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Health
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Health

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Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hea

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 406 43 44 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 60
Documents by Best Scientists*: 57
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.715
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Health?

The foci of Health are Health care, Internal medicine, Social psychology, Nursing and Psychiatry. Internal medicine research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Endocrinology and Cardiology. Nursing research discussed connects with the study of Family medicine.

Mental health is a focus of the presented Psychiatry works and it dives deep in Mental health.

  • Health care (10.71%)
  • Internal medicine (10.33%)
  • Social psychology (10.22%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Health at a Glance: Europe 2010 (513 citations)
  • Health as a meaningful social practice (431 citations)
  • Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue: (281 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Health:

The most cited publications investigate studies in Social psychology, Health care, Narrative, Context (language use) and Psychiatry. While Social psychology is the key highlight in the journal papers, thet also covered some subjects on Qualitative research and Developmental psychology. Issues in Health care were discussed in the most cited papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Nursing and Public relations.

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Health care, Public relations, Family medicine, Mental health and Qualitative research. The close relationship between Context (language use) and Scholarship is one of the points of interest dissected in Health care research. Most of the works presented in it deals with Public relations but it intersects with the subject of Public health.

Issues in Public health were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Psychological intervention and Gerontology. The journal explores research in Family medicine and the adjacent study of Disease. Health addresses concerns in Qualitative research which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Developmental psychology and Social psychology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Whose crisis? Pandemic flu, ‘communication disasters’ and the struggle for hegemony: (12 citations)
  • Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic (7 citations)
  • 'Should it fit? Yes. Does it fit? No': Exploring the organisational processes of introducing a recovery-oriented approach to mental health in Australian private health care. (5 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 Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hiroyuki Kobayashi (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Arthur W. Frank (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Mayumi Watanabe (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Fábia Barbosa de Andrade (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fereshteh Farzianpour (16 papers) absent 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 Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of New South Wales (36 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (29 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Warwick (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Calgary (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Sheffield (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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, 49.71% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.09% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 19.54% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.49% of all publications and 52.87% 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

  • Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake:

    Renae Fomiatti;Adrian Farrugia;Suzanne Fraser;Robyn Dwyer

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Examining the language demands of informed consent documents in patient recruitment to cancer trials using tools from corpus and computational linguistics

    Talia Isaacs;Jamie Murdoch;Zsófia Demjén;Fiona Stevenson

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Uncovering, creating or constructing problems? Enacting a new role to support staff who raise concerns about quality and safety in the English National Health Service:

    Graham P Martin;Sarah Chew;Mary Dixon-Woods

    (2021)
    17 Citations
  • Hype, evidence gaps and digital divides: Telehealth blind spots in rural Australia.

    Deborah Warr;Deborah Warr;Georgina Luscombe;Danielle Couch

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • Masculinities, practices and meanings: A critical analysis of recent literature on the use of performance- and image-enhancing drugs among men.

    David Moore;Aaron Hart;Suzanne Fraser;Kate Seear

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic

    Nicholas Gerard Francis Brown;Christina Buse;Alan Lewis;Daryl Martin

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • What lies beneath? Experiencing emotions and caring in oncology:

    Wk Tim Wong;Alex Broom;Emma Kirby;Zarnie Lwin

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • ‘I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right?’: The biopolitics of substance use and the mental health of sexual minority men:

    Mark Gaspar;Zack Marshall;Barry D. Adam;David J. Brennan

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • How do team experience and relationships shape new divisions of labour in robot-assisted surgery? A realist investigation.

    Rebecca Randell;Joanne Greenhalgh;Jon Hindmarsh;Stephanie Honey

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Polyphonies of depression: The relationship between voices-of-the-self in young professional women aka 'top girls'.

    Nilima Chowdhury;Kerry Gibson;Margaret Wetherell

    (2020)
    10 Citations

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