Background
Methods
Data sources
Methodologies
Results and discussion
Document types
Global publication trends
Subject categories of publication
No. | SCI Subject category | 1900–1990 | % | 1991–2000 | % | 2001–2012 | % | 1900–2012 | % |
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1 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 157 | 24.34 | 1,139 | 20.24 | 4,882 | 21.68 | 6,178 | 21.46 |
2 | Health Care Sciences & Services | 90 | 13.95 | 1,267 | 22.51 | 4,483 | 19.91 | 5,840 | 20.29 |
3 | General & Internal Medicine | 153 | 23.72 | 882 | 15.67 | 2,748 | 12.21 | 3,783 | 13.14 |
4 | Psychiatry | 54 | 8.37 | 420 | 7.46 | 1,193 | 5.30 | 1,667 | 5.79 |
5 | Nursing | 9 | 1.40 | 261 | 4.64 | 1,275 | 5.66 | 1,545 | 5.37 |
6 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 22 | 3.41 | 284 | 5.05 | 957 | 4.25 | 1,263 | 4.39 |
7 | Psychology | 36 | 5.58 | 294 | 5.22 | 687 | 3.05 | 1,017 | 3.53 |
8 | Biomedical Social Sciences | 55 | 8.53 | 295 | 5.24 | 656 | 2.91 | 1,006 | 3.49 |
9 | Surgery | 2 | 0.31 | 147 | 2.61 | 783 | 3.48 | 932 | 3.24 |
10 | Business & Economics | 45 | 6.98 | 163 | 2.90 | 644 | 2.86 | 852 | 2.96 |
Total | 623 | 96.59 | 5,152 | 91.54 | 18,308 | 81.32 | 24,083 | 83.66 |
Core journals of publication
No. | Journal | 1900–1990 | % | 1991–2000 | % | 2001–2012 | % | 1900–2012 | % | TLCS | TLCS/t | TGCS | TGCS/t | AGCS | IF | h-index |
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1 | Social Science & Medicine | 32 | 4.96 | 169 | 3.00 | 293 | 1.30 | 494 | 1.72 | 1196 | 125.40 | 8498 | 891.24 | 17.20 | 2.733 | 41 |
2 | Health Policy | 11 | 1.71 | 110 | 1.95 | 304 | 1.35 | 425 | 1.48 | 930 | 98.63 | 4169 | 498.33 | 9.81 | 1.550 | 26 |
3 | Health Affairs | 4 | 0.62 | 111 | 1.97 | 290 | 1.29 | 405 | 1.41 | 1302 | 157.44 | 9034 | 1163.22 | 22.31 | 4.641 | 45 |
4 | BMC Health Services Research | — | — | — | — | 331 | 1.47 | 332 | 1.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 1796 | 398.64 | 5.41 | 1.773 | 18 |
5 | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy | — | — | 87 | 1.55 | 181 | 0.80 | 268 | 0.93 | 226 | 31.02 | 1551 | 219.67 | 5.79 | 1.984 | 18 |
6 | Medical Care | 6 | 0.93 | 56 | 1.00 | 158 | 0.70 | 220 | 0.76 | 456 | 51.17 | 4744 | 513.83 | 21.56 | 3.227 | 34 |
7 | Academic Medicine | — | — | 80 | 1.42 | 131 | 0.58 | 211 | 0.73 | 219 | 23.48 | 2952 | 330.01 | 13.99 | 3.292 | 29 |
8 | Psychiatric Services | — | — | 59 | 1.05 | 148 | 0.66 | 207 | 0.72 | 385 | 44.77 | 4012 | 443.42 | 19.38 | 2.013 | 33 |
9 | BMC Public Health | — | — | — | — | 204 | 0.91 | 204 | 0.71 | 0 | 0.00 | 1124 | 257.93 | 5.51 | 2.076 | 18 |
10 | Health Policy and Planning | — | — | 52 | 0.92 | 151 | 0.67 | 203 | 0.71 | 515 | 103.10 | 2391 | 352.32 | 11.78 | 3.056 | 25 |
11 | Total | 53 | 8.22 | 724 | 12.86 | 2191 | 9.73 | 2969 | 10.31 | 5229 | 635.01 | 40271 | 5068.61 | 13.56 | — | — |
Countries of publication and collaboration
No. | Country | 1900–1990 | % | 1991–2000 | % | 2001–2012 | % | 1990–2012 | % | TLCS | TGCS | AGCS |
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1 | USA | 274 | 42.48 | 2,536 | 45.06 | 8,996 | 39.96 | 11,806 | 41.01 | 13,047 | 188,365 | 15.96 |
2 | UK | 22 | 3.41 | 368 | 6.54 | 2,048 | 9.10 | 2,438 | 8.47 | 3,046 | 37,543 | 15.40 |
3 | Canada | 34 | 5.27 | 447 | 7.94 | 1,946 | 8.64 | 2,427 | 8.43 | 1,979 | 29,031 | 11.96 |
4 | Germany | 3 | 0.47 | 226 | 4.02 | 1,412 | 6.27 | 1,641 | 5.70 | 624 | 11,891 | 7.25 |
5 | Australia | 11 | 1.71 | 166 | 2.95 | 1,244 | 5.53 | 1,421 | 4.94 | 923 | 15,040 | 10.58 |
6 | Brazil | 2 | 0.31 | 50 | 0.89 | 1,266 | 5.62 | 1,318 | 4.58 | 680 | 4,833 | 3.67 |
7 | Spain | 3 | 0.47 | 104 | 1.85 | 805 | 3.58 | 912 | 3.17 | 349 | 6,544 | 7.18 |
8 | Switzerland | 16 | 2.48 | 62 | 1.10 | 629 | 2.79 | 707 | 2.46 | 1,020 | 10,904 | 15.42 |
9 | France | 2 | 0.31 | 118 | 2.10 | 563 | 2.50 | 683 | 2.37 | 345 | 6,031 | 8.83 |
10 | Netherlands | 11 | 1.71 | 111 | 1.97 | 556 | 2.47 | 678 | 2.36 | 491 | 8,066 | 11.90 |
11 | Italy | 1 | 0.16 | 80 | 1.42 | 557 | 2.47 | 638 | 2.22 | 287 | 6,842 | 10.72 |
12 | Sweden | 5 | 0.78 | 110 | 1.95 | 519 | 2.31 | 634 | 2.20 | 467 | 8,967 | 14.14 |
13 | South Africa | 11 | 1.71 | 51 | 0.91 | 416 | 1.85 | 468 | 1.63 | 707 | 5,616 | 12.00 |
14 | China | 0 | 0.00 | 24 | 0.43 | 381 | 1.69 | 405 | 1.41 | 304 | 3,339 | 8.24 |
15 | Denmark | 4 | 0.62 | 60 | 1.07 | 296 | 1.31 | 360 | 1.25 | 312 | 5,354 | 14.87 |
16 | India | 3 | 0.47 | 21 | 0.37 | 315 | 1.40 | 339 | 1.18 | 295 | 3,187 | 9.40 |
17 | Belgium | 1 | 0.16 | 55 | 0.98 | 286 | 1.27 | 335 | 1.16 | 273 | 3,764 | 11.24 |
18 | Mexico | 0 | 0.00 | 51 | 0.91 | 225 | 1.00 | 280 | 0.97 | 376 | 2,722 | 9.72 |
19 | Israel | 4 | 0.62 | 48 | 0.85 | 221 | 0.98 | 276 | 0.96 | 212 | 2,255 | 8.17 |
20 | Norway | 1 | 0.16 | 39 | 0.69 | 235 | 1.04 | 275 | 0.96 | 216 | 2,936 | 10.68 |
21 | Total | 408 | 63.26 | 4,727 | 83.99 | 22,916 | 101.79 | 28,041 | 97.41 | 25,953 | 363,230 | 13.95 |
Institutes of publication and collaboration
No. | Institution | 1900–1990 | % | 1991–2000 | % | 2001–2012 | % | 1900–2012 | % | TLCS | TGCS | AGCS |
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1 | Harvard Univ | 17 | 2.64 | 120 | 2.13 | 631 | 2.80 | 768 | 2.67 | 1,735 | 18,732 | 24.39 |
2 | Univ Toronto | 2 | 0.31 | 89 | 1.58 | 464 | 2.06 | 555 | 1.93 | 503 | 7,362 | 13.26 |
3 | Univ Washington | 8 | 1.24 | 72 | 1.28 | 398 | 1.77 | 478 | 1.66 | 602 | 9,677 | 20.24 |
4 | Univ Michigan | 7 | 1.09 | 65 | 1.15 | 396 | 1.76 | 468 | 1.63 | 684 | 9,781 | 20.90 |
5 | Univ Calif San Francisco | 7 | 1.09 | 82 | 1.46 | 349 | 1.55 | 438 | 1.52 | 770 | 11,175 | 25.51 |
6 | Univ Calif Los Angeles | 8 | 1.24 | 95 | 1.69 | 313 | 1.39 | 416 | 1.45 | 718 | 11,168 | 26.85 |
7 | WHO | 3 | 0.47 | 43 | 0.76 | 285 | 1.27 | 331 | 1.15 | 1,121 | 9,141 | 27.62 |
8 | Univ N Carolina | 8 | 1.24 | 68 | 1.21 | 248 | 1.10 | 320 | 1.11 | 259 | 4,303 | 13.45 |
9 | Johns Hopkins Univ | 8 | 1.24 | 64 | 1.14 | 247 | 1.10 | 319 | 1.11 | 689 | 8,105 | 25.41 |
10 | Columbia Univ | 8 | 1.24 | 28 | 0.50 | 257 | 1.14 | 289 | 1.00 | 425 | 5,884 | 20.36 |
11 | Univ Penn | 2 | 0.31 | 54 | 0.96 | 232 | 1.03 | 288 | 1.00 | 392 | 5,069 | 17.60 |
12 | Ctr Dis Control & Prevent | 0 | 0.00 | 46 | 0.82 | 235 | 1.04 | 281 | 0.98 | 465 | 7,431 | 26.44 |
13 | Stanford Univ | 5 | 0.78 | 55 | 0.98 | 218 | 0.97 | 278 | 0.97 | 408 | 6,584 | 23.68 |
14 | Yale Univ | 6 | 0.93 | 38 | 0.68 | 221 | 0.98 | 265 | 0.92 | 306 | 5,009 | 18.90 |
15 | Boston Univ | 6 | 0.93 | 30 | 0.53 | 222 | 0.99 | 258 | 0.90 | 375 | 6,230 | 24.15 |
16 | Duke Univ | 0 | 0.00 | 35 | 0.62 | 222 | 0.99 | 258 | 0.90 | 274 | 4,858 | 18.83 |
17 | McMaster Univ | 3 | 0.47 | 53 | 0.94 | 205 | 0.91 | 255 | 0.89 | 260 | 3,351 | 13.14 |
18 | Univ Sao Paulo | 0 | 0.00 | 47 | 0.84 | 237 | 1.05 | 253 | 0.88 | 101 | 975 | 3.85 |
19 | Univ British Columbia | 4 | 0.62 | 47 | 0.84 | 216 | 0.96 | 248 | 0.86 | 181 | 3,325 | 13.41 |
20 | Sch Hyg & Trop Med | 1 | 0.16 | 25 | 0.44 | 236 | 1.05 | 244 | 0.85 | 637 | 4,571 | 18.73 |
21 | Minist Hlth | 1 | 0.16 | 43 | 0.76 | 194 | 0.86 | 237 | 0.82 | 400 | 2,977 | 12.56 |
22 | Univ Pittsburgh | 1 | 0.16 | 35 | 0.62 | 197 | 0.88 | 233 | 0.81 | 242 | 5,263 | 22.59 |
23 | Univ Sydney | 1 | 0.16 | 25 | 0.44 | 198 | 0.88 | 223 | 0.77 | 153 | 2,633 | 11.81 |
24 | McGill Univ | 2 | 0.31 | 28 | 0.50 | 178 | 0.79 | 208 | 0.72 | 127 | 2,897 | 13.93 |
25 | Karolinska Inst | 1 | 0.16 | 25 | 0.44 | 179 | 0.80 | 204 | 0.71 | 165 | 2,345 | 11.50 |
26 | Total | 116 | 17.98 | 1,370 | 24.34 | 7,114 | 31.60 | 8,516 | 29.58 | 12,453 | 164,858 | 19.36 |
Authors of publications and collaborations
No. | Author | Institute | Recs | % | TLCS | TLCS/t | TGCS | TGCS/t | AGCS |
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1 | McKee M | Univ London London Sch Hyg & Trop Med | 48 | 0.17 | 162 | 23.40 | 690 | 116.13 | 14.38 |
2 | Valenstein M | Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs | 38 | 0.13 | 94 | 20.11 | 554 | 111.20 | 14.58 |
3 | McCarthy JF | Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs | 36 | 0.13 | 97 | 20.76 | 619 | 118.99 | 17.19 |
4 | Christensen RD | Department of Women and Newborns, Intermountain Healthcare; Ogden McKay-Dee Hospital Center | 33 | 0.11 | 79 | 19.94 | 429 | 98.46 | 13.00 |
5 | Henry E | Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare | 31 | 0.11 | 78 | 19.19 | 431 | 100.71 | 13.90 |
6 | Tanner M | Univ BaselSwiss, Tropical and Public Health Institute | 31 | 0.11 | 32 | 4.12 | 564 | 99.33 | 18.19 |
7 | Piette JD | Univ Michigan; Vet Affairs Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res & D, Ctr Excellence | 29 | 0.10 | 158 | 18.23 | 1,353 | 157.71 | 46.66 |
8 | Rosenheck RA | Yale Univ; VA New England Mental Illness Res Educ & Clin Ctr | 29 | 0.10 | 81 | 8.52 | 615 | 66.21 | 21.21 |
9 | Blow FC | Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs | 28 | 0.10 | 76 | 16.91 | 557 | 99.20 | 19.89 |
10 | Frenk J | Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth | 27 | 0.09 | 245 | 25.97 | 710 | 92.37 | 26.30 |
11 | Braithwaite J | Univ New S Wales, Fac Med, Australian Inst Hlth Innovat, Ctr Clin Governance Res | 26 | 0.09 | 23 | 5.62 | 174 | 45.03 | 6.69 |
12 | Davis K | Commonwealth Fund, Res & Evaluat | 26 | 0.09 | 135 | 16.72 | 833 | 95.37 | 32.04 |
13 | Murray CJL | Univ Washington, Inst Hlth Metr & Evaluat, Dept Global Hlth | 26 | 0.09 | 248 | 39.51 | 1,407 | 306.76 | 54.12 |
14 | Miller DR | Boston Univ, Sch Publ Hlth; Edith Nourse Rogers Mem Vet Adm Hosp, Ctr Hlth Qual Outcomes & Econ Res | 24 | 0.08 | 129 | 12.58 | 1,058 | 120.73 | 44.08 |
15 | Alexander JA | Univ Michigan, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Management & Policy | 23 | 0.08 | 34 | 3.48 | 191 | 25.61 | 8.30 |
16 | Shortell SM | Univ Calif Berkeley, Sch Publ Hlth | 23 | 0.08 | 104 | 7.65 | 596 | 51.72 | 25.91 |
17 | Klazinga NS | Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Dept Publ Hlth; Org Econ Co operat & Dev | 22 | 0.08 | 29 | 3.67 | 237 | 32.63 | 10.77 |
18 | McIntyre D | Univ Cape Town, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Publ Hlth & Family Med, Hlth Econ Unit | 22 | 0.08 | 78 | 21.08 | 263 | 62.61 | 11.95 |
19 | Starfield B | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Policy & Management | 22 | 0.08 | 147 | 15.10 | 720 | 75.52 | 32.73 |
20 | Armstrong K | Univ Penn, Abramson Canc Ctr | 21 | 0.07 | 76 | 10.84 | 448 | 59.01 | 21.33 |
20 | Chopra M | Univ Western Cape; MRC, Hlth Syst Res Unit | 21 | 0.07 | 134 | 26.40 | 656 | 124.79 | 31.24 |
20 | Lee A | Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Sch Publ Hlth & Primary Care, Sch Publ Hlth, Prince Wales Hosp | 21 | 0.07 | 81 | 6.42 | 602 | 51.14 | 28.67 |
20 | Zivin K | SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs | 21 | 0.07 | 53 | 12.45 | 211 | 52.32 | 10.05 |
21 | Total | 628 | 2.18 | 2,373 | 358.67 | 13,918 | 2,163.55 | 22.16 |
Citation of research papers
No. | Title | Authors | Journal | Year | Times cited (LCS/GCS/GCS/t) | Institute (first) | Country |
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1 | Satisfaction with health systems in ten nations | Blendon RJ, Leitman R, Morrison I, Donelan K | Health Affairs | 1990 | 48/132/5.74 | Harvard University | USA |
2 | The de facto US mental and addictive disorders service system. Epidemiologic catchment area prospective 1-year prevalence rates of disorders and services | Regier DA, Narrow WE, Rae DS, Manderscheid RW, Locke BZ, Goodwin FK | Archives of general psychiatry | 1993 | 57/1183/59.15 | National Institutes of Health | USA |
3 | Correction: The deteriorating administrative efficiency of the United States health care system | Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU | The New England journal of medicine | 1994 | 50/242/11.00 | National Library of Medicine | USA |
4 | A framework for assessing the performance of health systems | Murray CJ, Frenk J | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2000 | 59/129/9.92 | World Health Organization | Switzerland |
5 | Race and trust in the health care system | Boulware LE, Cooper LA, Ratner LE, LaVeist TA, Powe NR | Public Health Reports | 2003 | 51/225/22.50 | Johns Hopkins University | USA |
6 | Effect of the transformation of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System on the quality of care | Jha AK, Perlin JB, Kizer KW, Dudley RA | The New England journal of medicine | 2003 | 84/332/33.20 | Veterans Health Administration | USA |
7 | The contribution of primary care systems to health outcomes within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, 1970–1998 | Macinko J, Starfield B, Shi L | Health services research | 2003 | 49/168/16.80 | National School of Public Health | Brazil |
8 | Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multi-country analysis | Xu K, Evans DB, Kawabata K, Zeramdini R, Klavus J, Murray CJ | Lancet | 2003 | 51/281/28.10 | World Health Organization | Switzerland |
9 | Comparison of quality of care for patients in the Veterans Health Administration and patients in a national sample | Asch SM, McGlynn EA, Hogan MM, Hayward RA, Shekelle P, Rubenstein L, Keesey J, Adams J, Kerr EA | Annals of internal medicine | 2004 | 48/247/27.44 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA |
10 | Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis | Chen L, Evans T, Anand S, Boufford JI, Brown H, Chowdhury M, Cueto M, Dare L, Dussault G, Elzinga G, Fee E, Habte D, Hanvoravongchai P, Jacobs M, Kurowski C, Michael S, Pablos-Mendez A, Sewankambo N, Solimano G, Stilwell B, de Waal A, Wibulpolprasert S | Lancet | 2004 | 66/289/32.11 | Harvard University | USA |
11 | Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals | Travis P, Bennett S, Haines A, Pang T, Bhutta Z, Hyder AA, Pielemeier NR, Mills A, Evans T | Lancet | 2004 | 72/221/24.56 | World Health Organization | Switzerland |