- Research works
- 43k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 4.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Topics
- 2
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +20% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Family Practice research?
On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, the United Kingdom and China rank highest in Family Practice. By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.8k and 799 works in 2022-now).
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
United States #1 all time
0.98× citation excellence · 1.97× journals · 100% breadth
10.5% top 10% · 3.1k works
- 2
United Kingdom #3 all time
1.07× citation excellence · 1.17× journals · 100% breadth
11.9% top 10% · 648 works
- 3
China #5 all time
1.70× citation excellence · 0.82× journals · 100% breadth
17.1% top 10% · 467 works
- 4
Canada #2 all time
1.12× citation excellence · 1.26× journals · 100% breadth
11.7% top 10% · 397 works
- 5
Netherlands #4 all time
1.44× citation excellence · 1.34× journals · 100% breadth
11.9% top 10% · 225 works
- 6
Australia #7 all time
1.30× citation excellence · 1.08× journals · 100% breadth
15.1% top 10% · 331 works
- 7
Germany #6 all time
1.16× citation excellence · 1.29× journals · 100% breadth
13.2% top 10% · 287 works
- 8
France #9 all time
0.83× citation excellence · 1.25× journals · 100% breadth
6.2% top 10% · 263 works
- 9
Spain #11 all time
0.93× citation excellence · 0.88× journals · 100% breadth
6.6% top 10% · 310 works
- 10
Italy #13 all time
1.25× citation excellence · 0.64× journals · 100% breadth
14.4% top 10% · 205 works
The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.
Of 14 countries ranked in Family Practice. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.
All countries ranked in Family PracticeBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
United States
3.8k works
- 2
United Kingdom
799 works
- 3
China
641 works
- 4
India
570 works
- 5
Canada
459 works
- 6
Australia
393 works
- 7
Spain
379 works
- 8
Germany
360 works
- 9
France
316 works
- 10
Indonesia
305 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Family Practice research?
Harvard University (United States) ranks first in Family Practice on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Johns Hopkins University and University of Toronto.
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
Harvard University United States · Cambridge · #1 all time
16.2% top 10% · 137 works
- 2
Johns Hopkins University United States · Baltimore · #2 all time
13.8% top 10% · 70 works
- 3
University of Toronto Canada · Toronto · #7 all time
11.9% top 10% · 63 works
- 4
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States · Chapel Hill · #21 all time
4.5% top 10% · 60 works
The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.
Of 4 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Family Practice.
Top 100 Family Practice institutionsBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
Harvard UniversityUnited States
167 works
- 2
Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
80 works
- 3
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
74 works
- 4
University of TorontoCanada
73 works
- 5
Design Intelligence (United States)United States
57 works
- 6
University of MichiganUnited States
57 works
- 7
United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States
56 works
- 8
University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
48 works
- 9
Mayo ClinicUnited States
47 works
- 10
The University of SydneyAustralia
46 works
Who are the leading researchers in Family Practice?
Counting only their work in Family Practice, Olle ten Cate, Hardeep Singh and Eric S. Holmboe have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.
- 1
Olle ten Cate
Netherlands · #46,333 worldwide overall
21.7 of 53 papers here in the top 10%
- 2
Hardeep Singh
United States · #63,353 worldwide overall
16.2 of 63 papers here in the top 10%
- 3
Eric S. Holmboe
United States · #51,228 worldwide overall
14.2 of 45 papers here in the top 10%
- 4
Cees van der Vleuten
Netherlands · #113,813 worldwide overall
20.6 of 86 papers here in the top 10%
- 5
William H. Shrank
United States · #57,521 worldwide overall
13.3 of 50 papers here in the top 10%
- 6
Sunil B. Kripalani
United States · #31,830 worldwide overall
10.7 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
- 7
Emily H. Reeve
Australia · #78,768 worldwide overall
9.5 of 19 papers here in the top 10%
- 8
P. Michael Ho
United States · #68,029 worldwide overall
9.8 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
- 9
Michele Heisler
United States · #42,007 worldwide overall
9.4 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
- 10
Jason R. Frank
Canada · #101,358 worldwide overall
8.9 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
Ranked on their work in Family Practice alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 229,772 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.
Top 100 Family Practice researchersWhere is Family Practice research done?
The largest centres of Family Practice research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), New York (United States) and Baltimore (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Norman.
Largest cities, 2022-now
- 1
LondonUnited Kingdom
229 works
- 2
BostonUnited States
174 works
- 3
New YorkUnited States
172 works
- 4
BaltimoreUnited States
113 works
- 5
PhiladelphiaUnited States
110 works
- 6
TorontoCanada
103 works
- 7
ParisFrance
98 works
- 8
MelbourneAustralia
90 works
- 9
BeijingChina
88 works
- 10
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
86 works
Where it is the local speciality
- NormanUS · 60.1 works15×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Family Practice than the world average.
Family Practice research by country
The best places for Family Practice research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.
Where is the best place to study Family Practice?
Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and University of California, San Francisco score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
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.
Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.
Every institution in Family Practice, country by countryIs Family Practice research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills and Medication Adherence and Compliance.
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 Family Practice as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.
Fractional works of Family Practice 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.
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.
What does Family Practice include?
Share who leads Family Practice
The leading institutions' badges4Each links to that institution's page and updates with every snapshot
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