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title: "Global Burden of Disease: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 425 archived papers mentioned Global Burden of Disease in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (19)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 425 archived papers mentioned Global Burden of Disease in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (19). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Global Burden of Disease

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/3.md)

Population health statistics, disease burden, health surveys and pandemic trackers.

- data category: Health data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Global Burden of Disease

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Health data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/health-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 425 archived papers mentioned Global Burden of Disease in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (19).
- Global Burden of Disease was mentioned in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #18 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Health Economics and Policy (7), Operations Research (2), Statistics (1) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in PharmacoEconomics - Open (2), PharmacoEconomics (1) and Research in Transportation Business & Management (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Global Burden of Disease was mentioned in 512 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (385), economics (50) and AI (36).
- 136 of them were published in 2025, against 5 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The University of Melbourne (14), Monash University (13) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (51), Health Economics Review (37) and PharmacoEconomics - Open (32).
- The most-cited of them is “Exploring why global health needs are unmet by research efforts: the potential influences of geography, industry and publication incentives” (Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020), with 172 citations.
- Papers use Global Burden of Disease most often with WITS / TRAINS tariff data (23), Eurostat (17) and World Development Indicators (World Bank) (15); it has 38 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 138 | 139 | 148 | 425 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 5 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 35 | 93 | 100 | 97 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 13 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 5 | 10 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 47 | 136 | 136 | 129 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 31 |
| 5 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 29 |
| 6 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-hygiene-tropical-medicine.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 11 |
| 6 | Karolinska Institutet | 10 |
| 7 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 96 |
| 2 | United States | 82 |
| 3 | China | 76 |
| 4 | Australia | 50 |
| 5 | Germany | 47 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 36 |
| 7 | Italy | 31 |
| 8 | Canada | 26 |
| 9 | Spain | 24 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 20 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 75 |
| 2 | disability-adjusted life years | 58 |
| 3 | [quality-adjusted life years](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years.md) | 54 |
| 4 | [health care costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-costs.md) | 39 |
| 5 | global burden of disease | 32 |
| 6 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 25 |
| 7 | economic burden | 23 |
| 8 | disease burden | 18 |
| 9 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 | 2.2 | [Exploring why global health needs are unmet by research efforts: the potential influences of geography, industry and publication incentives](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00560-6) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2020-05-15 | Alfredo Yegros, Wouter van de Klippe, María Francisca Abad García et al. |
| 2 | 143 | 4.8 | [An overview of the perspectives used in health economic evaluations](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-024-00552-1) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 2024-05-14 | Manit Sittimart, Waranya Rattanavipapong, Andrew J. Mirelman et al. |
| 3 | 93 | 1.3 | [Cost per DALY averted in low, middle- and high-income countries: evidence from the global burden of disease study to estimate the cost-effectiveness thresholds](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-021-00260-0) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 2021-02-04 | Rajabali Daroudi, Ali Akbari Sari, Azin Nahvijou et al. |
| 4 | 91 | 1.7 | [Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-022-00858-7) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2022-05-02 | Ayal Debie, Resham Bahadur Khatri, Yibeltal Alemu Assefa |
| 5 | 80 | 2.5 | [Machine learning for human emotion recognition: a comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-09426-2) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-02-20 | Eman M. G. Younis, Someya Mohsen, Essam Halim Houssein et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Global Burden of Disease most often with WITS / TRAINS tariff data (23), Eurostat (17) and World Development Indicators (World Bank) (15); it has 38 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use Global Burden of Disease together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [WITS / TRAINS tariff data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wits-trains-tariff-data.md) | Dataset | 23 | 3.1 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 17 | 1.1 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 15 | 1.5 |
| [OECD statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oecd-statistics.md) | Dataset | 12 | 3.2 |
| [Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/demographic-and-health-surveys-dhs.md) | Dataset | 10 | 2.4 |
| [WHO Global Health Observatory](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/who-global-health-observatory.md) | Dataset | 10 | 21.1 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 9 | 0.9 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 8 | 0.2 |
| [MODIS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/modis.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.8 |
| [US health surveys (NHANES, BRFSS, MEPS)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-health-surveys-nhanes-brfss-meps.md) | Dataset | 8 | 2.6 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 7 | 0.3 |
| [SEER cancer registry](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/seer-cancer-registry.md) | Dataset | 7 | 8.3 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Global Burden of Disease in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Economic Evaluation of an E-Dengue Early Warning System for Proactive Dengue Prevention in the Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam: A Protocol](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-026-00691-6) | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | Trinh Manh Hung, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Hugo C. Turner et al. | The University of Queensland; Trinity College Dublin; Imperial College London; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [Quality-Adjusted and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs and DALYs): An Overview and Guide to Calculations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-026-00678-3) | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | Hugo Turner, Brandon Wen Bing Chua, Panupong Chaowanasawat et al. | Imperial College London; Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program; The University of Queensland; … |
| 2026-10-25 | [Measuring the Health of Young Children](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-026-01675-4) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | Daniel M. Hausman | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2026-10-23 | [Toward greener urban freight: The effect of China's green freight distribution pilot program on PM2.5 concentrations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101928) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Xu Zhang, Xuefu Sun, Yu Fu | Harbin University of Commerce |
| 2026-10-22 | [ShapleyHALE: an R package for ordering-free decomposition of health-adjusted life expectancy change with population-level interaction indices, demonstrated using Global Burden of Disease Study data](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03061-2) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | Xueqi Li, Wei Hu, Bo Yan et al. | Sichuan University; Sun Yat-sen University; Guangzhou Medical University; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [Towards meaningful outcome measures for health economic evaluations in skin cancer](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-026-00855-5) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | Annick Meertens, Lieven Annemans, Floor Verstraete et al. | Ghent University Hospital; Ghent University; Cancer Research Institute Ghent |
| 2026-10-16 | [The welfare effects of explicit and implicit subsidies on fossil fuels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105804) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Tim Kalmey, Sebastian Rausch, Jan Schneider | Centre for European Economic Research; Heidelberg University; ETH Zurich; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Cost-Effectiveness of Community Health Worker Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-026-01081-z) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | Laura R. Porterfield, H. Shelton Brown, Dallin C. Swanson et al. | The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Stanford Medicine; Baylor College of Medicine |
| 2026-10-15 | [Transformer Architectures for Respiratory Sound Analysis and Multimodal Diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-026-00698-z) | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | Theodore Aptekarev, Vladimir Sokolovsky, G. B. Furman et al. | National Research University Higher School of Economics; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Perm State Medical Academy |
| 2026-10-11 | [Decomposing health-service volume growth in Türkiye: volume-based physician productivity and physician-density growth in a 12-country OECD comparison](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105796) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | Jebağı Canberk Aydin | Trakya University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Budget impact analysis of implementing point-of-care molecular testing for influenza A&B and RSV in Saudi older adult patients across hospital and home-care settings](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-026-00872-3) | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | Walid Ahmed Alkeridy, Khulud Alharbi, Amal Abuhamar et al. | University of British Columbia; King Saud University; Ministry of Health; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Global Burden of Disease. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-burden-of-disease

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Global Burden of Disease},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-burden-of-disease}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).