Four Decades of Health Economics through a Bibliometric Lens
This paper takes a bibliometric tour of the past 40 years of health economics using bibliographic "metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and the authors' topical classifications. The authors report...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20111005114250 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3593 |
| Summary: | This paper takes a bibliometric tour of
the past 40 years of health economics using bibliographic
"metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation
data from Google Scholar and the authors' topical
classifications. The authors report the growth of health
economics (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. They 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). They
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). |
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