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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. 10.0% 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%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

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 (3.4k and 862 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 862 works
  3. 3 Canada 559 works
  4. 4 Australia 522 works
  5. 5 India 433 works
  6. 6 China 331 works
  7. 7 Germany 292 works
  8. 8 Italy 270 works
  9. 9 Brazil 254 works
  10. 10 Spain 219 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: 47.6%United Kingdom: 12.1%Canada: 7.8%Australia: 7.3%6 others listed: 25.2%48%largest
United States3,396 · 47.6%United Kingdom862 · 12.1%Canada559 · 7.8%Australia522 · 7.3%6 others listed1,799 · 25.2%

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

Which institutions lead Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research, followed by University of Toronto and United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 117 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 105 works
  3. 3 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 104 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 75 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 60 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 57 works
  7. 7 Mayo ClinicUnited States 52 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 47 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 47 works
  10. 10 The University of QueenslandAustralia 44 works

Who are the leading researchers in Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation include Elie A. Akl, Gregory Y.H. Lip and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  2. 2 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  9. 9 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k 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 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation?

The most cited paper in Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation is "Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19" (Judd E. Hollander, Brendan G. Carr, 2020), with 3,101 citations. Next come "Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies" (3,034) and "The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence" (1,964).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19 Judd E. Hollander, Brendan G. Carr · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Mar 2020 3,101
2 Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies Trisha Greenhalgh, Joseph P. Wherton, Chrysanthi Papoutsi et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research Open access Nov 2017 3,034
3 The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence Elham Monaghesh, Alireza Hajizadeh · BMC Public Health ReviewOpen access Aug 2020 1,964
4 Telehealth for global emergencies: Implications for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Anthony Carl Smith, Emma E. Thomas, Centaine L. Snoswell et al. · Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare Open access 20 Mar 2020 1,895
5 Evaluating barriers to adopting telemedicine worldwide: A systematic review Clemens Scott Kruse, Priyanka Karem, Kelli Shifflett et al. · Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare ReviewOpen access 16 Oct 2016 1,838
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Where is Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research done?

The largest centres of Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research in 2022-now 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 and Oakland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 251 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 190 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 144 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 128 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 125 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 98 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 96 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 84 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 84 works
  10. 10 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 75 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NormanUS · 24.2 works7.4×
  2. OaklandUS · 28.2 works7.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Harvard University, University of Toronto and The University of Queensland score highest, combining citation 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 15.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OuluThe University of Qu…Harvard 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.

Citation 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.515.0%4.2×116 +1.5%
2University of TorontoCanada 72.812.1%5.9×104 +50.3%
3The University of QueenslandAustralia 71.215.4%5.3×44 +36.3%
4University of OuluFinland 71.223.9%6.2×15 +223.4%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66.218.8%1.8×23 +50.4%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.913.7%4.4×60 +51.7%
7University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 63.012.9%7.5×47 +24.5%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 62.514.2%4.0×43 +108.2%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 62.014.1%2.8×39 +29.5%
10Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 61.715.1%3.0×26 +28.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, country by country

Is Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation 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%Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation10.1% 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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