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. 24.8% 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%
- 10k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 24.8% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +60% 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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.4k and 821 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 3.4k works
- 2 United Kingdom 821 works
- 3 Canada 625 works
- 4 Australia 534 works
- 5 Japan 321 works
- 6 China 262 works
- 7 Germany 217 works
- 8 Netherlands 207 works
- 9 Sweden 175 works
- 10 South Korea 149 works
How concentrated that is
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Which institutions lead Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Johns Hopkins University publishes the most Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Michigan.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68 works
- 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60 works
- 3 University of MichiganUnited States 48 works
- 4 Brown UniversityUnited States 48 works
- 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 45 works
- 6 University of TorontoCanada 44 works
- 7 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 42 works
- 8 New York UniversityUnited States 39 works
- 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
- 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 37 works
Who are the leading researchers in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes include Hermann Brenner, Jo Moriarty and Ilais Moreno Velásquez.
- 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 5.8k citations
- 2 Jo Moriarty United Kingdom 4.8k citations
- 3 Ilais Moreno Velásquez Germany 4k citations
- 4 Carol Brayne United Kingdom 3.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research done?
The largest centres of Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Baltimore (United States) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oxford and Providence.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 London United Kingdom 217 works
- 2 New York United States 171 works
- 3 Baltimore United States 160 works
- 4 Boston United States 128 works
- 5 Toronto Canada 128 works
- 6 Melbourne Australia 117 works
- 7 Tokyo Japan 99 works
- 8 Sydney Australia 89 works
- 9 Los Angeles United States 89 works
- 10 Washington D.C. United States 85 works
Where it is the local speciality
- OxfordUS · 34.3 works36×
- ProvidenceUS · 73.8 works15×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes?
Among universities, judged by research, Johns Hopkins University, University of Bradford and Flinders 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.
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 | Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States | 70.7 | 21.6% | 7.9× | 68 | +224.5% |
| 2 | University of BradfordUnited Kingdom | 70.5 | 36.9% | 12.7× | 9 | +229.7% |
| 3 | Flinders UniversityAustralia | 69.4 | 32.2% | 17.4× | 31 | +73.5% |
| 4 | La Trobe UniversityAustralia | 64.8 | 34.6% | 10.6× | 26 | +9.8% |
| 5 | Maastricht UniversityNetherlands | 61.7 | 23.4% | 7.5× | 20 | +165.0% |
| 6 | University of California, San FranciscoUnited States | 60.6 | 20.4% | 9.0× | 46 | +74.3% |
| 7 | Brown UniversityUnited States | 60.0 | 18.1% | 15.1× | 48 | +48.3% |
| 8 | Miami UniversityUnited States | 59.9 | 10.7% | 36.3× | 34 | +177.4% |
| 9 | McMaster UniversityCanada | 59.3 | 25.7% | 8.1× | 34 | +52.3% |
| 10 | The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States | 57.6 | 21.8% | 9.4× | 13 | +241.8% |
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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 60% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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