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Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare

Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1955. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of simulation-based techniques in medical education and training. It covers topics such as high-fidelity simulations, debriefing, clinical judgment, team training, mastery learning, patient safety, non-technical skills, and virtual patients.

  • Simulation
  • Medical Education
  • Debriefing
  • Clinical Judgment
  • High-Fidelity Simulations
  • Team Training
  • Mastery Learning
  • Patient Safety
  • Non-Technical Skills
  • Virtual Patients
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare

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

Which countries lead Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.6k and 568 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.6k works
  2. 2 China 568 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 550 works
  4. 4 Canada 392 works
  5. 5 Australia 351 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 275 works
  7. 7 India 262 works
  8. 8 Germany 249 works
  9. 9 Brazil 236 works
  10. 10 South Korea 228 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: 45.6%China: 9.9%United Kingdom: 9.6%Canada: 6.8%6 others listed: 28.0%46%largest
United States2,612 · 45.6%China568 · 9.9%United Kingdom550 · 9.6%Canada392 · 6.8%6 others listed1,601 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research, followed by University of Toronto and The Ohio State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 59 works
  3. 3 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 43 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 35 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 34 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 34 works
  7. 7 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 32 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works
  9. 9 Monash UniversityAustralia 29 works
  10. 10 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare include David Moher, Matthias Egger and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  5. 5 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  8. 8 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  9. 9 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  10. 10 Holger Jens Schünemann Canada 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 Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare?

The most cited paper in Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare is "Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia" (Stephen A. Bernard, Timothy W. Gray, Michael Buist et al., 2002), with 5,437 citations. Next come "Features and uses of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning: a BEME systematic review" (3,976) and "Defining and Assessing Professional Competence" (3,126).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia Stephen A. Bernard, Timothy W. Gray, Michael Buist et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 21 Feb 2002 5,437
2 Features and uses of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning: a BEME systematic review Saul Barry Issenberg, William C. McGaghie, EMIL R. PETRUSA et al. · Medical Teacher Review 2005 3,976
3 Defining and Assessing Professional Competence Ronald M. Epstein · JAMA 9 Jan 2002 3,126
4 Virtual Reality Training Improves Operating Room Performance Neal E. Seymour, Anthony G. Gallagher, Sanziana A. Roman et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access Oct 2002 2,879
5 Changing physician performance. A systematic review of the effect of continuing medical education strategies D A Davis · JAMA 6 Sep 1995 2,603
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Herzliya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 141 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 100 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 90 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 82 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 80 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 80 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 78 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 65 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 63 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HerzliyaIL · 21.9 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Singapore, Monash University and University College Dublin 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%20%40%mean 20.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …University College D…Monash UniversityUniversity of Toronto
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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
1National University of SingaporeSingapore 72.326.2%2.7×24 +9.6%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 63.317.1%3.9×29 +6.2%
3University College DublinIreland 63.323.0%4.3×17 +48.6%
4University of TorontoCanada 61.08.3%3.9×60 -2.6%
5McGill UniversityCanada 60.917.5%3.1×23 +60.2%
6Alexandria UniversityEgypt 60.530.8%2.7×9 +252.9%
7University of BernSwitzerland 60.320.2%4.3×18 +54.5%
8Deakin UniversityAustralia 59.729.3%3.1×10 +55.7%
9University of South-Eastern NorwayNorway 59.322.0%17.3×12 +121.6%
10Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.99.6%2.7×64 -0.9%

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 Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare, country by country

Is Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare.

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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 Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare 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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