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title: "Health care financing research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health care financing” appeared in 352 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (299), economics (32) and operations research (7)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health care financing” appeared in 352 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (299), economics (32) and operations research (7). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “health care financing”

Research on “health care financing” 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health care financing” appeared in 352 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (299), economics (32) and operations research (7).
- 51 of them were published in 2025, against 28 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (9), Technische Universität Berlin (9) and University of Toronto (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Economics Review (34), Health Policy (32) and Health Research Policy and Systems (22).
- The most-cited of them is “New insights into health financing: First results of the international data collection under the System of Health Accounts 2011 framework” (Health Policy, 2017), with 282 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) | 21 | 17 | 23 | 27 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 44 | 45 | 34 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 28 | 21 | 27 | 36 | 33 | 36 | 29 | 52 | 51 | 39 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 34 |
| 2 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 32 |
| 3 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies | 9 |
| 2 | [Technische Universität Berlin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technische-universitat-berlin.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-hygiene-tropical-medicine.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Semmelweis University | 5 |
| 8 | [University of California, Los Angeles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-los-angeles.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Charles University | 4 |
| 10 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 28 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 27 |
| 3 | China | 16 |
| 4 | Germany | 16 |
| 5 | Belgium | 15 |
| 6 | Canada | 15 |
| 7 | Italy | 13 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 12 |
| 9 | Australia | 11 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | universal health coverage | 25 |
| 2 | out-of-pocket costs | 22 |
| 3 | public health expenditure | 18 |
| 4 | health care reform | 16 |
| 5 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 15 |
| 6 | catastrophic health expenditure | 14 |
| 7 | [health care costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-costs.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 9 | health governance | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 282 | 2.5 | [New insights into health financing: First results of the international data collection under the System of Health Accounts 2011 framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.04.008) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2017-05-02 | Michael Mueller, David John Morgan |
| 2 | 262 | 2.3 | [The SELFIE framework for integrated care for multi-morbidity: Development and description](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.06.002) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2017-06-21 | Fenna Leijten, Verena Struckmann, Ewout van Ginneken et al. |
| 3 | 241 | 3.1 | [Historical evidence for economic effects of COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01206-8) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2020-06-04 | Rahmiye Figen Ceylan, Burhan Özkan, Esra Mülazimoğullari |
| 4 | 239 | 2.1 | [Health expenditure and economic growth - a review of the literature and an analysis between the economic community for central African states (CEMAC) and selected African countries](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-017-0159-1) | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 2017-06-07 | Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, Julius Chupezi Tieguhong |
| 5 | 149 | 2.0 | [COVID-19 pandemic in Finland – Preliminary analysis on health system response and economic consequences](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.005) | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 2020-08-27 | Hanna Tiirinki, Liina‐Kaisa Tynkkynen, Markus Sovala et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “health care financing”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-financing

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  title = {Papers on “health care financing”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).