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Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Health Literacy and Information Accessibility is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1952. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of health literacy, eHealth, and internet health information on patient outcomes, the patient-physician relationship, and chronic disease management. It also delves into the role of social support, information seeking behavior, and the digital divide in accessing healthcare information.

  • Health Literacy
  • eHealth
  • Internet Health Information
  • Patient-Physician Relationship
  • Social Support
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Information Seeking Behavior
  • Digital Divide
  • Medical Communication
  • Online Support Groups
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

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

Which countries lead Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.9k and 726 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 726 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 558 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 365 works
  5. 5 Australia 336 works
  6. 6 Germany 306 works
  7. 7 Canada 241 works
  8. 8 India 199 works
  9. 9 Brazil 176 works
  10. 10 Iran 161 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: 38.8%China: 14.5%Türkiye: 11.1%United Kingdom: 7.3%6 others listed: 28.3%39%largest
United States1,949 · 38.8%China726 · 14.5%Türkiye558 · 11.1%United Kingdom365 · 7.3%6 others listed1,419 · 28.3%

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

Which institutions lead Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research, followed by The University of Sydney and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 59 works
  2. 2 The University of SydneyAustralia 49 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 35 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 35 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 Mayo ClinicUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 24 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health Literacy and Information Accessibility?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility include Cyrus Cooper, Emelia J. Benjamin and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  8. 8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Literacy and Information Accessibility?

The most cited paper in Health Literacy and Information Accessibility is "The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations" (Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck, 2006), with 6,938 citations. Next come "Improving the Quality of Web Surveys: The Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES)" (6,688) and "Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models" (6,348).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Improving the Quality of Web Surveys: The Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES) Günther Eysenbach · Journal of Medical Internet Research Open access 29 Sep 2004 6,688
3 Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, James Fullam et al. · BMC Public Health ReviewOpen access 25 Jan 2012 6,348
4 Low Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review Nancy D Berkman, Stacey Sheridan, Katrina E Donahue et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine Review 19 Jul 2011 5,609
5 Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century Don Nutbeam · Health Promotion International Open access Sep 2000 5,353
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Where is Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research done?

The largest centres of Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 119 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 104 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 101 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 87 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 79 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 68 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 68 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 66 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 63 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 57 works
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Where is the best place to study Health Literacy and Information Accessibility?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Sydney, Harvard University and Sichuan 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 20.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…Sichuan UniversityThe University of Sy…Harvard 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
1The University of SydneyAustralia 69.114.8%6.5×49 +25.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.710.2%3.0×60 +18.8%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 60.922.2%1.7×24 +426.4%
4Chinese University of Hong KongChina 56.923.3%2.6×12 +156.3%
5Chongqing Medical UniversityChina 56.830.8%2.5×9 +148.9%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 54.928.6%0.6×11 +172.5%
7University of TorontoCanada 54.69.0%2.8×35 +23.2%
8Central South UniversityChina 54.130.4%0.8×10 +23.8%
9King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 52.118.3%2.5×16 +82.5%
10Peking UniversityChina 51.618.8%1.5×19 +67.2%

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 Literacy and Information Accessibility, country by country

Is Health Literacy and Information Accessibility research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health Literacy and Information Accessibility.

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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 Literacy and Information Accessibility as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Health Literacy and Information Accessibility 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 Literacy and Information Accessibility9.9% 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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