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Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 explores the effects of sleep deprivation, shift work, and fatigue on neurobehavioral functions, cognitive performance, and occupational safety. It covers topics such as the impact of reduced work hours on medical errors, health disorders of shift workers, driver fatigue detection, and the association between sleep deprivation and metabolic syndrome.

  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Fatigue
  • Shift Work
  • Neurobehavioral Functions
  • Alertness
  • Cognitive Performance
  • Health Disorders
  • Driver Fatigue
  • Occupational Safety
  • Metabolic Syndrome
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+40%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Which countries lead Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 829 works
  4. 4 Japan 295 works
  5. 5 Australia 288 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 266 works
  7. 7 South Korea 245 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 211 works
  9. 9 France 201 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 176 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: 27.8%China: 24.6%India: 15.7%Japan: 5.6%6 others listed: 26.3%28%largest
United States1,469 · 27.8%China1,298 · 24.6%India829 · 15.7%Japan295 · 5.6%6 others listed1,387 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research, followed by United States Department of Defense and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 50 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 35 works
  4. 4 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 34 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  6. 6 National University of SingaporeSingapore 27 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 26 works
  8. 8 University of PittsburghUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 24 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  6. 6 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  7. 7 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  8. 8 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  9. 9 Frank B. Hu United States 281k 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 Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue?

The most cited paper in Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue is "The Insomnia Severity Index: Psychometric Indicators to Detect Insomnia Cases and Evaluate Treatment Response" (Charles M. Morin, Geneviève Belleville, Lynda Bélanger et al., 2011), with 4,716 citations. Next come "Impact of sleep debt on metabolic and endocrine function" (3,701) and "The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation" (3,177).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Insomnia Severity Index: Psychometric Indicators to Detect Insomnia Cases and Evaluate Treatment Response Charles M. Morin, Geneviève Belleville, Lynda Bélanger et al. · SLEEP Open access May 2011 4,716
2 Impact of sleep debt on metabolic and endocrine function Karine Spiegel, Rachel Leproult, Eve Van Cauter · The Lancet Oct 1999 3,701
3 The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation Hans P. A. Van Dongen, Greg Maislin, Janet M. Mullington et al. · SLEEP Mar 2003 3,177
4 Subjective and Objective Sleepiness in the Active Individual Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Mats Gillberg · International Journal of Neuroscience 1990 3,124
5 Sleep Health: Can We Define It? Does It Matter? Daniel J. Buysse · SLEEP Open access 2014 2,580
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Where is Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research done?

The largest centres of Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Chennai (India) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockhampton and Adelaide.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 203 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 129 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 112 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 101 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 98 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 77 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 72 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 71 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 68 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RockhamptonAU · 22.3 works28×
  2. AdelaideAU · 47.3 works5.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Singapore, Harvard University and Flinders University 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 20.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Flinders UniversityHarvard UniversityKarolinska Institutet
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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
1National University of SingaporeSingapore 70.825.5%3.3×27 +36.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.812.7%3.0×66 +1.3%
3Flinders UniversityAustralia 59.314.2%10.6×19 +88.5%
4Karolinska InstitutetSweden 57.710.5%5.2×20 +28.6%
5Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 57.534.9%1.8×10 +171.5%
6Central Queensland UniversityAustralia 55.015.6%32.0×22 +6.5%
7Korea UniversitySouth Korea 54.724.6%3.0×12 +138.1%
8Monash UniversityAustralia 54.69.6%5.3×35 +6.9%
9Central South UniversityChina 54.327.0%1.3×17 +146.6%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 53.425.5%1.5×9 +50.6%

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 Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue, country by country

Is Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue.

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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 Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue 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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