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Noise Effects and Management

Noise Effects and Management is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the diverse effects of noise pollution on human health and well-being, covering topics such as cardiovascular effects, sleep disturbance, annoyance, children's cognition, and urban soundscapes. It also delves into the public health implications of environmental noise and provides evidence-based insights for noise policies.

  • Noise Pollution
  • Health Effects
  • Environmental Noise
  • Traffic Noise
  • Annoyance
  • Cardiovascular Effects
  • Sleep Disturbance
  • Children's Cognition
  • Urban Soundscapes
  • Public Health
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Noise Effects and Management

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Noise Effects and Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 1.6k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 617 works
  4. 4 India 531 works
  5. 5 Germany 396 works
  6. 6 Brazil 369 works
  7. 7 Italy 325 works
  8. 8 Japan 287 works
  9. 9 France 242 works
  10. 10 Spain 242 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.

China: 27.6%United States: 25.1%United Kingdom: 9.7%India: 8.4%6 others listed: 29.2%28%largest
China1,753 · 27.6%United States1,600 · 25.1%United Kingdom617 · 9.7%India531 · 8.4%6 others listed1,861 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Noise Effects and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University College London publishes the most Noise Effects and Management research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48 works
  4. 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 41 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 National University of SingaporeSingapore 37 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 33 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 32 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Noise Effects and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Noise Effects and Management include Hermann Brenner, Cyrus Cooper and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  9. 9 Cynthia D. Mulrow United States 278k citations
  10. 10 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k 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 Noise Effects and Management?

The most cited paper in Noise Effects and Management is "Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles" (Günter Oberdörster, Eva Oberdörster, Jan Oberdörster, 2005), with 7,918 citations. Next come "The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework" (6,855) and "Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments" (5,933).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles Günter Oberdörster, Eva Oberdörster, Jan Oberdörster · Environmental Health Perspectives Open access 22 Mar 2005 7,918
2 The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework Stephen Kaplan · Journal of Environmental Psychology Sep 1995 6,855
3 Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments Roger S. Ulrich, Robert F. Simons, Barbara D. Losito et al. · Journal of Environmental Psychology Sep 1991 5,933
4 Locally Resonant Sonic Materials Zhengyou Liu, Xixiang Zhang, Yiwei Mao et al. · Science 8 Sep 2000 5,482
5 Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults Frank R. Lin, Kristine Yaffe, Jin Xia et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine Open access 21 Jan 2013 3,851
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Noise Effects and Management research done?

The largest centres of Noise Effects and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Salford and Oldenburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 290 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 209 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 135 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 126 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 107 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 102 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 96 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 96 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 91 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 91 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SalfordGB · 25.5 works21×
  2. OldenburgDE · 29.2 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Noise Effects and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Noise Effects and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chinese University of Hong Kong 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.

0%20%40%mean 29.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…Hong Kong Polytechni…National University …University College L…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 75.028.5%5.1×39 +40.7%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 73.737.8%3.1×20 +106.6%
3National University of SingaporeSingapore 73.128.3%3.6×37 +23.2%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.813.6%5.1×72 +37.8%
5Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 69.637.9%3.1×11 +24.4%
6University of Hong KongChina 66.528.1%2.6×21 +21.1%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 66.035.2%1.8×28 +38.9%
8Central South UniversityChina 60.135.1%1.1×18 +145.1%
9Southeast UniversityChina 59.825.1%2.3×30 +27.1%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 58.726.1%1.4×28 +33.5%

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 Noise Effects and Management, country by country

Is Noise Effects and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Noise Effects and 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 Noise Effects and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.049% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Noise Effects and 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.

still counting5%10%15%Noise Effects and Management10.1% 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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