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Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Intimate Partner and Family Violence is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1952. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prevalence, health consequences, risk factors, and interventions related to intimate partner violence. It covers topics such as mental and physical health effects, gender-based violence, HIV infection, adolescent dating violence, and the impact of child exposure to domestic violence.

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Health Consequences
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Factors
  • Mental Health
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • HIV Infection
  • Adolescent Dating Violence
  • Child Exposure
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Which countries lead Intimate Partner and Family Violence research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (2k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 Brazil 1.3k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 603 works
  4. 4 Australia 448 works
  5. 5 Canada 404 works
  6. 6 Spain 324 works
  7. 7 India 294 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 261 works
  9. 9 China 190 works
  10. 10 South Africa 178 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: 33.3%Brazil: 21.8%United Kingdom: 10.0%Australia: 7.4%6 others listed: 27.4%33%largest
United States2,001 · 33.3%Brazil1,314 · 21.8%United Kingdom603 · 10.0%Australia448 · 7.4%6 others listed1,652 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Intimate Partner and Family Violence research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Intimate Partner and Family Violence research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and The University of Melbourne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 62 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 43 works
  3. 3 The University of MelbourneAustralia 39 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  5. 5 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 37 works
  6. 6 Monash UniversityAustralia 35 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 29 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intimate Partner and Family Violence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intimate Partner and Family Violence include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  9. 9 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k citations
  10. 10 Ted R. Miller United States 279k 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 Intimate Partner and Family Violence?

The most cited paper in Intimate Partner and Family Violence is "The world report on violence and health" (Etienne G. Krug, James A. Mercy, Linda L. Dahlberg et al., 2002), with 8,532 citations. Next come "The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)" (6,964) and "Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales" (6,252).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The world report on violence and health Etienne G. Krug, James A. Mercy, Linda L. Dahlberg et al. · The Lancet Oct 2002 8,532
2 The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) Murray A. Straus, Sherry Hamby, Sue Boney‐McCoy et al. · Journal of Family Issues May 1996 6,964
3 Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales Murray A. Straus · Journal of Marriage and the Family Feb 1979 6,252
4 Health consequences of intimate partner violence Jacquelyn C. Campbell · The Lancet Apr 2002 4,088
5 Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment Nicki R. Crick, Jennifer K. Grotpeter · Child Development Jun 1995 3,242
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Where is Intimate Partner and Family Violence research done?

The largest centres of Intimate Partner and Family Violence research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 164 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 149 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 132 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 130 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 102 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 69 works
  7. 7 AtlantaUnited States 68 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 63 works
  9. 9 Chapel HillUnited States 62 works
  10. 10 BrasíliaBrazil 60 works
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Where is the best place to study Intimate Partner and Family Violence?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Jaén, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Universitat de València 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%60%mean 25.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de JaénDeakin UniversityUniversitat de Valèn…London School of Hyg…
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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
1Universidad de JaénSpain 66.651.5%9.1×10 +73.5%
2London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 60.025.4%15.6×18 +1.7%
3Universitat de ValènciaSpain 57.525.5%6.0×25 +22.2%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 55.929.9%6.8×23 +8.6%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 55.719.9%4.8×35 +12.8%
6University of GondarEthiopia 53.837.1%10.2×11 +171.1%
7University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 53.75.6%4.7×62 +14.5%
8The University of MelbourneAustralia 52.217.3%4.7×39 -5.7%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.823.0%1.8×22 +36.9%
10Western UniversityCanada 51.216.7%6.0×25 +13.4%

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 Intimate Partner and Family Violence, country by country

Is Intimate Partner and Family Violence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Intimate Partner and Family Violence.

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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 Intimate Partner and Family Violence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Intimate Partner and Family Violence0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Intimate Partner and Family Violence 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%Intimate Partner and Family Violence10.4% 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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