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Health Information Management research

Health Information Management is a subfield of Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 168k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: academic discipline.

Research works
168k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
17k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
12
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+80%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health Information Management

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

What is Health Information Management research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2021-25, its most used keywords are Healthcare, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Public Health, Epidemiology. Gaining share since 2011-15: Digital Healthcare Services, E-commerce, Information Technology, Health Research, Nutrition. Losing share: Healthcare Accreditation, Quality Improvement, Ethics, Healthcare Knowledge Management.

▲ gaining share of this field◆ holding its share▼ losing share

Size is the world's fractional works in 2021-25 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2011-15. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Healthcare24k▲ 2.1×2 topics
  2. Data Mining23k▲ 2.7×2 topics
  3. Big Data Analytics23k▲ 3.0×1 topic
  4. Machine Learning23k▲ 3.0×1 topic
  5. Public Health19k▲ 1.53×3 topics
  6. Epidemiology16k▲ 2.1×2 topics
  7. Health Research9,411▲ 4.4×1 topic
  8. Nutrition9,411▲ 4.4×1 topic
  9. Healthcare Regulation9,242▼ 0.60×2 topics
  10. Information Technology8,787▲ 4.6×2 topics
  11. Digital Healthcare Services8,562▲ 8.5×1 topic
  12. E-commerce8,562▲ 8.5×1 topic
  13. Medical Devices7,010▲ 1.22×1 topic
  14. Patient Safety7,010▲ 1.22×1 topic
  15. Clinical Decision Support Systems6,113▼ 0.33×1 topic
  16. Electronic Health Records6,113▼ 0.33×1 topic
  17. Medical Admissions2,730▼ 0.59×1 topic
  18. Non-Communicable Diseases2,730▼ 0.59×1 topic
  19. Healthcare Accreditation2,232▼ 0.23×1 topic
  20. Quality Improvement2,232▼ 0.23×1 topic
  21. Clinical Coding2,175▼ 0.35×1 topic
  22. ICD-102,175▼ 0.35×1 topic
  23. Dietetics1,617▼ 0.43×1 topic
  24. Nutrition Care Process1,617▼ 0.43×1 topic
  25. Context Information Model1,591▼ 0.42×1 topic
  26. Ontology-based1,591▼ 0.42×1 topic
  27. Cinemeducation1,245▼ 0.67×1 topic
  28. Film as Teaching Tool1,245▼ 0.67×1 topic
  29. Ethics225▼ 0.25×1 topic
  30. Healthcare Knowledge Management225▼ 0.25×1 topic

Which countries lead Health Information Management research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and the United Kingdom rank highest in Health Information Management. By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (20k and 9.6k works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States #1 all time 0.98× citation excellence · 1.93× journals · 100% breadth 11.7% top 10% · 5.9k works
  2. 2 China #6 all time 1.10× citation excellence · 1.04× journals · 100% breadth 12.9% top 10% · 2.6k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom #2 all time 1.05× citation excellence · 1.38× journals · 100% breadth 13.3% top 10% · 1.4k works
  4. 4 Australia #3 all time 1.45× citation excellence · 1.15× journals · 100% breadth 17.0% top 10% · 723 works
  5. 5 Germany #7 all time 1.30× citation excellence · 1.41× journals · 100% breadth 11.3% top 10% · 544 works
  6. 6 India #10 all time 0.86× citation excellence · 0.36× journals · 100% breadth 7.3% top 10% · 8.5k works
  7. 7 Netherlands #5 all time 1.42× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth 14.0% top 10% · 286 works
  8. 8 Canada #4 all time 1.03× citation excellence · 1.18× journals · 100% breadth 13.6% top 10% · 662 works
  9. 9 South Korea #8 all time 1.44× citation excellence · 0.90× journals · 100% breadth 16.6% top 10% · 477 works
  10. 10 Brazil #9 all time 0.95× citation excellence · 0.34× journals · 100% breadth 9.1% top 10% · 4.7k 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 29 countries ranked in Health Information Management. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Health Information Management

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 20k works
  2. 2 India 9.6k works
  3. 3 United States 6.9k works
  4. 4 Brazil 5.4k works
  5. 5 China 2.8k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 1.7k works
  7. 7 ?? 1.6k works
  8. 8 Australia 844 works
  9. 9 Canada 768 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 705 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.

Indonesia: 40.4%India: 18.9%United States: 13.6%Brazil: 10.6%6 others listed: 16.5%40%largest
Indonesia20k · 40.4%India9,568 · 18.9%United States6,875 · 13.6%Brazil5,374 · 10.6%6 others listed8,380 · 16.5%

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

Which institutions lead Health Information Management research?

Harvard University (United States) ranks first in Health Information Management on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Johns Hopkins University and University of Toronto.

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard University United States · Cambridge · #1 all time 18.1% top 10% · 156 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins University United States · Baltimore · #3 all time 15.6% top 10% · 73 works
  3. 3 University of Toronto Canada · Toronto · #9 all time 15.0% top 10% · 83 works
  4. 4 Universitas Patria Artha Indonesia · Makassar · #41 all time 9.1% top 10% · 330 works
  5. 5 Institut Ilmu Kesehatan Bhakti Wiyata Indonesia · Kediri · #59 all time 8.9% top 10% · 154 works
  6. 6 Universitas Sari Mutiara Indonesia Indonesia · Medan · #73 all time 10.0% top 10% · 138 works
  7. 7 United States Department of Veterans Affairs United States · Washington · #14 all time 13.0% top 10% · 61 works
  8. 8 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Semarang Indonesia · Semarang · #58 all time 8.3% top 10% · 408 works
  9. 9 Universitas Esa Unggul Indonesia · Jakarta · #82 all time 9.2% top 10% · 124 works
  10. 10 Binus University Indonesia · Jakarta · #67 all time 10.3% top 10% · 185 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 120 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Health Information Management.

Top 100 Health Information Management institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 502 works
  2. 2 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 420 works
  3. 3 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 324 works
  4. 4 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 318 works
  5. 5 Saveetha UniversityIndia 303 works
  6. 6 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 279 works
  7. 7 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 249 works
  8. 8 Muhammadiyah University of SurakartaIndonesia 226 works
  9. 9 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 225 works
  10. 10 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 218 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health Information Management?

Counting only their work in Health Information Management, David Westfall Bates, Dean F. Sittig and Julia Adler‐Milstein have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 David Westfall Bates United States · #12,274 worldwide overall 82.2 of 190 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Dean F. Sittig United States · #81,435 worldwide overall 40.6 of 109 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Julia Adler‐Milstein United States · #49,529 worldwide overall 25.7 of 61 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom · #15,677 worldwide overall 27.1 of 79 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Adam T. Wright United States · #85,773 worldwide overall 27.0 of 85 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Jeffrey Braithwaite Australia · #41,421 worldwide overall 26.1 of 77 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 George M. Hripcsak United States · #56,879 worldwide overall 23.4 of 51 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Hardeep Singh United States · #63,353 worldwide overall 21.7 of 53 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Rainu Kaushal United States · #66,276 worldwide overall 21.8 of 56 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Catherine M. DesRoches United States · #26,540 worldwide overall 19.2 of 37 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Health Information Management alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 526,090 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 Health Information Management researchers

What are the most cited papers in Health Information Management?

The most cited paper in Health Information Management is "An introduction to ROC analysis" (Tom E. Fawcett, 2005), with 22,014 citations. Next come "Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data" (10,878) and "Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases" (10,573).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An introduction to ROC analysis Tom E. Fawcett · Pattern Recognition Letters 22 Dec 2005 22,014
2 Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data Hude Quan, Vijaya Sundararajan, Patricia Halfon et al. · Medical Care 13 Oct 2005 10,878
3 Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases Richard A. Deyo · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Jun 1992 10,573
4 Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data Anne Elixhauser, Claudia Steiner, Donald Robert Harris et al. · Medical Care 1998 10,043
5 Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Mark H. Davis · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1983 9,786
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health Information Management research done?

The largest centres of Health Information Management research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Palopo, Sarikei and Pringsewu Regency.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 2.7k works
  2. 2 SemarangIndonesia 1.4k works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 1.3k works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 1.3k works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 1.2k works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 1.1k works
  7. 7 MakassarIndonesia 1.1k works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 806 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 783 works
  10. 10 SurakartaIndonesia 566 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Palopo27.1 works34×
  2. SarikeiMY · 21.5 works30×
  3. Pringsewu Regency60.8 works29×
  4. Banda Aceh54.7 works27×
  5. Lubuk PakamID · 158.5 works26×
  6. Nova IguaçuBR · 57.8 works24×
  7. AbepuraID · 44.7 works23×
  8. RajabasaID · 37.3 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health Information Management than the world average.

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Health Information Management research by country

The best places for Health Information Management research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Health Information Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University 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.

0%10%20%mean 14.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityHarvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…University of Toronto
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 81.9#1 (#1)17.8%1.0×182 +6.0%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 67.6#2 (#3)15.7%1.0×85 +34.8%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 61.4- (#2)20.3%0.9×70 +19.9%
4University of TorontoCanada 59.0#3 (#9)14.7%0.9×97 +17.7%
5University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 50.9- (#6)17.7%1.3×52 +22.7%
6Columbia UniversityUnited States 50.7- (#4)10.9%0.9×54 +18.8%
7Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 49.8#4 (#41)9.0%9.8×420 +184.6%
8University of MichiganUnited States 47.1- (#5)12.3%0.8×69 +5.0%
9Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 46.5#8 (#58)8.3%23.2×502 +185.8%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 45.4- (#13)22.7%0.6×43 -3.6%

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 Health Information Management, country by country

Is Health Information Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 80% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health, Technology, Consumer Behavior, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Methodologies in Health Research and Practice.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Health Information Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.27% in 2024.

still counting0.20%0.40%Health Information Management0.32% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health Information Management 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%Health Information Management10.0% in 2025200020102020

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.

  1. Health, Technology, Consumer Behavior+202%
  2. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare+148%
  3. Methodologies in Health Research and Practice+125%
  4. Innovation in Digital Healthcare Systems+77%
  5. Trade Secret Protection Methods+48%
  6. Film in Education and Therapy+40%
  7. Healthcare Quality and Management-12%
← shrinkingno changegrowing →

Growth in output from 2018-21 to 2022-25. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Health Information Management include?

Artificial Intelligence …36kArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 36k fractional worksElectronic Health Records Systems: 30k fractional worksHealthcare Quality and Management: 17k fractional worksMethodologies in Health Research and Practice: 16k fractional worksHealthcare Regulation: 15k fractional worksHealth, Technology, Consumer Behavior: 13k fractional worksMedical Coding and Healt…12kMedical Coding and Health Information: 12k fractional worksDietetics, Nutrition, and Education: 9,269 fractional worksGlobal Health and Epidemiology: 8,882 fractional worksInnovation in Digital Healthcare Systems: 5,006 fractional worksFilm in Education and Therapy: 4,321 fractional worksTrade Secret Protection Methods: 1,348 fractional works

Area is fractional works in that topic. Every name below is a page of its own.

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