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Quality of Life Measurement

Quality of Life Measurement is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 1.2k research works in it since 1964. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and measurement of quality of life, sustainable development, and socioeconomic progress in European Union countries. It includes research on synthetic indicators, social welfare, knowledge-based economy, environmental quality, climate change, and maternal and child health. The papers also analyze the implementation and impact of the Europe 2020 Strategy on economic performance and competitiveness.

  • Europe 2020 Strategy
  • Quality of Life
  • Sustainable Development
  • Synthetic Indicators
  • Social Welfare
  • Knowledge-based Economy
  • Environmental Quality Index
  • Climate Change
  • Institutional Analysis
  • Maternal and Child Health
Research works
1.2k
fractional, since 1964
In the world top 10%
124
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Quality of Life Measurement research?

By volume, Spain and Poland publish the most (48 and 44 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 48 works
  2. 2 Poland 44 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 25 works
  4. 4 Italy 24 works
  5. 5 Mexico 23 works
  6. 6 Romania 21 works
  7. 7 India 18 works
  8. 8 United States 16 works
  9. 9 Slovakia 13 works
  10. 10 Czechia 10 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.

Spain: 19.8%Poland: 18.2%Türkiye: 10.3%Italy: 9.9%6 others listed: 41.8%20%largest
Spain48 · 19.8%Poland44 · 18.2%Türkiye25 · 10.3%Italy24 · 9.9%6 others listed102 · 41.8%

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

Which institutions lead Quality of Life Measurement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica publishes the most Quality of Life Measurement research, followed by Bucharest University of Economic Studies and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

What are the most cited papers in Quality of Life Measurement?

The most cited paper in Quality of Life Measurement is "Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Techniques as Tools for the Quality Assessment of Composite Indicators" (M. Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Stefano Tarantola, 2005), with 848 citations. Next come "Construcción de un índice de privación a partir de datos censales en grandes ciudades españolas (Proyecto MEDEA)" (361) and "DISLOCATION CLIMB" (249).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Techniques as Tools for the Quality Assessment of Composite Indicators M. Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Stefano Tarantola · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Mar 2005 848
2 Construcción de un índice de privación a partir de datos censales en grandes ciudades españolas (Proyecto MEDEA) M. Felicitas Domínguez‐Berjón, Carme Borrell, Gemma Serral et al. · Gaceta Sanitaria Open access May 2008 361
3 DISLOCATION CLIMB J. Friedel · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1964 249
4 Synthetic Indicators of Quality of Life in Europe Noelia Somarriba Arechavala, Bernardo Pena · Social Indicators Research Book chapter 20 Nov 2008 217
5 Population density, a factor in the spread of COVID-19 in Algeria: statistic study Nadjat Kadi, Mounia Khelfaoui · Bulletin of the National Research Centre/Bulletin of the National Research Center Open access 20 Aug 2020 206
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Where is Quality of Life Measurement research done?

The largest centres of Quality of Life Measurement research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Mexico City (Mexico) and Warsaw (Poland).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 14 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 10 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 9 works
  4. 4 WarsawPoland 8 works
  5. 5 BucharestRomania 8 works
  6. 6 BratislavaSlovakia 7 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 6 works
  8. 8 BudapestHungary 5 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 4 works
  10. 10 SzczecinPoland 4 works
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Is Quality of Life Measurement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Quality of Life Measurement.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Quality of Life Measurement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Quality of Life Measurement 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%Quality of Life Measurement11.4% in 20252020

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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