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Healthcare Systems and Practices

Healthcare Systems and Practices is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores healthcare policy reforms, challenges of inequalities, and the pursuit of universal health coverage in France. It covers topics such as public health, social determinants of health, healthcare management, financing, and quality indicators. The papers also delve into the impact of digital health and the role of primary care in addressing these issues.

  • Healthcare Policy
  • Public Health
  • Inequalities
  • Universal Health Coverage
  • Healthcare Management
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Primary Care
  • Health System Financing
  • Healthcare Quality Indicators
  • Digital Health
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
68% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Systems and Practices

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

Which countries lead Healthcare Systems and Practices research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (4.6k and 531 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 4.6k works
  2. 2 United States 531 works
  3. 3 Canada 390 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 264 works
  5. 5 ?? 247 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 202 works
  7. 7 Belgium 196 works
  8. 8 Morocco 173 works
  9. 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 87 works
  10. 10 Tunisia 72 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.

France: 67.8%United States: 7.9%Canada: 5.8%Switzerland: 3.9%6 others listed: 14.6%68%largest
France4,557 · 67.8%United States531 · 7.9%Canada390 · 5.8%Switzerland264 · 3.9%6 others listed978 · 14.6%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Systems and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Healthcare Systems and Practices research, followed by Inserm and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 766 works
  2. 2 InsermFrance 189 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 168 works
  4. 4 Université Paris CitéFrance 133 works
  5. 5 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 111 works
  6. 6 Université de LorraineFrance 103 works
  7. 7 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 91 works
  8. 8 Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance 86 works
  9. 9 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 85 works
  10. 10 Hospices Civils de LyonFrance 79 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Systems and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Systems and Practices include John J.V. McMurray, Emelia J. Benjamin and Valery L. Feigin.

  1. 1 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  2. 2 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  3. 3 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  4. 4 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  8. 8 Isabelle Boutron France 271k citations
  9. 9 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Systems and Practices?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Systems and Practices is "Value of a national administrative database to guide public decisions: From the système national d’information interrégimes de l’Assurance Maladie (SNIIRAM) to the système national des données de santé (SNDS) in France" (Philippe Tuppin, Jérémie Rudant, Panayotis Constantinou et al., 2017), with 907 citations. Next come "Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission" (784) and "Stroke incidence and prevalence in Europe: a review of available data" (667).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Value of a national administrative database to guide public decisions: From the système national d’information interrégimes de l’Assurance Maladie (SNIIRAM) to the système national des données de santé (SNDS) in France Philippe Tuppin, Jérémie Rudant, Panayotis Constantinou et al. · Revue d Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique 27 Jul 2017 907
2 Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission Valery L. Feigin et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access256 authors 9 Oct 2023 784
3 Stroke incidence and prevalence in Europe: a review of available data Thomas Truelsen, Bartłomiej Piechowski‐Jóźwiak, Ruth Bonita et al. · European Journal of Neurology Jun 2006 667
4 Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030 Bo Norrving, Jon Barrick, Antoni Dávalos et al. · European Stroke Journal Open access 29 Oct 2018 628
5 The national healthcare system claims databases in France, SNIIRAM and EGB: Powerful tools for pharmacoepidemiology Julien Bezin, Mai Huynh Thi Duong, R. Lassalle et al. · Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 24 May 2017 589
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Healthcare Systems and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Systems and Practices research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Lille (France) and Toulouse (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint-Maurice, Guyancourt and Nancy.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 1.3k works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 279 works
  3. 3 LilleFrance 198 works
  4. 4 ToulouseFrance 155 works
  5. 5 NantesFrance 133 works
  6. 6 RennesFrance 127 works
  7. 7 MontrealCanada 127 works
  8. 8 MarseilleFrance 113 works
  9. 9 MontpellierFrance 107 works
  10. 10 BrusselsBelgium 102 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint-MauriceFR · 42.7 works246×
  2. GuyancourtFR · 23.7 works101×
  3. Nancy30.8 works88×
  4. LubumbashiCD · 24.7 works85×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare Systems and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Université du Québec, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and HEC Montréal 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%30%mean 17.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →HEC MontréalUniversité du QuébecConservatoire Nation…Université Laval
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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.

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
1Université du QuébecCanada 71.621.6%18.7×22 +86.7%
2Conservatoire National des Arts et MétiersFrance 68.617.9%76.9×42 +6.4%
3HEC MontréalCanada 62.825.5%28.0×9 -8.8%
4Université LavalCanada 62.217.8%14.8×42 -1.6%
5Université de MontréalCanada 61.516.1%13.0×49 -13.9%
6Université de LyonFrance 61.05.4%39.2×168 +10.6%
7Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 60.86.6%40.3×111 +21.5%
8Université du Québec à Trois-RivièresCanada 60.221.5%19.6×12 +137.9%
9Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 59.923.8%15.2×24 -21.5%
10Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-PyrénéesFrance 59.214.0%12.3×13 +17.6%

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 Systems and Practices, country by country

Is Healthcare Systems and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Systems and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Healthcare Systems and Practices0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Healthcare Systems and Practices 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 Systems and Practices9.4% 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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