Papers on “health-related quality of life”
Research on “health-related quality of life” 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-related quality of life” appeared in 400 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (395), economics (2) and higher education and research (1).
- 49 of them were published in 2025, against 29 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The University of Melbourne (20), Erasmus University Rotterdam (19) and University of Sheffield (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were The European Journal of Health Economics (62), PharmacoEconomics (45) and PharmacoEconomics - Open (27).
- The most-cited of them is “EQ-5D and the EuroQol Group: Past, Present and Future” (Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2017), with 1,188 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 29 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 52 | 48 | 53 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 29 | 24 | 27 | 30 | 45 | 43 | 46 | 53 | 49 | 54 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The European Journal of Health Economics | 62 |
| 2 | PharmacoEconomics | 45 |
| 3 | PharmacoEconomics - Open | 27 |
| 4 | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | 20 |
| 5 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | 12 |
| 6 | Health Economics Review | 11 |
| 7 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | 10 |
| 8 | Health Policy | 2 |
| 9 | Social Science & Medicine | 2 |
| 10 | Israel Journal of Health Policy Research | 2 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of Melbourne | 20 |
| 2 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 19 |
| 3 | University of Sheffield | 16 |
| 4 | National University of Singapore | 14 |
| 5 | EuroQol Research Foundation | 13 |
| 6 | Erasmus MC | 12 |
| 7 | The University of Sydney | 10 |
| 8 | University of Oxford | 10 |
| 9 | University of Technology Sydney | 10 |
| 10 | Guiyang Medical University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 2 | Australia | 45 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 43 |
| 4 | United States | 37 |
| 5 | China | 26 |
| 6 | Germany | 20 |
| 7 | Canada | 19 |
| 8 | Singapore | 14 |
| 9 | Spain | 10 |
| 10 | Denmark | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EQ-5D-5L | 51 |
| 2 | quality-adjusted life years | 35 |
| 3 | health utility | 31 |
| 4 | cost-effectiveness | 28 |
| 5 | known-groups validity | 24 |
| 6 | economic evaluation | 21 |
| 7 | EQ-5D-3L | 18 |
| 8 | ceiling effect | 18 |
| 9 | EQ-5D-Y-3L | 16 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,188 | 10.2 | EQ-5D and the EuroQol Group: Past, Present and Future | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | 2017-02-13 | Nancy J. Devlin, Richard G. Brooks |
| 2 | 592 | 5.7 | German Value Set for the EQ-5D-5L | PharmacoEconomics | 2018-02-19 | Kristina Ludwig, J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Wolfgang Greiner |
| 3 | 333 | 3.2 | Population norms for the EQ-5D-3L: a cross-country analysis of population surveys for 20 countries | The European Journal of Health Economics | 2018-02-14 | Mathieu F. Janssen, Ágota Szende, Juan Manuel Cabasés Hita et al. |
| 4 | 221 | 4.7 | Estimating the Relationship Between EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L: Results from a UK Population Study | PharmacoEconomics | 2022-11-30 | Mónica Hernández Alava, Stephen E. Pudney, Allan Wailoo |
| 5 | 205 | 1.8 | The Indonesian EQ-5D-5L Value Set | PharmacoEconomics | 2017-07-10 | Fredrick Dermawan Purba, Joke A. M. Hunfeld, Aulia Iskandarsyah et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “health-related quality of life”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-related-quality-of-life
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