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LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1951. 25.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ identities and its impact on mental health, stigma, discrimination, and health disparities. It delves into the complexities of gender identity, social stress, and minority stress within the LGBTQ+ community, providing a comprehensive understanding of the unique challenges faced by individuals with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.

  • Intersectionality
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mental Health
  • Stigma
  • Discrimination
  • Gender Identity
  • Social Stress
  • Minority Stress
  • Health Disparities
  • Sexual Orientation
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
7.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
25.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+74%
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Which countries lead LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (4.2k and 584 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 4.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 584 works
  3. 3 Canada 507 works
  4. 4 Brazil 415 works
  5. 5 Australia 368 works
  6. 6 India 267 works
  7. 7 Spain 196 works
  8. 8 Italy 169 works
  9. 9 Germany 151 works
  10. 10 China 142 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: 59.8%United Kingdom: 8.4%Canada: 7.3%Brazil: 6.0%6 others listed: 18.6%60%largest
United States4,161 · 59.8%United Kingdom584 · 8.4%Canada507 · 7.3%Brazil415 · 6.0%6 others listed1,294 · 18.6%

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

Which institutions lead LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research, followed by University of Michigan and University of Washington.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 155 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 70 works
  3. 3 University of WashingtonUnited States 60 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 58 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 Columbia UniversityUnited States 43 works
  8. 8 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 39 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy include Shane D. Morrison, Victoria Clarke and Ilan H. Meyer.

  1. 1 Shane D. Morrison United States 4.6k citations
  2. 2 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 2.5k citations
  3. 3 Ilan H. Meyer United States 2.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research done?

The largest centres of LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Boston (United States), Chapel Hill (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill and Storrs.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 237 works
  2. 2 Boston United States 168 works
  3. 3 Chapel Hill United States 157 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 154 works
  5. 5 Toronto Canada 126 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 110 works
  7. 7 Los Angeles United States 108 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 105 works
  9. 9 Seattle United States 85 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C. United States 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 156.9 works11×
  2. StorrsUS · 27.9 works8.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, La Trobe University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Nottingham Trent 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%60%mean 34.61%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →La Trobe University: 28, 36.2%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 155, 5.7%Nottingham Trent University: 8, 46.9%University of Brighton: 8, 53.1%University of Connecticut: 28, 31.5%Fordham University: 10, 42.3%Yale University: 46, 29.9%Western Sydney University: 15, 45.6%University of Nevada, Las Vegas: 18, 26.6%University of California, San Francisco: 39, 28.3%University of BrightonNottingham Trent Uni…La Trobe UniversityUniversity of North …
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 64.036.2%11.2×28 +50.9%
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 63.25.7%11.0×155 +340.4%
3 Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 61.446.9%6.3×8 +456.1%
4 University of BrightonUnited Kingdom 61.053.1%17.4×8 -20.9%
5 University of ConnecticutUnited States 60.931.5%9.1×28 +121.0%
6 Fordham UniversityUnited States 59.942.3%11.6×10 +91.2%
7 Yale UniversityUnited States 59.029.9%5.6×46 +318.6%
8 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 58.845.6%7.2×15 +61.2%
9 University of Nevada, Las VegasUnited States 58.626.6%11.8×18 +140.9%
10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 58.528.3%7.5×39 +136.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 74% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy.

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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.

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.