Papers on “quality-adjusted life years”
Research on “quality-adjusted life years” 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 “quality-adjusted life years” appeared in 1,039 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (1,025), operations research (7) and economics (7).
- 124 of them were published in 2025, against 72 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Sheffield (23), University of Oxford (20) and University of York (20).
- The journals publishing most of them were Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (114), PharmacoEconomics (106) and PharmacoEconomics - Open (92).
- The most-cited of them is “Perspective and Costing in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, 1974–2018” (PharmacoEconomics, 2020), with 279 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 71 | 83 | 93 | 85 | 107 | 103 | 106 | 120 | 122 | 135 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Economics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 72 | 84 | 93 | 86 | 110 | 105 | 107 | 122 | 124 | 136 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | 114 |
| 2 | PharmacoEconomics | 106 |
| 3 | PharmacoEconomics - Open | 92 |
| 4 | The European Journal of Health Economics | 58 |
| 5 | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | 56 |
| 6 | Health Economics Review | 46 |
| 7 | Health Policy and Technology | 5 |
| 8 | Journal of Health Economics | 2 |
| 9 | Health Policy | 2 |
| 10 | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Sheffield | 23 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 20 |
| 3 | University of York | 20 |
| 4 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 16 |
| 5 | Monash University | 13 |
| 6 | The University of Melbourne | 11 |
| 7 | University of Technology Sydney | 11 |
| 8 | Maastricht University | 10 |
| 9 | University College London | 10 |
| 10 | University Medical Center Groningen | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 130 |
| 2 | United States | 99 |
| 3 | China | 57 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 54 |
| 5 | Australia | 47 |
| 6 | Canada | 38 |
| 7 | Spain | 30 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 28 |
| 9 | Germany | 26 |
| 10 | Sweden | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost-effectiveness | 373 |
| 2 | Markov model | 100 |
| 3 | incremental cost-effectiveness ratio | 93 |
| 4 | willingness-to-pay threshold | 58 |
| 5 | cost-utility analysis | 55 |
| 6 | health care costs | 53 |
| 7 | health technology assessment | 45 |
| 8 | health-related quality of life | 35 |
| 9 | first-line therapy | 29 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “quality-adjusted life years”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years
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