Table 1 Top 10 productive subject categories on health systems research
From: Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research
No. | SCI Subject category | 1900–1990 | % | 1991–2000 | % | 2001–2012 | % | 1900–2012 | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 157 | 24.34 | 1,139 | 20.24 | 4,882 | 21.68 | 6,178 | 21.46 |
2 | Health Care Sciences & Services | 90 | 13.95 | 1,267 | 22.51 | 4,483 | 19.91 | 5,840 | 20.29 |
3 | General & Internal Medicine | 153 | 23.72 | 882 | 15.67 | 2,748 | 12.21 | 3,783 | 13.14 |
4 | Psychiatry | 54 | 8.37 | 420 | 7.46 | 1,193 | 5.30 | 1,667 | 5.79 |
5 | Nursing | 9 | 1.40 | 261 | 4.64 | 1,275 | 5.66 | 1,545 | 5.37 |
6 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 22 | 3.41 | 284 | 5.05 | 957 | 4.25 | 1,263 | 4.39 |
7 | Psychology | 36 | 5.58 | 294 | 5.22 | 687 | 3.05 | 1,017 | 3.53 |
8 | Biomedical Social Sciences | 55 | 8.53 | 295 | 5.24 | 656 | 2.91 | 1,006 | 3.49 |
9 | Surgery | 2 | 0.31 | 147 | 2.61 | 783 | 3.48 | 932 | 3.24 |
10 | Business & Economics | 45 | 6.98 | 163 | 2.90 | 644 | 2.86 | 852 | 2.96 |
Total | 623 | 96.59 | 5,152 | 91.54 | 18,308 | 81.32 | 24,083 | 83.66 | |