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HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in countries like South Africa. The research examines the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth, development, healthcare systems, and poverty levels in the region.

  • HIV/AIDS
  • economic growth
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • impact
  • macroeconomics
  • development
  • South Africa
  • epidemic
  • healthcare
  • poverty
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

Which countries lead HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research?

By volume, the United States and South Africa publish the most (437 and 345 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 437 works
  2. 2 South Africa 345 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 206 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 199 works
  5. 5 India 182 works
  6. 6 Kenya 167 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 124 works
  8. 8 Brazil 68 works
  9. 9 China 64 works
  10. 10 Uganda 54 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: 23.7%South Africa: 18.7%Indonesia: 11.2%Nigeria: 10.8%6 others listed: 35.7%24%largest
United States437 · 23.7%South Africa345 · 18.7%Indonesia206 · 11.2%Nigeria199 · 10.8%6 others listed659 · 35.7%

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

Which institutions lead HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research, followed by University of the Witwatersrand and University of South Africa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 88 works
  2. 2 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 33 works
  3. 3 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 31 works
  4. 4 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 29 works
  5. 5 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 28 works
  6. 6 University of PretoriaSouth Africa 26 works
  7. 7 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 25 works
  8. 8 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 24 works
  9. 9 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 21 works
  10. 10 University of NairobiKenya 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses?

The most-cited researchers publishing on HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses?

The most cited paper in HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses is "Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030" (Colin Douglas Mathers, Dejan Lončar, 2006), with 11,581 citations. Next come "The world health report 2000 - Health systems: improving performance" (3,515) and "Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time-to-Event Data" (3,036).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030 Colin Douglas Mathers, Dejan Lončar · PLoS Medicine Open access 22 Nov 2006 11,581
2 The world health report 2000 - Health systems: improving performance Uwe E. Reinhardt, Tsung-Mei Cheng · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) Open access 2000 3,515
3 Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time-to-Event Data David W. Hosmer, Stanley A. Lemeshow, Susanne J. May 7 Mar 2008 3,036
4 HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action Richard Guy Parker, Peter Aggleton · Social Science & Medicine 13 May 2003 2,764
5 Economic Effects of Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19) on the World Economy Nuno Fernandes · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2020 1,932
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research done?

The largest centres of HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Chapel Hill (United States), Pretoria (South Africa) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Harare and Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 106 works
  2. 2 Chapel HillUnited States 88 works
  3. 3 PretoriaSouth Africa 79 works
  4. 4 JohannesburgSouth Africa 71 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  6. 6 DurbanSouth Africa 41 works
  7. 7 KampalaUganda 37 works
  8. 8 Cape TownSouth Africa 34 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 30 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HarareZW · 22.9 works61×
  2. NairobiKE · 106.0 works44×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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.

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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
1University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 68.817.6%31.4×33 -7.9%
2University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 67.615.2%31.5×29 +20.3%
3London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 66.615.4%30.2×12 -12.0%
4University of GhanaGhana 66.020.5%24.8×16 +63.4%
5University of Cape TownSouth Africa 65.420.0%28.8×25 -14.0%
6University of the Western CapeSouth Africa 64.319.5%42.2×16 +32.2%
7University of the Free StateSouth Africa 61.320.7%18.7×11 +39.7%
8University of PretoriaSouth Africa 57.412.6%23.9×26 +20.9%
9Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 55.211.4%22.0×21 +21.8%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 52.516.2%2.8×10 +37.9%

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 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses, country by country

Is HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses.

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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 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses 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%HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses10.2% 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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