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Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 challenges and trends in population ageing research, including topics such as mortality forecasting, life expectancy, epidemiologic transition, demographic projections, longevity risk, Bayesian models, cohort analysis, global population trends, and health demography.

  • Population Ageing
  • Mortality Forecasting
  • Life Expectancy
  • Epidemiologic Transition
  • Demographic Projections
  • Longevity Risk
  • Bayesian Models
  • Cohort Analysis
  • Global Population Trends
  • Health Demography
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Which countries lead Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (689 and 621 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 689 works
  2. 2 China 621 works
  3. 3 India 223 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 190 works
  5. 5 Italy 146 works
  6. 6 Germany 140 works
  7. 7 Australia 136 works
  8. 8 Canada 131 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 124 works
  10. 10 France 105 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: 27.5%China: 24.8%India: 8.9%United Kingdom: 7.6%6 others listed: 31.2%27%largest
United States689 · 27.5%China621 · 24.8%India223 · 8.9%United Kingdom190 · 7.6%6 others listed782 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research, followed by Shandong University and Australian National University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 29 works
  2. 2 Shandong UniversityChina 19 works
  3. 3 Australian National UniversityAustralia 18 works
  4. 4 UNSW SydneyAustralia 18 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 17 works
  6. 6 Macquarie UniversityAustralia 17 works
  7. 7 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 16 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works
  9. 9 Max Planck SocietyGermany 16 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management include Ahmedin Jemal, Christopher J L Murray and Rebecca L. Siegel.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Rebecca L. Siegel United States 582k citations
  4. 4 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  5. 5 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  6. 6 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  7. 7 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  8. 8 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  9. 9 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  10. 10 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k 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 Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management?

The most cited paper in Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management is "Regression Models and Life-Tables" (D. R. Cox, 1972), with 39,869 citations. Next come "Regression Models and Life-Tables" (26,650) and "Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017" (8,782).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Regression Models and Life-Tables D. R. Cox · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1972 39,869
2 Regression Models and Life-Tables David R. Cox · Springer series in statistics Book chapter 1992 26,650
3 Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Gregory A. Roth et al. · The Lancet Open access1,020 authors Nov 2018 8,782
4 Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study Christopher J L Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet May 1997 7,055
5 Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Haidong Wang et al. · The Lancet Open access772 authors Oct 2016 6,750
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Where is Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research done?

The largest centres of Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and Sydney (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 117 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 49 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 48 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 44 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 39 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 37 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 35 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 33 works
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Where is the best place to study Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Australian National University, UNSW Sydney and Shandong University 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 17.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Washin…Australian National …UNSW SydneyShandong 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.

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
1Australian National UniversityAustralia 75.220.5%10.1×18 +11.6%
2UNSW SydneyAustralia 63.318.3%5.5×18 -15.6%
3Shandong UniversityChina 62.911.6%4.0×19 +29.3%
4University of WashingtonUnited States 61.631.6%2.3×9 +30.7%
5Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 59.520.6%5.0×12 +91.6%
6Macquarie UniversityAustralia 58.915.6%12.6×17 -15.1%
7Sapienza University of RomeItaly 57.213.6%4.1×17 +10.7%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.814.6%1.0×11 +50.0%
9Peking UniversityChina 53.019.0%1.7×12 +66.9%
10Renmin University of ChinaChina 52.814.3%11.1×13 +12.1%

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 Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, country by country

Is Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management.

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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 Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management 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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