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Medical Education and Admissions

Medical Education and Admissions is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the factors influencing success in medical school, including the predictive validity of various selection methods such as situational judgment tests and admissions criteria. It also delves into the impact of personality traits, ethnic disparities, and the effectiveness of efforts to widen access and diversity in medical education.

  • Medical School Selection
  • Predictive Validity
  • Situational Judgment Tests
  • Academic Performance
  • Admissions Criteria
  • Diversity in Medical Education
  • Personality Traits
  • Underrepresented Groups
  • Graduate Record Examinations
  • Ethnic Disparities
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Education and Admissions

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

Which countries lead Medical Education and Admissions research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 338 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 338 works
  3. 3 India 207 works
  4. 4 Canada 137 works
  5. 5 Germany 119 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 116 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 115 works
  8. 8 Australia 109 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 95 works
  10. 10 China 86 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: 57.2%United Kingdom: 10.9%India: 6.7%Canada: 4.5%6 others listed: 20.7%57%largest
United States1,764 · 57.2%United Kingdom338 · 10.9%India207 · 6.7%Canada137 · 4.5%6 others listed640 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Medical Education and Admissions research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 29 works
  4. 4 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 25 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 22 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 20 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 20 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Education and Admissions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medical Education and Admissions include Jeremy Grimshaw and Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Education and Admissions?

The most cited paper in Medical Education and Admissions is "TRANSFER OF TRAINING: A REVIEW AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH" (Timothy T. Baldwin, J. Kevin Ford, 1988), with 3,312 citations. Next come "Systematic Review of Depression, Anxiety, and Other Indicators of Psychological Distress Among U.S. and Canadian Medical Students" (2,971) and "Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students" (2,490).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TRANSFER OF TRAINING: A REVIEW AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH Timothy T. Baldwin, J. Kevin Ford · Personnel Psychology Mar 1988 3,312
2 Systematic Review of Depression, Anxiety, and Other Indicators of Psychological Distress Among U.S. and Canadian Medical Students Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Matthew R. Thomas, Tait D. Shanafelt · Academic Medicine Review 21 Mar 2006 2,971
3 Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students Lisa S. Rotenstein, Marco Antonio Ramos, Matthew Torre et al. · JAMA Open access 6 Dec 2016 2,490
4 Likert scales: how to (ab)use them Susan Jamieson · Medical Education 25 Nov 2004 2,434
5 Impact of Formal Continuing Medical Education Dave Davis, Mary Ann Thomson O'Brien, Nick Freemantle et al. · JAMA Sep 1999 2,385
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Where is Medical Education and Admissions research done?

The largest centres of Medical Education and Admissions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Philadelphia (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 85 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 65 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 53 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 53 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 48 works
  7. 7 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 36 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 33 works
  9. 9 Ann ArborUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 HoustonUnited States 31 works
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Where is the best place to study Medical Education and Admissions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, San Francisco, Yale University and Harvard 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.

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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
1University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 69.312.9%9.7×25 +20.2%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 66.119.0%4.8×19 +18.0%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.417.2%3.5×40 -14.3%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 61.714.4%3.7×20 +23.6%
5University of OttawaCanada 60.921.8%5.0×12 +49.3%
6University of MichiganUnited States 58.015.4%5.3×29 -7.2%
7McMaster UniversityCanada 57.117.2%5.3×11 +35.3%
8University of WashingtonUnited States 56.618.1%3.6×15 +18.4%
9University of California, DavisUnited States 55.729.1%2.9×8 +20.8%
10University of TorontoCanada 54.311.9%2.7×20 +4.2%

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 Medical Education and Admissions, country by country

Is Medical Education and Admissions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Medical Education and Admissions.

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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 Education and Admissions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medical Education and Admissions 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.

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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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