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Older Adults Driving Studies

Older Adults Driving Studies is a research topic within Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1958. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the mobility and driving safety of older adults, focusing on factors such as driving cessation, cognitive and visual impairment, self-regulation, and their impact on health outcomes and quality of life. The research covers a wide range of topics including assessment tools, predictors of driving performance, and the relationship between mobility and well-being in later life.

  • Driving Cessation
  • Mobility
  • Older Adults
  • Cognitive Factors
  • Visual Impairment
  • Safety
  • Neuropsychological Functioning
  • Self-regulation
  • Health Outcomes
  • Quality of Life
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
915
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Older Adults Driving Studies

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

Which countries lead Older Adults Driving Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (786 and 275 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 786 works
  2. 2 China 275 works
  3. 3 Canada 167 works
  4. 4 Japan 163 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 146 works
  6. 6 Australia 146 works
  7. 7 Germany 120 works
  8. 8 South Korea 66 works
  9. 9 India 58 works
  10. 10 France 58 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: 39.6%China: 13.9%Canada: 8.4%Japan: 8.2%6 others listed: 29.9%40%largest
United States786 · 39.6%China275 · 13.9%Canada167 · 8.4%Japan163 · 8.2%6 others listed593 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Older Adults Driving Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Older Adults Driving Studies research, followed by University of Michigan and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 26 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 18 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 18 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 15 works
  6. 6 University of FloridaUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  10. 10 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Older Adults Driving Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Older Adults Driving Studies include Theo Vos, Ali H. Mokdad and Robert John Tibshirani.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  3. 3 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k 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 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  10. 10 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k 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 Older Adults Driving Studies?

The most cited paper in Older Adults Driving Studies is "The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment" (Ziad Samir Nasreddine, Natalie A. Phillips, Valérie Bédirian et al., 2005), with 26,231 citations. Next come "Older Adults' Reasons for Using Technology while Aging in Place" (19,753) and "Transportation Research Record" (11,437).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment Ziad Samir Nasreddine, Natalie A. Phillips, Valérie Bédirian et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 30 Mar 2005 26,231
2 Older Adults' Reasons for Using Technology while Aging in Place Sebastiaan Theodorus Michaël Peek, Katrien Ger Luijkx, M. D. Rijnaard et al. · Gerontology Open access 4 Jun 2015 19,753
3 Transportation Research Record Anne Vingaard Olesen, Erik Kjems, Kristian Hegner Reinau et al. 23 Jul 2016 11,437
4 The FAB Bruno Dubois, A. Slachevsky, Irene Litvan et al. · Neurology 12 Dec 2000 3,948
5 Silent Brain Infarcts and the Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline Sarah E. Vermeer, Niels D. Prins, Tom den Heijer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 Mar 2003 2,326
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Where is Older Adults Driving Studies research done?

The largest centres of Older Adults Driving Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 52 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 48 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 40 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 38 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 30 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 28 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Older Adults Driving Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, Tongji University and University of Michigan 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 14.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tongji UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…University of TorontoUniversity of Michigan
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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
1University of TorontoCanada 57.88.7%5.6×26 -5.0%
2Tongji UniversityChina 55.434.5%2.5×9 +212.8%
3University of MichiganUnited States 49.67.1%5.2×18 +60.0%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 48.510.6%4.2×15 +155.4%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 48.16.3%8.1×18 -5.9%
6University of the Sunshine CoastAustralia 46.516.4%41.1×9 +429.2%
7Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 46.019.7%14.4×11 -18.4%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 45.812.9%2.3×17 +3.8%
9The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 43.018.9%3.7×10 +39.5%
10McMaster UniversityCanada 42.911.8%7.0×9 +18.7%

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 Older Adults Driving Studies, country by country

Is Older Adults Driving Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Older Adults Driving Studies.

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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 Older Adults Driving Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Older Adults Driving Studies 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.

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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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