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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

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Published by: Springer

https://resource-allocation.biomedcentral.com/

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 256 28 43 14
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Number of Best Scientists*: 78
Documents by Best Scientists*: 92
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 46
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.659
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation?

The main points discussed in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation deals with Health services research, Health economics, Health administration, Public health and Health care. The research on Health services research tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Psychological intervention, Family medicine and Economic evaluation. The journal facilitates discussions on Health economics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Health policy, Intensive care medicine, Gerontology and Environmental health.

Studies on Environmental health discussed in the journal link to the field of Total cost. Social science, Quality of Life Research, Emergency medicine and Health technology are some topics wherein Health administration research discussed in it have an impact. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation holds forums on Public health that merges themes from other disciplines such as Vaccination, Demography, Pediatrics and Socioeconomics.

Research on Cost-effectiveness analysis addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Quality-adjusted life year. It served as a forum through which researchers explored different topics like Multiple-criteria decision analysis and Decision analysis. It focuses on different Internal medicine studies like Adverse effect and Clinical trial.

  • Health services research (70.35%)
  • Health economics (66.05%)
  • Health administration (49.49%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Priority Setting of health interventions: the need for multi-criteria decision analysis (452 citations)
  • Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis for national-level priority-setting in the health sector (341 citations)
  • Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions. (265 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation:

Health services research, Health economics, Health administration, Public health and Health care are the main subjects of interest in the published articles. In addition to Health services research research, the journal papers aim to explore topics under Health policy, Economic evaluation, Social science, Pediatrics and Population health. Psychological intervention, Intensive care medicine, Gerontology and Environmental health are some topics wherein Health economics research discussed in the journal publications has an impact.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Cancer
  • Disease

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Health services research, Health economics, Health administration, Public health and Health care are the subjects of interest in the journal. Attendees of it participated in discussions that delve into both Health services research and Cost-effectiveness analysis. The studies on Health economics discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Gerontology, Environmental health, Quality of life, Developing country and Per capita.

Health administration research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Data envelopment analysis, Health technology, Checklist and Health policy. The concepts on Public health presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Stroke, Incidence (epidemiology) and Socioeconomics. The Health care works featured in it incorporate elements from Productivity and Economic sector.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Cost per DALY averted in low, middle- and high-income countries: evidence from the global burden of disease study to estimate the cost-effectiveness thresholds. (3 citations)
  • Modelling cost-effectiveness of syphilis detection strategies in prisoners: exploratory exercise in a Chilean male prison (3 citations)
  • Generalised cost-effectiveness analysis of 159 health interventions for the Ethiopian essential health service package (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ole Frithjof Norheim (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Rob Baltussen (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bjarne Robberstad (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jeremy A. Lauer (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yot Teerawattananon (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • World Health Organization (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of London (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Harvard University (20 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Bergen (19 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Johns Hopkins University (15 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 1.43% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.74% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.59% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.49% of all publications and 52.17% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Successes and challenges of China’s health care reform: a four-decade perspective spanning 1985—2023

    Unknown

    (2023)
    77 Citations
  • Establishing a reasonable price for an orphan drug

    Mikel Berdud;Michael Drummond;Adrian Towse

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Cost-effectiveness and resource allocation (CERA) 18 years of evolution: maturity of adulthood and promise beyond tomorrow.

    Mihajlo Jakovljevic;Mihajlo Jakovljevic;Klazien Matter-Walstra;Takuma Sugahara;Tarang Sharma

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Is bed turnover rate a good metric for hospital scale efficiency? A measure of resource utilization rate for hospitals in Southeast Nigeria

    Henry E. Aloh;Obinna E. Onwujekwe;Obianuju G. Aloh;Chijioke J. Nweke

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Development of the WHO-INTEGRATE evidence-to-decision framework: an overview of systematic reviews of decision criteria for health decision-making.

    J. M. Stratil;R. Baltussen;I. Scheel;A. Nacken

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Level and determinants of county health system technical efficiency in Kenya: two stage data envelopment analysis

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Avoiding health technology assessment: a global survey of reasons for not using health technology assessment in decision making.

    Yot Teerawattananon;Yot Teerawattananon;Chris Painter;Saudamini Dabak;Trygve Ottersen

    (2021)
    24 Citations

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