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Health and Conflict Studies

Health and Conflict Studies is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of mortality, conflict, and public health, with a focus on regions such as Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It delves into the impact of violence, lack of access to healthcare, and the role of health initiatives in peacebuilding efforts amidst humanitarian emergencies.

  • Mortality
  • Conflict
  • Health
  • Violence
  • Iraq
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Peacebuilding
  • Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Public Health
  • Globalization
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health and Conflict Studies

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

Which countries lead Health and Conflict Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (881 and 445 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 881 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 445 works
  3. 3 Australia 185 works
  4. 4 India 166 works
  5. 5 ?? 142 works
  6. 6 Canada 117 works
  7. 7 Israel 113 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 97 works
  9. 9 Iraq 96 works
  10. 10 Germany 95 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: 37.7%United Kingdom: 19.0%Australia: 7.9%India: 7.1%6 others listed: 28.2%38%largest
United States881 · 37.7%United Kingdom445 · 19.0%Australia185 · 7.9%India166 · 7.1%6 others listed660 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Conflict Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Health and Conflict Studies research, followed by Harvard University and Transnational Press London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 100 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 31 works
  3. 3 Transnational Press London 24 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 23 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  6. 6 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 22 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 21 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Conflict Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Conflict Studies include Christopher J L Murray, Freddie Bray and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k 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 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Isabelle Soerjomataram France 327k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Health and Conflict Studies?

The most cited paper in Health and Conflict Studies is "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" (William R. Hendee, 2001), with 10,236 citations. Next come "Social determinants of health inequalities" (5,001) and "Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research?" (4,815).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System William R. Hendee · Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2001 10,236
2 Social determinants of health inequalities Michael Gideon Marmot · The Lancet Open access Mar 2005 5,001
3 Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research? S M F Higgins, A P Macken, Walter Cullen et al. · PubMed 2013 4,815
4 Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset Nils Petter Gleditsch, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson et al. · Journal of Peace Research Open access Sep 2002 3,858
5 Sick individuals and sick populations Geoffrey A Rose · International Journal of Epidemiology Jun 2001 3,744
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health and Conflict Studies research done?

The largest centres of Health and Conflict Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), London (??), Washington D.C. (United States) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London, Sale and Gaza.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 155 works
  2. 2 London 100 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 62 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 53 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 42 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 40 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 36 works
  8. 8 KhartoumSudan 33 works
  9. 9 GazaPalestine 33 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London99.8 works164×
  2. Sale24.0 works158×
  3. GazaPS · 32.9 works118×
  4. KhartoumSD · 33.4 works35×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health and Conflict Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health and Conflict Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, An-Najah National University and King's College London 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 23.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Sy…An-Najah National Un…London School of Hyg…King's College London
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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 78.623.3%29.1×16 +24.8%
2An-Najah National UniversityPalestine 76.426.3%57.9×16 +329.1%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 75.422.6%7.7×23 +32.3%
4The University of SydneyAustralia 72.337.2%3.6×15 +76.0%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.914.5%2.9×31 +4.2%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68.818.9%4.1×22 +44.5%
7University of PalestinePalestine 66.828.7%265.7×8 +102.5%
8Australian National UniversityAustralia 66.620.9%8.9×16 +74.9%
9University of KhartoumSudan 66.327.6%51.7×11 +417.5%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 62.714.1%4.8×23 +42.7%

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 Health and Conflict Studies, country by country

Is Health and Conflict Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health and Conflict Studies.

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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 Health and Conflict Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Health and Conflict Studies 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%Health and Conflict Studies10.1% 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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