What are the most common topics in recent health economics and policy research?

In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked health economics and policy journals were “cost-effectiveness” (24), “health care costs” (16), “health technology assessment” (10), “quality-adjusted life years” (10) and “health care utilization” (9).

Which universities and institutions publish the most health economics and policy research?

In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked health economics and policy journals were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (5), Inserm (4), The University of Queensland (4), Erasmus University Rotterdam (4) and University of British Columbia (3).

Which countries publish the most health economics and policy research?

Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were United Kingdom (24), United States (20), China (17), Australia (13) and Italy (11).

Which equations and models do recent health economics and policy research papers use most?

Counting papers that mention them by name in the title, abstract, keywords or full text, the most frequent in the tracked health economics and policy journals over the last 30 days were Logistic regression (logit) (7), Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) (6), Two-way fixed-effects panel regression (5), Difference-in-differences (4) and Ordinary least squares (OLS) (3).

What data do recent health economics and policy research papers use?

Counting papers that mention a dataset by name, the kinds of data used most over the last 30 days were Health data (10), Optimization benchmark instances (8), Macroeconomic and development indicators (3), Medical and clinical datasets (3) and Developing-country household surveys (2); the most-mentioned datasets were Global Burden of Disease (8), OR-Library (8), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) (2) and SEER cancer registry (2).

Which health economics and policy research topics are rising?

Compared with the ranking on 2026-10-23, the keywords that climbed the most were “cost-effectiveness” (new, now #1), “health care costs” (new, now #2), “health technology assessment” (new, now #3), “quality-adjusted life years” (new, now #3) and “health care utilization” (new, now #5).

How current is this data?

It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-30 12:46 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.

Health Economics and Policy research rankings

Papers in the 13 tracked health economics and policy journals, window 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days). Keywords, institutions, web domains and countries are ranked by paper count. Also as Markdown.

Latest monthly report: September 2026 · all 36 months

162Papers (30 days)

31Papers (last 7 days)

13Journals

430Institutions

61Countries

393Web domains

Key findings#

In the last 30 days (2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30), 162 papers were published in the 13 tracked health economics and policy journals (as indexed by OpenAlex).
The most frequent keywords were “cost-effectiveness” (24), “health care costs” (16) and “health technology assessment” (10).
The institutions with the most papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (5), Inserm (4) and The University of Queensland (4).
United Kingdom was involved in 15% of the papers (24), followed by United States (20) and China (17).
Among institution web domains, .edu appeared on 15% of the papers.
The most-mentioned equations and models were Logistic regression (logit) (7), Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) (6) and Two-way fixed-effects panel regression (5).
The most-mentioned kinds of data were Health data (10), Optimization benchmark instances (8) and Macroeconomic and development indicators (3); the most-mentioned datasets were Global Burden of Disease (8), OR-Library (8) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (2).
Rising since 2026-10-23: “cost-effectiveness” (new, now #1), “health care costs” (new, now #2) and “health technology assessment” (new, now #3).

Papers per day#

2026-10-012026-10-30

Show the numbers

Papers per publication date
Date	Papers
2026-10-01	23
2026-10-02	5
2026-10-03	2
2026-10-04	2
2026-10-05	7
2026-10-06	9
2026-10-07	5
2026-10-08	6
2026-10-09	8
2026-10-10	2
2026-10-11	3
2026-10-12	2
2026-10-13	9
2026-10-14	4
2026-10-15	9
2026-10-16	6
2026-10-17	8
2026-10-18	0
2026-10-19	2
2026-10-20	4
2026-10-21	1
2026-10-22	5
2026-10-23	9
2026-10-24	4
2026-10-25	1
2026-10-26	14
2026-10-27	8
2026-10-28	3
2026-10-29	1
2026-10-30	0

Growing lately# Trends →

Papers in Jul 2026–Sep 2026 beyond what the keyword's share in Oct 2023–Jun 2026 predicts
Keyword	Papers Jul 2026–Sep 2026	vs. earlier share
Canada	11	+9
famine	8	+8
artificial intelligence	10	+8
healthcare workers	9	+6
economic evaluation	15	+6

Most-cited papers of the past three years# All →

Most-cited papers published since 2023-10-30 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	295	10.6	Digital health technologies and inequalities: A scoping review of potential impacts and policy recommendations	Health Policy	2024-07-02	Janine Badr, Aude Motulsky, Jean‐Louis Denis
2	268	10.4	The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (2024): Implications for healthcare	Health Policy	2024-09-07	Hannah van Kolfschooten, Janneke van Oirschot
3	143	4.8	An overview of the perspectives used in health economic evaluations	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	2024-05-14	Manit Sittimart, Waranya Rattanavipapong, Andrew J. Mirelman et al.
4	133	3.7	Special FDA designations for drug development: orphan, fast track, accelerated approval, priority review, and breakthrough therapy	The European Journal of Health Economics	2023-11-14	Daniel Tobias Michaeli, Thomas Michaeli, Sebastian Albers et al.
5	131	4.2	The role of the health sector in tackling climate change: A narrative review	Health Policy	2024-03-20	Zeynep Or, Anna‐Veera Seppänen

Rising keywords#

Keywords that climbed the most since 2026-10-23
#	Keyword	Papers	vs 2026-10-23
1	cost-effectiveness	24	new
2	health care costs	16	new
3	health technology assessment	10	new
3	quality-adjusted life years	10	new
5	health care utilization	9	new
5	older adults	9	new
7	COVID-19 pandemic	6	new
7	economic burden	6	new
7	economic evaluation	6	new
7	health equity	6	new

Top research keywords#

Top 20 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Keyword	Papers	Last 7 days
1	cost-effectiveness	24	6
2	health care costs	16	6
3	health technology assessment	10	1
3	quality-adjusted life years	10	5
5	health care utilization	9	0
5	older adults	9	0
7	COVID-19 pandemic	6	1
7	economic burden	6	0
7	economic evaluation	6	2
7	health equity	6	0
7	hospital costs	6	2
7	quality of life	6	1
13	health care access	5	2
13	healthcare workers	5	0
13	sensitivity analysis	5	2
16	France	4	1
16	Israel	4	2
16	cost-effectiveness analysis	4	0
16	cost-utility analysis	4	2
16	direct medical costs	4	0

Top universities and research institutions#

Top 20 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Institution	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	5	1
2	Inserm	4	0
2	The University of Queensland	4	2
2	Erasmus University Rotterdam	4	0
5	University of British Columbia	3	0
5	Université Paris Cité	3	1
5	Israel Ministry of Health	3	1
5	Radboud University Medical Center	3	0
5	Karolinska Institutet	3	1
5	National Institute for Health and Care Research	3	2
5	University of Bristol	3	1
5	Duke-NUS Medical School	3	1
5	Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquée en Economie-Gestion et Santé	3	1
5	University of York	3	1
5	Bocconi University	3	0
16	Lyon 1 Université	2	0
16	Semmelweis University	2	0
16	Goethe University Frankfurt	2	0
16	University of Jordan	2	0
16	Griffith University	2	1

Top institution web domains#

Top 20 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Web domain	Papers	Last 7 days
1	nhs.uk	8	2
2	cnrs.fr	5	1
3	eur.nl	4	0
3	inserm.fr	4	0
3	uq.edu.au	4	2
6	bristol.ac.uk	3	1
6	duke-nus.edu.sg	3	1
6	health.gov.il	3	1
6	ki.se	3	1
6	nihr.ac.uk	3	2
6	nsw.gov.au	3	0
6	radboudumc.nl	3	0
6	u-paris.fr	3	1
6	ubc.ca	3	0
6	unibocconi.it	3	0
6	who.int	3	0
6	york.ac.uk	3	1
18	ap-hm.fr	2	0
18	aphp.fr	2	0
18	asu.edu.jo	2	0

Top countries#

Top 20 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Country	Papers	Last 7 days
1	United Kingdom (GB)	24	7
2	United States (US)	20	4
3	China (CN)	17	2
4	Australia (AU)	13	3
5	Italy (IT)	11	1
6	Canada (CA)	10	1
6	Germany (DE)	10	2
8	France (FR)	9	1
8	Netherlands (NL)	9	0
10	Spain (ES)	7	1
11	Sweden (SE)	6	2
12	Belgium (BE)	5	0
12	Saudi Arabia (SA)	5	0
14	Denmark (DK)	4	1
14	Indonesia (ID)	4	1
14	Israel (IL)	4	2
14	Iran (IR)	4	2
14	Poland (PL)	4	0
14	Portugal (PT)	4	0
14	Singapore (SG)	4	2

Research fields#

Top 12 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Field	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Economics, Econometrics and Finance	63	12
2	Health Professions	39	4
3	Medicine	34	11
4	Social Sciences	7	1
5	Psychology	5	1
6	Business, Management and Accounting	2	1
6	Decision Sciences	2	0
6	Environmental Science	2	0
6	Immunology and Microbiology	2	0
6	Mathematics	2	0
11	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	1	0
11	Dentistry	1	0

Papers per journal#

Top 13 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Journal	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	24	7
1	Health Policy	24	0
3	Health Economics Review	19	7
3	Health Policy and Technology	19	1
5	The European Journal of Health Economics	16	2
6	PharmacoEconomics - Open	12	4
7	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	10	5
8	Health Policy OPEN	9	0
8	PharmacoEconomics	9	2
10	Economics & Human Biology	7	0
11	Journal of Health Economics	6	0
12	Israel Journal of Health Policy Research	5	3
13	Journal of Public Health Policy	2	0

Most-used equations and models#

Top 10 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Equation or model	Formula	Papers
1	Logistic regression (logit)	$\Pr(y = 1 \mid x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x^\top\beta}}$	7
2	Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares)	$\hat\beta_{\mathrm{2SLS}} = (X^\top P_Z X)^{-1} X^\top P_Z\, y,\quad P_Z = Z (Z^\top Z)^{-1} Z^\top$	6
3	Two-way fixed-effects panel regression	$y_{it} = \alpha_i + \lambda_t + x_{it}^\top\beta + \varepsilon_{it}$	5
4	Difference-in-differences	$Y_{it} = \alpha_i + \lambda_t + \delta\,(\mathit{Treat}_i \times \mathit{Post}_t) + \varepsilon_{it}$	4
5	Ordinary least squares (OLS)	$\hat\beta = (X^\top X)^{-1} X^\top y$	3
6	Regression discontinuity design	$\tau = \lim_{x \downarrow c} E[Y \mid X = x] - \lim_{x \uparrow c} E[Y \mid X = x]$	2
6	TOPSIS	$C_i = \frac{d_i^{-}}{d_i^{+} + d_i^{-}}$	2
8	Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)	$A\, w = \lambda_{\max}\, w,\quad CR = \frac{(\lambda_{\max} - n)/(n - 1)}{RI}$	1
8	Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)	$y_t = \alpha + \sum_{i=1}^{p}\phi_i\, y_{t-i} + \sum_{j=0}^{q}\beta_j^\top x_{t-j} + \varepsilon_t$	1
8	Bayes' theorem	$P(A \mid B) = \frac{P(B \mid A)\, P(A)}{P(B)}$	1

Most-used data#

Top 10 · 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-30 (30 days)
#	Data category	Most-mentioned datasets	Papers
1	Health data	Global Burden of Disease (8), WHO Global Health Observatory (1), US health surveys (NHANES, BRFSS, MEPS) (1)	10
2	Optimization benchmark instances	OR-Library (8)	8
3	Macroeconomic and development indicators	World Development Indicators (World Bank) (1), OECD statistics (1), Eurostat (1)	3
3	Medical and clinical datasets	SEER cancer registry (2), UK Biobank (1)	3
5	Developing-country household surveys	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) (2), Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) (1), Young Lives (1), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (1)	2
5	European and other national household panels	SHARE (1), HILDA (1), Labour Force Surveys (1)	2
5	US macroeconomic data	Bureau of Labor Statistics (2)	2
8	Analyst forecasts	Zacks (1)	1
8	China household and social surveys	China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) (1), CHARLS (1)	1
8	International trade and input-output data	WITS / TRAINS tariff data (1)	1

Latest health economics and policy papers#

Latest health economics and policy papers
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-29	Editorial Board	Health Policy and Technology
2026-10-28	Health economic evaluation of the danish ibbis randomised controlled trials	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	Andreas Hoff, Rasmus Jacobsen, Serkan Korkmaz et al.	Mental Health Services; Capital Region of Denmark; VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research
2026-10-28	Population aging and public health expenditure: a dynamic macro-panel decomposition of mortality-linked and morbidity channels	Health Economics Review	Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo	University of KwaZulu-Natal
2026-10-28	Mental health literacy among Arab-Palestinians in Israel and its association with socioeconomic characteristics and healthcare utilization	Israel Journal of Health Policy Research	Noor Abo Ras, Rafael Youngmann, Efrat Neter
2026-10-27	Artificial intelligence in healthcare: mapping research trends, economic implications, and future research directions through a bibliometric and systematic review	Health Economics Review	Rupa Banerjee, Smruti Patre, Ashaya Deepak Khodey	Symbiosis International University
2026-10-27	Policies to address Israel’s physician workforce challenges	Israel Journal of Health Policy Research	Revital Sheinberg, Alon Kadmon, Alexey Belinsky et al.	Assaf Harofeh Medical Center; Israel Ministry of Health; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; …
2026-10-27	A micro-costing and cost-comparison analysis based on Italian guidelines for the management of persistent post-surgical hypoparathyroidism, including pregnancy and early postpartum care	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	Michele Basile, Maria Luisa Brandi, Iacopo Chiodini et al.
2026-10-27	Methodological Divergence in Oncology HTA: Implications for International Harmonization and the Handling of Uncertainty	PharmacoEconomics - Open	Nai-Chia Chen, Ash Bullement, Antal Tamás Zemplenyi et al.	University of Colorado Anschutz; University of York; Brigham and Women's Hospital; …
2026-10-27	Trends in telehealth utilization and cost of office-based care in the United States: evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2020–2023	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	Kolade Olatunde
2026-10-27	Threshold associations between governance integrity and public satisfaction with government health coverage: evidence from the 2019 and 2021 China social surveys	Health Economics Review	Dandan Jin, Yifan Jiang, Jinghua Zhang et al.	Macau University of Science and Technology; Zhanjiang University of Science and Technology
2026-10-27	Initiating Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis Compared with In-Centre Haemodialysis in the United Kingdom: A Cost-Utility and Budget Impact Analysis	PharmacoEconomics - Open	Tara Danying Li, C. Rinciog, Araadhna Sinha et al.	University of Sheffield; Keele University; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
2026-10-27	Data-driven reweighting of the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices using German claims data: development for in-hospital mortality only, external validation across clinical and health-economic outcomes	Health Economics Review	Klaus Kaier, Derek Y. Hazard, Adrian Heidenreich et al.	University of Freiburg; University Medical Center Freiburg; Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg-Bad Krozingen
2026-10-26	Financing High-Cost Gene Therapy Under Clinical Uncertainty: Assessing Budget Impact of Reimbursement Models for Hemgenix® in Hemophilia B in Sweden	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	Shalini Padhy, Pia Johansson	University of Gothenburg
2026-10-26	A Post-market Decision-Making Framework for Medical Devices in Hospital Settings: the THE Mini-HTA Tool	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	Mattia Barsanti, Salvatore Tallarico, Marco Praticò et al.	University of Pisa; Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio
2026-10-26	Preferences for Primary Healthcare Providers Among Urban Slum Dwellers of Dhaka City in Bangladesh: A Discrete Choice Experiment	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	Md. Mehedi Hasan, Edward Webb, Zahidul Quayyum et al.	University of Leeds; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research; BRAC; …

Questions this page answers#

What are the most common topics in recent health economics and policy research?: In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked health economics and policy journals were “cost-effectiveness” (24), “health care costs” (16), “health technology assessment” (10), “quality-adjusted life years” (10) and “health care utilization” (9).
Which universities and institutions publish the most health economics and policy research?: In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked health economics and policy journals were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (5), Inserm (4), The University of Queensland (4), Erasmus University Rotterdam (4) and University of British Columbia (3).
Which countries publish the most health economics and policy research?: Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were United Kingdom (24), United States (20), China (17), Australia (13) and Italy (11).
Which equations and models do recent health economics and policy research papers use most?: Counting papers that mention them by name in the title, abstract, keywords or full text, the most frequent in the tracked health economics and policy journals over the last 30 days were Logistic regression (logit) (7), Instrumental variables (two-stage least squares) (6), Two-way fixed-effects panel regression (5), Difference-in-differences (4) and Ordinary least squares (OLS) (3).
What data do recent health economics and policy research papers use?: Counting papers that mention a dataset by name, the kinds of data used most over the last 30 days were Health data (10), Optimization benchmark instances (8), Macroeconomic and development indicators (3), Medical and clinical datasets (3) and Developing-country household surveys (2); the most-mentioned datasets were Global Burden of Disease (8), OR-Library (8), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) (2) and SEER cancer registry (2).
Which health economics and policy research topics are rising?: Compared with the ranking on 2026-10-23, the keywords that climbed the most were “cost-effectiveness” (new, now #1), “health care costs” (new, now #2), “health technology assessment” (new, now #3), “quality-adjusted life years” (new, now #3) and “health care utilization” (new, now #5).
How current is this data?: It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-30 12:46 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.

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