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Health and Lifestyle Studies

Health and Lifestyle Studies is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 promoting healthy lifestyles, including nutrition, physical activity, and mental health, among university students. It addresses risk factors for chronic diseases such as obesity and emphasizes the importance of health promotion and educational interventions.

  • Healthy Lifestyles
  • University Students
  • Nutrition
  • Physical Activity
  • Obesity
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Health Promotion
  • Risk Factors
  • Mental Health
  • Educational Interventions
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health and Lifestyle Studies

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

Which countries lead Health and Lifestyle Studies research?

By volume, Mexico and Ecuador publish the most (1.6k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 1.6k works
  2. 2 Ecuador 1.5k works
  3. 3 Spain 1.1k works
  4. 4 Colombia 810 works
  5. 5 Peru 743 works
  6. 6 United States 712 works
  7. 7 Brazil 659 works
  8. 8 Chile 422 works
  9. 9 Argentina 311 works
  10. 10 India 152 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.

Mexico: 20.2%Ecuador: 18.5%Spain: 13.3%Colombia: 10.2%6 others listed: 37.7%20%largest
Mexico1,611 · 20.2%Ecuador1,475 · 18.5%Spain1,060 · 13.3%Colombia810 · 10.2%6 others listed2,998 · 37.7%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Lifestyle Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Técnica de Ambato publishes the most Health and Lifestyle Studies research, followed by Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabi and Mexican Social Security Institute.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 200 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal del Sur de ManabiEcuador 142 works
  3. 3 Mexican Social Security InstituteMexico 129 works
  4. 4 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 120 works
  5. 5 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 97 works
  6. 6 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 91 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 88 works
  8. 8 Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 87 works
  9. 9 Universidad César VallejoPeru 84 works
  10. 10 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 80 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Lifestyle Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Lifestyle Studies include George Davey Smith, Ali H. Mokdad and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  5. 5 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  6. 6 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  7. 7 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom 273k 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 Lifestyle Studies?

The most cited paper in Health and Lifestyle Studies is "The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health" (Harold Willis Kohl, Cora L. Craig, Estelle Victoria Lambert et al., 2012), with 3,074 citations. Next come "A simple method to assess exercise behavior in the community." (2,835) and "The Obesity Epidemic in the United States Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis" (2,815).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health Harold Willis Kohl, Cora L. Craig, Estelle Victoria Lambert et al. · The Lancet Open access Jul 2012 3,074
2 A simple method to assess exercise behavior in the community. Gaston Godin, Roy Jesse Shephard May 1969 2,835
3 The Obesity Epidemic in the United States Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis Y. Wang, May A. Beydoun · Epidemiologic Reviews Review 2 May 2007 2,815
4 Socioeconomic status and obesity: A review of the literature. Jeffery Sobal, Albert J. Stunkard · Psychological Bulletin 1989 2,331
5 Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic James O. Hill, John C. Peters · Science 29 May 1998 2,250
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Where is Health and Lifestyle Studies research done?

The largest centres of Health and Lifestyle Studies research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru), Bogotá (Colombia) and Ambato (Ecuador). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jipijapa, Ibarra and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 389 works
  2. 2 LimaPeru 344 works
  3. 3 BogotáColombia 320 works
  4. 4 AmbatoEcuador 305 works
  5. 5 GuayaquilEcuador 231 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 189 works
  7. 7 QuitoEcuador 176 works
  8. 8 SantiagoChile 173 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 167 works
  10. 10 CuencaEcuador 160 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JipijapaEC · 142.4 works164×
  2. IbarraEC · 34.1 works104×
  3. AmbatoEC · 305.4 works78×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health and Lifestyle Studies than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad San Jorge, Universidad de Jaén and Universidad Técnica de Ambato score highest, combining citation 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 21.86%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad San JorgeUniversidad de JaénUniversidad de GranadaUniversidad Técnica …
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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.

Citation 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
1Universidad San JorgeSpain 62.535.1%41.6×8 +607.0%
2Universidad de JaénSpain 60.330.4%14.2×19 +9.2%
3Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 58.15.9%159.4×200 +309.5%
4Universidad de GranadaSpain 58.124.2%9.7×47 -13.3%
5Universidad de La RiojaSpain 58.133.9%13.0×8 +20.8%
6Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 54.97.1%21.2×80 +217.0%
7Pontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorEcuador 54.613.0%53.2×53 +63.5%
8Universidad Andrés BelloChile 53.919.0%26.2×19 +44.2%
9University of AlmeríaSpain 53.934.1%11.3×15 -6.2%
10Universidad Autónoma de ChileChile 53.615.9%38.0×20 +9.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Lifestyle Studies, country by country

Is Health and Lifestyle Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Lifestyle Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Health and Lifestyle Studies0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health and Lifestyle 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 Lifestyle 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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