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Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Gun Ownership and Violence Research is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the public health implications of firearm violence, including topics such as gun ownership, suicide prevention, youth violence, mass shootings, firearm legislation, injury prevention, mental health, and homicide rates.

  • Firearm Violence
  • Gun Ownership
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Youth Violence
  • Mass Shootings
  • Public Health
  • Firearm Legislation
  • Injury Prevention
  • Mental Health
  • Homicide Rates
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Which countries lead Gun Ownership and Violence Research research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.9k and 120 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 120 works
  3. 3 Canada 91 works
  4. 4 Australia 79 works
  5. 5 China 70 works
  6. 6 Brazil 42 works
  7. 7 India 32 works
  8. 8 Germany 32 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 31 works
  10. 10 Russia 25 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: 78.3%United Kingdom: 5.0%Canada: 3.8%Australia: 3.3%6 others listed: 9.7%78%largest
United States1,891 · 78.3%United Kingdom120 · 5.0%Canada91 · 3.8%Australia79 · 3.3%6 others listed233 · 9.7%

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

Which institutions lead Gun Ownership and Violence Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Gun Ownership and Violence Research research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 University of WashingtonUnited States 36 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 31 works
  6. 6 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 University of California, DavisUnited States 26 works
  10. 10 University of ChicagoUnited States 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gun Ownership and Violence Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gun Ownership and Violence Research include Ali H. Mokdad, Ronald C. Kessler and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  6. 6 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k citations
  7. 7 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  8. 8 Mohsen Naghavi United States 275k 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 Gun Ownership and Violence Research?

The most cited paper in Gun Ownership and Violence Research is "Actual Causes of Death in the United States" (James Michael McGinnis, 1993), with 5,361 citations. Next come "Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth" (3,797) and "Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2005." (3,385).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Actual Causes of Death in the United States James Michael McGinnis · JAMA 10 Nov 1993 5,361
2 Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth Tonja R. Nansel, Mary D. Overpeck, Ramani S. Pilla et al. · JAMA Open access 25 Apr 2001 3,797
3 Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2005. Danice K. Eaton, Laura Kann, Steve Kinchen et al. · PubMed 9 Jun 2006 3,385
4 Suicide Prevention Strategies J. John Mann et al. · JAMA 26 Oct 2005 2,881
5 Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Violence: Increased Reporting with Computer Survey Technology Charles F. Turner, Leighton C. Ku, Susan Rogers et al. · Science 8 May 1998 2,064
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Where is Gun Ownership and Violence Research research done?

The largest centres of Gun Ownership and Violence Research research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Boston (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aurora, New Brunswick and Davis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 84 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 62 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 60 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 55 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 53 works
  6. 6 BaltimoreUnited States 49 works
  7. 7 AtlantaUnited States 48 works
  8. 8 SeattleUnited States 46 works
  9. 9 Ann ArborUnited States 38 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AuroraUS · 22.4 works21×
  2. New BrunswickUS · 25.6 works14×
  3. DavisUS · 20.8 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gun Ownership and Violence Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gun Ownership and Violence Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Columbia University 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%mean 16.86%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityRutgers, The State U…Columbia UniversityUniversity of Washin…
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 82.820.5%5.3×40 -7.0%
2Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 81.219.8%14.5×27 +67.6%
3Columbia UniversityUnited States 77.917.7%8.5×22 +51.9%
4University of WashingtonUnited States 77.713.9%13.2×36 +25.0%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 76.714.4%10.6×39 +19.4%
6University of MichiganUnited States 74.513.2%9.9×36 +76.7%
7Boston UniversityUnited States 67.123.7%12.2×14 -10.6%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 65.615.9%8.7×22 +16.5%
9University of California, DavisUnited States 64.912.8%13.6×26 +38.1%
10Northeastern UniversityUnited States 61.516.7%16.7×12 -7.7%

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 Gun Ownership and Violence Research, country by country

Is Gun Ownership and Violence Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Gun Ownership and Violence Research.

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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 Gun Ownership and Violence Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Gun Ownership and Violence Research0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gun Ownership and Violence Research 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%Gun Ownership and Violence Research10.2% 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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