---
title: "Health disparities research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health disparities” appeared in 475 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (322), economics (104) and operations research (15)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health disparities” appeared in 475 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (322), economics (104) and operations research (15). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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---

# Papers on “health disparities”

Research on “health disparities” 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 disparities” appeared in 475 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (322), economics (104) and operations research (15).
- 81 of them were published in 2025, against 30 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were London School of Economics and Political Science (10), Erasmus University Rotterdam (8) and University of York (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Policy (33), Health Research Policy and Systems (19) and Health Economics Review (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Development of metaverse for intelligent healthcare” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 425 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 | 23 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 37 | 35 | 58 | 35 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 13 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 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 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 30 | 25 | 39 | 40 | 47 | 50 | 50 | 58 | 81 | 55 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Israel Journal of Health Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/israel-journal-of-health-policy-research.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [University of York](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-york.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Newcastle University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/newcastle-university.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [University of Glasgow](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-glasgow.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 2 | United States | 58 |
| 3 | China | 32 |
| 4 | Australia | 30 |
| 5 | Canada | 17 |
| 6 | Italy | 14 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 14 |
| 8 | Israel | 13 |
| 9 | France | 9 |
| 10 | Germany | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 35 |
| 2 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 20 |
| 5 | health care access | 17 |
| 6 | socioeconomic disparities | 17 |
| 7 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 16 |
| 8 | social determinants of health | 15 |
| 9 | [health care utilization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-utilization.md) | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 425 | 8.9 | [Development of metaverse for intelligent healthcare](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00549-6) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-11-15 | Ge Wang, Andreu Badal, Xun Jia et al. |
| 2 | 297 | 10.6 | [Digital health technologies and inequalities: A scoping review of potential impacts and policy recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105122) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2024-07-02 | Janine Badr, Aude Motulsky, Jean‐Louis Denis |
| 3 | 259 | 3.5 | [Telemedicine, COVID-19, and disparities: Policy implications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.001) | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 2020-08-14 | Gezzer Ortega, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, Lydia R. Maurer et al. |
| 4 | 220 | 3.5 | [Machine learning and algorithmic fairness in public and population health](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00373-4) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-29 | Vishwali Mhasawade, Yuan Zhao, Rumi Chunara |
| 5 | 194 | 2.2 | [Worlds of Healthcare: A Healthcare System Typology of OECD Countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.05.001) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2019-05-11 | Nadine Reibling, Mareike Ariaans, Claus Wendt |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “health disparities”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities}},
  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/).