Four Decades of Health Economics Through a Bibliometric Lens

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.03.002

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Four Decades of Health Economics Through a Bibliometric Lens

dc.contributor.author	Culyer, Anthony J.
dc.contributor.author	Wagstaff, Adam
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-25T15:44:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-25T15:44:18Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03
dc.description.abstract	In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic “metadata” from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and our own topical classifications. We report the growth of health economics (we find 33,000 publications since 1969—12,000 more than in the economics of education) and list the 300 most-cited publications broken down by topic. We report the changing topical and geographic focus of health economics (the topics ‘Determinants of health and ill-health’ and ‘Health statistics and econometrics’ both show an upward trend, and the field has expanded appreciably into the developing world). We also compare authors, countries, institutions and journals in terms of the volume of publications and their influence as measured through various citation-based indices (Grossman, the US, Harvard and the JHE emerge close to or at the top on a variety of measures).	en
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Health Economics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/22685
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/22685
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	health economics
dc.subject	bibliometrics
dc.subject	history of economic thought
dc.title	Four Decades of Health Economics Through a Bibliometric Lens	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2015-09-25
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:32:55.013432Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.03.002
okr.journal.nbpages	406-39
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3593
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629612000306
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Theory & Research
okr.unit	Development Research Group
okr.volume	31(2)
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