Healthcare Systems and Challenges
Healthcare Systems and Challenges is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 9.3% 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 workforce, including doctors' strikes, workforce planning, and the response to COVID-19, on public health and healthcare delivery in the UK. It also addresses issues such as health inequalities, NHS management, and the role of ethnic minorities in healthcare.
- NHS
- healthcare workers
- COVID-19
- doctors' strikes
- public health
- health inequalities
- primary care
- workforce planning
- ethnic minorities
- patient mortality
- Research works
- 15k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 1.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 9.3% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +44% 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 Systems and Challenges research?
By volume, ?? and the United Kingdom publish the most (754 and 663 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 ?? 754 works
- 2 United Kingdom 663 works
- 3 United States 393 works
- 4 Australia 169 works
- 5 Canada 57 works
- 6 Germany 35 works
- 7 Ireland 33 works
- 8 India 33 works
- 9 Italy 31 works
- 10 New Zealand 24 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Healthcare Systems and Challenges research?
By volume in 2022–2025, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Healthcare Systems and Challenges research, followed by Transnational Press London and University of Canberra.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom)?? 610 works
- 2 Transnational Press London?? 135 works
- 3 University of CanberraAustralia 28 works
- 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 20 works
- 5 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 19 works
- 6 Science OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
- 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 16 works
- 8 Berkshire Community CollegeUnited States 14 works
- 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
- 10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Systems and Challenges?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Systems and Challenges include Martin McKee and Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi.
- 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 5.4k citations
- 2 Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi United Kingdom 4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Healthcare Systems and Challenges research done?
The largest centres of Healthcare Systems and Challenges research in 2022–2025 are London (??), London (United Kingdom), Sale (??) and Oxford (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London and Sale.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 London ?? 612 works
- 2 London United Kingdom 168 works
- 3 Sale ?? 135 works
- 4 Oxford United Kingdom 46 works
- 5 Canberra Australia 38 works
- 6 Melbourne Australia 37 works
- 7 Sydney Australia 27 works
- 8 Birmingham United Kingdom 24 works
- 9 Manchester United Kingdom 21 works
- 10 Edinburgh United Kingdom 20 works
Where it is the local speciality
- London612.2 works1574×
- Sale135.3 works1452×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Systems and Challenges than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Healthcare Systems and Challenges?
Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford and University of York 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom | 69.6 | 33.4% | 28.3× | 10 | +19.1% |
| 2 | University of OxfordUnited Kingdom | 57.1 | 23.5% | 6.6× | 20 | +160.7% |
| 3 | University of YorkUnited Kingdom | 55.5 | 15.6% | 12.1× | 9 | +143.9% |
| 4 | University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom | 52.9 | 14.5% | 8.8× | 10 | +172.0% |
| 5 | University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom | 51.8 | 14.0% | 14.3× | 19 | +41.7% |
| 6 | University of BristolUnited Kingdom | 49.9 | 7.6% | 9.1× | 11 | +213.8% |
| 7 | Transnational Press London?? | 49.6 | 12.5% | 1453.3× | 135 | -36.7% |
| 8 | University of CanberraAustralia | 47.8 | 0.0% | 75.0× | 28 | +171.3% |
| 9 | Keele UniversityUnited Kingdom | 46.7 | 12.9% | 42.9× | 10 | +31.2% |
| 10 | King's College LondonUnited Kingdom | 46.5 | 22.0% | 7.7× | 14 | -7.7% |
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 Systems and Challenges research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 44% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Systems and Challenges.
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.