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Occupational Health and Safety Research

Occupational Health and Safety Research is a research topic within Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. Science Explorer counts 57k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on enhancing workplace safety culture and practices, with a particular emphasis on occupational safety, accident prevention, and risk perception. The research covers various aspects of safety culture, safety climate, and organizational factors influencing employee behavior and safety management in industries such as construction.

Safety Culture
Occupational Safety
Safety Climate
Accident Prevention
Workplace Safety
Construction Safety
Safety Management
Organizational Culture
Employee Behavior
Risk Perception

Research works: 57k
In the world top 10%: 5.8k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +25%
Largest producer: China

Occupational Health and Safety Research

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

Which countries lead Occupational Health and Safety Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 2.2k works
2 United States 2k works
3 India 849 works
4 Indonesia 832 works
5 Brazil 739 works
6 Türkiye 697 works
7 United Kingdom 498 works
8 Australia 447 works
9 Canada 365 works
10 Malaysia 361 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.

China2,174 · 24.2%United States2,032 · 22.6%India849 · 9.4%Indonesia832 · 9.3%6 others listed3,107 · 34.5%

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

Which institutions lead Occupational Health and Safety Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Indonesia publishes the most Occupational Health and Safety Research research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 60 works
2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 59 works
3 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 54 works
4 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 49 works
5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 47 works
6 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 45 works
7 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 45 works
8 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 45 works
9 Central South UniversityChina 43 works
10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational Health and Safety Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Occupational Health and Safety Research include Ronald C. Kessler, Hermann Brenner and Cyrus Cooper.

1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
6 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
7 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Occupational Health and Safety Research?

The most cited paper in Occupational Health and Safety Research is "The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work" (Suniya S. Luthar, Dante Cicchetti, Bronwyn E. Becker, 2000), with 9,365 citations. Next come "Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems" (8,747) and "Human error: models and management" (5,556).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work Suniya S. Luthar, Dante Cicchetti, Bronwyn E. Becker · Child Development Open access	May 2000	9,365
2	Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems Mica Robertson Endsley · Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society	Mar 1995	8,747
3	Human error: models and management JAMES T. REASON · BMJ Open access	18 Mar 2000	5,556
4	Business-unit-level relationship between employee satisfaction, employee engagement, and business outcomes: A meta-analysis. James K. Harter, Frank L. Schmidt, Theodore L. Hayes · Journal of Applied Psychology Review	2002	4,603
5	Centering predictor variables in cross-sectional multilevel models: A new look at an old issue. Craig K. Enders, Davood Tofighi · Psychological Methods	2007	4,514

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Where is Occupational Health and Safety Research research done?

The largest centres of Occupational Health and Safety Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 439 works
2 IstanbulTürkiye 174 works
3 ShanghaiChina 149 works
4 SeoulSouth Korea 140 works
5 JakartaIndonesia 140 works
6 TehranIran 131 works
7 LondonUnited Kingdom 122 works
8 São PauloBrazil 113 works
9 Xi'anChina 111 works
10 NanjingChina 104 works

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Where is the best place to study Occupational Health and Safety Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China University of Mining and Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	84.7	31.8%	4.9×	54	+23.2%
2	China University of Mining and TechnologyChina	73.7	26.2%	5.9×	59	+64.5%
3	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	68.7	45.0%	1.0×	24	+8.4%
4	UNSW SydneyAustralia	65.8	22.5%	2.7×	32	+27.6%
5	Deakin UniversityAustralia	65.7	31.0%	3.3×	19	+27.7%
6	Tsinghua UniversityChina	65.5	21.1%	1.6×	47	+49.4%
7	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States	64.0	24.8%	3.4×	36	+11.7%
8	Southeast UniversityChina	64.0	35.6%	1.1×	21	+79.0%
9	Dalian Maritime UniversityChina	63.3	37.0%	3.8×	18	+181.2%
10	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	63.0	46.1%	0.9×	9	+68.2%
11	Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia	62.8	27.8%	5.8×	25	+8.6%
12	Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea	62.2	29.4%	4.6×	18	+106.3%
13	Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina	61.4	18.0%	5.8×	45	+35.9%
14	University of Hong KongChina	60.5	30.2%	1.2×	14	+97.9%
15	Chongqing UniversityChina	60.0	28.7%	1.7×	23	+109.5%
16	City University of Hong KongChina	60.0	35.1%	2.0×	15	-24.6%
17	Central South UniversityChina	59.9	18.3%	1.8×	43	+146.4%
18	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	59.4	25.5%	2.2×	24	+60.2%
19	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	58.8	16.1%	4.9×	36	-7.3%
20	Virginia TechUnited States	58.5	23.9%	3.4×	24	+83.8%
21	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States	58.2	12.5%	3.7×	45	+63.1%
22	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	57.5	9.4%	5.8×	45	+122.0%
23	National University of SingaporeSingapore	57.5	21.5%	1.2×	19	+15.0%
24	Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom	57.0	19.1%	12.3×	21	+52.9%
25	University of FloridaUnited States	56.4	19.6%	1.8×	25	+55.6%
26	Western Sydney UniversityAustralia	56.4	21.3%	4.6×	16	+29.4%
27	University of South AustraliaAustralia	56.4	21.6%	5.8×	16	+19.7%
28	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	56.2	27.3%	1.3×	16	+102.2%
29	University of Technology SydneyAustralia	55.9	30.3%	1.9×	11	+54.4%
30	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	55.7	26.8%	2.8×	13	+50.2%
31	University of TorontoCanada	54.9	14.7%	1.1×	29	+41.4%
32	Wuhan University of TechnologyChina	54.2	22.1%	2.5×	26	+59.3%
33	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	54.2	27.9%	0.7×	25	+74.5%
34	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	54.0	13.7%	2.2×	23	+48.1%
35	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	53.9	19.9%	1.5×	18	+147.4%
36	Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina	53.7	15.4%	10.5×	30	+165.6%
37	RMIT UniversityAustralia	53.5	21.7%	4.2×	21	-25.4%
38	Tongji UniversityChina	53.4	19.6%	1.3×	25	+34.8%
39	Politecnico di MilanoItaly	52.9	18.9%	2.3×	21	+94.0%
40	Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia	52.5	12.3%	3.3×	27	+71.6%
41	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	51.0	1.6%	5.1×	49	+51.2%
42	University of IndonesiaIndonesia	48.9	1.1%	4.0×	60	+16.9%
43	Bond UniversityAustralia	48.5	19.0%	14.2×	11	+222.5%
44	Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea	48.4	36.3%	1.6×	9	+3.6%
45	Embry–Riddle Aeronautical UniversityUnited States	47.6	17.5%	24.2×	19	+40.3%
46	University of BolognaItaly	46.9	29.7%	1.2×	13	-14.9%
47	China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina	43.8	36.5%	1.4×	8	-20.5%
48	University of Port HarcourtNigeria	40.7	0.4%	13.1×	28	+86.9%
49	Midlands State UniversityZimbabwe	40.0	15.9%	18.3×	12	-
50	Hamedan University of Medical SciencesIran	38.9	15.5%	12.9×	19	-12.4%
51	University of MoratuwaSri Lanka	38.9	3.3%	11.9×	16	+117.2%
52	University of Occupational and Environmental Health JapanJapan	37.1	3.1%	25.9×	19	+79.1%
53	University of SharjahUnited Arab Emirates	35.8	4.0%	3.4×	11	+338.9%
54	Islamic Azad University, TehranIran	35.7	5.0%	1.8×	39	-48.8%
55	Civil Aviation Flight University of ChinaChina	35.4	14.8%	12.3×	10	+243.7%
56	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	34.1	6.4%	1.7×	12	+1.9%

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 Occupational Health and Safety Research, country by country

Is Occupational Health and Safety Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Occupational Health and Safety Research.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Occupational Health and Safety Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.067% in 2024.

Fractional works of Occupational Health and Safety Research 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

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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Which countries lead Occupational Health and Safety Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Occupational Health and Safety Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational Health and Safety Research?

What are the most cited papers in Occupational Health and Safety Research?

Where is Occupational Health and Safety Research research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Occupational Health and Safety Research?

Is Occupational Health and Safety Research research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion