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Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Gender Roles and Identity Studies is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the constructions of masculinity, gender identity, and their influence on men's well-being. It delves into topics such as health behaviors, help seeking, mental health, gender role norms, femininities, intersectionality, and social constructionism.

  • Masculinity
  • Gender Identity
  • Health Behaviors
  • Help Seeking
  • Gender Development
  • Mental Health
  • Gender Role Norms
  • Femininities
  • Intersectionality
  • Social Constructionism
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Which countries lead Gender Roles and Identity Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.4k and 495 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 495 works
  3. 3 Australia 266 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 261 works
  5. 5 Canada 242 works
  6. 6 China 183 works
  7. 7 India 179 works
  8. 8 South Africa 173 works
  9. 9 Germany 146 works
  10. 10 Spain 113 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: 39.8%United Kingdom: 14.5%Australia: 7.8%Türkiye: 7.6%6 others listed: 30.3%40%largest
United States1,359 · 39.8%United Kingdom495 · 14.5%Australia266 · 7.8%Türkiye261 · 7.6%6 others listed1,036 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Gender Roles and Identity Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Gender Roles and Identity Studies research, followed by University of KwaZulu-Natal and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 31 works
  2. 2 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 30 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 25 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 22 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 20 works
  9. 9 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender Roles and Identity Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender Roles and Identity Studies include Albert Bandura, John P. A. Ioannidis and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  6. 6 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  7. 7 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k 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 Gender Roles and Identity Studies?

The most cited paper in Gender Roles and Identity Studies is "Hegemonic Masculinity" (Raewyn W. Connell, James W. Messerschmidt, 2005), with 9,224 citations. Next come "The measurement of psychological androgyny." (8,602) and "Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders." (6,868).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hegemonic Masculinity Raewyn W. Connell, James W. Messerschmidt · Gender & Society Open access 28 Oct 2005 9,224
2 The measurement of psychological androgyny. Sandra L. Bem · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1974 8,602
3 Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. Alice H. Eagly, Steven J. Karau · Psychological Review 2002 6,868
4 Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women's Lived Experiences and Mental Health Risks Barbara L. Fredrickson, Tomi‐Ann Roberts · Psychology of Women Quarterly Jun 1997 5,495
5 The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Peter Glick, Susan T. Fiske · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Mar 1996 4,417
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Where is Gender Roles and Identity Studies research done?

The largest centres of Gender Roles and Identity Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durban.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 103 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 69 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 51 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 40 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 40 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 38 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 38 works
  9. 9 DurbanSouth Africa 34 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DurbanZA · 34.4 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gender Roles and Identity Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gender Roles and Identity Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Monash University, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Toronto 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%20%40%mean 20.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityUniversity of TorontoSapienza University …University of Britis…
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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
1Monash UniversityAustralia 84.127.9%6.1×25 +22.9%
2Sapienza University of RomeItaly 81.220.7%6.2×30 +1246.4%
3University of TorontoCanada 74.323.1%2.7×23 +14.4%
4University of British ColumbiaCanada 66.820.4%4.4×22 -8.8%
5University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 65.89.3%19.2×30 +52.6%
6University of YorkUnited Kingdom 65.232.7%6.0×8 +169.5%
7The University of QueenslandAustralia 64.218.6%4.7×19 +113.1%
8The University of MelbourneAustralia 62.823.2%4.3×20 -16.2%
9Arizona State UniversityUnited States 62.113.9%7.0×19 +23.3%
10New York UniversityUnited States 59.814.3%3.5×17 +28.6%

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 Gender Roles and Identity Studies, country by country

Is Gender Roles and Identity Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gender Roles and Identity 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 Gender Roles and Identity Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gender Roles and Identity 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%Gender Roles and Identity 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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