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Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 5.3k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses research on stalking and cyberstalking, including topics such as victimization, psychological impact, risk factors, intimate partner violence, gender differences, law enforcement response, mental health effects, and help-seeking behaviors.

  • Stalking
  • Cyberstalking
  • Victimization
  • Psychological Impact
  • Risk Factors
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Gender Differences
  • Law Enforcement Response
  • Mental Health Effects
  • Help-Seeking Behaviors
Research works
5.3k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
544
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

Which countries lead Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (309 and 122 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 309 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 122 works
  3. 3 Australia 61 works
  4. 4 Germany 61 works
  5. 5 India 54 works
  6. 6 Spain 50 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 44 works
  8. 8 Canada 40 works
  9. 9 China 38 works
  10. 10 Poland 35 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: 37.9%United Kingdom: 14.9%Australia: 7.6%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 32.0%38%largest
United States309 · 37.9%United Kingdom122 · 14.9%Australia61 · 7.6%Germany61 · 7.5%6 others listed261 · 32.0%

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

Which institutions lead Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Kentucky publishes the most Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research, followed by Michigan State University and Sapienza University of Rome.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of KentuckyUnited States 6 works
  2. 2 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 5 works
  3. 3 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 5 works
  4. 4 Monash UniversityAustralia 5 works
  5. 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 4 works
  6. 6 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 4 works
  7. 7 Griffith UniversityAustralia 4 works
  8. 8 University of KentUnited Kingdom 4 works
  9. 9 Universidade do PortoPortugal 4 works
  10. 10 University of CincinnatiUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment include Dan J. Stein, Roy Frederick Baumeister and Michael B. First.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  2. 2 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  3. 3 Michael B. First United States 156k 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 Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment?

The most cited paper in Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment is "Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth." (Robin Marie Kowalski, Gary W. Giumetti, Amber N. Schroeder et al., 2014), with 3,241 citations. Next come "Impression management: A literature review and two-component model." (3,179) and "Twenty Years' Research on Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Maladjustment: A Meta‐analytic Review of Cross‐sectional Studies" (2,690).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. Robin Marie Kowalski, Gary W. Giumetti, Amber N. Schroeder et al. · Psychological Bulletin Review 10 Feb 2014 3,241
2 Impression management: A literature review and two-component model. Mark R. Leary, Robin Marie Kowalski · Psychological Bulletin 1990 3,179
3 Twenty Years' Research on Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Maladjustment: A Meta‐analytic Review of Cross‐sectional Studies David S. J. Hawker, Michael John Boulton · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Open access May 2000 2,690
4 Tit for Tat? The Spiraling Effect of Incivility in the Workplace Lynne M. Andersson, Christine M. Pearson · Academy of Management Review Jul 1999 2,421
5 The content and development of mobbing at work Heinz Leymann · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology Jun 1996 2,268
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Where is Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research done?

The largest centres of Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia), Melbourne (Australia) and Brisbane (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 15 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 14 works
  4. 4 BrisbaneAustralia 12 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 10 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 10 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 9 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 8 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 23.5 works2.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment than the world average.

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Is Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0050% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment 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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