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Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 focuses on the phenomenon of maternal filicide and infanticide, exploring topics such as the characteristics of perpetrators, risk factors including mental illness and denial of pregnancy, gender differences, and strategies for prevention. The research also delves into the epidemiology of child homicide, particularly in the context of homicide-suicide events.

  • Maternal Filicide
  • Infanticide
  • Homicide-Suicide
  • Denial of Pregnancy
  • Mental Illness
  • Child Homicide
  • Risk Factors
  • Gender Differences
  • Prevention Strategies
  • Epidemiology
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Which countries lead Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (738 and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 738 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 268 works
  3. 3 Brazil 156 works
  4. 4 Australia 141 works
  5. 5 Canada 113 works
  6. 6 India 112 works
  7. 7 France 110 works
  8. 8 Italy 89 works
  9. 9 Germany 88 works
  10. 10 Russia 77 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: 39.0%United Kingdom: 14.2%Brazil: 8.3%Australia: 7.4%6 others listed: 31.1%39%largest
United States738 · 39.0%United Kingdom268 · 14.2%Brazil156 · 8.3%Australia141 · 7.4%6 others listed589 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research, followed by Sapienza University of Rome and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 15 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 11 works
  8. 8 University of WashingtonUnited States 10 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 10 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse include Theo Vos, Ronald C. Kessler and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k 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 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  9. 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 Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse?

The most cited paper in Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse is "Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall" (Donna Della Femina, Catherine A. Yeager, Dorothy Otnow Lewis, 1990), with 8,852 citations. Next come "The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (3,412) and "Suicide and Suicidal Behavior" (2,913).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall Donna Della Femina, Catherine A. Yeager, Dorothy Otnow Lewis · Child Abuse & Neglect Open access 1990 8,852
2 The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Rosana E. Norman, Munkhtsetseg Byambaa, Rumna De et al. · PLoS Medicine ReviewOpen access 27 Nov 2012 3,412
3 Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Matthew K. Nock, Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes Borges, E. J. Bromet et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews Open access 14 May 2008 2,913
4 Impact of child sexual abuse: A review of the research. Angela Christine Browne, David Finkelhor · Psychological Bulletin 1986 2,623
5 Incidence of Early Loss of Pregnancy Allen James Wilcox, Clarice Ring Weinberg, John F. O’Connor et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 28 Jul 1988 2,366
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Where is Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research done?

The largest centres of Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brisbane.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 47 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 36 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 35 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 33 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 25 works
  7. 7 BrisbaneAustralia 25 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 22 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 21 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrisbaneAU · 24.8 works4.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, Harvard University and Sapienza University of Rome 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%20%40%mean 18.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Me…Johns Hopkins Univer…Harvard UniversitySapienza University …
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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
1The University of MelbourneAustralia 73.832.6%4.0×11 +13.0%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.121.5%1.7×14 +24.2%
3Sapienza University of RomeItaly 57.116.8%5.2×15 +262.5%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 56.422.7%2.7×10 -6.1%
5University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55.112.5%3.7×16 -5.0%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.415.4%3.2×13 +30.6%
7University of TorontoCanada 50.416.3%2.8×14 -30.8%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.918.2%2.8×10 +2.5%
9University of WashingtonUnited States 46.618.1%3.7×10 -0.9%
10University of BristolUnited Kingdom 36.814.2%6.3×9 +26.8%

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 Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse, country by country

Is Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse.

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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 Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse 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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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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