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Child and Adolescent Health

Child and Adolescent Health is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 47k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution and challenges of child health services in Europe, focusing on pediatrics, community health, advocacy, primary care, health equity, and public health. It emphasizes the importance of training in addressing social determinants and children's rights to achieve better healthcare systems for children.

  • Pediatrics
  • Community Health
  • Advocacy
  • Primary Care
  • Health Equity
  • Public Health
  • Training
  • Children's Rights
  • Social Determinants
  • Healthcare Systems
Research works
47k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Child and Adolescent Health

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

Which countries lead Child and Adolescent Health research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.9k and 923 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 923 works
  3. 3 Germany 288 works
  4. 4 Canada 234 works
  5. 5 India 218 works
  6. 6 Australia 218 works
  7. 7 Spain 199 works
  8. 8 ?? 185 works
  9. 9 Russia 135 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 116 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: 43.3%United Kingdom: 20.8%Germany: 6.5%Canada: 5.3%6 others listed: 24.1%43%largest
United States1,919 · 43.3%United Kingdom923 · 20.8%Germany288 · 6.5%Canada234 · 5.3%6 others listed1,071 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Child and Adolescent Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Child and Adolescent Health research, followed by Harvard University and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 106 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 66 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  5. 5 University of CincinnatiUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 37 works
  8. 8 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 Transnational Press London 31 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Child and Adolescent Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child and Adolescent Health include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  10. 10 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k 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 Child and Adolescent Health?

The most cited paper in Child and Adolescent Health is "Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013" (Marie Ng et al., 2014), with 12,158 citations. Next come "Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2000" (4,098) and "Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000" (4,027).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Marie Ng et al. · The Lancet Open access140 authors 28 May 2014 12,158
2 Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2000 Cynthia L. Ogden · JAMA 9 Oct 2002 4,098
3 Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000 Li Liu, Hope L. Johnson, Simon Cousens et al. · The Lancet 10 May 2012 4,027
4 Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing George Patton et al. · The Lancet Open access 9 May 2016 3,864
5 No health without mental health Martin James Prince, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena et al. · The Lancet Sep 2007 3,819
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Child and Adolescent Health research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 309 works
  2. 2 London 110 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 88 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 80 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 66 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 61 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 56 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 55 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 52 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sale31.0 works124×
  2. London109.6 works110×
  3. CincinnatiUS · 40.8 works8.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Child and Adolescent Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Child and Adolescent Health?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University College London and Johns Hopkins University 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%20%40%mean 19.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityUniversity of Cincin…Johns Hopkins Univer…University College L…
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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 76.020.7%3.7×66 -3.7%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 73.510.8%7.2×65 +11.2%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 67.115.3%4.3×37 -5.6%
4University of CincinnatiUnited States 66.415.5%12.0×40 +4.3%
5McMaster UniversityCanada 66.029.0%4.0×13 +5.4%
6University of TorontoCanada 63.212.7%3.6×41 -4.1%
7The University of SydneyAustralia 62.327.9%3.5×24 -20.7%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 61.814.3%2.9×23 +6.2%
9University College DublinIreland 59.824.1%4.0×12 +22.7%
10University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 58.721.4%5.2×21 -12.1%

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 Child and Adolescent Health, country by country

Is Child and Adolescent Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Child and Adolescent Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Child and Adolescent Health0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Child and Adolescent Health 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%Child and Adolescent Health10.3% 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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