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Healthcare Regulation

Healthcare Regulation is a research topic within Health Information Management. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1956. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to the regulation of healthcare products and practices, including the role of regulatory agencies, patient safety, infection control, drug resistance, epidemiology, and health policy. It also addresses specific issues such as nursing care, medical devices, and regulatory compliance.

  • Healthcare Regulation
  • Public Health
  • Patient Safety
  • Medical Devices
  • Infection Control
  • Drug Resistance
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Policy
  • Nursing Care
  • Regulatory Compliance
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
84% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Regulation

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

Which countries lead Healthcare Regulation research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (4.9k and 236 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 4.9k works
  2. 2 United States 236 works
  3. 3 Portugal 212 works
  4. 4 ?? 97 works
  5. 5 Spain 92 works
  6. 6 Uruguay 71 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 62 works
  8. 8 Mexico 54 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 46 works
  10. 10 Colombia 36 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.

Brazil: 84.3%United States: 4.1%Portugal: 3.7%??: 1.7%6 others listed: 6.2%84%largest
Brazil4,870 · 84.3%United States236 · 4.1%Portugal212 · 3.7%??97 · 1.7%6 others listed361 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Regulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Healthcare Regulation research, followed by Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Universidade Iguaçu.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 90 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 64 works
  3. 3 Universidade IguaçuBrazil 58 works
  4. 4 Universitario Francisco de AsísUruguay 56 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil 56 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 54 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 53 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 52 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 49 works
  10. 10 Centro Universitário de Patos de MinasBrazil 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Regulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Regulation include Isabela M. Benseñor, Paulo A. Lotufo and Bruce Bartholow Duncan.

  1. 1 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  2. 2 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  3. 3 Bruce Bartholow Duncan Brazil 198k citations
  4. 4 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  5. 5 Gregory A. Roth United States 178k citations
  6. 6 María Inês Schmidt Brazil 163k citations
  7. 7 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  8. 8 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k 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 Regulation?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Regulation is "IV Diretriz Brasileira sobre Dislipidemias e Prevenção da Aterosclerose: Departamento de Aterosclerose da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia" (Andrei Carvalho Sposito et al., 2007), with 563 citations. Next come ""Prevenção de lesões de pele no perioperatório: revisão integrativa da literatura"" (527) and "Fatores associados a quedas em uma coorte de idosos residentes na comunidade" (476).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 IV Diretriz Brasileira sobre Dislipidemias e Prevenção da Aterosclerose: Departamento de Aterosclerose da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia Andrei Carvalho Sposito et al. · Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia Open access Apr 2007 563
2 "Prevenção de lesões de pele no perioperatório: revisão integrativa da literatura" Elizabeth Silva Ursi, Cristina Maria Gavão · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access 12 Apr 2005 527
3 Fatores associados a quedas em uma coorte de idosos residentes na comunidade Mônica Rodrigues Perracini, Luiz Roberto Ramos · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access Dec 2002 476
4 Simulation in Clinical Nursing Education Konstantinos Koukourikos, Areti Tsaloglidou, Lambrini Kourkouta et al. · Acta Informatica Medica Open access 2021 468
5 Prevalence of self-medication in Brazil and associated factors Paulo Sérgio Dourado Arrais, María Eneida Porto Fernandes, Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access 2016 306
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Where is Healthcare Regulation research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Regulation research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Recife (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nova Iguaçu, Criciúma and Manaus.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 707 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 364 works
  3. 3 RecifeBrazil 186 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 175 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 174 works
  6. 6 BelémBrazil 158 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 125 works
  8. 8 SalvadorBrazil 122 works
  9. 9 ManausBrazil 105 works
  10. 10 CuritibaBrazil 103 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nova IguaçuBR · 57.7 works253×
  2. Criciúma33.6 works177×
  3. Manaus24.6 works170×
  4. Patos de MinasBR · 49.9 works158×
  5. VassourasBR · 42.7 works137×
  6. Rio VerdeBR · 30.3 works126×
  7. MaldonadoUY · 55.8 works126×
  8. São ToméST · 20.8 works126×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Regulation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare Regulation?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 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%10%20%mean 13.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Nilton …Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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.

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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 73.112.0%8.4×90 +16.8%
2Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 70.715.7%12.5×48 +11.0%
3Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 69.814.5%15.2×52 +10.1%
4Universidade Nilton LinsBrazil 69.720.8%227.9×24 +396.5%
5Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 69.112.6%20.6×47 +25.0%
6Universidade IguaçuBrazil 66.714.5%271.3×58 +182.5%
7Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 65.516.4%21.5×43 +12.8%
8Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 64.28.8%24.6×64 +37.4%
9Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 63.412.7%25.6×53 +30.0%
10Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 62.89.6%16.0×48 +33.9%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Regulation, country by country

Is Healthcare Regulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Regulation.

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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 Regulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Healthcare Regulation0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Healthcare Regulation 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 Regulation9.9% 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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