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title: "National Institute for Health and Care Research"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National Institute for Health and Care Research was named as a funder of 675 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (538), AI (57) and economics (41). 72 of them were published in 2025, against 68 in 2017."
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National Institute for Health and Care Research was named as a funder of 675 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (538), AI (57) and economics (41).
- 72 of them were published in 2025, against 68 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (60), University of York (39) and University of Manchester (34).
- The journals publishing most of them were PharmacoEconomics (46), Health Research Policy and Systems (35) and Health Policy (25).
- 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

*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) | 62 | 74 | 49 | 45 | 53 | 53 | 49 | 55 | 52 | 46 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 68 | 81 | 56 | 54 | 66 | 70 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 66 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 46 |
| 2 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 60 |
| 2 | University of York | 39 |
| 3 | University of Manchester | 34 |
| 4 | University College London | 31 |
| 5 | Imperial College London | 27 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | 25 |
| 7 | University of Sheffield | 25 |
| 8 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | 21 |
| 9 | Queen Mary University of London | 17 |
| 10 | University of Bristol | 17 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 271 |
| 2 | United States | 27 |
| 3 | Australia | 24 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 22 |
| 5 | Italy | 20 |
| 6 | China | 12 |
| 7 | Germany | 11 |
| 8 | Spain | 11 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 10 | Brazil | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 54 |
| 2 | quality-adjusted life years | 32 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 19 |
| 4 | health-related quality of life | 17 |
| 5 | England | 15 |
| 6 | economic evaluation | 14 |
| 7 | health disparities | 14 |
| 8 | health technology assessment | 14 |
| 9 | health care access | 11 |
| 10 | older adults | 11 |

## 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2840695) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3013679) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.11.001) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2017-11-16 | Daniel Howdon, Nigel Rice |
| 4 | 254 | 4.6 | [FANet: A Feedback Attention Network for Improved Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3159394) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-022-01218-7) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-021-00704-x) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2023.100478) | [Information and Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-and-organization.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00305-2) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.06.005) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2022.103839) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-12-20 | Oskar Wysocki, Jessica Katharine Davies, Markel Vigo et al. |

## Cite this page

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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  title = {National Institute for Health and Care Research},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-institute-for-health-and-care-research}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal 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/).