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Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 40k 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 quality and practices in nursing home care, including topics such as person-centered care, staffing levels, long-term care, home-based primary care, the impact of COVID-19, resident assessment instruments, hospitalizations, and caregiver staffing.

  • Nursing Home
  • Quality of Care
  • Person-Centered Care
  • Staffing Levels
  • Long-Term Care
  • Home-Based Primary Care
  • COVID-19 Impact
  • Resident Assessment Instrument
  • Hospitalizations
  • Caregiver Staffing
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

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

Which countries lead Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.7k and 904 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.7k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 904 works
  3. 3 Canada 687 works
  4. 4 Australia 594 works
  5. 5 China 396 works
  6. 6 Japan 364 works
  7. 7 Germany 264 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 233 works
  9. 9 Sweden 211 works
  10. 10 South Korea 166 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: 49.3%United Kingdom: 12.0%Canada: 9.1%Australia: 7.9%6 others listed: 21.7%49%largest
United States3,713 · 49.3%United Kingdom904 · 12.0%Canada687 · 9.1%Australia594 · 7.9%6 others listed1,634 · 21.7%

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

Which institutions lead Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Veterans Affairs publishes the most Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 108 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 96 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 96 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 88 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 74 works
  6. 6 Brown UniversityUnited States 70 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 57 works
  8. 8 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 57 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes include Ali H. Mokdad, Hermann Brenner and Cyrus Cooper.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  8. 8 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  9. 9 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k 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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes?

The most cited paper in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes is "Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework" (Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley, 2005), with 37,445 citations. Next come "Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review" (20,652) and "Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden" (5,885).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley · International Journal of Social Research Methodology Open access Feb 2005 37,445
2 Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review Jeroen S. Kok, Ina J. Berg, Erik Scherder · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra Open access 5 Oct 2013 20,652
3 Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden Steven Howard Zarit, Karen E. Reever, Julie Bach-Peterson · The Gerontologist Open access Dec 1980 5,885
4 Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. Gail M. Wagnild, Heather M. Young · PubMed 1993 3,774
5 The Determinants of Quality of Life of Nursing Home Residents with Young-Onset Dementia and the Differences between Dementia Subtypes Britt Appelhof, Christian Bakker, Jeannette C.L. van Duinen‐van den IJssel et al. · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Open access 2017 2,776
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Where is Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research done?

The largest centres of Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Baltimore (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oxford and Providence.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 242 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 190 works
  3. 3 BaltimoreUnited States 171 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 141 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 140 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 130 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 112 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 98 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 96 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OxfordUS · 35.5 works35×
  2. ProvidenceUS · 80.7 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Toronto 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%30%mean 15.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…University of Califo…University of Toronto
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 81.917.4%3.7×96 +32.0%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 79.215.2%7.7×96 +18.1%
3University of TorontoCanada 69.711.2%5.4×88 +31.8%
4University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 67.413.0%9.8×57 +18.8%
5University of BaselSwitzerland 64.822.2%4.4×13 +29.7%
6University of MichiganUnited States 63.812.9%4.6×57 +25.8%
7McMaster UniversityCanada 63.312.8%9.1×43 +34.2%
8Flinders UniversityAustralia 62.214.5%16.8×36 +44.1%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 61.714.1%2.7×35 +2.0%
10Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 61.726.4%5.3×12 +56.4%

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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, country by country

Is Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

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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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes0.039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes 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%Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes9.8% 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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