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Healthcare Policy and Management

Healthcare Policy and Management is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 71k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the economics of health care systems and policies, including topics such as health care spending, insurance markets, Medicare spending, the medical home model, accountable care organizations, health insurance coverage, health care utilization, welfare economics, regional variations in health care, and the role of primary care.

  • Health Care Spending
  • Insurance Markets
  • Medicare Spending
  • Medical Home Model
  • Accountable Care Organizations
  • Health Insurance Coverage
  • Health Care Utilization
  • Welfare Economics
  • Regional Variations
  • Primary Care
Research works
71k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
68% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Policy and Management

Which countries lead Healthcare Policy and Management research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (5.1k and 614 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 5.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 614 works
  3. 3 China 380 works
  4. 4 Canada 345 works
  5. 5 India 271 works
  6. 6 Australia 269 works
  7. 7 Germany 159 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 150 works
  9. 9 Italy 119 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 103 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: 68.0%United Kingdom: 8.1%China: 5.0%Canada: 4.6%6 others listed: 14.2%68%largest
United States5,124 · 68.0%United Kingdom614 · 8.1%China380 · 5.0%Canada345 · 4.6%6 others listed1,071 · 14.2%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Policy and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Healthcare Policy and Management research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 250 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 138 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 98 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 97 works
  5. 5 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 85 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 73 works
  7. 7 Brown UniversityUnited States 63 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 62 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 55 works
  10. 10 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Policy and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Policy and Management include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Ahmedin Jemal.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  4. 4 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  5. 5 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  6. 6 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  7. 7 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  8. 8 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  9. 9 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  10. 10 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k 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 Policy and Management?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Policy and Management is "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" (Alastair Baker, 2001), with 10,751 citations. Next come "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" (10,236) and "Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?" (9,924).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century Alastair Baker · BMJ 17 Nov 2001 10,751
2 To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System William R. Hendee · Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2001 10,236
3 Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? Ronald Andersen · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Mar 1995 9,924
4 The Health Belief Model: A Decade Later Nancy K. Janz, Marshall H. Becker · Health Education Quarterly Open access Mar 1984 8,531
5 The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care. Susan P. Baker, Brian O’Neill, William F. Haddon et al. · PubMed Mar 1974 8,021
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Where is Healthcare Policy and Management research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Policy and Management research in 2022-now are Boston (United States), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Monica, London and Providence.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BostonUnited States 251 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 214 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 202 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 201 works
  5. 5 CambridgeUnited States 168 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 164 works
  7. 7 BaltimoreUnited States 139 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 137 works
  9. 9 ChicagoUnited States 127 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 124 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa MonicaUS · 53.4 works36×
  2. London34.2 works24×
  3. ProvidenceUS · 72.6 works13×
  4. RockvilleUS · 22.5 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Policy and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare Policy and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Brown University 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 88.921.2%9.6×250 -1.1%
2London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 72.217.6%12.2×16 +14.0%
3Brown UniversityUnited States 70.619.0%16.7×63 +46.4%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68.116.8%7.8×97 -13.6%
5University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 67.013.2%9.5×56 +19.6%
6University of MichiganUnited States 65.315.9%7.9×98 -6.5%
7Stanford UniversityUnited States 65.013.3%6.0×73 +5.3%
8University of TorontoCanada 61.111.0%3.8×62 +20.3%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 59.514.8%7.3×31 -21.8%
10Northwestern UniversityUnited States 59.216.7%6.1×42 +6.8%

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 Policy and Management, country by country

Is Healthcare Policy and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Policy and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Healthcare Policy and Management 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 Policy and Management9.9% 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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