Analyzing the Trends and Impact of Health Policy Research: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

Introduction: bibliometric studies allow us to assess the current state of research, the contributions of authors and countries in the fields of knowledge. An investigation was carried out with the objective of describing the visibility and impact of scientific production on health policies published in Scopus.Method: a bibliometric study of the subject was carried out in Scopus, from 2018 to 2022, variables such as total documents, number of citations, authors, most productive journals and countries, Field-Weighted Citation Impact, Quartile of journals, were analyzed. Source Normalized Impact per Paper, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank.Results: the highest number of articles was found in 2022 (n=30553), the highest number of citations in 2018 (n=277749) with a weighted citation impact index per field of 1,04; 10,9 was the highest annual average number of citations per article. More than half of the articles were in journals of the first and second quartile. Among the main keywords were COVID-19, primary care, health care, health policies, health insurance. The United States stands out as the country with the most productive institutions with 6 of the top 10, with an FWCI of 2,14, the University of Oxford stands out. The BMJ Global Health magazine had a SNIP of 2,164 and an SJR of 2,376.Conclusions: scientific production is abundant, the analysis of bibliometric indicators shows that a large part of the research is found in high-impact journals; with high levels of productivity and quality of your documents