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Healthcare Systems and Technology

Healthcare Systems and Technology is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on improving communication and coordination in the referral process between primary care and specialist healthcare providers. It explores topics such as electronic consultations, patient sharing among physicians, physician collaboration, healthcare networks, and the impact of communication on healthcare quality.

  • Referral
  • Communication
  • Primary Care
  • Specialist
  • Healthcare Networks
  • Electronic Consultations
  • Patient Sharing
  • Physician Collaboration
  • Healthcare Quality
  • Social Network Analysis
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Systems and Technology

Which countries lead Healthcare Systems and Technology research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1k and 504 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 504 works
  3. 3 Spain 258 works
  4. 4 Canada 178 works
  5. 5 Australia 133 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 77 works
  7. 7 Germany 60 works
  8. 8 China 56 works
  9. 9 India 47 works
  10. 10 Italy 47 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: 43.3%United Kingdom: 21.0%Spain: 10.8%Canada: 7.4%6 others listed: 17.5%43%largest
United States1,036 · 43.3%United Kingdom504 · 21.0%Spain258 · 10.8%Canada178 · 7.4%6 others listed419 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead Healthcare Systems and Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Healthcare Systems and Technology research, followed by University of Toronto and University of Pennsylvania.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 44 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 31 works
  3. 3 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Systems and Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Systems and Technology include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Mika Kivimäki.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k 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 Technology?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Systems and Technology is "Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network" (Sara Twaddle, Safia Qureshi, 2005), with 4,102 citations. Next come "Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19" (3,101) and "Internet, mail, and mixed-mode surveys: The tailored design method *" (2,577).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Sara Twaddle, Safia Qureshi · Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health 3 Nov 2005 4,102
2 Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19 Judd E. Hollander, Brendan G. Carr · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Mar 2020 3,101
3 Internet, mail, and mixed-mode surveys: The tailored design method * Angela P. Wetzel · Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 2010 2,577
4 How does communication heal? Pathways linking clinician–patient communication to health outcomes Richard Lewis Street, Gregory T. Makoul, Neeraj K. Arora et al. · Patient Education and Counseling 16 Jan 2009 2,511
5 GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research Sophie H. Staniszewska, Jo Brett, Iveta Simera et al. · BMJ Open access 2 Aug 2017 2,143
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Where is Healthcare Systems and Technology research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Systems and Technology research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Madrid (Spain), Boston (United States) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 133 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 61 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 48 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 43 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 42 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 39 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 33 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 29 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 28 works
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Where is the best place to study Healthcare Systems and Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and University of Oxford 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%20%40%mean 18.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordHarvard UniversityUniversity of Califo…University of Toronto
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.517.8%5.0×44 -32.7%
2University of TorontoCanada 66.215.2%5.6×31 +12.5%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 59.027.7%3.6×14 -10.2%
4University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.816.3%8.6×17 -7.5%
5The University of QueenslandAustralia 55.833.8%4.0×10 -18.3%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 55.618.4%5.1×12 +30.7%
7Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 52.217.0%6.1×10 -10.5%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 50.510.5%7.3×21 +7.5%
9Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 50.014.5%4.3×18 -25.7%
10University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 49.312.2%10.9×12 +17.4%

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 Systems and Technology, country by country

Is Healthcare Systems and Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Healthcare Systems and Technology0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Healthcare Systems and Technology 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 Technology10.1% 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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