Development Research Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
J Health Econ. 2012 Mar;31(2):406-39. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.03.002. Epub 2012 Mar 16.
In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic "metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and our own topical classifications. We report the growth of health economics (we find 33,000 publications since 1969-12,000 more than in the economics of education) and list the 300 most-cited publications broken down by topic. We report the changing topical and geographic focus of health economics (the topics 'Determinants of health and ill-health' and 'Health statistics and econometrics' both show an upward trend, and the field has expanded appreciably into the developing world). We also compare authors, countries, institutions and journals in terms of the volume of publications and their influence as measured through various citation-based indices (Grossman, the US, Harvard and the JHE emerge close to or at the top on a variety of measures).
本文通过对 EconLit 书目“元数据”的文献计量学考察，辅以谷歌学术和我们自己的主题分类中的引文数据，回顾了过去四十年的健康经济学。我们报告了健康经济学的增长（我们发现自 1969 年以来有 33000 篇出版物，比教育经济学多 12000 篇），并列出了按主题分类的 300 篇最具引用价值的出版物。我们报告了健康经济学的主题和地理重点的变化（“健康和不健康的决定因素”和“健康统计和计量经济学”两个主题都呈上升趋势，该领域已经显著扩展到发展中国家）。我们还根据出版物数量及其通过各种基于引文的指标衡量的影响力（在各种指标上，格罗斯曼、美国、哈佛和 JHE 都接近或位居榜首）比较了作者、国家、机构和期刊。
