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title: "Health-related quality of life research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 29 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 52 | 48 | 53 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 62 |
| 2 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 27 |
| 4 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Health and Quality of Life Outcomes](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-and-quality-of-life-outcomes.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Israel Journal of Health Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/israel-journal-of-health-policy-research.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [University of Sheffield](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 14 |
| 5 | EuroQol Research Foundation | 13 |
| 6 | Erasmus MC | 12 |
| 7 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 10 |
| 10 | Guiyang Medical University | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | EQ-5D-5L | 51 |
| 2 | [quality-adjusted life years](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years.md) | 35 |
| 3 | health utility | 31 |
| 4 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 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

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,188 | 10.2 | [EQ-5D and the EuroQol Group: Past, Present and Future](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-017-0310-5) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 2017-02-13 | Nancy J. Devlin, Richard G. Brooks |
| 2 | 592 | 5.7 | [German Value Set for the EQ-5D-5L](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-018-0615-8) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-0955-5) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-022-01218-7) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2022-11-30 | Mónica Hernández Alava, Stephen E. Pudney, Allan Wailoo |
| 5 | 205 | 1.8 | [The Indonesian EQ-5D-5L Value Set](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-017-0538-9) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 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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  title = {Papers on “health-related quality of life”},
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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/).