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Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1954. 22.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the extensive use and impact of telemedicine and telehealth, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers topics such as virtual care, remote treatment, healthcare access, patient satisfaction, digital divide, and telepsychiatry. The papers provide insights into the benefits, challenges, and effectiveness of telemedicine in global healthcare.

  • Telemedicine
  • Telehealth
  • COVID-19
  • Virtual Care
  • Remote Treatment
  • Healthcare Access
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Digital Divide
  • Telepsychiatry
  • Chronic Disease Management
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+227%
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 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.1k and 785 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 785 works
  3. 3 Canada 517 works
  4. 4 Australia 469 works
  5. 5 India 376 works
  6. 6 Italy 248 works
  7. 7 Germany 236 works
  8. 8 China 235 works
  9. 9 Brazil 215 works
  10. 10 Spain 197 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: 48.4%United Kingdom: 12.3%Canada: 8.1%Australia: 7.4%6 others listed: 23.7%48%largest
United States3,082 · 48.4%United Kingdom785 · 12.3%Canada517 · 8.1%Australia469 · 7.4%6 others listed1,508 · 23.7%

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

Which institutions lead Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research, followed by University of Toronto and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 61 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 44 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 37 works
  5. 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 37 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 32 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 31 works
  9. 9 University of British ColumbiaCanada 31 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation include Florian Fischer and Aziz Sheikh.

  1. 1 Florian Fischer United States 7k citations
  2. 2 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 5.8k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research done?

The largest centres of Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Toronto (Canada) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Norman, Oakland and Charleston.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 228 works
  2. 2 New York United States 178 works
  3. 3 Toronto Canada 129 works
  4. 4 Boston United States 115 works
  5. 5 Melbourne Australia 113 works
  6. 6 Sydney Australia 88 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C. United States 87 works
  8. 8 Baltimore United States 77 works
  9. 9 Philadelphia United States 76 works
  10. 10 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NormanUS · 23.7 works8.0×
  2. OaklandUS · 26.1 works7.8×
  3. CharlestonUS · 20.7 works7.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, San Francisco, Harvard University and University of Southern Denmark 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 30.78%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of California, San Francisco: 37, 29.6%Harvard University: 41, 33.6%University of Southern Denmark: 14, 31.4%Flinders University: 14, 25.3%University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: 14, 34.4%Medical University of South Carolina: 18, 22.2%University College London: 25, 30.7%The University of Melbourne: 26, 31.9%The University of Queensland: 32, 32.0%Iran University of Medical Sciences: 10, 36.7%Harvard UniversityUniversity of Southe…University of Califo…Flinders 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 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 67.529.6%6.8×37 +291.4%
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.133.6%3.8×41 +126.4%
3 University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 57.631.4%5.2×14 +267.9%
4 Flinders UniversityAustralia 56.925.3%7.1×14 +464.2%
5 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusUnited States 55.834.4%6.0×14 +178.9%
6 Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 55.222.2%9.3×18 +96.1%
7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.630.7%2.1×25 +223.2%
8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 54.131.9%3.2×26 +148.4%
9 The University of QueenslandAustralia 52.632.0%4.5×32 +20.9%
10 Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 51.936.7%4.4×10 +464.7%

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 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 227% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation.

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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.