Academic Health Centers’ configurations, scientific productivity, and impact: Insights from the Italian setting

Luca D'Aniello, Maria Spano, Corrado Cuccurullo and Massimo Aria

Health Policy, 2022, vol. 126, issue 12, 1317-1323

Abstract: Academic Health Centers (AHCs) have an enormous impact on health, society, and national competitiveness. They have a threefold strategic mission and heterogeneous models of governance. Our aim is to investigate how different AHC configurations are associated with research performance. The method we adopted follows two steps. First, we identify organizational configurations through cluster analysis of nine variables. Second, we correlate these configurations to bibliometric measures of research outputs. Findings show that AHCs, that are specialty-focused and not mainly involved in educational activities are more productive and have more research impact than fully integrated and affiliated AHCs. Those AHCs also share secondary contextual features.

Keywords: Academic Health Centers; Health policy; Healthcare configurations; Scientific productivity; Research impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.09.007

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