Health and Place

Top Research Topics at Health & Place?

The journal primarily tackles Environmental health, Demography, Gerontology, Socioeconomic status and Public health. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Environmental health, it also covered topics in Obesity, Built environment, Suicide prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Occupational safety and health. The presented Built environment study covers related areas such as Walkability and also touches on topics like Level design.

In addition to Demography research, Health & Place aims to explore topics under Odds, Multilevel model, Ethnic group and Census. The work tackled in Health & Place goes beyond the discipline of Gerontology as it also encompasses Mental health. It holds forums on Socioeconomic status that merges themes from other disciplines such as Social class and Socioeconomics.

The work on Public health addressed in Health & Place expands to the thematically related Public relations.

• Environmental health (20.23%)
• Demography (18.06%)
• Gerontology (11.40%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature (917 citations)
• Social capital: a guide to its measurement (720 citations)
• The local food environment and diet: A systematic review (713 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Health & Place:

The published papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Environmental health, Social psychology, Socioeconomics, Level design and Built environment. The most cited articles go beyond the discussion of Environmental health and connect it with closely related disciplines like

• Socioeconomic status that connect with fields like Social class,
• Suicide prevention which connect with Gerontology.. The most cited articles explore topics in Social psychology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Social mobility, Qualitative research, Social capital and Social environment.

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

• Law
• World War II
• Internal medicine

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Health & Place facilitates discussions on Demography, Environmental health, Socioeconomic status, Built environment and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Issues in Demography were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Longitudinal study, Young adult, Association (psychology), Ethnic group and Cohort. The Environmental health works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Psychological intervention, Household income, Confidence interval, Social determinants of health and Mental health.

The studies in Psychological intervention featured incorporate elements of Gerontology, Intervention (counseling), Natural experiment, Intervention (law) and Socioeconomics. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Socioeconomic status, it also covered topics in Obesity and Affect (psychology). Walkability is a focus of the presented Built environment works and it dives deep in Walkability.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• The need for GIScience in mapping COVID-19. (27 citations)
• Energy poverty and health: Trends in the European Union before and during the economic crisis, 2007-2016. (26 citations)
• Patterns of COVID-19 related excess mortality in the municipalities of Northern Italy during the first wave of the pandemic. (15 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Health & Place (based on the number of publications) are:

• Andrew Jones (28 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Billie Giles-Corti (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Robin Kearns (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ana V. Diez Roux (21 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
• Jamie Pearce (19 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Health & Place (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (88 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
• University of British Columbia (73 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
• University of London (64 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Melbourne (61 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Harvard University (60 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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, 2.76% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.66% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.34% of all publications and 52.27% 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.

Career Pathway in Mental Health Counselling

Mental health studies, considered as one of the vital research areas in the realm of gerontology, enjoy a significant focus in the 'Health & Place' journal. The research in this area is not limited to theoretical exploration, but also extends to practical aspects such as counseling approaches, therapeutic interventions, and job roles related to mental health. Specifically, a job role that is gaining prominence in today's stressful world is that of a mental health counselor.

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Becoming a mental health counselor opens up many opportunities for applying and contributing to the complex and ever-growing field of mental health. It also ensures that one is equipped with the practical skills to make a direct and substantial impact on people’s lives through their mental wellbeing.