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Healthcare innovation and challenges

Healthcare innovation and challenges is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of personalisation in social care services, focusing on topics such as direct payments, individual budgets, choice and control, elderly care, disability support, and the impact of austerity on healthcare and public sector reform.

  • Personalisation
  • Direct Payments
  • Individual Budgets
  • Social Work
  • Choice and Control
  • Elderly Care
  • Disability Support
  • Austerity
  • Healthcare
  • Public Sector Reform
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United Kingdom
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare innovation and challenges

Which countries lead Healthcare innovation and challenges research?

By volume, the United Kingdom and the United States publish the most (583 and 377 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United Kingdom 583 works
  2. 2 United States 377 works
  3. 3 Australia 305 works
  4. 4 Canada 134 works
  5. 5 China 94 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 81 works
  7. 7 Ireland 69 works
  8. 8 Sweden 69 works
  9. 9 Germany 53 works
  10. 10 Norway 47 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 Kingdom: 32.2%United States: 20.8%Australia: 16.8%Canada: 7.4%6 others listed: 22.8%32%largest
United Kingdom583 · 32.2%United States377 · 20.8%Australia305 · 16.8%Canada134 · 7.4%6 others listed412 · 22.8%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare innovation and challenges research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Melbourne publishes the most Healthcare innovation and challenges research, followed by La Trobe University and UNSW Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of MelbourneAustralia 25 works
  2. 2 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 25 works
  3. 3 UNSW SydneyAustralia 24 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 22 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 18 works
  6. 6 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 15 works
  9. 9 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare innovation and challenges?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare innovation and challenges include Rob Knight, Martin McKee and Mark I. McCarthy.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
  4. 4 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  5. 5 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  6. 6 Harvey Whiteford Australia 222k citations
  7. 7 Carol Brayne United Kingdom 220k citations
  8. 8 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  9. 9 David John Hunter Australia 211k citations
  10. 10 Charles D.A. Wolfe United Kingdom 211k 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 Healthcare innovation and challenges?

The most cited paper in Healthcare innovation and challenges is "Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice" (MICHAEL J. OLIVER, 1995), with 2,382 citations. Next come "Beyond Engagement and Participation: User and Community Coproduction of Public Services" (1,977) and "The New Public Service: Serving Rather than Steering" (1,782).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice MICHAEL J. OLIVER 13 Nov 1995 2,382
2 Beyond Engagement and Participation: User and Community Coproduction of Public Services Tony Bovaird · Public Administration Review Sep 2007 1,977
3 The New Public Service: Serving Rather than Steering Robert B. Denhardt, Janet Vinzant Denhardt · Public Administration Review Nov 2000 1,782
4 The social model of disability: thirty years on Mike Oliver · Disability & Society 22 Jul 2013 1,624
5 Valuing people: a New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century Simon Whitaker, Joanne L.B. Porter · British Journal of Learning Disabilities Sep 2002 1,390
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Healthcare innovation and challenges research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare innovation and challenges research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Sydney (Australia) and Dublin (Ireland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dublin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 85 works
  3. 3 SydneyAustralia 59 works
  4. 4 DublinIreland 44 works
  5. 5 CanberraAustralia 35 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 32 works
  7. 7 BrisbaneAustralia 31 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 BirminghamUnited Kingdom 23 works
  10. 10 AdelaideAustralia 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DublinIE · 43.5 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare innovation and challenges than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare innovation and challenges?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Canberra, La Trobe University and The University of Sydney score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 17.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of CanberraThe University of Sy…La Trobe UniversityUNSW Sydney
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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.

Citation 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 CanberraAustralia 77.521.6%43.2×14 +126.0%
2La Trobe UniversityAustralia 77.215.8%41.8×25 +14.2%
3The University of SydneyAustralia 76.020.4%8.8×22 +17.6%
4UNSW SydneyAustralia 68.211.4%13.1×24 -11.1%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 66.923.0%7.7×15 +38.7%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 66.87.5%11.3×25 +12.3%
7University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 66.223.3%14.2×15 -12.4%
8University of TorontoCanada 63.115.5%4.4×18 +48.0%
9The University of QueenslandAustralia 62.224.0%6.3×12 +16.0%
10University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 59.015.8%13.5×17 -17.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Healthcare innovation and challenges, country by country

Is Healthcare innovation and challenges research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Healthcare innovation and challenges as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Healthcare innovation and challenges0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Healthcare innovation and challenges 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%Healthcare innovation and challenges10.0% 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.

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