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Health and Medical Research Impacts

Health and Medical Research Impacts is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and opportunities in translational research, focusing on the career development of physician-scientists, research training in academic medicine, NIH funding for medical research, and the obstacles and opportunities in conducting clinical and translational science. It addresses the importance of promoting scholarly activity, increasing research interest among medical students, and overcoming barriers to successful research participation.

  • Physician-Scientist
  • Medical Research
  • Academic Medicine
  • NIH Funding
  • Career Development
  • Research Training
  • Clinical Research
  • Scholarly Activity
  • Obstacles and Opportunities
  • Translational Science
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+24%
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 Health and Medical Research Impacts research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.6k and 538 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 538 works
  3. 3 India 283 works
  4. 4 Canada 257 works
  5. 5 Australia 209 works
  6. 6 China 141 works
  7. 7 Germany 137 works
  8. 8 Spain 117 works
  9. 9 Italy 90 works
  10. 10 France 90 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: 58.7%United Kingdom: 11.9%India: 6.3%Canada: 5.7%6 others listed: 17.4%59%largest
United States2,645 · 58.7%United Kingdom538 · 11.9%India283 · 6.3%Canada257 · 5.7%6 others listed784 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Medical Research Impacts research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Health and Medical Research Impacts research, followed by University of Michigan and BMJ Group (United Kingdom).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 57 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 BMJ Group (United Kingdom)?? 36 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  5. 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 25 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Medical Research Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Medical Research Impacts include David Moher, John P. A. Ioannidis and Valentı́n Fuster.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 38k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 8k citations
  3. 3 Valentı́n Fuster United States 5.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Health and Medical Research Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Health and Medical Research Impacts research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Philadelphia (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, Bethesda and Birmingham.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 156 works
  2. 2 New York United States 115 works
  3. 3 Philadelphia United States 76 works
  4. 4 Boston United States 74 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C. United States 73 works
  6. 6 Baltimore United States 65 works
  7. 7 Bethesda United States 64 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 64 works
  9. 9 Chapel Hill United States 58 works
  10. 10 Toronto Canada 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London37.2 works38×
  2. BethesdaUS · 64.1 works8.9×
  3. BirminghamUS · 25.8 works7.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health and Medical Research Impacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health and Medical Research Impacts?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Harvard University and University of Alabama at Birmingham 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 14.21%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: 12, 14.2%Harvard University: 32, 14.4%University of Alabama at Birmingham: 22, 10.1%University of California, San Francisco: 23, 13.6%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 57, 4.1%University of Oxford: 15, 24.2%Washington University in St. Louis: 16, 20.7%Stanford University: 31, 10.0%The University of Sydney: 17, 16.8%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 14, 14.0%Harvard UniversityThe University of Te…University of Califo…University of Alabam…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 55.314.2%11.2×12 +66.9%
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49.514.4%4.3×32 +25.1%
3 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 49.210.1%8.0×22 +35.2%
4 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 48.413.6%6.3×23 +3.2%
5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 48.04.1%5.7×57 +105.2%
6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.324.2%2.0×15 +10.6%
7 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 46.820.7%4.0×16 +19.8%
8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 46.710.0%4.5×31 +87.7%
9 The University of SydneyAustralia 46.316.8%2.9×17 +104.0%
10 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 46.114.0%4.8×14 +123.0%

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 Health and Medical Research Impacts research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health and Medical Research Impacts.

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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.

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.