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title: "Health technology assessment research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health technology assessment” appeared in 694 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (684), economics (5) and management (2)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “health technology assessment” appeared in 694 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (684), economics (5) and management (2). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “health technology assessment”

Research on “health technology assessment” 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 technology assessment” appeared in 694 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (684), economics (5) and management (2).
- 73 of them were published in 2025, against 63 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (23), University of York (18) and University of Sheffield (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were PharmacoEconomics (94), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (45) and Health Policy and Technology (38).
- 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) | 62 | 64 | 53 | 65 | 71 | 55 | 62 | 77 | 73 | 102 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 63 | 66 | 55 | 67 | 72 | 56 | 62 | 78 | 73 | 102 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 94 |
| 2 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 38 |
| 4 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 32 |
| 5 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 30 |
| 6 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [University of York](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-york.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [University of Sheffield](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Tehran University of Medical Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tehran-university-of-medical-sciences.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 10 |
| 7 | Zorginstituut Nederland | 10 |
| 8 | [University of Toronto](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-toronto.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 114 |
| 2 | United States | 48 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 41 |
| 4 | Australia | 37 |
| 5 | Canada | 30 |
| 6 | Germany | 26 |
| 7 | Spain | 19 |
| 8 | Iran | 17 |
| 9 | Italy | 17 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [quality-adjusted life years](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years.md) | 45 |
| 3 | cost-effectiveness analysis | 29 |
| 4 | drug pricing | 24 |
| 5 | drug reimbursement | 24 |
| 6 | economic evaluation | 23 |
| 7 | cost-utility analysis | 18 |
| 8 | rare diseases | 18 |
| 9 | cost-effectiveness threshold | 17 |

## 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 | 803 | 8.4 | [Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Past, Present and Future](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-018-0734-2) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2018-11-02 | Vikas Soekhai, Esther Wilhelmina de Bekker-Grob, Alan R. Ellis et al. |
| 3 | 307 | 2.7 | [Using health technology assessment to assess the value of new medicines: results of a systematic review and expert consultation across eight European countries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-017-0871-0) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2017-03-16 | Aris Angelis, Ansgar Lange, Panos G. Kanavos |
| 4 | 211 | 3.7 | [Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) Statement: Updated Reporting Guidance for Health Economic Evaluations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-021-00704-x) | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 2022-01-11 | Don Husereau, Michael Drummond, Federico Augustovski et al. |
| 5 | 208 | 2.4 | [Application of decision making and fuzzy sets theory to evaluate the healthcare and medical problems: A review of three decades of research with recent developments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.07.002) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-07-02 | Abbas Mardani, Robert E. Hooker, Seckin Ozkul et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Papers on “health technology assessment”},
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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/).