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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. 26.5% 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%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
26.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-16%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Healthcare innovation and challenges research?

By volume, the United Kingdom and the United States publish the most (509 and 331 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United Kingdom 509 works
  2. 2 United States 331 works
  3. 3 Australia 268 works
  4. 4 Canada 118 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 75 works
  6. 6 China 64 works
  7. 7 Ireland 63 works
  8. 8 Sweden 61 works
  9. 9 Germany 50 works
  10. 10 South Africa 40 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: 21.0%Australia: 17.0%Canada: 7.5%6 others listed: 22.4%32%largest
United Kingdom509 · 32.2%United States331 · 21.0%Australia268 · 17.0%Canada118 · 7.5%6 others listed353 · 22.4%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare innovation and challenges research?

By volume in 2022–2025, La Trobe University publishes the most Healthcare innovation and challenges research, followed by UNSW Sydney and The University of Melbourne.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 23 works
  2. 2 UNSW SydneyAustralia 21 works
  3. 3 The University of MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 18 works
  5. 5 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 16 works
  6. 6 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 13 works
  8. 8 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 13 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 12 works
  10. 10 Trinity College DublinIreland 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare innovation and challenges?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare innovation and challenges include Jo Moriarty.

  1. 1 Jo Moriarty United Kingdom 4.8k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Healthcare innovation and challenges research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare innovation and challenges research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 107 works
  2. 2 Melbourne Australia 75 works
  3. 3 Sydney Australia 53 works
  4. 4 Dublin Ireland 41 works
  5. 5 Canberra Australia 31 works
  6. 6 Toronto Canada 28 works
  7. 7 Brisbane Australia 26 works
  8. 8 New York United States 23 works
  9. 9 Birmingham United Kingdom 21 works
  10. 10 Cardiff United Kingdom 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DublinIE · 41.0 works13×
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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, La Trobe University, University of Sheffield and UNSW Sydney 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%60%mean 37.48%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →La Trobe University: 23, 39.4%University of Sheffield: 13, 51.5%UNSW Sydney: 21, 33.5%University of Kent: 11, 51.8%The University of Sydney: 18, 36.2%University of Birmingham: 16, 36.0%The University of Melbourne: 21, 19.7%Lund University: 10, 41.6%King's College London: 14, 34.9%Trinity College Dublin: 12, 30.2%University of KentUniversity of Sheffi…La Trobe UniversityUNSW Sydney
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 78.939.4%38.9×23 +23.3%
2 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 77.751.5%13.0×13 +55.5%
3 UNSW SydneyAustralia 74.533.5%12.8×21 +9.9%
4 University of KentUnited Kingdom 73.651.8%38.4×11 +21.3%
5 The University of SydneyAustralia 73.536.2%9.5×18 +62.6%
6 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 68.236.0%14.0×16 -22.3%
7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 65.119.7%11.1×21 +17.3%
8 Lund UniversitySweden 64.541.6%9.2×10 +30.5%
9 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.234.9%9.5×14 -25.9%
10 Trinity College DublinIreland 62.930.2%18.5×12 +25.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Healthcare innovation and challenges research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare innovation and challenges.

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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.

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.