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Pharmacy and Medical Practices

Pharmacy and Medical Practices is a research topic within Pharmacology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to pharmaceutical care and clinical pharmacy practice, including medication management, patient education, drug information, adverse drug reactions, community pharmacy services, pharmacist roles, healthcare communication, and pharmacy training. The papers discuss various aspects of pharmaceutical interventions, evaluation of training programs, patient satisfaction, and the role of pharmacists in optimizing medication therapy and ensuring patient safety.

  • Pharmaceutical Care
  • Clinical Pharmacy
  • Medication Management
  • Patient Education
  • Drug Information
  • Pharmacy Training
  • Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Community Pharmacy
  • Pharmacist Role
  • Healthcare Communication
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Japan
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pharmacy and Medical Practices

Which countries lead Pharmacy and Medical Practices research?

By volume, Japan and the United States publish the most (598 and 463 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Japan 598 works
  2. 2 United States 463 works
  3. 3 India 159 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 156 works
  5. 5 China 146 works
  6. 6 South Korea 113 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 90 works
  8. 8 Egypt 70 works
  9. 9 France 63 works
  10. 10 Germany 39 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.

Japan: 31.5%United States: 24.4%India: 8.4%Indonesia: 8.2%6 others listed: 27.5%31%largest
Japan598 · 31.5%United States463 · 24.4%India159 · 8.4%Indonesia156 · 8.2%6 others listed521 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Pharmacy and Medical Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Keio University publishes the most Pharmacy and Medical Practices research, followed by The University of Tokyo and Ain Shams University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Keio UniversityJapan 12 works
  2. 2 The University of TokyoJapan 11 works
  3. 3 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 11 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 Teikyo UniversityJapan 10 works
  6. 6 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
  7. 7 Kyushu UniversityJapan 9 works
  8. 8 Kyoto UniversityJapan 8 works
  9. 9 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 8 works
  10. 10 The University of OsakaJapan 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pharmacy and Medical Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pharmacy and Medical Practices include David Moher, John J.V. McMurray and Trevor Hastie.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  4. 4 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Roger Chou United States 248k 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 Pharmacy and Medical Practices?

The most cited paper in Pharmacy and Medical Practices is "A "DIRECT-COLORING" THIOCHOLINE METHOD FOR CHOLINESTERASES" (Morris J. Karnovsky, LOGAN ROOTS, 1964), with 3,395 citations. Next come "A merican G eriatrics S ociety Updated B eers C riteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults" (2,584) and "The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy" (1,186).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A "DIRECT-COLORING" THIOCHOLINE METHOD FOR CHOLINESTERASES Morris J. Karnovsky, LOGAN ROOTS · Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry Open access Mar 1964 3,395
2 A merican G eriatrics S ociety Updated B eers C riteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults The American Geriatrics Society 2012 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Open access 29 Feb 2012 2,584
3 The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy Gilbert S. Banker · Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Oct 1970 1,186
4 The Overview on Effectiveness of Quality Enhancement for Enhancing Health Care and Professional Practice Shweta Khare, Deepika Kanyal · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access 5 Jul 2024 959
5 Evaluation of Various Dissolution Media for Predicting In Vivo Performance of Class I and II Drugs Eric Galia, Eleftheria Nicolaides, D. Hörter et al. · Pharmaceutical Research May 1998 928
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Where is Pharmacy and Medical Practices research done?

The largest centres of Pharmacy and Medical Practices research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Osaka (Japan) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 170 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 60 works
  3. 3 OsakaJapan 29 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 NagoyaJapan 23 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 20 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 19 works
  9. 9 KyotoJapan 19 works
  10. 10 FukuokaJapan 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Pharmacy and Medical Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Keio University, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences and The University of Tokyo 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
1Keio UniversityJapan 86.324.6%15.6×12 -9.9%
2Osaka University of Pharmaceutical SciencesJapan 60.224.2%66.0×8 +119.7%
3The University of TokyoJapan 59.218.5%4.2×11 -23.8%
4Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 58.022.0%3.9×9 -18.3%
5Teikyo UniversityJapan 55.913.4%53.0×10 +32.1%
6Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 46.718.9%4.1×8 +259.5%
7The University of OsakaJapan 45.618.8%6.4×8 -8.5%
8Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 42.70.7%7.0×11 +157.7%
9Kyoto UniversityJapan 42.215.7%5.1×8 -24.7%
10Kyushu UniversityJapan 36.15.6%7.4×9 -10.3%

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 Pharmacy and Medical Practices, country by country

Is Pharmacy and Medical Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Pharmacy and Medical Practices.

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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 Pharmacy and Medical Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pharmacy and Medical Practices 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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