Current patterns of parental authority." (5,167) and "Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence: Problems, progress, and potential in theory and research." (3,147).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Detection of Postnatal Depression J. L. Cox, Joan Holden, Ruth Sagovsky · The British Journal of Psychiatry	Jun 1987	14,196
2	Current patterns of parental authority. Diana Baumrind · Developmental Psychology Open access	1971	5,167
3	Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence: Problems, progress, and potential in theory and research. Bruce E. Compas, Jennifer K. Connor-Smith, Heidi Saltzman et al. · Psychological Bulletin	2001	3,147
4	The prevalence of psychological distress by cancer site James Robert Zabora, Karlynn M. Brintzenhofeszoc, Barbara A. Curbow et al. · Psycho-Oncology	2001	2,482
5	Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: A developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmission. Sherryl H. Goodman, Ian H. Gotlib · Psychological Review	1999	2,473

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Where is Family Support in Illness research done?

The largest centres of Family Support in Illness research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 LondonUnited Kingdom 143 works
2 New YorkUnited States 86 works
3 BostonUnited States 67 works
4 MelbourneAustralia 63 works
5 Chapel HillUnited States 60 works
6 TorontoCanada 60 works
7 WarsawPoland 57 works
8 SeoulSouth Korea 52 works
9 IstanbulTürkiye 46 works
10 SydneyAustralia 46 works

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Where is the best place to study Family Support in Illness?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and University College London 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	77.1	17.5%	3.4×	63	+10.5%
2	University of TorontoCanada	69.6	16.3%	3.3×	39	+12.7%
3	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	63.2	16.4%	3.4×	31	+2.8%
4	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States	61.1	17.3%	3.8×	18	+19.1%
5	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	60.3	17.1%	2.8×	12	+22.6%
6	University of MichiganUnited States	59.2	14.7%	2.5×	22	+19.0%
7	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	59.0	24.8%	2.8×	12	+20.8%
8	Uppsala UniversitySweden	58.4	15.6%	4.9×	16	+41.9%
9	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	58.0	17.5%	3.0×	10	+30.1%
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	57.5	7.1%	6.0×	62	-1.7%
11	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	57.5	28.0%	1.1×	14	+102.1%
12	University of PittsburghUnited States	56.2	16.4%	3.3×	15	+50.9%
13	University of British ColumbiaCanada	55.4	17.1%	2.6×	18	+16.1%
14	Sichuan UniversityChina	55.1	32.4%	0.8×	10	+69.7%
15	Flinders UniversityAustralia	54.9	22.3%	5.1×	8	+24.6%
16	University of OsloNorway	53.6	14.9%	4.0×	15	+39.3%
17	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	53.5	19.7%	2.8×	13	+42.2%
18	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	53.4	13.6%	3.6×	18	+45.2%
19	The University of MelbourneAustralia	53.2	19.0%	3.0×	19	-15.3%
20	Universität HamburgGermany	53.1	12.7%	4.9×	21	+4.5%
21	Duke UniversityUnited States	53.0	11.0%	3.3×	16	+20.9%
22	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	52.9	30.9%	1.8×	9	-8.6%
23	Monash UniversityAustralia	52.8	19.2%	3.1×	18	-8.4%
24	University of GroningenNetherlands	52.7	18.1%	3.2×	13	+7.5%
25	The University of SydneyAustralia	52.1	16.6%	2.4×	17	-0.2%
26	Stanford UniversityUnited States	51.0	10.9%	2.0×	17	+13.4%
27	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	51.0	11.8%	2.5×	16	+34.8%
28	Universidade do PortoPortugal	51.0	13.5%	3.5×	14	+120.6%
29	University of CopenhagenDenmark	50.5	14.3%	2.9×	16	+0.2%
30	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	50.3	19.5%	4.1×	13	-25.3%
31	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	50.2	12.8%	3.5×	11	+64.8%
32	Central South UniversityChina	50.2	25.2%	0.9×	10	+83.2%
33	University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom	49.4	20.8%	2.8×	8	+32.2%
34	Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael	49.3	19.9%	5.8×	9	+68.9%
35	Columbia UniversityUnited States	49.1	13.1%	2.2×	14	+41.9%
36	University of UtahUnited States	48.9	17.6%	3.8×	15	-23.2%
37	Yale UniversityUnited States	48.5	12.5%	2.4×	15	+105.6%
38	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	48.1	16.0%	1.9×	13	+3.5%
39	Deakin UniversityAustralia	48.1	17.3%	3.7×	10	+31.1%
40	UNSW SydneyAustralia	48.0	13.7%	2.6×	14	-35.6%
41	The University of QueenslandAustralia	47.1	25.0%	1.9×	10	-13.7%
42	KU LeuvenBelgium	47.0	17.9%	2.0×	11	-25.8%
43	University of ZurichSwitzerland	46.3	11.9%	2.7×	11	+31.9%
44	National University of SingaporeSingapore	44.5	18.6%	1.3×	9	-12.2%
45	University of Hong KongChina	44.1	25.3%	1.6×	9	-23.8%
46	University of MiamiUnited States	43.5	16.6%	2.8×	10	-21.9%
47	Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of GalwayIreland	42.4	11.0%	8.1×	10	+86.3%
48	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	42.0	4.2%	2.1×	19	+6.9%
49	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	40.6	11.8%	3.0×	21	-11.9%
50	University of BaselSwitzerland	38.1	13.7%	3.7×	8	+58.4%
51	University of LucerneSwitzerland	37.6	6.7%	35.0×	12	+11.4%
52	University of HaifaIsrael	37.3	14.2%	7.5×	10	-20.5%
53	Islamic Azad University, TehranIran	35.2	0.5%	3.6×	34	+0.4%
54	Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland	32.3	1.7%	7.0×	16	+44.7%
55	University of SzczecinPoland	29.2	7.3%	10.1×	8	+16.9%
56	Medical University of SilesiaPoland	28.8	3.5%	8.7×	9	+162.4%
57	The Maria Grzegorzewska UniversityPoland	26.6	0.0%	55.2×	13	+82.7%
58	University of ŁódźPoland	19.9	0.0%	5.5×	9	+14.0%

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.

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Is Family Support in Illness research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Family Support in Illness.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Family Support in Illness as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

Fractional works of Family Support in Illness 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.

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Which topics inside it are moving

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Which countries lead Family Support in Illness research?

By volume, 2022-now

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Which institutions lead Family Support in Illness research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Family Support in Illness?

What are the most cited papers in Family Support in Illness?

Where is Family Support in Illness research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Family Support in Illness?

Is Family Support in Illness research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

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