Emergency and Acute Care Studies
Emergency and Acute Care Studies is a research topic within Emergency Medicine. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1951. 16.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the causes, effects, and potential solutions related to emergency department crowding, with a focus on patient satisfaction, health care utilization patterns, triage systems, geriatric care, hospital overcrowding, ambulance diversion, primary care access, and implications for health policy.
- Emergency Department Crowding
- Patient Satisfaction
- Health Care Utilization
- Triage Systems
- Geriatric Care
- Hospital Overcrowding
- Ambulance Diversion
- Primary Care Access
- Health Policy
- Clinical Outcomes
- Research works
- 33k fractional, since 1951
- In the world top 10%
- 5.5k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 16.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +31% 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 Emergency and Acute Care Studies research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2k and 669 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 2k works
- 2 United Kingdom 669 works
- 3 Australia 367 works
- 4 Canada 325 works
- 5 Germany 195 works
- 6 Türkiye 165 works
- 7 France 164 works
- 8 India 162 works
- 9 Italy 150 works
- 10 Spain 150 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 Emergency and Acute Care Studies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Yale University publishes the most Emergency and Acute Care Studies research, followed by Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Yale UniversityUnited States 33 works
- 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 28 works
- 3 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 27 works
- 4 Monash UniversityAustralia 26 works
- 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 23 works
- 6 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
- 7 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 23 works
- 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 23 works
- 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
- 10 Emory UniversityUnited States 20 works
Who are the leading researchers in Emergency and Acute Care Studies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Emergency and Acute Care Studies include Harlan M. Krumholz.
- 1 Harlan M. Krumholz United States 4.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Emergency and Acute Care Studies research done?
The largest centres of Emergency and Acute Care Studies research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Boston (United States) and New York (United States).
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 London United Kingdom 159 works
- 2 Melbourne Australia 107 works
- 3 Boston United States 100 works
- 4 New York United States 95 works
- 5 Philadelphia United States 66 works
- 6 Baltimore United States 64 works
- 7 Toronto Canada 63 works
- 8 Seoul South Korea 58 works
- 9 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 57 works
- 10 Paris France 56 works
Where is the best place to study Emergency and Acute Care Studies?
Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and University of California, San Francisco 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 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 58.4 | 29.9% | 3.6× | 28 | +61.6% |
| 2 | Yale UniversityUnited States | 56.3 | 18.4% | 5.4× | 33 | +105.7% |
| 3 | University of California, San FranciscoUnited States | 55.0 | 31.1% | 6.0× | 24 | -25.4% |
| 4 | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUnited States | 54.0 | 23.9% | 9.1× | 9 | +149.7% |
| 5 | University of PennsylvaniaUnited States | 52.0 | 29.9% | 4.8× | 27 | -19.6% |
| 6 | Monash UniversityAustralia | 51.9 | 21.4% | 5.2× | 26 | +3.7% |
| 7 | University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom | 50.0 | 21.5% | 5.5× | 17 | +74.3% |
| 8 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States | 49.3 | 17.6% | 5.6× | 17 | +150.6% |
| 9 | University of TorontoCanada | 48.4 | 23.9% | 2.6× | 23 | +79.2% |
| 10 | Stanford UniversityUnited States | 48.2 | 32.9% | 2.3× | 17 | +74.9% |
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 Emergency and Acute Care Studies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 31% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Emergency and Acute Care Studies.
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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.