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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. 30.8% 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%
7.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
30.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+21%
the tick is no change

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 (1.5k and 327 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 327 works
  3. 3 Canada 293 works
  4. 4 Australia 242 works
  5. 5 South Africa 121 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 109 works
  7. 7 China 109 works
  8. 8 Spain 105 works
  9. 9 Germany 100 works
  10. 10 Brazil 99 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: 50.2%United Kingdom: 10.8%Canada: 9.7%Australia: 8.0%6 others listed: 21.3%50%largest
United States1,518 · 50.2%United Kingdom327 · 10.8%Canada293 · 9.7%Australia242 · 8.0%6 others listed644 · 21.3%

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

Which institutions lead Community Health and Development research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Community Health and Development research, followed by University of Toronto and University College London.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 36 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 University of WashingtonUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 15 works
  9. 9 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Community Health and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Community Health and Development include James Thomas and George Patton.

  1. 1 James Thomas United Kingdom 13k citations
  2. 2 George Patton Australia 4.6k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Community Health and Development research done?

The largest centres of Community Health and Development research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 86 works
  2. 2 New York United States 61 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C. United States 58 works
  4. 4 Melbourne Australia 51 works
  5. 5 Toronto Canada 46 works
  6. 6 Chapel Hill United States 37 works
  7. 7 Montreal Canada 36 works
  8. 8 Boston United States 35 works
  9. 9 Chicago United States 35 works
  10. 10 Sydney Australia 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PretoriaZA · 30.3 works6.0×
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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, Griffith University and University of Calgary 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%20%40%mean 34.26%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University College London: 19, 38.5%Griffith University: 9, 45.9%University of Calgary: 11, 33.0%Deakin University: 12, 30.5%The University of Western Australia: 9, 34.2%Washington University in St. Louis: 13, 47.4%University of Auckland: 10, 34.9%Arizona State University: 14, 31.9%Johns Hopkins University: 18, 27.8%University of South Africa: 14, 18.5%Griffith UniversityUniversity College L…University of CalgaryDeakin University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.338.5%3.3×19 +80.4%
2 Griffith UniversityAustralia 59.445.9%5.8×9 +27.1%
3 University of CalgaryCanada 56.133.0%4.3×11 +168.0%
4 Deakin UniversityAustralia 56.030.5%6.5×12 +39.5%
5 The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 52.034.2%5.3×9 +38.8%
6 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 51.547.4%4.4×13 -18.6%
7 University of AucklandNew Zealand 51.134.9%4.6×10 +57.3%
8 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 49.931.9%5.3×14 +26.8%
9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 49.127.8%4.2×18 +53.3%
10 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 48.718.5%7.9×14 -6.7%

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 Community Health and Development research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.