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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. 3.0% 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%
536
per year above
Top-10% rate
3.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-19%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Pharmacy and Medical Practices research?

By volume, Japan and the United States publish the most (560 and 432 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Japan 560 works
  2. 2 United States 432 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 155 works
  4. 4 India 154 works
  5. 5 China 136 works
  6. 6 South Korea 109 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 83 works
  8. 8 Egypt 70 works
  9. 9 France 62 works
  10. 10 Germany 34 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: 31.2%United States: 24.1%Indonesia: 8.6%India: 8.6%6 others listed: 27.5%31%largest
Japan560 · 31.2%United States432 · 24.1%Indonesia155 · 8.6%India154 · 8.6%6 others listed494 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Pharmacy and Medical Practices research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Ain Shams University publishes the most Pharmacy and Medical Practices research, followed by Keio University and The University of Tokyo.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 11 works
  2. 2 Keio UniversityJapan 10 works
  3. 3 The University of TokyoJapan 10 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 Benha UniversityEgypt 8 works
  6. 6 Teikyo UniversityJapan 8 works
  7. 7 Osaka University of Pharmaceutical SciencesJapan 8 works
  8. 8 The University of OsakaJapan 8 works
  9. 9 University of AlbertaCanada 8 works
  10. 10 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 7 works

Where is Pharmacy and Medical Practices research done?

The largest centres of Pharmacy and Medical Practices research in 2022–2025 are Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Osaka (Japan) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nagoya.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Tokyo Japan 161 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 58 works
  3. 3 Osaka Japan 27 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 25 works
  5. 5 New York United States 25 works
  6. 6 Nagoya Japan 22 works
  7. 7 Cairo Egypt 19 works
  8. 8 Beijing China 18 works
  9. 9 Kyoto Japan 18 works
  10. 10 Yogyakarta Indonesia 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NagoyaJP · 21.5 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pharmacy and Medical Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pharmacy and Medical Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Keio University, The University of Tokyo and Benha 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%5%10%mean 2.66%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Keio University: 10, 3.7%The University of Tokyo: 10, 7.2%Benha University: 8, 2.1%Ain Shams University: 11, 0.0%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 8, 0.3%The University of To…Keio UniversityBenha UniversityAin Shams University
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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 Keio UniversityJapan 64.43.7%12.8×10 +29.9%
2 The University of TokyoJapan 56.77.2%3.6×10 -8.1%
3 Benha UniversityEgypt 49.82.1%11.2×8 —
4 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 46.10.0%6.7×11 —
5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 20.40.3%2.2×8 +272.9%

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 Pharmacy and Medical Practices research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% lower than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.