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Medication Adherence and Compliance

Medication Adherence and Compliance is a research topic within Family Practice. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1953. 20.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and strategies related to improving patient adherence to medication regimens, particularly in the context of chronic diseases. It covers topics such as medication adherence, treatment adherence, patient compliance, interventions to improve adherence, barriers to adherence, and the impact of adherence on healthcare costs and health outcomes.

  • Medication Adherence
  • Treatment Adherence
  • Patient Compliance
  • Medication Persistence
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Healthcare Costs
  • Interventions
  • Barriers to Adherence
  • Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
  • Health Outcomes
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Medication Adherence and Compliance research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.6k and 304 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 304 works
  3. 3 China 266 works
  4. 4 India 226 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 202 works
  6. 6 Spain 195 works
  7. 7 Australia 176 works
  8. 8 Canada 167 works
  9. 9 Brazil 138 works
  10. 10 France 131 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: 47.5%United Kingdom: 8.8%China: 7.7%India: 6.6%6 others listed: 29.3%47%largest
United States1,631 · 47.5%United Kingdom304 · 8.8%China266 · 7.7%India226 · 6.6%6 others listed1,008 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Medication Adherence and Compliance research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Medication Adherence and Compliance research, followed by Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 39 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 The University of SydneyAustralia 18 works
  7. 7 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 17 works
  8. 8 University of PittsburghUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 Duke UniversityUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medication Adherence and Compliance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medication Adherence and Compliance include Valentı́n Fuster and Harlan M. Krumholz.

  1. 1 Valentı́n Fuster United States 5.4k citations
  2. 2 Harlan M. Krumholz United States 4.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Medication Adherence and Compliance research done?

The largest centres of Medication Adherence and Compliance research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Baltimore (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Indianapolis and Durham.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 95 works
  2. 2 New York United States 80 works
  3. 3 Boston United States 71 works
  4. 4 Baltimore United States 48 works
  5. 5 Sydney Australia 45 works
  6. 6 Philadelphia United States 45 works
  7. 7 Seoul South Korea 43 works
  8. 8 Chapel Hill United States 43 works
  9. 9 Madrid Spain 43 works
  10. 10 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IndianapolisUS · 20.4 works6.0×
  2. DurhamUS · 34.2 works5.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medication Adherence and Compliance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medication Adherence and Compliance?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gondar, Harvard University and Jordan University of Science and Technology 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 28.35%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Gondar: 10, 28.4%Harvard University: 27, 38.4%Jordan University of Science and Technology: 9, 21.2%The University of Sydney: 18, 29.9%University of Utah: 10, 35.5%Johns Hopkins University: 21, 24.6%Karolinska Institutet: 12, 21.3%University of Pennsylvania: 14, 30.9%Northwestern University: 9, 32.1%King Saud University: 11, 21.2%Harvard UniversityThe University of Sy…University of GondarJordan University of…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of GondarEthiopia 65.128.4%13.2×10 +904.4%
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.738.4%4.0×27 +29.2%
3 Jordan University of Science and TechnologyJordan 51.621.2%10.0×9 —
4 The University of SydneyAustralia 49.629.9%3.5×18 +57.4%
5 University of UtahUnited States 46.335.5%3.0×10 +114.7%
6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 44.324.6%3.7×21 +42.7%
7 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 43.621.3%5.0×12 +46.5%
8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 40.730.9%2.9×14 +24.8%
9 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 40.532.1%2.6×9 +93.6%
10 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 39.421.2%2.3×11 +114.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Medication Adherence and Compliance research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Medication Adherence and Compliance.

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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.

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.