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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. 29.0% 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%
21k
per year above
Top-10% rate
29.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-5%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Healthcare Policy and Management research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (4.8k and 588 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 4.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 588 works
  3. 3 Canada 325 works
  4. 4 China 306 works
  5. 5 India 256 works
  6. 6 Australia 254 works
  7. 7 Germany 148 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 139 works
  9. 9 Italy 112 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 97 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: 68.1%United Kingdom: 8.4%Canada: 4.7%China: 4.4%6 others listed: 14.4%68%largest
United States4,752 · 68.1%United Kingdom588 · 8.4%Canada325 · 4.7%China306 · 4.4%6 others listed1,006 · 14.4%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Policy and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Healthcare Policy and Management research, followed by Harvard University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 123 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 109 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63 works
  5. 5 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 62 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 50 works
  7. 7 Brown UniversityUnited States 50 works
  8. 8 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States 48 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 45 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Policy and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Policy and Management include Elizabeth Loder, Theo Vos and Ted R. Miller.

  1. 1 Elizabeth Loder United States 13k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 12k citations
  3. 3 Ted R. Miller United States 8.1k citations
  4. 4 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 6k citations
  5. 5 Vivekanand Jha India 5.8k citations

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

Where is Healthcare Policy and Management research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Policy and Management research in 2022–2025 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 Rockville.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Boston United States 234 works
  2. 2 New York United States 200 works
  3. 3 London United Kingdom 195 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 186 works
  5. 5 Cambridge United States 157 works
  6. 6 Philadelphia United States 152 works
  7. 7 Chapel Hill United States 129 works
  8. 8 Baltimore United States 127 works
  9. 9 Chicago United States 117 works
  10. 10 Los Angeles United States 116 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa MonicaUS · 51.1 works38×
  2. London34.2 works24×
  3. RockvilleUS · 21.9 works12×
  4. ProvidenceUS · 64.2 works12×
  5. Chapel HillUS · 129.0 works8.6×
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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, Brown University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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%mean 35.34%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Harvard University: 109, 43.2%Brown University: 50, 42.3%London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: 15, 44.1%Erasmus University Rotterdam: 22, 43.2%Johns Hopkins University: 64, 35.1%University of Michigan: 80, 34.3%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 123, 10.3%University of Pennsylvania: 62, 31.6%University of California, San Francisco: 45, 31.8%Boston University: 31, 37.5%London School of Hyg…Harvard UniversityErasmus University R…Brown University
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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 Harvard UniversityUnited States 75.343.2%10.3×109 +21.1%
2 Brown UniversityUnited States 67.142.3%14.9×50 +27.4%
3 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 63.944.1%12.0×15 -18.9%
4 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 61.743.2%9.3×22 +18.5%
5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 58.735.1%7.1×64 +49.7%
6 University of MichiganUnited States 57.734.3%7.0×80 +27.3%
7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 57.610.3%8.6×123 +160.3%
8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 56.831.6%8.1×62 +17.2%
9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 53.731.8%8.4×45 -17.0%
10 Boston UniversityUnited States 52.237.5%7.6×31 -21.2%

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 Policy and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Policy and Management.

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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.