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Social and Behavioral Studies

Social and Behavioral Studies is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 8.9k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to social activity and health research, including the impact of socioeconomic factors on risky behaviors among adolescents, the role of redox homeostasis in cancer, the use of ethnography in health research, and the development of mass sports as a basis for a healthy lifestyle. It also explores the influence of beliefs and motivation on socio-psychological adaptation among university students, as well as the relationship between digital learning environments and the science of learning.

  • Social Activity
  • Health Research
  • Youth
  • Cancer
  • Ethnography
  • Physical Culture
  • Digital Learning
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Redox Homeostasis
  • Socio-Psychological Adaptation
Research works
8.9k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
880
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social and Behavioral Studies

Which countries lead Social and Behavioral Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Indonesia publish the most (1.8k and 689 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.8k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 689 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 333 works
  4. 4 United States 222 works
  5. 5 China 139 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 91 works
  7. 7 Kazakhstan 48 works
  8. 8 ?? 45 works
  9. 9 Hungary 40 works
  10. 10 Poland 40 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.

Russia: 52.8%Indonesia: 19.7%Ukraine: 9.5%United States: 6.4%6 others listed: 11.6%53%largest
Russia1,843 · 52.8%Indonesia689 · 19.7%Ukraine333 · 9.5%United States222 · 6.4%6 others listed403 · 11.6%

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

Which institutions lead Social and Behavioral Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Social and Behavioral Studies research, followed by Weatherford College and Ural Federal University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 203 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 76 works
  3. 3 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 31 works
  4. 4 Financial UniversityRussia 31 works
  5. 5 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 29 works
  6. 6 Chuvash State UniversityRussia 27 works
  7. 7 Tambov State UniversityRussia 27 works
  8. 8 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 27 works
  9. 9 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Tambov State Technical UniversityRussia 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social and Behavioral Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social and Behavioral Studies include Terrie E. Moffitt, Jaakko A. Kaprio and Avshalom Caspi.

  1. 1 Terrie E. Moffitt United Kingdom 195k citations
  2. 2 Jaakko A. Kaprio Finland 183k citations
  3. 3 Avshalom Caspi United Kingdom 152k citations
  4. 4 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k 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 Social and Behavioral Studies?

The most cited paper in Social and Behavioral Studies is "Exercise of Personal Agency Through the Self-Efficacy Mechanism" (Albert Bandura, 2014), with 552 citations. Next come "Development of a Chinese Internet addiction scale and its psychometric study" (486) and "MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION: A POINT OF ISSUE" (364).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exercise of Personal Agency Through the Self-Efficacy Mechanism Albert Bandura Book chapter 11 Jun 2014 552
2 Development of a Chinese Internet addiction scale and its psychometric study Z-S Chen, Li‐Jen Weng, Yuhao Su et al. 2003 486
3 MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION: A POINT OF ISSUE Mariano Chóliz Montañés · Addiction Open access 11 Jan 2010 364
4 Differentiating the cognitive and behavioral aspects of social support Christine Dunkel‐Schetter, Tracy L. Bennett · Medical Entomology and Zoology 1990 353
5 Classification of Myocardial Infarction: Frequency and Features of Type 2 Myocardial Infarction Lotte Saaby, Tina Svenstrup Poulsen, Susanne Elisabeth Hosbond et al. · The American Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Jul 2013 334
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Where is Social and Behavioral Studies research done?

The largest centres of Social and Behavioral Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Weatherford (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tambov and Cheboksary.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 511 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 136 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 100 works
  4. 4 WeatherfordUnited States 76 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 76 works
  6. 6 YekaterinburgRussia 70 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 67 works
  8. 8 TambovRussia 52 works
  9. 9 SemarangIndonesia 50 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TambovRU · 51.9 works167×
  2. CheboksaryRU · 30.4 works108×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social and Behavioral Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Social and Behavioral Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Financial University and Weatherford College 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 16.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow State Univers…Financial UniversityLomonosov Moscow Sta…Weatherford College
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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
1Moscow State University of Psychology & EducationRussia 69.127.5%97.6×16 +17.3%
2Financial UniversityRussia 64.417.7%39.6×31 +31.8%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 63.99.1%16.3×76 +84.2%
4Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 59.813.9%9.1×27 +12.0%
5Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 59.89.4%21.8×20 +7.8%
6Tambov State Technical UniversityRussia 56.923.5%200.5×24 +1.9%
7Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 56.618.0%7.1×22 +17.4%
8Saratov State UniversityRussia 55.519.4%62.5×18 -9.8%
9Herzen UniversityRussia 52.112.3%72.8×22 +19.1%
10Ural Federal UniversityRussia 52.011.5%31.1×31 +10.7%

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 Social and Behavioral Studies, country by country

Is Social and Behavioral Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Social and Behavioral 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 Social and Behavioral Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Social and Behavioral Studies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Social and Behavioral 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%Social and Behavioral Studies9.8% in 202520102020

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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