Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Primary Care and Health Outcomes is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 25.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the contribution of primary care to health systems and health, emphasizing topics such as quality improvement, continuity of care, patient-centered medical home, pay for performance, health care quality, health system reform, clinical indicators, chronic disease management, and general practice.
- Primary Care
- Quality Improvement
- Continuity of Care
- Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Pay for Performance
- Health Care Quality
- Health System Reform
- Clinical Indicators
- Chronic Disease Management
- General Practice
- Research works
- 55k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 14k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 25.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -2% 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 Primary Care and Health Outcomes research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.1k and 893 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 3.1k works
- 2 United Kingdom 893 works
- 3 Canada 524 works
- 4 Australia 397 works
- 5 China 227 works
- 6 India 147 works
- 7 Brazil 125 works
- 8 Germany 118 works
- 9 Netherlands 115 works
- 10 South Africa 107 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.
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Which institutions lead Primary Care and Health Outcomes research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Primary Care and Health Outcomes research, followed by Harvard University and University of Toronto.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 81 works
- 2 Harvard University United States 53 works
- 3 University of Toronto Canada 48 works
- 4 University of Michigan United States 37 works
- 5 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) ?? 36 works
- 6 University of Washington United States 35 works
- 7 Johns Hopkins University United States 33 works
- 8 University of California, San Francisco United States 31 works
- 9 University of Pennsylvania United States 31 works
- 10 The University of Melbourne Australia 27 works
Who are the leading researchers in Primary Care and Health Outcomes?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Primary Care and Health Outcomes include Jeremy Grimshaw, Gordon Guyatt and Sharon E. Straus.
- 1 Jeremy Grimshaw 14k citations
- 2 Gordon Guyatt 6.8k citations
- 3 Sharon E. Straus 6k citations
- 4 Azeem Majeed 6k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Primary Care and Health Outcomes research done?
The largest centres of Primary Care and Health Outcomes research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London and Santa Monica.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 London United Kingdom 257 works
- 2 Boston United States 133 works
- 3 Washington D.C. United States 125 works
- 4 Toronto Canada 125 works
- 5 New York United States 121 works
- 6 Melbourne Australia 95 works
- 7 Chapel Hill United States 86 works
- 8 Philadelphia United States 82 works
- 9 Baltimore United States 75 works
- 10 Los Angeles United States 74 works
Where it is the local speciality
- London41.5 works35×
- Santa MonicaUS · 20.9 works18×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Primary Care and Health Outcomes than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Primary Care and Health Outcomes?
Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Oregon Health & Science 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.
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 | Harvard University United States | 66.4 | 44.3% | 6.0× | 53 | +27.3% |
| 2 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine United Kingdom | 66.1 | 32.2% | 15.5× | 16 | +52.5% |
| 3 | Oregon Health & Science University United States | 58.6 | 33.1% | 9.8× | 21 | +20.4% |
| 4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States | 56.5 | 11.0% | 6.8× | 81 | +174.9% |
| 5 | Brown University United States | 55.4 | 32.4% | 8.1× | 22 | +34.3% |
| 6 | University of California, San Francisco United States | 52.1 | 30.0% | 6.9× | 31 | +0.8% |
| 7 | University of Southern Denmark Denmark | 51.2 | 34.1% | 5.7× | 13 | +80.1% |
| 8 | Stellenbosch University South Africa | 50.9 | 29.6% | 6.0× | 16 | +107.2% |
| 9 | Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands | 50.0 | 50.2% | 4.8× | 10 | -10.4% |
| 10 | Maastricht University Netherlands | 49.5 | 32.1% | 5.5× | 13 | +69.9% |
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 Primary Care and Health Outcomes research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 2% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Primary Care and Health Outcomes.
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.