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Health Education and Validation

Health Education and Validation is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development, validation, and evaluation of measurement instruments, educational materials, and technology in the context of health research and nursing education. It emphasizes the importance of content validity, reliability, and psychometric properties in ensuring the accuracy and effectiveness of assessment tools and educational resources for patient care.

  • Content Validity
  • Educational Technology
  • Health Research
  • Validity and Reliability
  • Measurement Instruments
  • Psychometric Properties
  • Nursing Education
  • Questionnaire Development
  • Instrument Validation
  • Patient Care
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health Education and Validation

Which countries lead Health Education and Validation research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 392 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 3.2k works
  2. 2 United States 392 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 300 works
  4. 4 Portugal 199 works
  5. 5 Iran 192 works
  6. 6 China 183 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 147 works
  8. 8 India 138 works
  9. 9 Spain 117 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 112 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.

Brazil: 64.2%United States: 7.9%Türkiye: 6.0%Portugal: 4.0%6 others listed: 17.9%64%largest
Brazil3,194 · 64.2%United States392 · 7.9%Türkiye300 · 6.0%Portugal199 · 4.0%6 others listed889 · 17.9%

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

Which institutions lead Health Education and Validation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Health Education and Validation research, followed by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Universidade Federal Fluminense.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 118 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 75 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 73 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 72 works
  5. 5 Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 63 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 60 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 60 works
  8. 8 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 55 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 54 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health Education and Validation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health Education and Validation include David Moher, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Marcello A. Tonelli.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  4. 4 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  5. 5 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  6. 6 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  7. 7 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k 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 Education and Validation?

The most cited paper in Health Education and Validation is "The qualitative content analysis process" (Satu Elo, Helvi Aulikki Kyngäs, 2008), with 22,967 citations. Next come "Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires" (11,046) and "Structural Equation Modelling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit" (8,799).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The qualitative content analysis process Satu Elo, Helvi Aulikki Kyngäs · Journal of Advanced Nursing Open access 18 Mar 2008 22,967
2 Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires Caroline Barbara Terwee, Sandra D.M. Bot, Michiel R. de Boer et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Open access 25 Aug 2006 11,046
3 Structural Equation Modelling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit Daire Hooper, Joseph P. Coughlan, Michael R. Mullen · Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) Open access 2008 8,799
4 The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck · Research in Nursing & Health 2006 6,938
5 Determination and Quantification Of Content Validity Mary R. Lynn · Nursing Research Nov 1986 6,720
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health Education and Validation research done?

The largest centres of Health Education and Validation research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Fortaleza (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Uberaba and Fortaleza.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 440 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 258 works
  3. 3 FortalezaBrazil 165 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 124 works
  5. 5 BelémBrazil 118 works
  6. 6 BrasíliaBrazil 115 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 113 works
  8. 8 Porto AlegreBrazil 107 works
  9. 9 FlorianópolisBrazil 102 works
  10. 10 CuritibaBrazil 89 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UberabaBR · 26.2 works34×
  2. FortalezaBR · 164.7 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Health Education and Validation?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Iranshahr University and Tabriz 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 15.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tabriz University of…Iranshahr UniversityUniversiti Sains Mal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 65.18.1%11.0×118 +25.0%
2Iranshahr UniversityIran 63.726.5%32.8×14 +54.7%
3Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran 61.128.0%6.6×9 +46.0%
4Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 57.012.6%4.5×16 +58.2%
5Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 56.928.3%5.6×8 +5.4%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 55.66.8%36.1×72 +26.0%
7Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 54.53.5%21.6×75 +20.4%
8Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran 54.020.6%7.1×10 +13.0%
9Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesIran 52.918.3%8.5×16 +5.1%
10Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 50.33.2%25.7×60 +12.2%

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 Education and Validation, country by country

Is Health Education and Validation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health Education and Validation.

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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 Education and Validation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Health Education and Validation0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health Education and Validation 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 Education and Validation10.7% 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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