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Interprofessional Education and Collaboration

Interprofessional Education and Collaboration is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 28k 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 concept and practice of interprofessional collaboration within healthcare teams. It explores topics such as interprofessional education, teamwork, integrated care, healthcare outcomes, professional practice, collaborative practice, patient care, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

  • Interprofessional Education
  • Teamwork
  • Integrated Care
  • Healthcare Outcomes
  • Professional Practice
  • Collaborative Practice
  • Patient Care
  • Communication
  • Primary Care
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Interprofessional Education and Collaboration

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

Which countries lead Interprofessional Education and Collaboration research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.1k and 793 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 793 works
  3. 3 Canada 489 works
  4. 4 Australia 429 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 226 works
  6. 6 Germany 218 works
  7. 7 China 184 works
  8. 8 South Africa 131 works
  9. 9 Sweden 130 works
  10. 10 Japan 127 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: 43.9%United Kingdom: 16.3%Canada: 10.0%Australia: 8.8%6 others listed: 20.9%44%largest
United States2,137 · 43.9%United Kingdom793 · 16.3%Canada489 · 10.0%Australia429 · 8.8%6 others listed1,015 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Interprofessional Education and Collaboration research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 68 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 56 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 36 works
  5. 5 University of British ColumbiaCanada 30 works
  6. 6 The University of SydneyAustralia 29 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 28 works
  9. 9 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 28 works
  10. 10 The University of QueenslandAustralia 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Interprofessional Education and Collaboration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Interprofessional Education and Collaboration include David Moher, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Mika Kivimäki.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  6. 6 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  7. 7 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k 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 Interprofessional Education and Collaboration?

The most cited paper in Interprofessional Education and Collaboration is "Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Measures: Report of the ISPOR Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation" (Diane J. Wild, Alyson Grove, Mona L. Martin et al., 2005), with 5,609 citations. Next come "Self-management education: History, definition, outcomes, and mechanisms" (4,192) and "Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care" (3,684).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Measures: Report of the ISPOR Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation Diane J. Wild, Alyson Grove, Mona L. Martin et al. · Value in Health Open access Mar 2005 5,609
2 Self-management education: History, definition, outcomes, and mechanisms Kate R. Lorig, Halsted R. Holman · Annals of Behavioral Medicine Aug 2003 4,192
3 Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care Thomas S. Bodenheimer · JAMA 20 Nov 2002 3,684
4 Advancing a Conceptual Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Public Service Sectors Gregory A. Aarons, Michael S. Hurlburt, Sarah McCue Horwitz · Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research Open access 14 Dec 2010 3,365
5 What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers? Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being Open access 2014 3,130
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Where is Interprofessional Education and Collaboration research done?

The largest centres of Interprofessional Education and Collaboration research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 200 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 109 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 95 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 78 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 76 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 69 works
  7. 7 DublinIreland 60 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 60 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 59 works
  10. 10 Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
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Where is the best place to study Interprofessional Education and Collaboration?

Among universities, judged by research, Macquarie University, National University of Singapore and Radboud University Nijmegen 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 18.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Macquarie UniversityNational University …Radboud University N…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
1Macquarie UniversityAustralia 64.931.2%4.4×10 +29.4%
2National University of SingaporeSingapore 64.625.8%2.1×15 +40.8%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 63.512.8%7.9×28 +30.7%
4University of TorontoCanada 63.410.3%5.7×68 -8.8%
5The University of QueenslandAustralia 61.619.5%4.9×27 +24.9%
6Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 61.015.5%8.4×20 +14.1%
7Western UniversityCanada 59.511.4%7.5×25 +26.3%
8Monash UniversityAustralia 59.120.2%4.9×28 +0.7%
9King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.522.8%4.5×22 +6.3%
10Ghent UniversityBelgium 56.317.2%3.4×15 +73.1%

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 Interprofessional Education and Collaboration, country by country

Is Interprofessional Education and Collaboration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Interprofessional Education and Collaboration.

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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 Interprofessional Education and Collaboration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Interprofessional Education and Collaboration 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%Interprofessional Education and Collaboration9.9% 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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