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Public Health and Environmental Issues

Public Health and Environmental Issues is a research topic within Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1954. 9.8% 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 public health, environmental management, and sustainable development. It includes research on healthcare access, chronic disease control, water quality, climate change impact on health, community-based resource management, and epidemiological analysis. The papers also address issues such as healthcare policy, environmental impact assessment, and the intersection of social and environmental factors with public health.

  • Public Health
  • Environmental Management
  • Water Quality
  • Healthcare Access
  • Climate Change
  • Community-based Resource Management
  • Chronic Disease Control
  • Epidemiological Analysis
  • Sustainable Development
  • Healthcare Policy
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ecuador
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Public Health and Environmental Issues

Which countries lead Public Health and Environmental Issues research?

By volume, Ecuador and Peru publish the most (1k and 684 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ecuador 1k works
  2. 2 Peru 684 works
  3. 3 Mexico 626 works
  4. 4 Colombia 584 works
  5. 5 Spain 359 works
  6. 6 Argentina 166 works
  7. 7 Chile 159 works
  8. 8 Brazil 133 works
  9. 9 United States 123 works
  10. 10 Costa Rica 106 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.

Ecuador: 25.5%Peru: 17.3%Mexico: 15.8%Colombia: 14.8%6 others listed: 26.5%26%largest
Ecuador1,008 · 25.5%Peru684 · 17.3%Mexico626 · 15.8%Colombia584 · 14.8%6 others listed1,047 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Public Health and Environmental Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes publishes the most Public Health and Environmental Issues research, followed by Universidad César Vallejo and Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabi.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 124 works
  2. 2 Universidad César VallejoPeru 106 works
  3. 3 Universidad Estatal del Sur de ManabiEcuador 97 works
  4. 4 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 89 works
  5. 5 National University of San MarcosPeru 55 works
  6. 6 Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 54 works
  7. 7 University of GuayaquilEcuador 48 works
  8. 8 Mexican Social Security InstituteMexico 47 works
  9. 9 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 45 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Public Health and Environmental Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Public Health and Environmental Issues include Carlos Andrés Castañeda-Orjuela, Rafael Lozano and Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán.

  1. 1 Carlos Andrés Castañeda-Orjuela Colombia 236k citations
  2. 2 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  3. 3 Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán Colombia 216k citations
  4. 4 Ismael Campos‐Nonato Mexico 168k citations
  5. 5 Joan Bautista Soriano Spain 157k citations
  6. 6 Frank J. Gonzalez United States 153k 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 Public Health and Environmental Issues?

The most cited paper in Public Health and Environmental Issues is "Threats to Water Supplies in the Tropical Andes" (Raymond S. Bradley, Mathias Vuille, Henry F. Díaz et al., 2006), with 719 citations. Next come "La encuesta como técnica de investigación. Elaboración de cuestionarios y tratamiento estadístico de los datos (I)" (316) and "Effective control of dengue vectors with curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide in Mexico and Venezuela: cluster randomised trials" (256).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Threats to Water Supplies in the Tropical Andes Raymond S. Bradley, Mathias Vuille, Henry F. Díaz et al. · Science Open access 22 Jun 2006 719
2 La encuesta como técnica de investigación. Elaboración de cuestionarios y tratamiento estadístico de los datos (I) J. Casas Anguita, José Ramón Repullo Labrador, J. Donado Campos · Atención Primaria Open access 2003 316
3 Effective control of dengue vectors with curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide in Mexico and Venezuela: cluster randomised trials Axel Kroeger, Audrey E Lenhart, Manuel Ochoa et al. · BMJ Open access 25 May 2006 256
4 DISLOCATION CLIMB J. Friedel · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1964 249
5 SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19: el virus, la enfermedad y la pandemia Francisco Javier Díaz-Castrillón, Ana Isabel Toro-Montoya · Medicina y Laboratorio Open access 5 May 2020 248
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Public Health and Environmental Issues research done?

The largest centres of Public Health and Environmental Issues research in 2022-now are Lima (Peru), Bogotá (Colombia), Ambato (Ecuador) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jipijapa, San Salvador and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LimaPeru 263 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 251 works
  3. 3 AmbatoEcuador 205 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 192 works
  5. 5 TrujilloPeru 150 works
  6. 6 GuayaquilEcuador 144 works
  7. 7 QuitoEcuador 136 works
  8. 8 CuencaEcuador 113 works
  9. 9 JipijapaEcuador 97 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JipijapaEC · 97.0 works238×
  2. San SalvadorSV · 69.6 works141×
  3. AmbatoEC · 205.0 works112×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Public Health and Environmental Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Public Health and Environmental Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Concepción, Universidad César Vallejo and Universidad Indoamérica 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%10%20%30%mean 13.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Concep…Universidad Indoamér…University of Guayaq…Universidad César Va…
above the meannear itbelow it

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 ConcepciónChile 71.426.6%23.1×13 +64.5%
2Universidad César VallejoPeru 65.911.5%96.5×106 +118.2%
3Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 61.716.9%96.4×27 +411.2%
4University of GuayaquilEcuador 59.314.1%73.7×48 +20.5%
5Universidad Estatal del Sur de ManabiEcuador 59.27.4%292.9×97 +42.7%
6Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 58.918.2%72.1×21 +644.6%
7Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 57.44.7%152.9×124 +161.9%
8Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 56.917.6%9.9×18 +132.6%
9Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 56.76.9%111.9×89 +62.8%
10Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 56.110.8%90.7×54 +75.2%

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 Public Health and Environmental Issues, country by country

Is Public Health and Environmental Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Public Health and Environmental Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Public Health and Environmental Issues0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Public Health and Environmental Issues 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%Public Health and Environmental Issues10.1% 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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