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Health Services Management and Policy

Health Services Management and Policy is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 7.8k research works in it since 1950. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to healthcare policy and system reform, including issues with the NHS, government initiatives, public health, primary care, patient care, medical training, and hospital management. It reflects the complex challenges and ongoing efforts to improve healthcare delivery and accessibility in the UK and globally.

  • NHS
  • healthcare
  • policy
  • reform
  • public health
  • primary care
  • patient care
  • government
  • medical training
  • hospital management
Research works
7.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
747
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
??
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health Services Management and Policy

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

Which countries lead Health Services Management and Policy research?

By volume, ?? and the United Kingdom publish the most (280 and 190 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 ?? 280 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 190 works
  3. 3 United States 71 works
  4. 4 Australia 67 works
  5. 5 Canada 17 works
  6. 6 New Zealand 11 works
  7. 7 India 9 works
  8. 8 Ireland 9 works
  9. 9 South Africa 8 works
  10. 10 Poland 7 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.

??: 41.9%United Kingdom: 28.4%United States: 10.7%Australia: 10.1%6 others listed: 8.9%42%largest
??280 · 41.9%United Kingdom190 · 28.4%United States71 · 10.7%Australia67 · 10.1%6 others listed59 · 8.9%

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

Which institutions lead Health Services Management and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Health Services Management and Policy research, followed by Transnational Press London and University of Canberra.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 221 works
  2. 2 Transnational Press London 57 works
  3. 3 University of CanberraAustralia 13 works
  4. 4 The University of MelbourneAustralia 11 works
  5. 5 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 Berkshire Community CollegeUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 5 works
  10. 10 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health Services Management and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health Services Management and Policy include George Davey Smith, Peter Christian Gøtzsche and Martin McKee.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  3. 3 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  4. 4 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
  5. 5 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  6. 6 David John Hunter Australia 211k citations
  7. 7 Salman Rawaf United Kingdom 205k 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 Services Management and Policy?

The most cited paper in Health Services Management and Policy is "Universities and tobacco money" (Joanna E Cohen, 2001), with 944 citations. Next come "'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges" (901) and "Taiwan’s New National Health Insurance Program: Genesis And Experience So Far" (711).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Universities and tobacco money Joanna E Cohen · BMJ Open access 7 Jul 2001 944
2 'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges G. Walt, Jeremy Shiffman, Helen Schneider et al. · Health Policy and Planning Open access 22 Jul 2008 901
3 Taiwan’s New National Health Insurance Program: Genesis And Experience So Far Tsung-Mei Cheng · Health Affairs May 2003 711
4 Equity of access to health care services: Maria K. Goddard, PETER C. SMITH · Social Science & Medicine Nov 2001 673
5 What is person-centred care in dementia? Dawn J. R. Brooker · Reviews in Clinical Gerontology Aug 2003 668
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Where is Health Services Management and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Health Services Management and Policy research in 2022-now are London (??), Sale (??), London (United Kingdom) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sale, London and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 London 221 works
  2. 2 Sale 57 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 50 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 18 works
  5. 5 CanberraAustralia 15 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 11 works
  7. 7 OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 BirminghamUnited Kingdom 9 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 9 works
  10. 10 BristolUnited Kingdom 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sale57.4 works2083×
  2. London220.6 works2005×
  3. LondonGB · 50.2 works7.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health Services Management and Policy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health Services Management and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, Transnational Press London and University of Canberra 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.

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 MelbourneAustralia 55.022.3%16.1×11 -
2Transnational Press London 30.08.7%2392.1×57 -33.9%
3University of CanberraAustralia 25.88.5%131.2×13 +86.1%

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 Services Management and Policy, country by country

Is Health Services Management and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Services Management and Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Health Services Management and Policy0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Health Services Management and Policy 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 Services Management and Policy10.9% 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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