National Institute for Health and Care Research

Papers in the tracked journals that name National Institute for Health and Care Research 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. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National Institute for Health and Care Research was named as a funder of 579 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (446), AI (57) and economics (40).
60 of them were published in 2025, against 59 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (55), University of York (37) and University of Manchester (32).
The journals publishing most of them were PharmacoEconomics (46), Health Policy (25) and Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (20).
The most-cited of them is “DeepIGeoS: A Deep Interactive Geodesic Framework for Medical Image Segmentation” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 501 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Health Economics and Policy	53	65	41	34	38	48	43	47	41	36
AI	0	2	2	4	4	6	10	13	9	7
Economics	2	0	2	2	5	7	3	3	8	8
Statistics	0	1	2	0	2	2	3	2	0	2
Operations Research	3	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	2	0
Higher Education and Research	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Information Systems	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Finance	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Accounting	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
All categories	59	72	48	43	50	65	62	66	60	54

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	PharmacoEconomics	46
2	Health Policy	25
3	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	20
4	The European Journal of Health Economics	16
5	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	14
6	PharmacoEconomics - Open	14
7	Nature Machine Intelligence	10
8	Economics & Human Biology	9
9	Health Economics Review	7
10	Journal of Health Economics	6

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Oxford	55
2	University of York	37
3	University of Manchester	32
4	University College London	26
5	Imperial College London	25
6	University of Sheffield	24
7	University of Cambridge	21
8	Queen Mary University of London	15
9	University of Bristol	14
10	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	13

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United Kingdom	235
2	United States	25
3	Australia	21
4	Italy	20
5	Netherlands	19
6	China	12
7	Spain	11
8	Germany	10
9	Hong Kong	8
10	Switzerland	7

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	cost-effectiveness	54
2	quality-adjusted life years	32
3	COVID-19 pandemic	19
4	health-related quality of life	17
5	England	15
6	economic evaluation	14
7	health technology assessment	14
8	older adults	11
9	health disparities	10
10	waiting time	10

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	501	5.0	DeepIGeoS: A Deep Interactive Geodesic Framework for Medical Image Segmentation	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-06-01	Guotai Wang, María A. Zuluaga, Wenqi Li et al.
2	279	3.8	A Topological Loss Function for Deep-Learning Based Image Segmentation Using Persistent Homology	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-09-04	James R. Clough, Nick Byrne, İlkay Öksüz et al.
3	269	2.5	Health care expenditures, age, proximity to death and morbidity: Implications for an ageing population	Journal of Health Economics	2017-11-16	Daniel Howdon, Nigel Rice
4	254	4.6	FANet: A Feedback Attention Network for Improved Biomedical Image Segmentation	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2022-03-25	Nikhil Kumar Tomar, Debesh Jha, Michael Alexander Riegler et al.
5	218	4.6	Estimating the Relationship Between EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L: Results from a UK Population Study	PharmacoEconomics	2022-11-30	Mónica Hernández Alava, Stephen E. Pudney, Allan Wailoo
6	211	3.7	Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) Statement: Updated Reporting Guidance for Health Economic Evaluations	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	2022-01-11	Don Husereau, Michael Drummond, Federico Augustovski et al.
7	173	4.5	Risk and the future of AI: Algorithmic bias, data colonialism, and marginalization	Information and Organization	2023-08-24	Anmol Arora, Melissa S. Barrett, E. Lee et al.
8	171	2.5	Code-free deep learning for multi-modality medical image classification	Nature Machine Intelligence	2021-03-01	Edward Korot, Zeyu Guan, Daniel Ferraz et al.
9	161	1.4	Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient?	Journal of Health Economics	2017-06-23	Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker et al.
10	161	3.5	Assessing the communication gap between AI models and healthcare professionals: Explainability, utility and trust in AI-driven clinical decision-making	Artificial Intelligence	2022-12-20	Oskar Wysocki, Jessica Katharine Davies, Markel Vigo et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). National Institute for Health and Care Research. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-institute-for-health-and-care-research

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