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Health and Well-being Studies

Health and Well-being Studies is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of mental health, quality of life, and related factors such as stress, nursing, social support, job stress, self-efficacy, and depression. It particularly focuses on the elderly population and students in the context of educational achievement.

  • Mental Health
  • Quality of Life
  • Elderly
  • Stress
  • Nursing
  • Social Support
  • Job Stress
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Depression
  • Educational Achievement
Research works
52k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Iran
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health and Well-being Studies

Which countries lead Health and Well-being Studies research?

By volume, Iran and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Iran 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 1.3k works
  4. 4 Indonesia 1.2k works
  5. 5 Pakistan 771 works
  6. 6 Egypt 753 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 604 works
  8. 8 China 522 works
  9. 9 Iraq 414 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 398 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.

Iran: 20.6%United States: 14.1%India: 14.1%Indonesia: 13.0%6 others listed: 38.3%21%largest
Iran1,862 · 20.6%United States1,276 · 14.1%India1,271 · 14.1%Indonesia1,177 · 13.0%6 others listed3,461 · 38.3%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Well-being Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Health and Well-being Studies research, followed by Ain Shams University and Iran University of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 486 works
  2. 2 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 115 works
  3. 3 Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 68 works
  4. 4 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 66 works
  5. 5 University of BaghdadIraq 60 works
  6. 6 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 54 works
  7. 7 Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran 51 works
  8. 8 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 50 works
  9. 9 Iranshahr UniversityIran 50 works
  10. 10 Benha UniversityEgypt 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Well-being Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Well-being Studies include Ali H. Mokdad, Albert Bandura and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  9. 9 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  10. 10 Sadaf Ghajarieh Sepanlou Iran 282k 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 Well-being Studies?

The most cited paper in Health and Well-being Studies is "A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION" (M. Hamilton, 1960), with 32,957 citations. Next come "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations." (11,956) and "9/Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)" (7,286).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION M. Hamilton · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Open access Feb 1960 32,957
2 The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. Theodore M. Newcomb, Fritz Heider · American Sociological Review Dec 1958 11,956
3 9/Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Jerome Albert Yesavage, Javaid I. Sheikh · Clinical Gerontologist 18 Nov 1986 7,286
4 Screening for depression in well older adults: evaluation of a short form of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Elena M. Andresen, Judith April Malmgren, William B. Carter et al. · PubMed 22 Aug 1994 4,472
5 Successful Aging John W. Rowe, Robert L. Kahn · The Gerontologist Aug 1997 3,815
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health and Well-being Studies research done?

The largest centres of Health and Well-being Studies research in 2022-now are Tehran (Iran), Cairo (Egypt), Lahore (Pakistan) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rūdehen, Iranshahr and Sari.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TehranIran 530 works
  2. 2 CairoEgypt 193 works
  3. 3 LahorePakistan 179 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 151 works
  5. 5 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 144 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 138 works
  7. 7 BaghdadIraq 131 works
  8. 8 KarachiPakistan 107 works
  9. 9 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 104 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RūdehenIR · 21.3 works82×
  2. IranshahrIR · 50.5 works47×
  3. SariIR · 55.5 works27×
  4. Port SaidEG · 25.2 works26×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health and Well-being Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health and Well-being Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Arab American University and Jazan University 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 23.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Arab American Univer…Jordan University of…Jazan UniversityPrincess Nourah bint…
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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
1Jordan University of Science and TechnologyJordan 63.828.0%4.7×9 +83.4%
2Arab American UniversityPalestine 60.031.2%22.7×9 -
3Jazan UniversitySaudi Arabia 57.025.9%5.9×14 +135.8%
4Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 54.224.9%3.3×10 +36.4%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 54.116.9%2.6×30 +56.4%
6Iranshahr UniversityIran 52.924.3%52.3×50 -37.2%
7University of JordanJordan 52.815.1%6.0×19 +51.0%
8King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 50.619.2%2.9×13 +126.5%
9Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 49.935.3%4.2×9 -27.2%
10Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 49.215.3%2.5×20 +80.6%

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 Well-being Studies, country by country

Is Health and Well-being Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Health and Well-being 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 Well-being Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.082% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Health and Well-being Studies0.059% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health and Well-being 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 Well-being Studies10.4% 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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