Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex dynamics of intergenerational family relationships and support, focusing on topics such as informal caregiving, grandparenting, filial piety, elderly care, and the implications of aging societies. It delves into the impact of multigenerational bonds on individuals' health, the role of grandparents in raising grandchildren, and the challenges and opportunities associated with providing long-term care within families.

Intergenerational Relations
Family Support
Elderly Care
Grandparenting
Filial Piety
Informal Caregiving
Multigenerational Bonds
Long-Term Care
Social Support
Aging Societies

Research works: 34k
In the world top 10%: 3.4k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +28%
Largest producer: United States

Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Which countries lead Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2k works
2 China 1.5k works
3 United Kingdom 596 works
4 Australia 308 works
5 India 308 works
6 Indonesia 299 works
7 Germany 291 works
8 Canada 283 works
9 Japan 264 works
10 South Korea 184 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 States2,003 · 33.2%China1,498 · 24.8%United Kingdom596 · 9.9%Australia308 · 5.1%6 others listed1,628 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and National University of Singapore.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 54 works
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 50 works
3 National University of SingaporeSingapore 49 works
4 Peking UniversityChina 47 works
5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 40 works
6 Chinese University of Hong KongChina 39 works
7 University of MichiganUnited States 38 works
8 Renmin University of ChinaChina 37 works
9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
10 Fudan UniversityChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving include George Davey Smith, Ronald C. Kessler and Hermann Brenner.

1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
6 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
7 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
9 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
10 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k 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 Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

The most cited paper in Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving is "Dementia prevention, intervention, and care" (Gill Livingston et al., 2017), with 6,271 citations. Next come "Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden" (5,885) and "Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)" (5,486).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Dementia prevention, intervention, and care Gill Livingston et al. · The Lancet	20 Jul 2017	6,271
2	Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden Steven Howard Zarit, Karen E. Reever, Julie Bach-Peterson · The Gerontologist Open access	Dec 1980	5,885
3	Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) Yaohui Zhao, Yisong Hu, James Patrick Smith et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology Open access	12 Dec 2012	5,486
4	Caregiving and the Stress Process: An Overview of Concepts and Their Measures Leonard I. Pearlin, Joseph T. Mullan, Shirley J. Semple et al. · The Gerontologist	Oct 1990	4,838
5	The disablement process Lois M. Verbrugge, Alan M. Jette · Social Science & Medicine	1994	3,244

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Where is Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research done?

The largest centres of Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Hong Kong (China) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 252 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 165 works
3 Hong KongChina 118 works
4 ShanghaiChina 117 works
5 SeoulSouth Korea 108 works
6 TokyoJapan 107 works
7 SingaporeSingapore 90 works
8 New YorkUnited States 88 works
9 NanjingChina 83 works
10 MelbourneAustralia 79 works

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Where is the best place to study Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Renmin University of China and National University of Singapore 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	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	74.9	19.2%	7.2×	39	+64.1%
2	Renmin University of ChinaChina	74.0	26.0%	15.2×	37	+49.5%
3	National University of SingaporeSingapore	73.3	16.0%	5.5×	49	+16.0%
4	Peking UniversityChina	71.7	19.7%	3.0×	47	+82.1%
5	International Institute for Population SciencesIndia	71.6	26.0%	87.8×	22	+105.9%
6	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	71.1	18.4%	3.0×	36	+17.9%
7	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	67.9	12.7%	3.5×	40	+67.1%
8	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom	67.3	16.0%	15.4×	27	+50.4%
9	University of MichiganUnited States	64.4	14.8%	3.3×	38	+9.3%
10	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	64.1	10.0%	6.1×	54	+1068.7%
11	University of Hong KongChina	63.1	11.6%	4.5×	32	+28.2%
12	Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina	63.0	29.9%	5.8×	11	+332.5%
13	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	60.6	11.2%	4.8×	31	+52.9%
14	University of GroningenNetherlands	59.8	18.1%	4.6×	24	-13.7%
15	University of TorontoCanada	58.7	15.9%	2.1×	32	+4.0%
16	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	58.4	22.6%	2.0×	17	+38.4%
17	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	57.8	14.0%	4.7×	18	+13.2%
18	Fudan UniversityChina	57.5	13.4%	2.7×	32	+47.2%
19	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	57.5	23.3%	1.5×	21	+98.2%
20	Monash UniversityAustralia	56.9	22.0%	2.6×	19	+16.7%
21	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	56.5	9.3%	3.5×	24	+18.5%
22	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States	55.6	12.2%	4.3×	27	+4.8%
23	Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina	55.5	20.6%	1.6×	21	+33.6%
24	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	55.5	23.0%	1.1×	17	+88.6%
25	University of WashingtonUnited States	55.3	13.8%	2.5×	22	+84.4%
26	Shandong UniversityChina	55.1	15.7%	2.4×	24	+83.5%
27	Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina	54.9	26.7%	2.6×	10	+459.0%
28	New York UniversityUnited States	54.4	15.2%	2.7×	23	+6.3%
29	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	54.4	15.2%	2.9×	23	-14.2%
30	Sichuan UniversityChina	54.2	22.5%	1.1×	19	+19.6%
31	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina	54.2	33.2%	1.0×	8	+476.7%
32	Zhejiang UniversityChina	54.0	18.0%	1.1×	22	+32.3%
33	University of California, IrvineUnited States	53.9	27.0%	1.7×	8	+65.0%
34	Harvard UniversityUnited States	53.3	12.2%	1.0×	23	+55.4%
35	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States	53.2	18.3%	2.5×	18	+30.2%
36	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	52.3	9.8%	4.4×	26	+59.5%
37	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	52.3	15.1%	3.9×	24	-6.9%
38	Central South UniversityChina	52.3	22.5%	0.9×	13	+189.5%
39	University of Massachusetts BostonUnited States	52.2	8.0%	29.6×	24	+21.2%
40	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	52.1	14.0%	2.4×	19	+47.8%
41	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	50.1	6.6%	3.8×	50	-18.8%
42	City University of Hong KongChina	49.8	13.5%	3.1×	14	+114.5%
43	Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina	49.2	15.7%	7.9×	11	+71.1%
44	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	46.1	14.8%	2.4×	10	+12.7%
45	Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina	45.2	15.6%	12.6×	11	+56.6%
46	Bowling Green State UniversityUnited States	42.6	13.2%	18.5×	10	-27.0%
47	Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina	41.4	8.9%	11.9×	13	+91.0%
48	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	40.7	11.3%	1.8×	11	+33.2%
49	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	40.1	13.5%	2.3×	10	-7.3%
50	Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina	38.0	11.4%	12.2×	9	+93.1%
51	Miami UniversityUnited States	37.4	2.3%	18.9×	16	+74.9%
52	Syracuse UniversityUnited States	34.4	7.1%	11.6×	16	-19.4%
53	KU LeuvenBelgium	27.4	10.2%	1.4×	10	-30.8%

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 Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, country by country

Is Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

Fractional works of Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving 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.

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

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Which countries lead Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research?

By volume, 2022-now

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Which institutions lead Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

What are the most cited papers in Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

Where is Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving?

Is Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving 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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