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Innovations in Medical Education

Innovations in Medical Education is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the transformation of medical education and the development of professionalism in healthcare. It covers topics such as competency-based education, assessment methods, continuing medical education, reflective practice, clinical skills development, faculty development, e-learning in healthcare, patient-oriented learning, and leadership in medicine.

  • Competency-based Education
  • Professional Identity Formation
  • Assessment Methods
  • Continuing Medical Education
  • Reflective Practice
  • Clinical Skills Development
  • Faculty Development
  • E-Learning in Healthcare
  • Patient-Oriented Learning
  • Leadership in Medicine
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovations in Medical Education

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

Which countries lead Innovations in Medical Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (5.6k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 5.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 846 works
  4. 4 Canada 740 works
  5. 5 Australia 558 works
  6. 6 China 514 works
  7. 7 Iran 331 works
  8. 8 Germany 329 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 286 works
  10. 10 Brazil 259 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: 52.2%United Kingdom: 11.7%India: 7.9%Canada: 6.9%6 others listed: 21.3%52%largest
United States5,586 · 52.2%United Kingdom1,255 · 11.7%India846 · 7.9%Canada740 · 6.9%6 others listed2,278 · 21.3%

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

Which institutions lead Innovations in Medical Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Innovations in Medical Education research, followed by University of Toronto and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 168 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 117 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 91 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 87 works
  5. 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 79 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 74 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 73 works
  8. 8 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 71 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 71 works
  10. 10 Indiana UniversityUnited States 65 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovations in Medical Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovations in Medical Education include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  9. 9 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 Innovations in Medical Education?

The most cited paper in Innovations in Medical Education is "Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world" (Julio M. Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al., 2010), with 6,031 citations. Next come "Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes" (5,554) and "Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map?" (4,849).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world Julio M. Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al. · The Lancet Open access 30 Nov 2010 6,031
2 Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes Noah Michael Ivers, Gro Jamtvedt, Signe Agnes Flottorp et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 8 Jun 2012 5,554
3 Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? Ian D. Graham, Jo Logan, Margaret B. Harrison et al. · Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 2006 4,849
4 Effective physician-patient communication and health outcomes: a review. Moira Stewart · PubMed Open access May 1995 4,077
5 Features and uses of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning: a BEME systematic review Saul Barry Issenberg, William C. McGaghie, EMIL R. PETRUSA et al. · Medical Teacher Review 2005 3,976
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Where is Innovations in Medical Education research done?

The largest centres of Innovations in Medical Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), New York (United States) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ammāpettai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 291 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 196 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 192 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 160 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 158 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 157 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 139 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 119 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 117 works
  10. 10 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmmāpettaiIN · 20.0 works56×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovations in Medical Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovations in Medical Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Qatar University, Maastricht University and Utrecht University 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%20%40%mean 20.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Qatar UniversityMohammed Bin Rashid …Utrecht UniversityMaastricht University
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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
1Qatar UniversityQatar 69.829.7%6.1×22 +88.8%
2Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 68.822.4%7.1×36 -10.0%
3Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 66.423.0%2.9×27 -6.0%
4Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health SciencesUnited Arab Emirates 62.625.7%27.4×8 +63.5%
5Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 62.113.9%24.4×61 +46.9%
6Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 61.321.2%2.8×22 +17.6%
7Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandIreland 61.322.2%15.9×21 +16.8%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 61.211.8%4.1×168 -14.1%
9University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 60.913.7%8.6×79 -1.6%
10Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 60.924.0%2.3×16 -1.3%

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 Innovations in Medical Education, country by country

Is Innovations in Medical Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovations in Medical Education.

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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 Innovations in Medical Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.066% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Innovations in Medical Education0.063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Innovations in Medical Education 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%Innovations in Medical Education9.9% 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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