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# Table 13: Top 25 edited volumes in health economics based on _h_ -index

||Volume|% not<br>found in<br>Google<br>Scholar|_I_<sup>3</sup> =0<br>Publication<br>count|Rank|_I_<sup>3</sup> =0.5|Rank|_I_<sup>3</sup> =1<br>Total<br>citations|Rank|_h_-index<br>(_I_<sup>1</sup>)|Rank|_I_<sup>2</sup><br>QIF|Rank|Normalized<br>_h_-index|Rank|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Handbook of health economics|24%|33|107|319|41|4690|21|24|37|2.081|21|76%|44|
|2|The economics of health|5%|19|217|271|48|5792|15|16|63|2.429|16|67%|46|
|3|Health sector reform in developing countries:<br>Making health development sustainable|12%|16|278|94|108|766|89|14|74|0.348|91|43%|120|
|4|<br>Advances in Health Economics and Health<br>Services Research|26%|39|91|103|99|514|127|13|83|0.235|126|24%|295|
|5|<br>Evaluation in health promotion: Principles and<br>perspectives|17%|23|173|74|137|398|161|12|93|0.182|158|26%|242|
|6|<br>Being reasonable about the economics of<br>health: Selected essays by Alan Williams|28%|18|230|83|125|650|104|11|109|0.296|105|38%|152|
|6|<br>Health care and cost containment in the<br>European Union|6%|16|278|55|187|219|260|11|109|0.100|260|27%|238|
|6|<br>Valuing food safety and nutrition|24%|21|188|63|162|279|218|11|109|0.128|217|19%|395|
|9|<br>Medical care output and productivity|44%|27|141|66|155|361|176|10|124|0.165|176|27%|238|
|9|<br>Readings in American health care: Current|27%|26|149|86|121|580|117|10|124|0.264|116|26%|242|
||issues in socio-historical perspective||||||||||||||
|9|<br>Stature, living standards, and economic<br>development: Essays in anthropometric history|21%|14|324|55|183|323|190|10|124|0.147|189|36%|165|
|12|<br>Applications of social science to clinical<br>medicine and health policy|37%|19|217|50|203|257|233|9|147|0.117|233|17%|417|
|12|<br>Disease and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa|36%|22|181|56|180|259|232|9|147|0.119|230|29%|214|
|12|<br>Econometrics, Statistics and Computational<br>Approaches in Food and Health Sciences|15%|13|363|54|191|307|199|9|147|0.140|198|27%|231|
|12|<br>For-profit enterprise in health care|6%|17|258|59|173|251|237|9|147|0.115|237|19%|395|
|12|<br>Innovations in health care financing:<br>Proceedings of a World Bank conference|0%|13|363|51|201|265|228|9|147|0.121|229|23%|304|
|12|<br>Long-term care: Economic issues and policy<br>solutions|14%|14|324|47|212|202|269|9|147|0.093|269|25%|249|
|12|Measuring up: Improving health system<br>performance in OECD countries|6%|17|258|63|161|311|196|9|147|0.142|195|19%|395|
|12|<br>Public Health, Ethics, and Equity|10%|10|458|47|213|273|222|9|147|0.125|222|33%|172|
|12|The Elgar Companion to Health Economics|70%|50|77|54|190|249|238|9|147|0.114|238|20%|343|
|21|<br>AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and<br>Responses: Highlights of the International<br>Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and|6%|18|230|53|193|194|276|8|177|0.089|274|18%|408|
||Nutrition Security, Durban, South Africa||||||||||||||
|21|<br>Disability, work and cash benefits|21%|14|324|41|243|197|273|8|177|0.090|271|18%|402|
|21|<br>Environmental decision making and risk|0%|8|554|55|189|391|166|8|177|0.178|162|38%|155|
||management: Selected essays by Ian Langford||||||||||||||
|21|<br>Health economics worldwide|6%|16|278|52|195|254|235|8|177|0.116|235|20%|343|
|21|Healthy markets? The new competition in<br>medical care|36%|14|324|60|170|495|132|8|177|0.225|129|44%|117|

Note: The starting point was our database of 33,000 publications in EconLit with a health JEL code. Google Scholar citation data were obtained for as many as possible (80 percent) in June 2011. An _h_ -index of 10 means that the author has 10 publications to his or her name each of which has been cited at least 10 times. The quadratic influence function is defined in eqn (1). The measure _I_<sup>3</sup> is defined in eqn (2). A normalized h-index of 20% means that 20% of articles in the journal have been cited at least 20 times.