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title: "Health equity research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health equity” appeared in 345 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (295), economics (20) and operations research (19)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health equity” appeared in 345 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (295), economics (20) and operations research (19). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “health equity”

Research on “health equity” 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 equity” appeared in 345 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (295), economics (20) and operations research (19).
- 58 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were McMaster University (9), University of Toronto (8) and Harvard University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Policy (33), Health Research Policy and Systems (27) and Journal of Public Health Policy (15).
- The most-cited of them is “Telemedicine, COVID-19, and disparities: Policy implications” (Health Policy and Technology, 2020), with 259 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) | 19 | 16 | 13 | 34 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 42 | 48 | 58 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 23 | 16 | 14 | 38 | 26 | 27 | 25 | 48 | 58 | 70 |

## 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) | 27 |
| 3 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Israel Journal of Health Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/israel-journal-of-health-policy-research.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [McMaster University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/mcmaster-university.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-hygiene-tropical-medicine.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [UNSW Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/unsw-sydney.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Auckland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-auckland.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Dalhousie University | 4 |
| 10 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 57 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 3 | Canada | 28 |
| 4 | Australia | 22 |
| 5 | China | 14 |
| 6 | Israel | 11 |
| 7 | Chile | 8 |
| 8 | France | 8 |
| 9 | Italy | 8 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [health disparities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 24 |
| 2 | health care access | 23 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 20 |
| 4 | universal health coverage | 20 |
| 5 | [health care financing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-care-financing.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 11 |
| 7 | catastrophic health expenditure | 10 |
| 8 | out-of-pocket costs | 10 |
| 9 | health care reform | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 194 | 2.0 | [Introducing responsible innovation in health: a policy-oriented framework](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0362-5) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2018-09-10 | Hudson Pacifico da Silva, Pascale Lehoux, Fiona Alice Miller et al. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 138 | 1.3 | [A scoping review of the implementation of health in all policies at the local level](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.12.005) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2017-12-20 | Maria Guglielmin, Carles Muntaner, Patricia J O'Campo et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-health-equity,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “health equity”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).