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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. 17.8% 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%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+68%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Health Education and Validation research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (2.8k and 331 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 2.8k works
  2. 2 United States 331 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 249 works
  4. 4 Iran 176 works
  5. 5 Portugal 164 works
  6. 6 China 142 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 106 works
  8. 8 Spain 105 works
  9. 9 India 104 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 90 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: 65.7%United States: 7.7%Türkiye: 5.8%Iran: 4.1%6 others listed: 16.6%66%largest
Brazil2,809 · 65.7%United States331 · 7.7%Türkiye249 · 5.8%Iran176 · 4.1%6 others listed710 · 16.6%

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

Which institutions lead Health Education and Validation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Health Education and Validation research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Where is Health Education and Validation research done?

The largest centres of Health Education and Validation research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 393 works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 217 works
  3. 3 Fortaleza Brazil 154 works
  4. 4 Belo Horizonte Brazil 107 works
  5. 5 Belém Brazil 103 works
  6. 6 Brasília Brazil 101 works
  7. 7 Recife Brazil 99 works
  8. 8 Florianópolis Brazil 93 works
  9. 9 Porto Alegre Brazil 93 works
  10. 10 Curitiba Brazil 80 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UberabaBR · 24.9 works36×
  2. FortalezaBR · 154.4 works36×
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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 Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade do Estado do Pará and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 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 17.3%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte: 67, 16.0%Universidade do Estado do Pará: 49, 11.0%Universidade Federal de Pernambuco: 42, 17.6%Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre: 22, 15.7%Universidade Federal de Alfenas: 12, 21.4%Iranshahr University: 14, 30.0%Universidade de São Paulo: 96, 14.2%Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: 46, 11.6%Universidade Federal do Pará: 32, 14.8%Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública: 9, 20.7%Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade do Esta…
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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 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 71.416.0%34.7×67 +178.2%
2 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 65.711.0%74.4×49 +274.5%
3 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 64.617.6%16.2×42 +108.5%
4 Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto AlegreBrazil 64.315.7%73.7×22 +233.7%
5 Universidade Federal de AlfenasBrazil 64.221.4%29.6×12 +267.2%
6 Iranshahr UniversityIran 63.430.0%32.3×14
7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 62.314.2%10.9×96 -11.0%
8 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 62.211.6%12.5×46 +140.3%
9 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 61.314.8%15.8×32 +126.6%
10 Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde PúblicaBrazil 61.120.7%55.4×9 +241.2%

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 Education and Validation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 68% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.