Papers on “health care access”
Research on “health care access” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health care access” appeared in 1,196 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (950), economics (130) and operations research (50).
- 193 of them were published in 2025, against 103 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (18), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (15) and London School of Economics and Political Science (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal for Equity in Health (156), Social Science & Medicine (122) and Health Policy (25).
- The most-cited of them is “No-shows in appointment scheduling – a systematic literature review” (Health Policy, 2018), with 494 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 86 | 75 | 73 | 103 | 75 | 83 | 91 | 106 | 149 | 109 |
| Economics | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 24 | 12 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
| Management | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Statistics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 103 | 89 | 91 | 122 | 101 | 107 | 121 | 138 | 193 | 131 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal for Equity in Health | 156 |
| 2 | Social Science & Medicine | 122 |
| 3 | Health Policy | 25 |
| 4 | SSM - Population Health | 18 |
| 5 | Health Research Policy and Systems | 16 |
| 6 | Journal of Public Health Policy | 15 |
| 7 | Health Policy and Technology | 13 |
| 8 | Journal of Health Economics | 11 |
| 9 | Health Economics Review | 10 |
| 10 | The European Journal of Health Economics | 8 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 18 |
| 2 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | 15 |
| 3 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 13 |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University | 12 |
| 5 | University of York | 12 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 9 |
| 7 | Peking University | 9 |
| 8 | University of California, Los Angeles | 8 |
| 9 | University of Toronto | 8 |
| 10 | Imperial College London | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 168 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 97 |
| 3 | China | 50 |
| 4 | Canada | 44 |
| 5 | Australia | 35 |
| 6 | Germany | 35 |
| 7 | India | 27 |
| 8 | Italy | 27 |
| 9 | France | 19 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | health disparities | 90 |
| 2 | health equity | 81 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 48 |
| 4 | health care utilization | 43 |
| 5 | older adults | 31 |
| 6 | social determinants of health | 29 |
| 7 | quality of care | 28 |
| 8 | primary care | 27 |
| 9 | universal health coverage | 27 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 494 | 4.7 | No-shows in appointment scheduling – a systematic literature review | Health Policy | 2018-02-15 | Leila Figueiredo Dantas, Julia L. Fleck, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira et al. |
| 2 | 231 | 2.5 | Monitoring housing rental prices based on social media:An integrated approach of machine-learning algorithms and hedonic modeling to inform equitable housing policies | Land Use Policy | 2019-01-17 | Lirong Hu, Shenjing He, Zixuan Han et al. |
| 3 | 203 | 3.8 | Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy | World Development | 2022-05-18 | Andrea Cattaneo, Anjali Adukia, David L. Brown et al. |
| 4 | 192 | 1.8 | Nurse practitioner independence, health care utilization, and health outcomes | Journal of Health Economics | 2018-01-16 | Jeffrey Traczynski, Victoria M. Udalova |
| 5 | 184 | 3.0 | How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning | Land Use Policy | 2021-09-19 | Kostas Mouratidis |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “health care access”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-access
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