Climate Change and Health Impacts
Climate Change and Health Impacts is a research topic within Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1950. 19.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the impact of climate change on human health, focusing on mortality, heat waves, and infectious diseases. It discusses epidemiological evidence, public health implications, and the vulnerability of populations to extreme temperatures and environmental changes.
- Climate Change
- Human Health
- Mortality
- Heat Waves
- Public Health
- Temperature
- Epidemiological Evidence
- Global Warming
- Infectious Diseases
- Vulnerability
- Research works
- 42k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 8.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 19.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +111% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Climate Change and Health Impacts research?
By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3k and 1.8k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 3k works
- 2 China 1.8k works
- 3 United Kingdom 1k works
- 4 India 632 works
- 5 Australia 624 works
- 6 Germany 520 works
- 7 Canada 464 works
- 8 Italy 340 works
- 9 France 328 works
- 10 Spain 300 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.
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Which institutions lead Climate Change and Health Impacts research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Harvard University publishes the most Climate Change and Health Impacts research, followed by Peking University and University College London.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 84 works
- 2 Peking UniversityChina 58 works
- 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
- 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 50 works
- 5 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 47 works
- 6 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 45 works
- 7 The University of SydneyAustralia 42 works
- 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 42 works
- 9 University of WashingtonUnited States 41 works
- 10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 40 works
Who are the leading researchers in Climate Change and Health Impacts?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate Change and Health Impacts include Chuanhua Yu and Lídia Morawska.
- 1 Chuanhua Yu China 7.4k citations
- 2 Lídia Morawska Australia 6.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Climate Change and Health Impacts research done?
The largest centres of Climate Change and Health Impacts research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- London35.5 works17×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Climate Change and Health Impacts than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Climate Change and Health Impacts?
Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Harvard University and Anhui Medical University score highest, combining 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 table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom | 68.3 | 25.1% | 24.0× | 46 | +10.0% |
| 2 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 59.6 | 25.4% | 5.2× | 84 | +67.7% |
| 3 | Anhui Medical UniversityChina | 56.6 | 19.1% | 7.5× | 28 | +212.1% |
| 4 | The University of SydneyAustralia | 56.2 | 28.9% | 3.4× | 42 | +161.4% |
| 5 | University of WashingtonUnited States | 54.5 | 30.0% | 3.2× | 41 | +157.6% |
| 6 | Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina | 54.1 | 32.6% | 1.9× | 40 | +1299.9% |
| 7 | Boston UniversityUnited States | 53.6 | 29.8% | 5.2× | 33 | +84.9% |
| 8 | Monash UniversityAustralia | 52.2 | 29.0% | 4.0× | 42 | +52.9% |
| 9 | Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom | 52.1 | 23.7% | 3.9× | 45 | +87.1% |
| 10 | Peking UniversityChina | 51.9 | 25.6% | 2.9× | 58 | +124.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Climate Change and Health Impacts research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 111% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Climate Change and Health Impacts.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.