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Community Health and Development

Community Health and Development is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 focuses on the empowerment of communities through collaborative partnerships, capacity building, and health promotion. It explores concepts such as sense of community, psychological empowerment, and social justice, with a particular emphasis on youth empowerment and interorganizational collaboration. The papers also delve into the effectiveness of community coalitions and the role of empowerment in addressing health disparities.

  • Community Empowerment
  • Collaborative Partnerships
  • Health Promotion
  • Community Capacity Building
  • Social Justice
  • Sense of Community
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Coalition Effectiveness
  • Youth Empowerment
  • Interorganizational Collaboration
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Community Health and Development

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

Which countries lead Community Health and Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.7k and 373 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 373 works
  3. 3 Canada 325 works
  4. 4 Australia 265 works
  5. 5 China 149 works
  6. 6 South Africa 143 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 121 works
  8. 8 Spain 117 works
  9. 9 Germany 107 works
  10. 10 Brazil 102 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: 50.5%United Kingdom: 10.9%Canada: 9.5%Australia: 7.7%6 others listed: 21.5%50%largest
United States1,735 · 50.5%United Kingdom373 · 10.9%Canada325 · 9.5%Australia265 · 7.7%6 others listed739 · 21.5%

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

Which institutions lead Community Health and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Community Health and Development research, followed by University of Toronto and University of Washington.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 44 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
  3. 3 University of WashingtonUnited States 22 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 University of British ColumbiaCanada 22 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 Indiana UniversityUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Community Health and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Community Health and Development include Albert Bandura, Ronald C. Kessler and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 Icek Ajzen United States 267k 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 Community Health and Development?

The most cited paper in Community Health and Development is "Using thematic analysis in psychology" (Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, 2006), with 193,920 citations. Next come "Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change." (43,751) and "Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches" (22,287).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Using thematic analysis in psychology Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Psychology Open access 2006 193,920
2 Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Albert Bandura · Psychological Review Open access 1977 43,751
3 Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches Sarah Lewis · Health Promotion Practice 2 Apr 2015 22,287
4 Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health Open access 13 Jun 2019 19,256
5 Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective Albert Bandura · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 2001 15,325
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Community Health and Development research done?

The largest centres of Community Health and Development research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 97 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 64 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 57 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 53 works
  6. 6 Chapel HillUnited States 44 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 39 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 39 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 37 works
  10. 10 MontrealCanada 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PretoriaZA · 35.1 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Community Health and Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Community Health and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Harvard University and University of Toronto 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.

0%10%20%mean 15.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…Harvard UniversityUniversity of Washin…University of Toronto
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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.

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
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 80.821.7%3.2×22 +29.0%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.220.8%1.4×19 +1.7%
3University of TorontoCanada 60.911.7%3.5×30 -0.8%
4University of WashingtonUnited States 59.913.0%4.7×22 -1.6%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 59.59.8%3.5×22 +20.6%
6Northwestern UniversityUnited States 58.918.8%3.0×11 +32.2%
7Deakin UniversityAustralia 58.616.3%6.8×13 +11.3%
8The University of QueenslandAustralia 58.518.2%3.5×14 +9.2%
9Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 58.317.8%4.8×14 +49.8%
10University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 57.98.1%5.9×44 -5.1%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Community Health and Development, country by country

Is Community Health and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Community Health and Development.

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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 Community Health and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Community Health and Development0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Community Health and Development 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.

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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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