Health Professions Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Health Professions topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Health Professions currently has 28 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 88,544 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -23.3%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Health Professions
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | University of Liège | Belgium | 65.0 | 14,832 | 62,113 | -70.9% |
| #2 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 62.1 | 8,229 | 128,674 | -22.8% |
| #3 | Université de Lorraine | France | 59.7 | 6,750 | 57,825 | -49.3% |
| #4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 57.8 | 3,562 | 100,281 | 11.4% |
| #5 | Université de Bordeaux | France | 57.1 | 3,928 | 34,784 | -23.2% |
| #6 | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil | 57.1 | 3,854 | 51,642 | -20.6% |
| #7 | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Brazil | 57.0 | 3,703 | 35,822 | -15.8% |
| #8 | Nantes Université | France | 56.2 | 3,888 | 36,897 | -42.5% |
| #9 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 56.0 | 3,269 | 54,207 | -18.7% |
| #10 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 55.8 | 3,155 | 72,937 | -18.8% |
| #11 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Brazil | 55.6 | 2,933 | 46,423 | -11.5% |
| #12 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) | Brazil | 55.2 | 2,872 | 59,868 | -16.1% |
| #13 | Aix-Marseille Université | France | 55.0 | 2,393 | 52,557 | 8.2% |
| #14 | Université de Lille | France | 54.9 | 2,898 | 39,229 | -25.1% |
| #15 | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa | 54.7 | 2,674 | 30,919 | -17.3% |
| #16 | Universidade de Brasília | Brazil | 54.2 | 2,455 | 35,347 | -17.0% |
| #17 | Universität Hamburg | Germany | 53.2 | 1,963 | 66,229 | -2.0% |
| #18 | Emory University | United States | 53.2 | 2,040 | 63,631 | -9.4% |
| #19 | McMaster University | Canada | 52.8 | 2,077 | 45,411 | -21.8% |
| #20 | Lyon 1 Université | France | 51.5 | 1,841 | 56,701 | -34.4% |
| #21 | University of Ottawa | Canada | 51.5 | 1,703 | 42,836 | -22.1% |
| #22 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | Germany | 50.6 | 1,408 | 30,175 | -10.7% |
| #23 | University of York | United Kingdom | 49.6 | 1,224 | 26,944 | -12.3% |
| #24 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia | 49.4 | 1,223 | 26,219 | -17.4% |
| #25 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | The Netherlands | 49.0 | 1,091 | 26,916 | -9.3% |
| #26 | Leipzig University | Germany | 48.1 | 921 | 48,827 | -2.7% |
| #27 | Georgetown University | United States | 47.9 | 903 | 26,953 | -3.8% |
| #28 | George Washington University | United States | 46.2 | 755 | 28,601 | -15.2% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.