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Patient Dignity and Privacy

Patient Dignity and Privacy is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the concept of Dignity Therapy, a novel psychotherapeutic intervention primarily focused on patients near the end of life in palliative care. The papers explore various aspects of preserving patient dignity, psychological distress, autonomy, and privacy in healthcare settings, with a particular emphasis on elderly care and human rights. They also discuss the impact of Dignity Therapy on the quality of life and well-being of terminally ill patients.

  • Dignity Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • End-of-Life
  • Patient Dignity
  • Psychotherapeutic Intervention
  • Elderly Care
  • Human Rights
  • Nursing Practice
  • Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Quality of Life
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Patient Dignity and Privacy

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

Which countries lead Patient Dignity and Privacy research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (714 and 326 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 714 works
  2. 2 Brazil 326 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 290 works
  4. 4 Germany 187 works
  5. 5 China 157 works
  6. 6 India 120 works
  7. 7 Canada 112 works
  8. 8 Iran 107 works
  9. 9 Australia 105 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 85 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: 32.4%Brazil: 14.8%United Kingdom: 13.1%Germany: 8.5%6 others listed: 31.1%32%largest
United States714 · 32.4%Brazil326 · 14.8%United Kingdom290 · 13.1%Germany187 · 8.5%6 others listed686 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Patient Dignity and Privacy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Patient Dignity and Privacy research, followed by University of Toronto and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 18 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 13 works
  4. 4 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 12 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 Esslingen University of Applied SciencesGermany 11 works
  7. 7 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do ParanáBrazil 10 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Patient Dignity and Privacy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Patient Dignity and Privacy include Stacey L. Gabriel, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Jean‐Louis Vincent.

  1. 1 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  4. 4 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  5. 5 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  6. 6 Harlan M. Krumholz United States 217k citations
  7. 7 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k 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 Patient Dignity and Privacy?

The most cited paper in Patient Dignity and Privacy is "SPIKES—A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News: Application to the Patient with Cancer" (Walter F. Baile, Robert A. Buckman, Renato Lenzi et al., 2000), with 3,112 citations. Next come "A history and theory of informed consent" (2,343) and "Information Privacy: Measuring Individuals’ Concerns About Organizational Practices1" (2,277).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SPIKES—A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News: Application to the Patient with Cancer Walter F. Baile, Robert A. Buckman, Renato Lenzi et al. · The Oncologist Open access Aug 2000 3,112
2 A history and theory of informed consent Marshall B. Kapp · Journal of Legal Medicine Sep 1986 2,343
3 Information Privacy: Measuring Individuals’ Concerns About Organizational Practices1 H. Jeff Smith, Sandra Milberg, Sandra J. Burke · MIS Quarterly Jun 1996 2,277
4 Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care — Creating a More Sustainable Model Timothy E. Quill, Amy P. Abernethy · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 6 Mar 2013 1,467
5 Assessment of Patients' Competence to Consent to Treatment Paul S. Appelbaum · New England Journal of Medicine 31 Oct 2007 1,420
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Where is Patient Dignity and Privacy research done?

The largest centres of Patient Dignity and Privacy research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), São Paulo (Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 82 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 47 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 42 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 34 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 33 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 32 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 26 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 25 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 23 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Patient Dignity and Privacy?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, National University of Singapore and Harvard 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.

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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
1University of TorontoCanada 62.418.4%3.0×18 +24.2%
2National University of SingaporeSingapore 62.239.9%2.4×9 +23.2%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.810.4%2.8×27 -3.0%
4King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 46.015.9%4.0×10 +19.8%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 44.216.2%2.5×12 +8.3%
6Esslingen University of Applied SciencesGermany 41.914.0%140.6×11 +175.1%
7University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 41.711.0%7.2×9 +81.6%
8Ghent UniversityBelgium 41.011.8%3.5×8 +39.2%
9University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 35.421.0%2.1×9 -40.2%
10University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 35.22.7%4.6×12 +28.8%

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 Patient Dignity and Privacy, country by country

Is Patient Dignity and Privacy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Patient Dignity and Privacy.

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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 Patient Dignity and Privacy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Patient Dignity and Privacy 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%Patient Dignity and Privacy10.2% 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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