International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Top Research Topics at International Journal for Quality in Health Care?

The foci of International Journal for Quality in Health Care are Health care, Nursing, Quality (business), Quality management and Family medicine. The journal explores topics in Health care which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Accreditation, Public relations, MEDLINE and Quality assurance. International Journal for Quality in Health Care dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Nursing and Qualitative research.

The Quality management works featured in International Journal for Quality in Health Care incorporate elements from Psychological intervention and Process management. International Journal for Quality in Health Care facilitates discussions on Family medicine that incorporate concepts from other fields like Patient satisfaction, Intervention (counseling) and Cross-sectional study. The study on Patient satisfaction presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Customer satisfaction.

While it focused on Patient safety, it was also able to explore topics like Safety culture and Medical emergency. The journal focuses on Medical emergency research which is adjacent to topics in Emergency medicine. Some problems in Emergency medicine that were presented in International Journal for Quality in Health Care overlapped with concepts under Retrospective cohort study and Medical record.

• Health care (32.50%)
• Nursing (24.55%)
• Quality (business) (20.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups (9741 citations)
• Good practice in the conduct and reporting of survey research. (1220 citations)
• Defining and classifying clinical indicators for quality improvement (709 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal for Quality in Health Care:

The most cited papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Health care, Nursing, MEDLINE, Family medicine and Quality (business). The published articles hold forums on Health care that merge themes from other disciplines such as Quality assurance, Public relations and Quality management. The journal articles explore issues in Nursing which can be linked to other research areas like Accreditation, Qualitative research and Scale (social sciences).

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 International Journal for Quality in Health Care (based on the number of publications) are:

• Jeffrey Braithwaite (66 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 12 less than at the previous edition,
• Yu-Chuan Jack Li (32 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Jan Mainz (29 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
• Niek S. Klazinga (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Usman Iqbal (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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 International Journal for Quality in Health Care (based on the number of publications) are:

• Harvard University (106 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
• Johns Hopkins University (66 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• National Patient Safety Foundation (64 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
• Macquarie University (62 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
• Taipei Medical University (61 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, 8.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.20% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.21% of all publications and 57.38% 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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