Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 62k research works in it since 1950. 16.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of palliative care into end-of-life treatment, including advance care planning, family perspectives, communication strategies, prognostic disclosure, ICU care, ethical considerations, and health care costs. It explores the impact of early palliative care, patient and caregiver outcomes, and the quality of dying and death.
- Palliative Care
- End-of-Life
- Advance Care Planning
- Family Perspectives
- Quality of Dying
- Communication Strategies
- Prognostic Disclosure
- ICU Care
- Ethical Considerations
- Health Care Costs
- Research works
- 62k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 10k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 16.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +34% 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 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.7k and 1.4k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 3.7k works
- 2 United Kingdom 1.4k works
- 3 Germany 640 works
- 4 Canada 632 works
- 5 Australia 553 works
- 6 Brazil 462 works
- 7 China 452 works
- 8 Japan 381 works
- 9 Netherlands 306 works
- 10 India 293 works
How concentrated that is
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Which institutions lead Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Hospice UK publishes the most Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Hospice UKUnited Kingdom 84 works
- 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 56 works
- 3 University of TorontoCanada 51 works
- 4 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 50 works
- 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49 works
- 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 45 works
- 7 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 45 works
- 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 44 works
- 9 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 43 works
- 10 St Christopher's HospiceUnited Kingdom 41 works
Where is Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research done?
The largest centres of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Toronto (Canada).
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 London United Kingdom 480 works
- 2 New York United States 231 works
- 3 Boston United States 191 works
- 4 Toronto Canada 140 works
- 5 Baltimore United States 124 works
- 6 Melbourne Australia 121 works
- 7 Philadelphia United States 118 works
- 8 Singapore Singapore 98 works
- 9 Tokyo Japan 98 works
- 10 Houston United States 94 works
Where is the best place to study Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues?
Among universities, judged by research, Duke-NUS Medical School, University of Hull and Hull York Medical School 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duke-NUS Medical SchoolSingapore | 77.5 | 34.8% | 20.2× | 18 | +130.9% |
| 2 | University of HullUnited Kingdom | 63.0 | 25.0% | 9.5× | 12 | +130.4% |
| 3 | Hull York Medical SchoolUnited Kingdom | 61.8 | 28.9% | 33.7× | 12 | +40.2% |
| 4 | Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia | 61.6 | 26.9% | 7.0× | 29 | +59.9% |
| 5 | Vrije Universiteit BrusselBelgium | 54.8 | 20.2% | 8.0× | 25 | +1.1% |
| 6 | Flinders UniversityAustralia | 54.7 | 16.3% | 9.7× | 26 | -10.6% |
| 7 | University of Southern DenmarkDenmark | 54.5 | 16.8% | 6.0× | 24 | +128.2% |
| 8 | University of California, San FranciscoUnited States | 54.4 | 19.0% | 5.9× | 45 | +65.7% |
| 9 | Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom | 52.0 | 28.7% | 5.8× | 19 | -3.2% |
| 10 | University of PennsylvaniaUnited States | 51.9 | 21.8% | 4.0× | 44 | +77.9% |
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 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 34% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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