SDG 3: Good health and well-being

Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good health and well-being. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 3 (Good health and well-being) was addressed by 29,937 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (9,828), AI (7,806) and economics (4,904).
It is #3 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (11,276).
4,235 of them were published in 2025, against 1,567 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (154), Erasmus University Rotterdam (153) and University of Oxford (149).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (1,265), Neural Computing and Applications (754) and Health Policy (636).
The most-cited of them is “From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 10,493 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Health Economics and Policy	761	841	877	958	1,093	958	948	1,036	1,220	1,136
AI	163	255	289	474	770	903	985	1,128	1,529	1,310
Economics	257	318	330	519	657	615	564	581	615	448
Operations Research	137	163	186	187	303	384	351	330	312	275
Management	60	69	69	108	190	161	164	113	144	107
Information Systems	66	54	63	79	99	109	112	107	99	103
Statistics	51	81	72	61	99	100	89	85	104	114
Tourism and Hospitality	31	43	44	89	138	108	82	79	80	65
Finance	14	14	18	53	90	68	69	81	70	56
Marketing	15	18	26	30	46	46	52	34	37	46
Higher Education and Research	10	13	11	24	16	21	19	24	23	13
Accounting	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	5	2	3
All categories	1,567	1,870	1,986	2,584	3,503	3,475	3,438	3,603	4,235	3,676

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	1,265
2	Neural Computing and Applications	754
3	Health Policy	636
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	431
5	Health Economics Review	425
6	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	417
7	The European Journal of Health Economics	411
8	Health Policy and Technology	399
9	PharmacoEconomics	397
10	Information Fusion	336

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	154
2	Erasmus University Rotterdam	153
3	University of Oxford	149
4	Fudan University	148
5	Sichuan University	148
6	Peking University	147
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	147
8	Harvard University	140
9	The University of Sydney	137
10	Monash University	136

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	4,063
2	United States	3,065
3	United Kingdom	1,803
4	India	1,058
5	Australia	989
6	Germany	844
7	Italy	807
8	Canada	673
9	Netherlands	612
10	Spain	557

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	1,396
2	cost-effectiveness	720
3	quality-adjusted life years	482
4	health care costs	425
5	China	418
6	older adults	394
7	gender differences	315
8	mental health	310
9	health technology assessment	263
10	class imbalance	256

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	10,493	128.8	From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-01-17	Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al.
2	2,517	34.8	A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-10-21	Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan
3	1,747	19.8	Big data in healthcare: management, analysis and future prospects	Journal Of Big Data	2019-06-19	Sabyasachi Dash, Sushil Kumar Shakyawar, Mohit Sharma et al.
4	1,490	19.4	Secure, privacy-preserving and federated machine learning in medical imaging	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-06-08	Georgios A. Kaissis, Marcus R. Makowski, Daniel Rückert et al.
5	1,436	18.2	Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	2020-04-08	Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al.
6	1,403	11.9	Psychological safety: A systematic review of the literature	Human Resource Management Review	2017-01-16	Alexander Newman, Ross Donohue, Nathan Eva
7	1,302	16.8	An interpretable mortality prediction model for COVID-19 patients	Nature Machine Intelligence	2020-05-14	Yan Li, Hai‐Tao Zhang, Jorge M. Gonçalves et al.
8	1,254	16.2	Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?	Research in International Business and Finance	2020-05-22	Badar Nadeem Ashraf
9	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
10	1,179	10.2	Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students	Research Policy	2017-03-13	Katia Levecque, Frederik Anseel, Alain De Beuckelaer et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 3: Good health and well-being. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/3-good-health-and-well-being

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