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Risk Perception and Management

Risk Perception and Management is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 complex interplay between risk perception, trust, and communication in society, with a focus on topics such as nuclear power, food safety, public health emergencies, and environmental risk. It delves into the influence of cultural worldviews and the application of the precautionary principle in managing perceived risks. The role of trust in shaping public attitudes and responses to risk messages is also a central theme.

  • Risk Perception
  • Trust
  • Communication
  • Public Health
  • Nuclear Power
  • Food Safety
  • Precautionary Principle
  • Social Amplification of Risk
  • Environmental Risk
  • Cultural Worldviews
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Risk Perception and Management

Which countries lead Risk Perception and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (691 and 238 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 691 works
  2. 2 China 238 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 207 works
  4. 4 Japan 190 works
  5. 5 Germany 184 works
  6. 6 France 133 works
  7. 7 Canada 106 works
  8. 8 Italy 91 works
  9. 9 Australia 82 works
  10. 10 Brazil 82 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: 34.5%China: 11.9%United Kingdom: 10.3%Japan: 9.5%6 others listed: 33.9%34%largest
United States691 · 34.5%China238 · 11.9%United Kingdom207 · 10.3%Japan190 · 9.5%6 others listed679 · 33.9%

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

Which institutions lead Risk Perception and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Risk Perception and Management research, followed by Fukushima Medical University and University of Stavanger.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  2. 2 Fukushima Medical UniversityJapan 20 works
  3. 3 University of StavangerNorway 19 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 17 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 Nagasaki UniversityJapan 11 works
  8. 8 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 11 works
  9. 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 10 works
  10. 10 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Risk Perception and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Risk Perception and Management include Ali H. Mokdad, Daniel J. Kahneman and Amos Tversky.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k 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 Risk Perception and Management?

The most cited paper in Risk Perception and Management is "Perception of Risk" (Paul Slovic, 1987), with 9,303 citations. Next come "Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015" (7,829) and "Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017" (5,102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perception of Risk Paul Slovic · Science 17 Apr 1987 9,303
2 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar et al. · The Lancet Open access654 authors Oct 2016 7,829
3 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Jeffrey D Stanaway et al. · The Lancet Open access1,043 authors Nov 2018 5,102
4 Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology Jul 1989 4,990
5 INDIVIDUAL RISK ATTITUDES: MEASUREMENT, DETERMINANTS, AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman et al. · Journal of the European Economic Association Open access 31 Mar 2011 4,020
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Where is Risk Perception and Management research done?

The largest centres of Risk Perception and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fukushima.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 59 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 51 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 40 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 33 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 29 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 27 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 25 works
  10. 10 FukushimaJapan 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FukushimaJP · 24.4 works53×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Risk Perception and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Stavanger, ETH Zurich 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%10%20%30%mean 15.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MichiganUniversity of Stavan…ETH ZurichUniversity of Cambri…
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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 StavangerNorway 86.318.7%48.6×19 +35.1%
2ETH ZurichSwitzerland 59.013.2%6.0×11 -28.0%
3University of MichiganUnited States 58.725.9%2.5×10 +36.7%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 50.312.7%3.8×12 +4.2%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 49.918.0%2.6×10 -5.2%
6Lund UniversitySweden 49.721.8%5.7×8 +74.8%
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.115.7%2.5×9 +15.9%
8Fukushima Medical UniversityJapan 45.73.1%90.8×20 -12.0%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 44.213.5%2.4×10 +9.8%
10Kyoto UniversityJapan 36.115.7%4.2×8 +22.5%

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 Risk Perception and Management, country by country

Is Risk Perception and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Risk Perception 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 Risk Perception and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Risk Perception 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%Risk Perception and Management10.3% 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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