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The working paper titled “Four Decades of Health Economics through a Bibliometric Lens” by Adam Wagstaff and Anthony J. Culyer (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5829) presents a systematic and large-scale bibliometric analysis of the health economics field over the period 1969–2010. Drawing on metadata from the EconLit database, augmented with citation data from Google Scholar, the authors map out the disciplinary contours, institutional productivity, topical evolution, and citation-based influence of nearly 33,000 publications categorized under health economics.

The report is structured into five major sections. The introduction contextualizes the historical development of health economics as a scholarly domain and justifies the bibliometric approach. The second section outlines the methodological framework, introducing three citation-based influence indices: the h-index, a quadratic influence function (QIF), and the I₃ index which interpolates between raw publication counts and cumulative citations. The third section describes the data sources, emphasizing the choice of EconLit for its use of JEL classification codes and broad coverage of economics-related outputs. This section also details the process of data cleaning, author disambiguation, and institutional affiliation standardization. In the results section, the authors present quantitative findings on publication growth, authorship trends, institutional and country rankings, topic-wise citation distributions, and journal performance. The conclusion reflects on the field’s maturation, noting both enduring gaps and future directions.

Reference: Wagstaff, A., & Culyer, A. J. (2011). Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens (Policy Research Working Paper No. 5829). The World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-5829