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Objectives: This study mainly discusses the developing status in the field of health policy in recent two decades to provide an effective reference for researchers.Methods: Health policy publications published in Web of Science between 2011 to 2020 were searched, screened, organized, and analyzed the yearly-outputs, research author, institution, regional distribution, keywords, subject categories, and so on.Results: The total number of publications in health policy has shown a trend of upward in the past twenty years. Health policy was identified as the most productive journal. The research of United States takes the lead in this field. Health care, public health, epidemiology, children, and quality of life will likely to take a dominant position in future research.Conclusion: The field of health policy has developed a stable research community with good partnerships, and the high-impact authors lead the development of the discipline. The hotspots of health policy research are constantly updated with the trend of social development and have strong timeliness. With constantly study, health policy has become a relatively mature research topic, but it doesn't mean the termination of the study. It remains to be properly explored and improved to protect people’s health and promote the quality of life in the future. |
