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Empathy and Medical Education

Empathy and Medical Education is a research topic within Psychiatry and Mental health. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 topic of empathy in medicine, focusing on the decline of empathy in medical students and physicians, the factors influencing empathy, its impact on patient outcomes and satisfaction, and various training interventions aimed at cultivating and sustaining empathy in healthcare professionals. The papers also discuss the role of narrative medicine, arts-based interventions, and neuroscience in understanding and promoting empathy in clinical practice.

  • Empathy
  • Medical Education
  • Physician
  • Narrative Medicine
  • Clinical Practice
  • Healthcare
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Gender Differences
  • Neuroscience
  • Arts-based Interventions
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Empathy and Medical Education

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

Which countries lead Empathy and Medical Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.1k and 628 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 628 works
  3. 3 India 323 works
  4. 4 China 285 works
  5. 5 Canada 281 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 237 works
  7. 7 Australia 199 works
  8. 8 Spain 164 works
  9. 9 Italy 163 works
  10. 10 Brazil 159 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: 45.8%United Kingdom: 13.9%India: 7.2%China: 6.3%6 others listed: 26.7%46%largest
United States2,061 · 45.8%United Kingdom628 · 13.9%India323 · 7.2%China285 · 6.3%6 others listed1,202 · 26.7%

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

Which institutions lead Empathy and Medical Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Empathy and Medical Education research, followed by University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 61 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 Yale UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 McGill UniversityCanada 24 works
  7. 7 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  9. 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Empathy and Medical Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Empathy and Medical Education include George Davey Smith, Daniel J. Kahneman and Giuseppe Remuzzi.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  7. 7 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  8. 8 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 Empathy and Medical Education?

The most cited paper in Empathy and Medical Education is "The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine" (George L. Engel, 1977), with 12,645 citations. Next come "Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach." (9,786) and "Emotional Intelligence" (9,321).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine George L. Engel · Science 8 Apr 1977 12,645
2 Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Mark H. Davis · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1983 9,786
3 Emotional Intelligence Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer · Imagination Cognition and Personality Mar 1990 9,321
4 On death and dying. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · PubMed Jun 1975 4,940
5 Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice Glyn Jones Elwyn, Dominick L. Frosch, Richard Thomson et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine Open access 22 May 2012 4,461
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Where is Empathy and Medical Education research done?

The largest centres of Empathy and Medical Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 151 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 95 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 67 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 61 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 58 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 55 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 47 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 46 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 45 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 43 works
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Where is the best place to study Empathy and Medical Education?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Singapore, University of Toronto and Monash University 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 19.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Monash UniversityUniversity of TorontoHarvard 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
1National University of SingaporeSingapore 66.735.9%1.6×10 +57.2%
2University of TorontoCanada 60.213.3%3.6×41 -7.6%
3Monash UniversityAustralia 60.030.9%2.2×12 +25.2%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.09.7%3.4×61 -19.9%
5University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom 57.922.4%8.1×12 +77.7%
6Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 56.019.3%3.7×12 +101.7%
7University of OsloNorway 55.416.0%3.9×14 +33.9%
8University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 55.417.4%5.0×11 +22.4%
9McGill UniversityCanada 53.817.6%4.2×24 -17.5%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 52.78.3%3.5×31 +4.0%

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 Empathy and Medical Education, country by country

Is Empathy and Medical Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Empathy and Medical 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 Empathy and Medical Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Empathy and Medical 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.

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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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