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Global Health Workforce Issues

Global Health Workforce Issues is a research topic within Emergency Medical Services. Science Explorer counts 32k 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 challenges and solutions related to the rural health workforce, focusing on issues such as geographical imbalances, physician and nurse migration, retention strategies, recruitment programs, and the impact of these factors on global health and health policy. The research delves into the complexities of rural healthcare delivery, workforce shortages, and the implications for primary care in underserved areas.

  • Rural Health
  • Health Workforce
  • Physician Migration
  • Nurse Migration
  • Retention Strategies
  • Geographical Imbalances
  • Health Policy
  • Recruitment Programs
  • Global Health
  • Primary Care Physicians
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Health Workforce Issues

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

Which countries lead Global Health Workforce Issues research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.6k and 747 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 747 works
  3. 3 Australia 613 works
  4. 4 Canada 463 works
  5. 5 India 164 works
  6. 6 ?? 155 works
  7. 7 South Africa 133 works
  8. 8 China 130 works
  9. 9 Japan 116 works
  10. 10 New Zealand 105 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: 49.5%United Kingdom: 14.4%Australia: 11.8%Canada: 8.9%6 others listed: 15.4%50%largest
United States2,580 · 49.5%United Kingdom747 · 14.4%Australia613 · 11.8%Canada463 · 8.9%6 others listed803 · 15.4%

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

Which institutions lead Global Health Workforce Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Global Health Workforce Issues research, followed by Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 88 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 77 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 72 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 56 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 38 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 37 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Health Workforce Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Health Workforce Issues include Ahmedin Jemal, Rob Knight and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  9. 9 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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 Global Health Workforce Issues?

The most cited paper in Global Health Workforce Issues is "Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures" (Dorcas Beaton, Claire Bombardier, Françis Guillemin et al., 2000), with 14,626 citations. Next come "Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world" (6,031) and "Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development" (3,853).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures Dorcas Beaton, Claire Bombardier, Françis Guillemin et al. · Spine Dec 2000 14,626
2 Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world Julio M. Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al. · The Lancet Open access 30 Nov 2010 6,031
3 Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development John Gerard Meara et al. · The Lancet Open access 26 Apr 2015 3,853
4 Patient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations Jean‐Frédéric Lévesque, Mark Harris, Grant M. Russell · International Journal for Equity in Health Open access 2013 3,630
5 An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data Thomas G. Weiser, Scott E. Regenbogen, Katherine D. Thompson et al. · The Lancet 25 Jun 2008 2,560
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global Health Workforce Issues research done?

The largest centres of Global Health Workforce Issues research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (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 London, Sale and Dunedin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 200 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 111 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 104 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 94 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 93 works
  6. 6 London 91 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 89 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 78 works
  9. 9 Chapel HillUnited States 70 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 70 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London91.4 works88×
  2. Sale22.5 works86×
  3. DunedinNZ · 26.2 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Health Workforce Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Health Workforce Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Harvard University and The University of Queensland 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 15.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →London School of Hyg…Harvard UniversityThe University of Qu…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
1London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 75.231.1%13.0×12 +44.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.916.9%4.1×77 -2.8%
3The University of QueenslandAustralia 60.915.4%6.6×37 +29.1%
4University of TorontoCanada 60.58.5%4.7×56 +16.1%
5University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 59.614.3%5.3×33 +24.4%
6University of MichiganUnited States 59.014.7%4.1×37 +31.2%
7McMaster UniversityCanada 57.811.5%7.2×24 +49.9%
8University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.113.7%6.8×29 +4.2%
9University of British ColumbiaCanada 56.38.9%5.3×38 +52.8%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 55.716.6%4.2×38 -13.6%

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 Global Health Workforce Issues, country by country

Is Global Health Workforce Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Global Health Workforce Issues.

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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 Global Health Workforce Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Global Health Workforce Issues0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Global Health Workforce Issues 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%Global Health Workforce Issues9.8% 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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