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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. 11.4% 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%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+26%
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 Wellbeing Research research?

By volume, South Korea and the United States publish the most (993 and 879 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 South Korea 993 works
  2. 2 United States 879 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 628 works
  4. 4 China 571 works
  5. 5 Iran 455 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 438 works
  7. 7 India 346 works
  8. 8 Egypt 339 works
  9. 9 Japan 302 works
  10. 10 Brazil 172 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: 17.2%Türkiye: 12.3%China: 11.2%6 others listed: 40.1%19%largest
South Korea993 · 19.4%United States879 · 17.2%Türkiye628 · 12.3%China571 · 11.2%6 others listed2,052 · 40.1%

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

Which institutions lead Health and Wellbeing Research research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Yonsei University publishes the most Health and Wellbeing Research research, followed by Benha University and Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 55 works
  2. 2 Benha UniversityEgypt 37 works
  3. 3 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 35 works
  4. 4 Menoufia UniversityEgypt 29 works
  5. 5 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 29 works
  6. 6 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 28 works
  7. 7 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 27 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 Assiut UniversityEgypt 25 works
  10. 10 Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health and Wellbeing Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health and Wellbeing Research include Seok‐Jun Yoon and Norito Kawakami.

  1. 1 Seok‐Jun Yoon South Korea 4.2k citations
  2. 2 Norito Kawakami Japan 4.2k citations

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

Where is Health and Wellbeing Research research done?

The largest centres of Health and Wellbeing Research research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Seoul South Korea 387 works
  2. 2 Istanbul Türkiye 122 works
  3. 3 Tehran Iran 120 works
  4. 4 Tokyo Japan 74 works
  5. 5 Ankara Türkiye 71 works
  6. 6 Beijing China 65 works
  7. 7 Daejeon South Korea 64 works
  8. 8 Cairo Egypt 56 works
  9. 9 Busan South Korea 54 works
  10. 10 Jakarta Indonesia 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IranshahrIR · 21.3 works38×
← 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, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Gachon University and Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 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 15.47%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences: 10, 27.1%Gachon University: 18, 24.2%Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences: 9, 19.9%Yonsei University: 55, 11.0%Ewha Womans University: 22, 19.2%Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi: 35, 4.0%Iranshahr University: 21, 11.5%Zagazig University: 28, 1.2%Shiraz University of Medical Sciences: 13, 17.2%Dankook University: 15, 19.4%University of Social…Gachon UniversityKermanshah Universit…Yonsei University
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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 University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation SciencesIran 73.927.1%36.1×10 +164.1%
2 Gachon UniversitySouth Korea 70.524.2%12.2×18 +38.8%
3 Kermanshah University of Medical SciencesIran 67.219.9%14.6×9 +609.4%
4 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 66.911.0%11.3×55 +22.0%
5 Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea 66.119.2%17.1×22 +31.6%
6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 65.54.0%9.5×35 +1139.0%
7 Iranshahr UniversityIran 64.911.5%38.6×21 +307.1%
8 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 62.01.2%11.1×28 +451.5%
9 Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran 59.917.2%7.5×13 +199.6%
10 Dankook UniversitySouth Korea 59.819.4%17.4×15 +22.6%

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 Wellbeing Research research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.