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Health Sciences Research and Education

Health Sciences Research and Education is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the implementation of evidence-based practice in healthcare, exploring the attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and barriers among healthcare professionals, particularly nurses. It addresses the challenges and strategies in developing research capacity, promoting evidence-based practice, and improving clinical decision-making. The cluster also delves into the role of organizational culture, knowledge management, and information-seeking behavior in facilitating research utilization and advancing evidence-based medicine.

  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Barriers and Facilitators
  • Nursing Education
  • Research Utilization
  • Clinical Decision Making
  • Knowledge Management
  • Information Seeking Behavior
  • Organizational Culture
  • Medical Education
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health Sciences Research and Education

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

Which countries lead Health Sciences Research and Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 392 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 392 works
  3. 3 Canada 244 works
  4. 4 Australia 219 works
  5. 5 India 171 works
  6. 6 China 138 works
  7. 7 Iran 89 works
  8. 8 Spain 71 works
  9. 9 Brazil 64 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 63 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: 56.0%United Kingdom: 11.9%Canada: 7.4%Australia: 6.7%6 others listed: 18.1%56%largest
United States1,845 · 56.0%United Kingdom392 · 11.9%Canada244 · 7.4%Australia219 · 6.7%6 others listed596 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Health Sciences Research and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Health Sciences Research and Education research, followed by University of Toronto and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 37 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Duke UniversityUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 Indiana UniversityUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health Sciences Research and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health Sciences Research and Education include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Jennifer Tetzlaff.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Jennifer Tetzlaff Canada 495k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  8. 8 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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 Sciences Research and Education?

The most cited paper in Health Sciences Research and Education is "Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement" (David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al., 2009), with 83,711 citations. Next come "Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses" (64,184) and "The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration" (28,074).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al. · BMJ ReviewOpen access 21 Jul 2009 83,711
2 Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses Julian P. T. Higgins, Simon G. Thompson, Jonathan J Deeks et al. · BMJ Open access 4 Sep 2003 64,184
3 The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration Alessandro Liberati, Douglas G. Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al. · PLoS Medicine ReviewOpen access 20 Jul 2009 28,074
4 Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't David L. Sackett, William Rosenberg, J. A. Muir Gray et al. · BMJ Open access 13 Jan 1996 15,892
5 Why Most Published Research Findings Are False John P. A. Ioannidis · PLoS Medicine Open access 2 Aug 2005 10,796
All 94 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Health Sciences Research and Education research done?

The largest centres of Health Sciences Research and Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in York.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 89 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 57 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 54 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 50 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 48 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 44 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 42 works
  9. 9 Chapel HillUnited States 36 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YorkGB · 29.2 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Health Sciences Research and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, McMaster University and The University of Queensland 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 13.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Qu…University of TorontoMcMaster UniversityUniversity of Ottawa
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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
1University of TorontoCanada 76.018.6%3.9×30 -26.4%
2McMaster UniversityCanada 68.913.6%7.2×16 -39.9%
3The University of QueenslandAustralia 66.719.9%4.0×15 +18.8%
4University of OttawaCanada 64.713.3%5.8×15 -32.9%
5The University of SydneyAustralia 62.519.4%3.6×17 -8.7%
6Duke UniversityUnited States 61.610.9%6.7×21 +51.6%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.712.9%2.5×30 -15.8%
8University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States 57.78.3%9.7×19 +44.8%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.712.9%2.7×15 +24.3%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 55.56.6%4.0×23 +16.8%

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 Sciences Research and Education, country by country

Is Health Sciences Research and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Sciences Research and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Health Sciences Research and Education0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health Sciences Research and Education 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 Sciences Research and Education10.3% 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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