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title: "Department of Health and Social Care"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Department of Health and Social Care was named as a funder of 144 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (116), economics (10) and AI (8). 25 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017."
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# Department of Health and Social Care

Papers in the tracked journals that name Department of Health and Social Care as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Department of Health and Social Care was named as a funder of 144 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (116), economics (10) and AI (8).
- 25 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of York (19), University of Oxford (13) and University of Manchester (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Research Policy and Systems (16), The European Journal of Health Economics (10) and Health Policy (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Gender differences in active travel in major cities across the world” (Transportation, 2022), with 155 citations.

## 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) | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 22 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 25 | 17 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of York | 19 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 13 |
| 3 | University of Manchester | 12 |
| 4 | Imperial College London | 11 |
| 5 | University College London | 11 |
| 6 | Queen Mary University of London | 8 |
| 7 | University of Leeds | 8 |
| 8 | King's College London | 7 |
| 9 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | 7 |
| 10 | University of Cambridge | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 76 |
| 2 | Australia | 8 |
| 3 | Germany | 5 |
| 4 | United States | 5 |
| 5 | Denmark | 4 |
| 6 | Sweden | 3 |
| 7 | Belgium | 2 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 2 |
| 9 | Italy | 2 |
| 10 | Japan | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 13 |
| 2 | quality-adjusted life years | 9 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 8 |
| 4 | health disparities | 7 |
| 5 | England | 5 |
| 6 | health care access | 5 |
| 7 | intersectoral collaboration | 4 |
| 8 | length of hospital stay | 4 |
| 9 | long COVID | 4 |
| 10 | older adults | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 155 | 2.7 | [Gender differences in active travel in major cities across the world](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-021-10259-4) | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 2022-01-02 | Rahul Goel, Oyinlola O Oyebode, Louise S. Foley et al. |
| 2 | 152 | 2.7 | [Data harmonisation for information fusion in digital healthcare: A state-of-the-art systematic review, meta-analysis and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.01.001) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-01-24 | Nan Yang, Javier Del Ser, Simon L. F. Walsh et al. |
| 3 | 133 | 1.5 | [Striving for a Societal Perspective: A Framework for Economic Evaluations When Costs and Effects Fall on Multiple Sectors and Decision Makers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-019-00481-8) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 2019-05-16 | Simon Walker, Susan C. Griffin, Miqdad Asaria et al. |
| 4 | 125 | 3.4 | [Institutionalised distrust and human oversight of artificial intelligence: towards a democratic design of AI governance under the European Union AI Act](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01777-z) | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 2023-10-06 | Johann Moritz Laux |
| 5 | 122 | 1.8 | [Interventions promoting employee “speaking-up” within healthcare workplaces: A systematic narrative review of the international literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.12.016) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2021-01-21 | Aled Jones, Joanne Blake, Mary Adams et al. |
| 6 | 71 | 1.0 | [Reimbursement models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials: Approaches taken in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.11.015) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2020-12-01 | Dzintars Gotham, Lorenzo Moja, Maarten van der Heijden et al. |
| 7 | 61 | 0.8 | [New integrated care models in England associated with small reduction in hospital admissions in longer-term: A difference-in-differences analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.06.004) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2020-06-10 | Marcello Morciano, Kath Checkland, Jenny R. Billings et al. |
| 8 | 58 | 0.6 | [An Educational Review About Using Cost Data for the Purpose of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-019-00771-y) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2019-02-12 | Matthew K. Franklin, James R.S. Lomas, Simon Walker et al. |
| 9 | 58 | 1.7 | [Impact of Long COVID on productivity and informal caregiving](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-023-01653-z) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2023-12-26 | Joseph Kwon, Ruairidh Milne, Clare Rayner et al. |
| 10 | 55 | 0.7 | [How Uncertain is the Survival Extrapolation? A Study of the Impact of Different Parametric Survival Models on Extrapolated Uncertainty About Hazard Functions, Lifetime Mean Survival and Cost Effectiveness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-019-00853-x) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2019-11-25 | Benjamin Kearns, John Stevens, Shijie Ren et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Department of Health and Social Care. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/department-of-health-and-social-care

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@misc{scholar4ai-funders-department-of-health-and-social-care,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Department of Health and Social Care},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/department-of-health-and-social-care}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).