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Health, Nursing, Elderly Care

Health, Nursing, Elderly Care is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution, challenges, and innovations in the healthcare system in Brazil. It covers topics such as the Brazilian health system, primary care, chronic diseases, quality of life, community-based care, aging population, health policy, social determinants of health, and healthcare access.

  • Brazilian Health System
  • Primary Care
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Quality of Life
  • Community-Based Care
  • Aging Population
  • Health Policy
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Public Health
  • Healthcare Access
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health, Nursing, Elderly Care

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

Which countries lead Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (8.3k and 447 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 8.3k works
  2. 2 Portugal 447 works
  3. 3 United States 328 works
  4. 4 Spain 123 works
  5. 5 ?? 114 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 72 works
  7. 7 Mexico 70 works
  8. 8 Cuba 67 works
  9. 9 Colombia 58 works
  10. 10 Uruguay 57 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: 86.1%Portugal: 4.6%United States: 3.4%Spain: 1.3%6 others listed: 4.5%86%largest
Brazil8,294 · 86.1%Portugal447 · 4.6%United States328 · 3.4%Spain123 · 1.3%6 others listed438 · 4.5%

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

Which institutions lead Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research, followed by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 278 works
  2. 2 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 242 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 170 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 150 works
  5. 5 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 135 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 134 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 133 works
  8. 8 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 129 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 129 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 127 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health, Nursing, Elderly Care?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health, Nursing, Elderly Care include Mohsen Naghavi, Isabela M. Benseñor and Paulo A. Lotufo.

  1. 1 Mohsen Naghavi United States 275k citations
  2. 2 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  3. 3 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  4. 4 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  5. 5 Itamar S Santos Brazil 199k citations
  6. 6 Bruce Bartholow Duncan Brazil 198k citations
  7. 7 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  8. 8 Michael Gideon Marmot United Kingdom 170k citations
  9. 9 Alessandra Carvalho Goulart Brazil 163k 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, Nursing, Elderly Care?

The most cited paper in Health, Nursing, Elderly Care is "Revisão integrativa: método de pesquisa para a incorporação de evidências na saúde e na enfermagem" (Karina Dal Sasso Mendes, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira, Cristina María Galvão, 2008), with 4,323 citations. Next come "Integrative review: what is it? How to do it?" (3,801) and "The Brazilian health system: history, advances, and challenges" (2,450).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revisão integrativa: método de pesquisa para a incorporação de evidências na saúde e na enfermagem Karina Dal Sasso Mendes, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira, Cristina María Galvão · Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem Open access Dec 2008 4,323
2 Integrative review: what is it? How to do it? Marcela Tavares de Souza, Michelly Dias da Silva, Rachel de Carvalho · Einstein (São Paulo) Open access Mar 2010 3,801
3 The Brazilian health system: history, advances, and challenges Jairnilson Silva Paim, Cláudia Travassos, C.M.V.B. Almeida et al. · The Lancet Open access May 2011 2,450
4 Aplicação da versão em português do instrumento abreviado de avaliação da qualidade de vida "WHOQOL-bref" Marcelo PA Fleck, Sérgio Louzada, Marta Kops Xavier et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access Apr 2000 1,937
5 Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges María Inês Schmidt, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Gulnar Azevedo e Silva et al. · The Lancet 10 May 2011 1,630
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research done?

The largest centres of Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in São Tomé, Patos de Minas and Criciúma.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.3k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 872 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 353 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 318 works
  5. 5 Porto AlegreBrazil 272 works
  6. 6 SalvadorBrazil 242 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 232 works
  8. 8 RecifeBrazil 231 works
  9. 9 BelémBrazil 213 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 201 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. São ToméST · 45.5 works169×
  2. Patos de MinasBR · 44.7 works87×
  3. Criciúma24.6 works79×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health, Nursing, Elderly Care than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health, Nursing, Elderly Care?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Brasil, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal de São Paulo 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%mean 13.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade BrasilUniversidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
above the meannear itbelow it

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 BrasilBrazil 77.916.0%62.0×58 +71.2%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 75.313.8%15.9×278 -2.8%
3Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 70.214.3%34.4×129 -5.0%
4Universidade Federal da BahiaBrazil 69.314.3%39.2×98 +9.3%
5Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 69.015.4%20.0×127 -15.4%
6Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 69.013.2%30.1×100 +15.2%
7Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 64.912.3%26.3×129 +1.2%
8Escola Superior de Enfermagem de CoimbraPortugal 63.214.7%165.8×25 +68.0%
9Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 62.712.7%26.6×150 -34.5%
10Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil 61.310.0%27.7×73 +15.4%

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, Nursing, Elderly Care, country by country

Is Health, Nursing, Elderly Care research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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, Nursing, Elderly Care as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Health, Nursing, Elderly Care0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health, Nursing, Elderly Care 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, Nursing, Elderly Care9.8% 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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