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Human Health and Disease

Human Health and Disease is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and management of health risks in children and adolescents, covering factors such as environmental exposure, oxidative stress, educational technologies, nutrition, and physical development. The research also delves into hygienic assessments, epidemiological wellbeing, and the impact of socioeconomic factors on child health.

  • Child Health
  • Risk Assessment
  • Environmental Factors
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Educational Technologies
  • Hygienic Assessment
  • Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Epidemiological Wellbeing
  • Physical Development
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Human Health and Disease

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

Which countries lead Human Health and Disease research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.6k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 366 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 259 works
  5. 5 China 166 works
  6. 6 Poland 139 works
  7. 7 India 135 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 87 works
  9. 9 Belarus 74 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 68 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.

Russia: 51.9%Ukraine: 22.6%United States: 7.2%Uzbekistan: 5.1%6 others listed: 13.2%52%largest
Russia2,623 · 51.9%Ukraine1,142 · 22.6%United States366 · 7.2%Uzbekistan259 · 5.1%6 others listed668 · 13.2%

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

Which institutions lead Human Health and Disease research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Human Health and Disease research, followed by Weatherford College and Sechenov University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 310 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 79 works
  3. 3 Sechenov UniversityRussia 73 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Health of the Russian FederationRussia 69 works
  5. 5 Samarkand State Medical InstituteUzbekistan 65 works
  6. 6 Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management TechnologiesRussia 58 works
  7. 7 National Academy of Medical Sciences of UkraineUkraine 55 works
  8. 8 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical UniversityRussia 54 works
  9. 9 Bogomolets National Medical UniversityUkraine 53 works
  10. 10 Shupyk National Healthcare University of UkraineUkraine 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Human Health and Disease?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Human Health and Disease include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  9. 9 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  10. 10 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Human Health and Disease?

The most cited paper in Human Health and Disease is "2017 Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum" (Erik Karl Alexander, Elizabeth N. Pearce, Gregory A. Brent et al., 2017), with 2,756 citations. Next come "Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity" (2,693) and "Vitamin D deficiency in Europe: pandemic?" (1,401).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 2017 Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Erik Karl Alexander, Elizabeth N. Pearce, Gregory A. Brent et al. · Thyroid Open access 6 Jan 2017 2,756
2 Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity Youfa Wang, Tim Lobstein · International Journal of Pediatric Obesity 2006 2,693
3 Vitamin D deficiency in Europe: pandemic? Kevin D. Cashman et al. · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Open access 11 Feb 2016 1,401
4 Dimensions of Personality Hans Jurgen Eysenck Book chapter 1991 1,349
5 The classification and definition of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy Dennis A. Davey, Ian MacGillivray · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Apr 1988 1,311
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Where is Human Health and Disease research done?

The largest centres of Human Health and Disease research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Angarsk, Arkhangelsk and Perm.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 856 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 336 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 240 works
  4. 4 KharkivUkraine 148 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 95 works
  6. 6 PermRussia 83 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 79 works
  8. 8 LvivUkraine 78 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 77 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 75 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AngarskRU · 28.4 works137×
  2. ArkhangelskRU · 41.0 works97×
  3. PermRU · 82.7 works88×
  4. ChernivtsiUA · 49.2 works58×
  5. OrenburgRU · 29.7 works55×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Human Health and Disease than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Human Health and Disease?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and Sechenov University 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 17.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Pirogov Russian Nati…Sechenov UniversityWeatherford College
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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
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 62.216.3%7.2×33 +10.6%
2Pirogov Russian National Research Medical UniversityRussia 60.413.7%58.2×54 -0.2%
3Sechenov UniversityRussia 59.813.6%44.3×73 -31.0%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 59.79.5%11.0×79 +6.7%
5Dragomanov Ukrainian State UniversityUkraine 59.713.5%130.1×41 +217.2%
6Poltava State Medical UniversityUkraine 57.814.9%74.0×29 +343.5%
7Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 57.016.4%10.2×15 -5.1%
8Moscow State University of Psychology & EducationRussia 56.630.5%61.4×15 -5.9%
9Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 56.025.5%78.0×14 -46.2%
10H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 52.025.3%45.1×9 -65.0%

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 Human Health and Disease, country by country

Is Human Health and Disease research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Human Health and Disease as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Human Health and Disease0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Human Health and Disease 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%Human Health and Disease10.2% 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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