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Health disparities and outcomes

Health disparities and outcomes is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 57k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of social determinants, such as social relationships, socioeconomic inequalities, loneliness, and neighborhood effects, on health outcomes and mortality risk. It delves into the complex interplay between social factors and health disparities, emphasizing the importance of addressing these issues for achieving health equity and improving public health.

  • Social Relationships
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities
  • Loneliness
  • Health Disparities
  • Neighborhood Effects
  • Mortality Risk
  • Social Support
  • Life Course Epidemiology
  • Health Equity
  • Public Health
Research works
57k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health disparities and outcomes

Which countries lead Health disparities and outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.9k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.9k works
  2. 2 China 2k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 1.3k works
  4. 4 Canada 651 works
  5. 5 Australia 567 works
  6. 6 India 468 works
  7. 7 Germany 435 works
  8. 8 Japan 425 works
  9. 9 South Korea 367 works
  10. 10 Spain 349 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: 43.1%China: 17.2%United Kingdom: 11.2%Canada: 5.7%6 others listed: 22.9%43%largest
United States4,923 · 43.1%China1,961 · 17.2%United Kingdom1,273 · 11.2%Canada651 · 5.7%6 others listed2,611 · 22.9%

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

Which institutions lead Health disparities and outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Health disparities and outcomes research, followed by University College London and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 128 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 122 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 110 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 108 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 91 works
  7. 7 Peking UniversityChina 75 works
  8. 8 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 69 works
  9. 9 Columbia UniversityUnited States 63 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 63 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health disparities and outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health disparities and outcomes include Ahmedin Jemal, Christopher J L Murray and Freddie Bray.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  6. 6 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  7. 7 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  8. 8 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  9. 9 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  10. 10 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k 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 disparities and outcomes?

The most cited paper in Health disparities and outcomes is "Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework" (Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley, 2005), with 37,445 citations. Next come "The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection." (33,990) and "The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)" (30,226).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley · International Journal of Social Research Methodology Open access Feb 2005 37,445
2 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
3 The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) John E. Ware, Cathy Donald Sherbourne · Medical Care Jun 1992 30,226
4 Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. Sheldon Cohen, Thomas A. Wills · Psychological Bulletin Sep 1985 17,584
5 A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey John E. Ware, Mark R. Kosinski, Susan Keller · Medical Care Mar 1996 17,385
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Where is Health disparities and outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Health disparities and outcomes research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ōbu, Kalamazoo and Galveston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 412 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 348 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 223 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 199 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 180 works
  6. 6 BaltimoreUnited States 160 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 149 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 148 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 140 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 137 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ŌbuJP · 21.8 works47×
  2. KalamazooUS · 23.5 works8.1×
  3. GalvestonUS · 21.3 works7.1×
  4. UmeåSE · 23.3 works6.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health disparities and outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health disparities and outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University College London and Johns Hopkins 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.818.4%2.9×122 +19.6%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 70.112.9%5.8×124 -0.5%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 65.913.3%5.4×110 +8.7%
4Peking UniversityChina 65.418.1%2.8×75 +74.2%
5International Institute for Population SciencesIndia 64.217.8%107.3×47 +107.2%
6University of MichiganUnited States 61.812.3%5.3×108 -13.5%
7University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 61.116.2%6.1×53 +15.3%
8Yale UniversityUnited States 61.112.9%3.3×47 +21.0%
9University of TorontoCanada 60.88.3%3.4×91 +22.9%
10University of Hong KongChina 59.811.2%4.0×49 +26.3%

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 disparities and outcomes, country by country

Is Health disparities and outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Health disparities and outcomes.

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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 disparities and outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.062% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Health disparities and outcomes 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 disparities and outcomes9.8% 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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