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Occupational Health and Performance

Occupational Health and Performance is a research topic within Occupational Therapy. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 22.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the occupational health of emergency responders and military personnel, particularly addressing issues such as back pain, injuries, physical fitness, load carriage, respiratory health, and cancer risk associated with occupational exposure. The research covers a wide range of topics including physiological, biomechanical, and medical aspects of load carriage, cardiovascular disease in firefighters, musculoskeletal injuries in adolescents, and the impact of firefighting activities on respiratory health.

  • Firefighters
  • Emergency Responders
  • Military Personnel
  • Back Pain
  • Injuries
  • Physical Fitness
  • Load Carriage
  • Respiratory Health
  • Cancer Risk
  • Occupational Exposure
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+30%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Occupational Health and Performance research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 212 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 212 works
  3. 3 Brazil 191 works
  4. 4 Australia 172 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 157 works
  6. 6 India 132 works
  7. 7 Canada 120 works
  8. 8 Spain 102 works
  9. 9 Poland 96 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 84 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: 47.0%China: 8.9%Brazil: 8.0%Australia: 7.2%6 others listed: 29.0%47%largest
United States1,124 · 47.0%China212 · 8.9%Brazil191 · 8.0%Australia172 · 7.2%6 others listed692 · 29.0%

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

Which institutions lead Occupational Health and Performance research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences publishes the most Occupational Health and Performance research, followed by U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and Bond University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental MedicineUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 Bond UniversityAustralia 15 works
  4. 4 Naval Health Research CenterUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 University of PittsburghUnited States 15 works
  6. 6 United States ArmyUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 Universidade do PortoPortugal 15 works
  9. 9 National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 University of KentuckyUnited States 12 works

Where is Occupational Health and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Occupational Health and Performance research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Bethesda (United States), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Natick, Arlington and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 49 works
  2. 2 Bethesda United States 46 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 41 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 39 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C. United States 38 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 37 works
  7. 7 São Paulo Brazil 33 works
  8. 8 Tehran Iran 31 works
  9. 9 San Diego United States 31 works
  10. 10 Seoul South Korea 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NatickUS · 24.1 works308×
  2. ArlingtonUS · 27.2 works12×
  3. BethesdaUS · 45.6 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Occupational Health and Performance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Occupational Health and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Bond University, Universidade do Porto and Oklahoma State 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 32.51%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Bond University: 15, 44.3%Universidade do Porto: 15, 46.9%Oklahoma State University: 11, 43.3%Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: 26, 24.8%California State University, Fullerton: 9, 37.4%University of Pittsburgh: 15, 33.1%University of Kentucky: 12, 21.4%Auburn University: 8, 21.5%Monash University: 9, 20.7%Harvard University: 9, 31.7%Universidade do PortoBond UniversityOklahoma State Unive…Uniformed Services U…
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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 Bond UniversityAustralia 85.044.3%68.0×15 +342.6%
2 Universidade do PortoPortugal 69.546.9%7.4×15 +52.4%
3 Oklahoma State UniversityUnited States 66.843.3%18.8×11 —
4 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 62.424.8%80.7×26 +44.4%
5 California State University, FullertonUnited States 56.837.4%37.7×9 —
6 University of PittsburghUnited States 51.233.1%5.7×15 +85.0%
7 University of KentuckyUnited States 42.621.4%7.3×12 +126.2%
8 Auburn UniversityUnited States 38.421.5%7.4×8 +121.4%
9 Monash UniversityAustralia 36.520.7%3.1×9 +209.0%
10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 30.631.7%2.0×9 +34.7%

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 Occupational Health and Performance research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 30% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Occupational Health and Performance.

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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.