Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Topic · Health Information Management

Healthcare Quality and Management

Healthcare Quality and Management is a research topic within Health Information Management. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 focuses on the impact of healthcare accreditation on quality improvement, clinical governance, hospital performance, patient satisfaction, and organizational change. It explores topics such as quality management systems, public health policy, and healthcare regulation in the context of accreditation. The papers analyze the challenges, benefits, and effectiveness of accreditation programs in healthcare organizations.

  • Healthcare Accreditation
  • Quality Improvement
  • Clinical Governance
  • Hospital Performance
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Health Service Evaluation
  • Organizational Change
  • Quality Management Systems
  • Public Health Policy
  • Healthcare Regulation
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Quality and Management

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

Which countries lead Healthcare Quality and Management research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (383 and 250 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 383 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 250 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 102 works
  4. 4 Australia 97 works
  5. 5 India 79 works
  6. 6 Iran 74 works
  7. 7 Canada 73 works
  8. 8 Italy 59 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 52 works
  10. 10 China 51 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: 31.4%United Kingdom: 20.5%Indonesia: 8.3%Australia: 8.0%6 others listed: 31.8%31%largest
United States383 · 31.4%United Kingdom250 · 20.5%Indonesia102 · 8.3%Australia97 · 8.0%6 others listed388 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Quality and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Healthcare Quality and Management research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and University of Birmingham.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 11 works
  3. 3 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 9 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 8 works
  5. 5 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 8 works
  6. 6 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 8 works
  7. 7 Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 7 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 7 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Quality and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Quality and Management include Cyrus Cooper, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
  6. 6 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k 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 Quality and Management?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Quality and Management is "Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes" (Noah Michael Ivers, Gro Jamtvedt, Signe Agnes Flottorp et al., 2012), with 5,554 citations. Next come "New Patterns of Management." (3,153) and "SQUIRE 2.0 ( Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) : revised publication guidelines from a detailed consensus process" (2,965).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes Noah Michael Ivers, Gro Jamtvedt, Signe Agnes Flottorp et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 8 Jun 2012 5,554
2 New Patterns of Management. Amitai Etzioni, Rensis Likert · American Sociological Review Oct 1962 3,153
3 SQUIRE 2.0 ( Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) : revised publication guidelines from a detailed consensus process Greg S. Ogrinc, Louise Davies, Daisy Goodman et al. · BMJ Quality & Safety Open access 14 Sep 2015 2,965
4 Critical appraisal skills programme Jatinder Singh · Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics 22 Feb 2013 2,626
5 The Quality in Australian Health Care Study Ross McL Wilson, William B. Runciman, Robert W Gibberd et al. · The Medical Journal of Australia Nov 1995 2,401
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Healthcare Quality and Management research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Quality and Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Tehran (Iran), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Riyadh and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 70 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 30 works
  3. 3 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 26 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 18 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 18 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 18 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 17 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 16 works
  10. 10 DublinIreland 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RiyadhSA · 26.3 works5.3×
  2. LondonGB · 70.3 works4.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Healthcare Quality and Management on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, University of Birmingham and Harvard 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.

0%10%20%mean 11.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityUniversity of Birmin…University of TorontoIslamic Azad Univers…
above the meannear itbelow it

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 TorontoCanada 76.910.3%4.0×14 -1.9%
2University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 54.111.4%9.0×9 -13.5%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 47.720.4%1.5×8 -48.2%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 20.72.3%3.8×11 -53.8%

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 Quality and Management, country by country

Is Healthcare Quality and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Quality and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Healthcare Quality and Management0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Healthcare Quality 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 Quality and Management10.3% 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.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Healthcare Quality and Management. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.