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Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on supporting the transition of adolescents with chronic conditions from pediatric to adult health care, addressing challenges, readiness assessment, self-management, and the experiences of young adults with special health care needs. It also explores the perspectives of patients, parents, and healthcare providers, as well as the impact of transitional care programs on diabetes control and hospital admission rates.

  • Adolescents
  • Transition
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Medical Home
  • Young Adults
  • Health Care
  • Pediatric to Adult Care
  • Special Health Care Needs
  • Self-Management
  • Mental Health Services
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

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

Which countries lead Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.1k and 671 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 671 works
  3. 3 Canada 387 works
  4. 4 Australia 214 works
  5. 5 Germany 212 works
  6. 6 China 201 works
  7. 7 France 138 works
  8. 8 Italy 132 works
  9. 9 India 131 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 115 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: 48.7%United Kingdom: 15.6%Canada: 9.0%Australia: 5.0%6 others listed: 21.6%49%largest
United States2,091 · 48.7%United Kingdom671 · 15.6%Canada387 · 9.0%Australia214 · 5.0%6 others listed929 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research, followed by University of Toronto and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 95 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 82 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  5. 5 University of CincinnatiUnited States 50 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 41 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 36 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 31 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 30 works
  10. 10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare include Rob Knight, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  5. 5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  7. 7 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare?

The most cited paper in Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare is "Psychometric Characteristics of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support" (Gregory D. Zimet, Suzanne Powell, Gordon K. Farley et al., 1990), with 4,340 citations. Next come "Age at onset of mental disorders worldwide: large-scale meta-analysis of 192 epidemiological studies" (3,868) and "Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" (3,864).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Psychometric Characteristics of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Gregory D. Zimet, Suzanne Powell, Gordon K. Farley et al. · Journal of Personality Assessment Dec 1990 4,340
2 Age at onset of mental disorders worldwide: large-scale meta-analysis of 192 epidemiological studies Marco Solmi, Joaquim Raduà, Miriam Olivola et al. · Molecular Psychiatry ReviewOpen access 2 Jun 2021 3,868
3 Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing George Patton et al. · The Lancet Open access 9 May 2016 3,864
4 TARGET ARTICLE: Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind Charles R. R. Snyder · Psychological Inquiry Oct 2002 3,688
5 Update on Key Emerging Challenges in Cystic Fibrosis Mark T. Jennings, Kristin A. Riekert, Michael Boyle · Medical Principles and Practice Open access 2014 3,663
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Boston (United States) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cincinnati, Denver and Toronto.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 228 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 114 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 101 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 98 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 70 works
  6. 6 Chapel HillUnited States 59 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 58 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 56 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 54 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CincinnatiUS · 51.3 works12×
  2. DenverUS · 26.0 works7.1×
  3. TorontoCA · 114.0 works6.0×
  4. Chapel HillUS · 59.3 works5.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and Erasmus University Rotterdam 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.

0%10%20%mean 15.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Erasmus University R…Harvard UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Cincin…
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 79.512.8%5.9×95 +20.8%
2University of TorontoCanada 75.610.9%8.0×82 +19.6%
3Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 66.518.8%6.2×16 +12.1%
4University of CincinnatiUnited States 62.48.5%16.7×50 +12.7%
5University College DublinIreland 62.120.6%5.5×14 +61.1%
6Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 61.719.3%5.0×18 +28.1%
7Karolinska InstitutetSweden 60.415.3%5.8×16 +9.4%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 59.912.2%5.1×31 +18.2%
9Northwestern UniversityUnited States 59.914.5%6.8×29 +14.6%
10University College CorkIreland 58.622.2%5.6×9 +101.9%

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 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, country by country

Is Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare.

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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 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare 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%Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare10.3% 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.

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