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Health and Wellbeing Research

Health and Wellbeing Research is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the relationship between health locus of control and health-promoting behaviors, with a focus on various populations such as university students, nursing students, elderly individuals, and different cultural groups. The papers investigate factors such as self-efficacy, quality of life, and social support in relation to health-promoting lifestyle profiles.

  • Health Locus of Control
  • Health-Promoting Behaviors
  • Lifestyle Profile
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Quality of Life
  • Nursing Students
  • Elderly Population
  • Psychosocial Well-Being
  • Adolescent Health Promotion
  • Social Support
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
South Korea
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health and Wellbeing Research

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

Which countries lead Health and Wellbeing Research research?

By volume, South Korea and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 918 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 South Korea 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 918 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 672 works
  4. 4 China 645 works
  5. 5 Iran 475 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 453 works
  7. 7 India 370 works
  8. 8 Egypt 341 works
  9. 9 Japan 329 works
  10. 10 Brazil 176 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.

South Korea: 19.4%United States: 16.9%Türkiye: 12.4%China: 11.9%6 others listed: 39.5%19%largest
South Korea1,055 · 19.4%United States918 · 16.9%Türkiye672 · 12.4%China645 · 11.9%6 others listed2,144 · 39.5%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Wellbeing Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Health and Wellbeing Research research, followed by Yonsei University and Seoul National University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 110 works
  2. 2 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 70 works
  3. 3 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 44 works
  4. 4 Benha UniversityEgypt 37 works
  5. 5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 37 works
  6. 6 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 30 works
  7. 7 Menoufia UniversityEgypt 29 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  9. 9 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 28 works
  10. 10 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Wellbeing Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Wellbeing Research include George Davey Smith, Ali H. Mokdad and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k 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 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  8. 8 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k 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 Wellbeing Research?

The most cited paper in Health and Wellbeing Research is "The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection." (John E. Ware, Cathy Donald Sherbourne, 1992), with 33,990 citations. Next come "The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)" (30,226) and "A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey" (17,385).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection. John E. Ware, Cathy Donald Sherbourne · PubMed Jun 1992 33,990
2 The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) John E. Ware, Cathy Donald Sherbourne · Medical Care Jun 1992 30,226
3 A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey John E. Ware, Mark R. Kosinski, Susan Keller · Medical Care Mar 1996 17,385
4 The Health Belief Model: A Decade Later Nancy K. Janz, Marshall H. Becker · Health Education Quarterly Open access Mar 1984 8,531
5 The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) Colleen A. McHorney, WARE JOHNE, RACZEK ANASTASIAE · Medical Care Mar 1993 6,711
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Where is Health and Wellbeing Research research done?

The largest centres of Health and Wellbeing Research research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Istanbul (Türkiye), Tehran (Iran) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Iranshahr.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 415 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 130 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 125 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 80 works
  5. 5 AnkaraTürkiye 74 works
  6. 6 DaejeonSouth Korea 70 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 70 works
  8. 8 BusanSouth Korea 58 works
  9. 9 CairoEgypt 57 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IranshahrIR · 21.8 works39×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Health and Wellbeing Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Yonsei University, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Ajou University 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 22.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shiraz University of…Ajou UniversitySungkyunkwan Univers…Yonsei University
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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
1Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 58.913.0%12.4×70 -7.7%
2Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran 55.429.7%8.2×14 -19.2%
3Ajou UniversitySouth Korea 55.328.6%9.2×10 -4.3%
4Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 55.113.9%6.2×26 +29.8%
5National University of SingaporeSingapore 54.220.6%1.1×8 +34.4%
6Central South UniversityChina 53.341.0%0.7×8 +84.8%
7Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 50.35.8%10.8×37 +24.6%
8Gachon UniversitySouth Korea 49.815.5%13.7×20 +2.5%
9University of WashingtonUnited States 49.626.9%1.3×9 +9.9%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 49.231.9%0.6×9 +108.5%

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 Wellbeing Research, country by country

Is Health and Wellbeing Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Health and Wellbeing Research.

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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 Wellbeing Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Health and Wellbeing Research0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health and Wellbeing Research 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 Wellbeing Research10.6% 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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