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Medical and Health Sciences Research

Medical and Health Sciences Research is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. 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 covers a wide range of ethical and legal issues in medicine, including patient rights, reproductive medicine, healthcare law, informed consent, end-of-life care, bioethics, telemedicine, genetic testing, and physician liability.

  • Medical Ethics
  • Patient Rights
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Healthcare Law
  • Informed Consent
  • End-of-Life Care
  • Bioethics
  • Telemedicine
  • Genetic Testing
  • Physician Liability
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
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
80% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical and Health Sciences Research

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

Which countries lead Medical and Health Sciences Research research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (2.5k and 227 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.5k works
  2. 2 Austria 227 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 151 works
  4. 4 United States 112 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 40 works
  6. 6 Italy 24 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 22 works
  8. 8 France 19 works
  9. 9 Estonia 17 works
  10. 10 Poland 16 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.

Germany: 79.6%Austria: 7.3%Switzerland: 4.9%United States: 3.6%6 others listed: 4.5%80%largest
Germany2,458 · 79.6%Austria227 · 7.3%Switzerland151 · 4.9%United States112 · 3.6%6 others listed138 · 4.5%

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

Which institutions lead Medical and Health Sciences Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Bergmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte publishes the most Medical and Health Sciences Research research, followed by München Klinik and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Bergmann und Partner RechtsanwälteGermany 90 works
  2. 2 München KlinikGermany 72 works
  3. 3 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 62 works
  4. 4 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 48 works
  5. 5 University of BonnGermany 45 works
  6. 6 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 44 works
  7. 7 University of CologneGermany 42 works
  8. 8 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 37 works
  9. 9 University of MünsterGermany 34 works
  10. 10 University of GöttingenGermany 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical and Health Sciences Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medical and Health Sciences Research include Hermann Brenner, Matthias Egger and Florian Fischer.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  3. 3 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  4. 4 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  5. 5 Dirk Schadendorf Germany 222k citations
  6. 6 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k 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 Medical and Health Sciences Research?

The most cited paper in Medical and Health Sciences Research is "Surveillance nosokomialer Infektionen" (Petra Gastmeier, 2004), with 511 citations. Next come "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF)" (341) and "?Ein Fall von...?" (297).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Surveillance nosokomialer Infektionen Petra Gastmeier · Therapeutische Umschau Mar 2004 511
2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF) K. -H. Vosteen · European Journal of Trauma Feb 1992 341
3 ?Ein Fall von...? Johannes Poigenf�rst · Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery 1966 297
4 Teratology-principles and techniques L. Oberthur Johnson · Metabolism Jun 1965 261
5 S3-Leitlinie Kolorektales Karzinom Version 1.0 - Juni 2013 AWMF-Registernummer: 021/007OL Christian Peter Pox et al. · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie Open access 16 Aug 2013 183
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medical and Health Sciences Research research done?

The largest centres of Medical and Health Sciences Research research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hamm and Leverkusen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 220 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 195 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 114 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 108 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 98 works
  6. 6 HammGermany 94 works
  7. 7 HanoverGermany 65 works
  8. 8 BonnGermany 64 works
  9. 9 Frankfurt am MainGermany 64 works
  10. 10 DüsseldorfGermany 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HammDE · 93.8 works660×
  2. LeverkusenDE · 22.7 works89×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medical and Health Sciences Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medical and Health Sciences Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, University of Tübingen and Heidelberg 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%10%20%30%mean 14.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Medizinische Hochsch…Heidelberg UniversityUniversity of TübingenLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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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
1Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 73.814.9%52.9×38 +169.5%
2University of TübingenGermany 70.910.6%22.9×27 +34.8%
3Heidelberg UniversityGermany 70.313.7%23.0×48 -15.4%
4Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 69.310.2%26.1×62 -21.9%
5University of BonnGermany 68.38.7%35.3×44 +37.3%
6Universität HamburgGermany 66.414.6%14.4×29 -12.4%
7University of BremenGermany 65.819.1%25.6×17 -19.1%
8University of GöttingenGermany 63.412.1%32.3×32 -9.8%
9Leibniz University HannoverGermany 61.825.2%18.5×15 +2.4%
10Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 61.116.4%20.8×25 -7.5%

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 Medical and Health Sciences Research, country by country

Is Medical and Health Sciences Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009.

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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 Medical and Health Sciences Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medical and Health Sciences Research 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%Medical and Health Sciences Research9.7% 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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