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Health and Medical Studies

Health and Medical Studies is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 34k 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 focuses on various health surveys conducted in Germany, with an emphasis on children, adolescents, and adults. The topics covered include socioeconomic status, healthcare utilization, migration background, chronic diseases, and epidemiological studies. The papers also discuss data collection methods, public health indicators, and the impact of demographic changes on healthcare needs.

  • Health Surveys
  • Public Health
  • Germany
  • Socioeconomic Status
  • Children and Adolescents
  • Epidemiological Study
  • Healthcare Utilization
  • Migration Background
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Data Collection
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health and Medical Studies

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

Which countries lead Health and Medical Studies research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (3.4k and 264 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 3.4k works
  2. 2 Austria 264 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 251 works
  4. 4 United States 226 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 79 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 63 works
  7. 7 Sweden 39 works
  8. 8 Estonia 36 works
  9. 9 France 29 works
  10. 10 Italy 26 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.

Germany: 76.9%Austria: 6.0%Switzerland: 5.7%United States: 5.2%6 others listed: 6.2%77%largest
Germany3,367 · 76.9%Austria264 · 6.0%Switzerland251 · 5.7%United States226 · 5.2%6 others listed273 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Medical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover publishes the most Health and Medical Studies research, followed by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Gesundheitsamt.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 101 works
  2. 2 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 95 works
  3. 3 GesundheitsamtGermany 82 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 68 works
  5. 5 Universität HamburgGermany 61 works
  6. 6 Robert Koch InstituteGermany 60 works
  7. 7 Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 48 works
  8. 8 Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 47 works
  9. 9 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 46 works
  10. 10 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Medical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Medical Studies include David Moher, Theo Vos and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  6. 6 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  7. 7 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  8. 8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  9. 9 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
  10. 10 Florian Fischer Germany 257k 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 Medical Studies?

The most cited paper in Health and Medical Studies is "The PedsQL™* 4.0 as a Pediatric Population Health Measure: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity" (James W. Varni, Tasha M. Burwinkle, Michael Seid et al., 2003), with 2,337 citations. Next come "Medicine as an Institution of Social Control" (1,731) and "Die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit" (1,260).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The PedsQL™* 4.0 as a Pediatric Population Health Measure: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity James W. Varni, Tasha M. Burwinkle, Michael Seid et al. · Ambulatory Pediatrics Nov 2003 2,337
2 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control Irving Kenneth Zola · The Sociological Review Nov 1972 1,731
3 Die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit Michael Seidel · Der Nervenarzt 29 Dec 2004 1,260
4 Prevalence, co-morbidity and correlates of mental disorders in the general population: results from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey (GHS) Frank Jacobi, Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen, Christoph Hölting et al. · Psychological Medicine Open access 21 Apr 2004 1,102
5 Cohort Profile: The Study of Health in Pomerania Henry Völzke et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology Open access 18 Feb 2010 1,019
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Where is Health and Medical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Health and Medical Studies research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Hanover (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fulda and Witten.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 377 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 194 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 173 works
  4. 4 HanoverGermany 144 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am MainGermany 138 works
  6. 6 ViennaAustria 137 works
  7. 7 CologneGermany 135 works
  8. 8 BonnGermany 78 works
  9. 9 HeidelbergGermany 78 works
  10. 10 DüsseldorfGermany 75 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FuldaDE · 29.8 works180×
  2. WittenDE · 48.2 works91×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Universität Hamburg, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Technische Universität Berlin 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%10%20%30%mean 16.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Technische Universit…Universität GreifswaldUniversität HamburgHeinrich Heine Unive…
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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
1Universität HamburgGermany 77.017.7%21.3×61 -13.0%
2Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 75.516.5%33.1×47 +23.3%
3Technische Universität BerlinGermany 74.125.1%12.7×17 +43.8%
4Universität GreifswaldGermany 71.018.7%50.1×27 +13.4%
5Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 70.58.4%100.3×101 +143.7%
6Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 67.420.9%17.1×25 +3.5%
7Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 67.312.0%137.3×48 +96.7%
8Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 66.710.5%19.4×43 +14.3%
9Heidelberg UniversityGermany 66.315.9%15.5×46 -40.0%
10Bielefeld UniversityGermany 66.321.1%37.2×33 -39.0%

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 Medical Studies, country by country

Is Health and Medical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Medical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

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

Fractional works of Health and Medical 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 Medical Studies9.7% 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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