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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

In research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,321 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Health Professions — General Health Professions is 15.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#16,213
of 28,054 · #4,106 all time
Rank in United States
#2,302
of 4,192
Research works
1.7k
▼ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
87k
50.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
32.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

What is Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #6,321 of 11,982 31.6%70 #689

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 15.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 23.6 works15×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 31.4 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.44× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.78× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.46× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 10.61× its world share, 31 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.78× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.38× its world share, 18 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.59× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 10.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?

Ranked on the composite score, Claudia Steiner, Carolyn M. Clancy and James B Battles lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  1. 1 Claudia Steiner United States · #103,197 worldwide 197 citations · 79 works
  2. 2 Carolyn M. Clancy United States · #126,902 worldwide 158 citations · 75 works
  3. 3 James B Battles United States · #167,594 worldwide 93 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 John A. Fleishman United States · #180,231 worldwide 178 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Eduardo Ortíz United States · #186,099 worldwide 969 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Bernard Friedman United States · #188,365 worldwide 120 citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Roxanne M Andrews United States · #205,309 worldwide 52 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Ronda G. Hughes United States · #231,032 worldwide 88 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Samuel H. Zuvekas United States · #239,149 worldwide 89 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Ernest Moy United States · #245,364 worldwide 97 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Which keywords describe research at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Primary Care, Health Care Utilization, Quality Improvement, Health Care Spending, Insurance Markets, Chronic Disease Management, Health System Reform and Continuity of Care.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Primary Care20▲ 47×11 topics
  2. Health Care Utilization12▲ 94×3 topics
  3. Quality Improvement11▲ 52×7 topics
  4. Health Care Spending11▲ 228×1 topic
  5. Insurance Markets11▲ 228×1 topic
  6. Epidemiology10▲ 2.4×31 topics
  7. Chronic Disease Management9▲ 41×5 topics
  8. Quality of Life8▲ 4.8×15 topics
  9. Health System Reform7▲ 91×2 topics
  10. Continuity of Care7▲ 129×2 topics
  11. Depression6▲ 6.6×9 topics
  12. Patient-Centered Medical Home6▲ 165×1 topic
  13. Pay for Performance6▲ 165×1 topic
  14. Public Health6▲ 3.8×19 topics
  15. Mental Health6▲ 3.7×16 topics
  16. COVID-196▲ 3.8×10 topics
  17. Health Outcomes6▲ 19×6 topics
  18. Pandemic5▲ 3.9×6 topics
  19. Chronic Disease4▲ 22×3 topics
  20. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 13×7 topics
  21. Cost-effectiveness Analysis4▲ 44×1 topic
  22. Health Utility Measures4▲ 44×1 topic
  23. Mortality4▲ 6.5×9 topics
  24. Clinical Trials4▲ 5.5×8 topics
  25. Healthcare4▲ 3.2×9 topics
  26. Behavior Change4▲ 23×4 topics
  27. Economic Growth4▲ 3.8×2 topics
  28. Patient Engagement4▲ 24×4 topics
  29. Ageing Population3▲ 74×1 topic
  30. Health Care Expenditure3▲ 74×1 topic
  31. Medication Errors3▲ 64×2 topics
  32. Evidence-Based Practice3▲ 22×3 topics
  33. Healthcare Quality3▲ 26×4 topics
  34. Health Care Costs3▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Health Services3▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Choosing Wisely3▲ 115×1 topic
  37. Infectious Diseases3▲ 7.6×5 topics
  38. Low-Value Care3▲ 115×1 topic
  39. Mortality Risk2▲ 9.4×4 topics
  40. Psychological Distress2▲ 9.0×3 topics

Which research topics does Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and Global Health Care Issues.

Healthcare Policy and Ma…11Healthcare Policy and Management: 11 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health Outcomes: 6 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 4 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues: 3 fractional worksHealthcare cost, quality, practices: 3 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementa…2Health Policy Implementation Science: 2 fractional worksElectronic Health Records Systems: 2 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Treatment: 2 fractional worksDigital Mental Health Interventions: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth Information ManagementPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 11 works
  2. 2 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 6 works
  3. 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  4. 4 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 3 works
  5. 5 Healthcare cost, quality, practices General Health Professions 3 works
  6. 6 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 2 works
  7. 7 Electronic Health Records Systems Health Information Management 2 works
  8. 8 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  9. 9 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available27.7%not open72.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.9%domestic only93.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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