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Diabetes Management and Education

Diabetes Management and Education is a research topic within Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 self-management of diabetes in adults, with an emphasis on the prevalence and impact of comorbid depression, patient activation, chronic disease care models, and interventions to improve glycemic control and quality of life. It also explores the role of primary care, psychosocial support, and health education in empowering patients to manage their condition effectively.

  • Diabetes
  • Self-Management
  • Depression
  • Chronic Disease
  • Patient Activation
  • Primary Care
  • Glycemic Control
  • Psychosocial Support
  • Health Education
  • Quality Improvement
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diabetes Management and Education

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

Which countries lead Diabetes Management and Education research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 686 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 686 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 504 works
  4. 4 India 467 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 355 works
  6. 6 Australia 315 works
  7. 7 Canada 290 works
  8. 8 Iran 228 works
  9. 9 Brazil 175 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 173 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: 39.1%China: 13.1%United Kingdom: 9.6%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 29.3%39%largest
United States2,048 · 39.1%China686 · 13.1%United Kingdom504 · 9.6%India467 · 8.9%6 others listed1,537 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Diabetes Management and Education research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 56 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 52 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 44 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 43 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 29 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 27 works
  10. 10 Steno Diabetes CentersDenmark 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diabetes Management and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diabetes Management and Education include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k 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 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  7. 7 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  8. 8 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  9. 9 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  10. 10 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k 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 Diabetes Management and Education?

The most cited paper in Diabetes Management and Education is "Global estimates of the prevalence of diabetes for 2010 and 2030" (Jonathan Edward Shaw, Richard A. Sicree, Paul Zimmet, 2009), with 7,277 citations. Next come "Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study" (7,214) and "Achieving Integration in Mixed Methods Designs—Principles and Practices" (5,687).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global estimates of the prevalence of diabetes for 2010 and 2030 Jonathan Edward Shaw, Richard A. Sicree, Paul Zimmet · Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 7 Nov 2009 7,277
2 Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study Karen N Barnett, Stewart William Mercer, Michael Norbury et al. · The Lancet Open access 9 May 2012 7,214
3 Achieving Integration in Mixed Methods Designs—Principles and Practices Michael Derwin Fetters, Leslie Ann Curry, John W. Creswell · Health Services Research Open access 23 Oct 2013 5,687
4 Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for 2035 Leonor Guariguata, David R. Whiting, Ian Richard Hambleton et al. · Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice Open access 30 Nov 2013 4,713
5 Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants Bin Zhou et al. · The Lancet Open access514 authors Apr 2016 4,426
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diabetes Management and Education research done?

The largest centres of Diabetes Management and Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Charlottenlund, Odense and Aurora.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 152 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 85 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 77 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 77 works
  5. 5 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 74 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 70 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 68 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 67 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 66 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CharlottenlundDK · 25.5 works106×
  2. OdenseDK · 24.5 works7.2×
  3. AuroraUS · 22.6 works6.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diabetes Management and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diabetes Management and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University and King's College London 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 17.86%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…King's College LondonJohns Hopkins Univer…Harvard University
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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
1Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 75.316.9%3.5×39 +12.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.413.1%2.3×52 +6.2%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 68.917.8%4.6×28 +4.1%
4Chinese University of Hong KongChina 68.821.2%3.6×19 +39.8%
5Deakin UniversityAustralia 68.721.8%5.1×16 +28.2%
6University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom 68.220.4%9.7×19 +38.4%
7University of CopenhagenDenmark 66.013.9%4.3×29 +24.5%
8Peking UniversityChina 65.122.6%1.4×21 +23.9%
9King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.416.7%3.4×24 +31.6%
10University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 64.114.2%7.7×22 +15.5%

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 Diabetes Management and Education, country by country

Is Diabetes Management and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diabetes Management and Education.

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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 Diabetes Management and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Diabetes Management and Education0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diabetes Management and Education 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%Diabetes Management and Education10.1% 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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