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Diversity and Career in Medicine

Diversity and Career in Medicine is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the pervasive gender bias in academic medicine and science, focusing on disparities in career advancement, research funding, patient-physician relationships, and workforce diversity. It addresses issues such as mentorship, health care disparities, and the impact of gender on career choices and academic productivity.

  • Gender Bias
  • Academic Medicine
  • Science
  • Health Care Disparities
  • Physician Workforce
  • Racial/Ethnic Diversity
  • Mentorship
  • Career Choices
  • Patient-Physician Relationships
  • Research Funding
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diversity and Career in Medicine

Which countries lead Diversity and Career in Medicine research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (5.5k and 719 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 5.5k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 719 works
  3. 3 Canada 434 works
  4. 4 Australia 200 works
  5. 5 India 189 works
  6. 6 Germany 185 works
  7. 7 ?? 105 works
  8. 8 China 104 works
  9. 9 Japan 102 works
  10. 10 Italy 100 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: 72.2%United Kingdom: 9.4%Canada: 5.6%Australia: 2.6%6 others listed: 10.2%72%largest
United States5,547 · 72.2%United Kingdom719 · 9.4%Canada434 · 5.6%Australia200 · 2.6%6 others listed785 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Diversity and Career in Medicine research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Diversity and Career in Medicine research, followed by University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 217 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 123 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 109 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 108 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 102 works
  6. 6 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 86 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 85 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 84 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 82 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 82 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diversity and Career in Medicine?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diversity and Career in Medicine include David Moher, Emelia J. Benjamin and John P. A. Ioannidis.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  3. 3 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  6. 6 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Diversity and Career in Medicine?

The most cited paper in Diversity and Career in Medicine is "Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance Among US Physicians Relative to the General US Population" (Tait D. Shanafelt, Sonja L. Boone, Litjen Tan et al., 2012), with 3,491 citations. Next come "Physician burnout: contributors, consequences and solutions" (2,783) and "Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship" (2,175).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance Among US Physicians Relative to the General US Population Tait D. Shanafelt, Sonja L. Boone, Litjen Tan et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine 28 Aug 2012 3,491
2 Physician burnout: contributors, consequences and solutions Colin P. West, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Tait D. Shanafelt · Journal of Internal Medicine Open access 5 Mar 2018 2,783
3 Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship Lisa Cooper-Patrick · JAMA 11 Aug 1999 2,175
4 Sex and Gender Equity in Research: rationale for the SAGER guidelines and recommended use Shirin Heidari, Thomas F. Babor, Paola De Castro et al. · Research Integrity and Peer Review Open access 27 Apr 2016 2,173
5 Burnout Among U.S. Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Physicians Relative to the General U.S. Population Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Colin P. West, Daniel Satele et al. · Academic Medicine 21 Jan 2014 2,073
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Where is Diversity and Career in Medicine research done?

The largest centres of Diversity and Career in Medicine research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London and Hershey.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 228 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 216 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 216 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 195 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 157 works
  6. 6 BaltimoreUnited States 154 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 153 works
  8. 8 Ann ArborUnited States 134 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 112 works
  10. 10 San FranciscoUnited States 103 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London48.3 works36×
  2. HersheyUS · 25.9 works19×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diversity and Career in Medicine than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diversity and Career in Medicine?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and University of California, San Francisco 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%10%20%30%mean 14.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yale UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Califo…Johns Hopkins Univer…
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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 71.412.9%8.9×217 +11.9%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 65.015.2%9.9×82 +38.5%
3University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 63.612.0%15.7×86 +23.7%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.311.1%9.3×109 +16.1%
5University of GenevaSwitzerland 62.225.6%3.2×10 +95.5%
6University of MichiganUnited States 62.110.2%10.5×122 +15.7%
7Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 61.627.2%1.9×9 +89.6%
8Northwestern UniversityUnited States 58.811.4%9.9×64 +26.1%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 58.512.2%7.6×85 +1.2%
10University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 58.010.4%10.1×82 +20.5%

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 Diversity and Career in Medicine, country by country

Is Diversity and Career in Medicine research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diversity and Career in Medicine.

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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 Diversity and Career in Medicine as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Diversity and Career in Medicine 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%Diversity and Career in Medicine9.8% 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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