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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. 10.1% 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%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medication Adherence and Compliance

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 China publish the most (2k and 381 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 381 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 377 works
  4. 4 India 303 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 264 works
  6. 6 Spain 238 works
  7. 7 Australia 208 works
  8. 8 Canada 195 works
  9. 9 Brazil 162 works
  10. 10 France 155 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: 47.0%China: 8.8%United Kingdom: 8.7%India: 7.0%6 others listed: 28.4%47%largest
United States2,024 · 47.0%China381 · 8.8%United Kingdom377 · 8.7%India303 · 7.0%6 others listed1,222 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Medication Adherence and Compliance research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 84 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 37 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 32 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  8. 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 22 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medication Adherence and Compliance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medication Adherence and Compliance include Ahmedin Jemal, Theo Vos and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  5. 5 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  6. 6 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  9. 9 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  10. 10 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k 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 Medication Adherence and Compliance?

The most cited paper in Medication Adherence and Compliance is "Adherence to Medication" (Lars Osterberg, Terrence F. Blaschke, 2005), with 8,018 citations. Next come "Adherence to Long-Term Therapies: Evidence for Action" (6,332) and "Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a Self-reported Measure of Medication Adherence" (5,389).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Adherence to Medication Lars Osterberg, Terrence F. Blaschke · New England Journal of Medicine 3 Aug 2005 8,018
2 Adherence to Long-Term Therapies: Evidence for Action Sabina De Geest, Eduardo J. Sabate · European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 5 Nov 2003 6,332
3 Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a Self-reported Measure of Medication Adherence Donald Edward Morisky, Lawrence W. Green, David Michael Levine · Medical Care 1986 5,389
4 SF-36 Health Survey Update John E. Ware · Spine Dec 2000 4,515
5 Depression Is a Risk Factor for Noncompliance With Medical Treatment M. Robin DiMatteo, Heidi S. Lepper, Thomas W. Croghan · Archives of Internal Medicine 24 Jul 2000 4,215
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medication Adherence and Compliance research done?

The largest centres of Medication Adherence and Compliance research in 2022-now 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.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 116 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 96 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 88 works
  4. 4 BaltimoreUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 55 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 55 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 52 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 52 works
  10. 10 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IndianapolisUS · 25.1 works5.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Harvard University, The University of Sydney and King Saud 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%mean 17.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Sy…Harvard UniversityKing Saud UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 86.320.2%4.4×84 +7.4%
2The University of SydneyAustralia 71.322.4%4.4×32 -7.5%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 66.719.7%3.2×19 +27.2%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 65.611.9%4.5×42 +16.2%
5University of GondarEthiopia 63.419.0%13.3×12 +9.0%
6University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom 63.318.5%6.2×10 +54.8%
7University of GroningenNetherlands 61.814.2%4.8×20 +61.6%
8Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.614.6%5.1×17 +33.0%
9Yale UniversityUnited States 61.416.8%3.3×21 +15.2%
10University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 61.018.1%4.3×18 +2.4%

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 Medication Adherence and Compliance, country by country

Is Medication Adherence and Compliance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Medication Adherence and Compliance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medication Adherence and Compliance 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%Medication Adherence and Compliance10.3% 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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