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Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1952. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prevention of sexual violence and harassment, covering topics such as bystander education, rape myths, victim blame, workplace harassment, social reactions to assault disclosure, sexual assault perpetration, alcohol consumption, campus sexual assault, and the psychological impact of sexual violence. The research aims to understand risk factors, develop prevention strategies, and improve support systems for survivors.

  • Sexual Violence Prevention
  • Bystander Education
  • Rape Myths
  • Victim Blame
  • Workplace Harassment
  • Social Reactions
  • Sexual Assault Perpetration
  • Alcohol Consumption
  • Campus Sexual Assault
  • Psychological Impact
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Which countries lead Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.4k and 345 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 345 works
  3. 3 Canada 232 works
  4. 4 Australia 212 works
  5. 5 Spain 151 works
  6. 6 India 135 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 102 works
  8. 8 Germany 97 works
  9. 9 Brazil 96 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 95 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: 48.3%United Kingdom: 12.2%Canada: 8.2%Australia: 7.5%6 others listed: 23.9%48%largest
United States1,367 · 48.3%United Kingdom345 · 12.2%Canada232 · 8.2%Australia212 · 7.5%6 others listed675 · 23.9%

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

Which institutions lead Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research, followed by Indiana University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 23 works
  2. 2 Indiana UniversityUnited States 19 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 18 works
  5. 5 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  6. 6 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 Brown UniversityUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 City University of New YorkUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 Carleton UniversityCanada 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies include Ronald C. Kessler, Mika Kivimäki and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  5. 5 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  6. 6 Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo New Zealand 229k 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 Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies?

The most cited paper in Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies is "The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)" (Murray A. Straus, Sherry Hamby, Sue Boney‐McCoy et al., 1996), with 6,964 citations. Next come "Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales" (6,252) and "Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities" (4,075).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) Murray A. Straus, Sherry Hamby, Sue Boney‐McCoy et al. · Journal of Family Issues May 1996 6,964
2 Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales Murray A. Straus · Journal of Marriage and the Family Feb 1979 6,252
3 Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities Albert Bandura · Personality and Social Psychology Review Aug 1999 4,075
4 Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence Claudia García‐Moreno, Henrica A. F. M. Jansen, Mary Ellsberg et al. · The Lancet Oct 2006 3,212
5 Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review. John E. Archer · Psychological Bulletin Sep 2000 2,442
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Where is Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research done?

The largest centres of Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Brisbane (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 57 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 47 works
  4. 4 BrisbaneAustralia 37 works
  5. 5 AtlantaUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 MontrealCanada 32 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 29 works
  9. 9 OttawaCanada 28 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 27 works
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Where is the best place to study Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, La Trobe University, Monash University and The University of Melbourne 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 19.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →La Trobe UniversityMonash UniversityThe University of Me…University of Toronto
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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
1La Trobe UniversityAustralia 79.537.8%12.1×12 +92.3%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 68.022.2%4.4×15 +33.1%
3The University of MelbourneAustralia 64.020.6%3.9×15 +15.7%
4University of TorontoCanada 59.519.2%2.6×18 -2.1%
5Arizona State UniversityUnited States 58.712.4%7.9×18 +12.2%
6University of MichiganUnited States 54.812.3%3.6×19 -10.3%
7Deakin UniversityAustralia 54.327.2%5.7×9 +24.2%
8Brown UniversityUnited States 53.18.1%10.1×16 +24.1%
9University of WindsorCanada 51.721.3%20.0×10 +189.4%
10Indiana UniversityUnited States 50.914.3%5.7×19 -13.6%

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 Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies, country by country

Is Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sexual Assault and Victimization 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 Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sexual Assault and Victimization 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.

still counting5%10%15%Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies10.3% 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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