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Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1951. 32.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the prevalence, causes, and consequences of burnout among healthcare professionals and students, with a focus on physicians. It also delves into the impact of burnout on work-life balance, patient care, job satisfaction, mental health, and interventions to address burnout.

  • Physician Burnout
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Medical Student Distress
  • Patient Care
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Professionalism
  • Well-being
  • Interventions
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
11k
per year above
Top-10% rate
32.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+145%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 821 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 821 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 611 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 503 works
  5. 5 India 476 works
  6. 6 Canada 367 works
  7. 7 Iran 346 works
  8. 8 Australia 326 works
  9. 9 Brazil 320 works
  10. 10 Germany 274 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: 40.0%China: 12.2%United Kingdom: 9.1%Türkiye: 7.5%6 others listed: 31.3%40%largest
United States2,700 · 40.0%China821 · 12.2%United Kingdom611 · 9.1%Türkiye503 · 7.5%6 others listed2,109 · 31.3%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Michigan publishes the most Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout research, followed by University of Toronto and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of MichiganUnited States 35 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 35 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34 works
  4. 4 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 30 works
  5. 5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 29 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 Yale UniversityUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Iranshahr UniversityIran 23 works
  10. 10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout include Mika Kivimäki, Arnold B. Bakker and Wilmar B. Schaufeli.

  1. 1 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 6.7k citations
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 6k citations
  3. 3 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 5.3k citations
  4. 4 Norito Kawakami Japan 4.2k citations
  5. 5 Tea Lallukka Finland 3.8k citations
  6. 6 Evangelia Demerouti Netherlands 3.6k citations

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

Where is Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Istanbul (Türkiye) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Iranshahr and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 165 works
  2. 2 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 118 works
  3. 3 Istanbul Türkiye 116 works
  4. 4 New York United States 100 works
  5. 5 Tehran Iran 90 works
  6. 6 Beijing China 85 works
  7. 7 Boston United States 83 works
  8. 8 Toronto Canada 80 works
  9. 9 Melbourne Australia 75 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C. United States 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IranshahrIR · 23.8 works26×
  2. AmbatoEC · 25.5 works5.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout?

Among universities, judged by research, Iranshahr University, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and Jordan University of Science and Technology 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%25%50%75%mean 39.09%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Iranshahr University: 23, 29.3%King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences: 10, 38.0%Jordan University of Science and Technology: 13, 43.2%King Saud University: 30, 43.8%Johns Hopkins University: 25, 44.2%Harvard University: 26, 36.3%Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University: 13, 47.7%Sichuan University: 18, 62.1%Shiraz University of Medical Sciences: 18, 29.7%Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 10, 16.6%King Saud UniversityJordan University of…King Saud bin Abdula…Iranshahr 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 Iranshahr UniversityIran 67.929.3%26.1×23 +399.7%
2 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesSaudi Arabia 61.638.0%9.5×10 +234.3%
3 Jordan University of Science and TechnologyJordan 55.843.2%7.4×13 +98.6%
4 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 54.143.8%3.0×30 +38.0%
5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 53.544.2%2.2×25 +156.1%
6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.336.3%2.0×26 +182.4%
7 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 52.647.7%6.5×13 +54.1%
8 Sichuan UniversityChina 52.262.1%1.0×18 +150.4%
9 Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran 51.929.7%6.5×18 +124.2%
10 Mazandaran University of Medical SciencesIran 51.616.6%10.6×10 +487.0%

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 professionals’ stress and burnout research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 145% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout.

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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.