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Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

Youth Substance Use and School Attendance is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 8.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex issue of school absenteeism, including truancy and social withdrawal behaviors such as hikikomori, among children and adolescents. It investigates the associated risk factors, mental health implications, intervention programs, and the role of family and community involvement in addressing this problem.

  • School Absenteeism
  • Truancy
  • Hikikomori
  • Adolescent Mental Health
  • School Refusal Behavior
  • Youth Social Withdrawal
  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Intervention Programs
  • Risk Factors
  • Family and Community Involvement
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
851
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

Which countries lead Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (547 and 179 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 547 works
  2. 2 China 179 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 135 works
  4. 4 Germany 119 works
  5. 5 Japan 84 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 77 works
  7. 7 Australia 71 works
  8. 8 Canada 62 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 55 works
  10. 10 India 52 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: 39.6%China: 13.0%United Kingdom: 9.7%Germany: 8.6%6 others listed: 29.1%40%largest
United States547 · 39.6%China179 · 13.0%United Kingdom135 · 9.7%Germany119 · 8.6%6 others listed402 · 29.1%

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

Which institutions lead Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research, followed by University College London and University of Alicante.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 12 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  3. 3 University of AlicanteSpain 9 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 9 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 8 works
  7. 7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 8 works
  8. 8 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 7 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 7 works
  10. 10 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Youth Substance Use and School Attendance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Youth Substance Use and School Attendance 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 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  5. 5 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  6. 6 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  7. 7 Ai Koyanagi Spain 231k citations
  8. 8 Norito Kawakami Japan 202k citations
  9. 9 George Patton Australia 200k citations
  10. 10 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k 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 Youth Substance Use and School Attendance?

The most cited paper in Youth Substance Use and School Attendance is "Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research" (Célyne Bastien, 2001), with 8,166 citations. Next come "Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention." (5,377) and "Rethinking Rumination" (5,173).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research Célyne Bastien · Sleep Medicine Jul 2001 8,166
2 Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention. J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, Janet Y. Miller · Psychological Bulletin 1992 5,377
3 Rethinking Rumination Susan Nolen–Hoeksema, Blair E. Wisco, Sonja Lyubomirsky · Perspectives on Psychological Science Open access Sep 2008 5,173
4 The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010 Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen, Frank Jacobi, Jürgen T. Rehm et al. · European Neuropsychopharmacology Open access Sep 2011 3,849
5 Prevalence and Co-occurrence of Substance Use Disorders and IndependentMood and Anxiety Disorders Bridget F. Grant, Frederick S. Stinson, Deborah A. Dawson et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Aug 2004 2,912
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Where is Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research done?

The largest centres of Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 27 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 26 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 15 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 15 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 14 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 14 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 13 works
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Where is the best place to study Youth Substance Use and School Attendance?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Harvard University and University of Alicante score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 73.229.0%3.3×10 +31.5%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.09.7%2.0×12 +33.9%
3University of AlicanteSpain 45.019.4%17.8×10 -7.5%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 17.66.7%3.0×9 -1.4%
5University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 1.65.4%2.6×8 -20.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Youth Substance Use and School Attendance, country by country

Is Youth Substance Use and School Attendance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Youth Substance Use and School Attendance.

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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 Youth Substance Use and School Attendance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0091% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Youth Substance Use and School Attendance 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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