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title: "World Health Organization: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Health Organization was named as a funder of 284 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (245), economics (17) and management (6). 29 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017."
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# World Health Organization

Papers in the tracked journals that name World Health Organization 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), World Health Organization was named as a funder of 284 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (245), economics (17) and management (6).
- 29 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were World Health Organization (43), Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (9) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Research Policy and Systems (42), Health Policy (18) and Health Policy OPEN (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job control and job demand” (Journal of Business Venturing, 2017), with 274 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) | 17 | 24 | 18 | 29 | 37 | 31 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 9 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 23 | 30 | 22 | 32 | 39 | 35 | 32 | 31 | 29 | 11 |

## 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) | 42 |
| 2 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | World Health Organization | 43 |
| 2 | Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research | 9 |
| 3 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | 9 |
| 4 | World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa | 7 |
| 5 | Imperial College London | 6 |
| 6 | McMaster University | 6 |
| 7 | World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe | 6 |
| 8 | World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean | 6 |
| 9 | Babeș-Bolyai University | 5 |
| 10 | The University of Melbourne | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Switzerland | 51 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 3 | United States | 29 |
| 4 | Canada | 17 |
| 5 | Australia | 14 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 7 | Germany | 9 |
| 8 | Denmark | 8 |
| 9 | France | 8 |
| 10 | Italy | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 16 |
| 2 | low- and middle-income countries | 12 |
| 3 | health care financing | 9 |
| 4 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 8 |
| 5 | knowledge translation | 8 |
| 6 | universal health coverage | 8 |
| 7 | health policy and systems research | 7 |
| 8 | evidence-informed policy | 6 |
| 9 | health equity | 6 |
| 10 | health policy | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 274 | 2.3 | [Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job control and job demand](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.10.007) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 2017-01-13 | Jolanda Hessels, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Peter van der Zwan |
| 2 | 211 | 2.3 | [Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.03.001) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2019-03-07 | Billie Giles‐Corti, Melanie Lowe, Jonathan Arundel |
| 3 | 177 | 3.3 | [An AI-based Decision Support System for Predicting Mental Health Disorders](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10282-5) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | 2022-05-27 | Salih Tutun, Marina Johnson, Abdulaziz Ahmed et al. |
| 4 | 145 | 1.4 | [Econometric estimation of WHO-CHOICE country-specific costs for inpatient and outpatient health service delivery](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-018-0095-x) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 2018-03-13 | Karin Stenberg, Jeremy  Addison Lauer, Georgios Gkountouras et al. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 135 | 2.0 | [A study of ethnic, gender and educational differences in attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in Israel – implications for vaccination implementation policies](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-021-00458-w) | [Israel Journal of Health Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/israel-journal-of-health-policy-research.md) | 2021-03-19 | Manfred S. Green, Rania Abdullah, Shiraz Vered et al. |
| 7 | 134 | 1.3 | [Taxes, labels, or nudges? Public acceptance of various interventions designed to reduce sugar intake](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.06.008) | [Food Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/food-policy.md) | 2018-07-15 | Désirée Hagmann, Michael Siegrist, Christina Hartmann |
| 8 | 132 | 1.3 | [Promoting health-enhancing physical activity in Europe: Current state of surveillance, policy development and implementation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.01.015) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2018-02-02 | João Breda, Jelena Jakovljevic, Giulia Rathmes et al. |
| 9 | 131 | 1.7 | [Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103987) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2020-05-26 | Carolin Haeussler, Henry Sauermann |
| 10 | 125 | 1.9 | [Responsible Leadership and the Reflective CEO: Resolving Stakeholder Conflict by Imagining What Could be done](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04865-6) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2021-06-22 | Nicola M. Pless, Atri Sengupta, Melissa A. Wheeler et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). World Health Organization. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/world-health-organization

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@misc{scholar4ai-funders-world-health-organization,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {World Health Organization},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/world-health-organization}},
  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/).