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American Nurses Association

In research, American Nurses Association stands highest in Health Sciences (#9,005 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Health Professions (General Health Professions is 11.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,321
of 22,385 · #12,071 all time
Rank in United States
#2,534
of 3,332
Research works
1.4k
▲ 84% vs 2018-21
Citations
7k
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
American Nurses Association

What is American Nurses Association known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #9,005 of 9,902 6.6%73 #8742

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where American Nurses Association 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does American Nurses Association work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at American Nurses Association is in Health Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (27%), Health Professions (26%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 88 fractional works · 64.2% of its workMedicine: 37 fractional works · 26.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 35 fractional works · 25.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 21 fractional works · 15.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 15 fractional works · 11.2% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 9 fractional works · 6.6% of its workResearch and Theory: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 40 fractional works · 29.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 11.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 15 fractional works · 10.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAmerican NursesAssociation137fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences64%Social Sciences29%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3726.9%
    2. Health Professions3525.9%
    3. Nursing1511.2%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    1. Social Sciences1611.5%
    2. Psychology1510.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting53.8%
    4. Decision Sciences21.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.8%
    3. Neuroscience10.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    1. Engineering11.0%
    2. Environmental Science10.4%
    3. Computer Science00.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does American Nurses Association specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 11.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 21.4 works11×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 35.4 works9.8×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 9.81× its world share, 35 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.40× its world share, 37 worksMedicineNursing: 22.84× its world share, 15 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.19× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.35× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.50× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 22.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing22.84×15 works
  2. Health Professions9.81×35 works
  3. Psychology3.50×15 works
  4. Medicine1.40×37 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.35×2 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.19×5 works
  7. Social Sciences0.91×16 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.65×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.57×2 works
  10. Dentistry0.50×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.49×1 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.37×3 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.31×1 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×1 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.09×0 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×0 works
  20. Environmental Science0.08×1 works
  21. Energy0.07×0 works
  22. Engineering0.07×1 works
  23. Computer Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at American Nurses Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Carol J. Bickford, Liz Stokes and Susan Q. Wilburn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Nurses Association.

  1. 1 Carol J. Bickford United States · #1,266,962 worldwide 677 citations · 33 works
  2. 2 Liz Stokes United States · #1,978,163 worldwide 428 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Susan Q. Wilburn United States · #2,049,189 worldwide 1.3k citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Karen A. Daley United States · #2,313,519 worldwide 1.3k citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Cheryl Ann Peterson United States · #2,461,971 worldwide 723 citations · 51 works
  6. 6 Adda Eldredge United States · #2,589,235 worldwide 12 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Fannie F. Clement United States · #2,937,770 worldwide 11 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 James R. Pitcher United States · #3,085,933 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Frances Oralind Triggs United States · #3,319,597 worldwide 122 citations · 51 works
  10. 10 Helen M. Roser United States · #3,460,941 worldwide 18 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at American Nurses Association

What are the most cited papers from American Nurses Association?

The most cited paper from American Nurses Association is "Supporting the Aging Workforce: A Review and Recommendations for Workplace Intervention Research" (Donald M. Truxillo, David M Cadiz, Leslie B. Hammer, 2015), with 332 citations. Next come "How artificial intelligence is changing nursing" (313) and "A lifespan perspective on job design: Fitting the job and the worker to promote job satisfaction, engagement, and performance" (281).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Supporting the Aging Workforce: A Review and Recommendations for Workplace Intervention Research Donald M. Truxillo, David M Cadiz, Leslie B. Hammer · Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Review 12 Jan 2015 332
2 How artificial intelligence is changing nursing Nancy J Robert · Nursing Management Open access 17 Aug 2019 313
3 A lifespan perspective on job design: Fitting the job and the worker to promote job satisfaction, engagement, and performance Donald M. Truxillo, David M Cadiz, Jennifer R. Rineer et al. · Organizational Psychology Review 9 Oct 2012 281
4 Effectiveness of an Evidence-Based Curriculum Module in Nursing Schools Targeting Safe Patient Handling and Movement Audrey L. Nelson, Thomas Waters, Nancy Nivison Menzel et al. · International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship 10 Dec 2007 247
5 Predicting Health-Promoting Lifestyles in the Workplace Nola J. Pender, Susan Noble Walker, Karen R. Sechrist et al. · Nursing Research Nov 1990 245
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at American Nurses Association?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Job Satisfaction, Mental Health, Health Policy, Nursing Education, Primary Care, Depression and Well-being.

▲ 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-now 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. Public Health13▲ 6.6×16 topics
  2. Job Satisfaction12▲ 20×6 topics
  3. Mental Health12▲ 5.9×24 topics
  4. Health Policy10▲ 46×3 topics
  5. Nursing Education9▲ 50×3 topics
  6. Quality of Life9▲ 4.4×20 topics
  7. Depression9▲ 7.2×10 topics
  8. Primary Care8▲ 17×8 topics
  9. Well-being8▲ 15×5 topics
  10. Patient Outcomes8▲ 92×2 topics
  11. Anxiety8▲ 12×4 topics
  12. Nursing Advocacy7▲ 554×1 topic
  13. Political Participation7▲ 61×1 topic
  14. Clinical Practice7▲ 34×3 topics
  15. Qualitative Research6▲ 5.5×4 topics
  16. Patient Care6▲ 38×3 topics
  17. Leadership6▲ 9.1×10 topics
  18. Healthcare Environment6▲ 143×1 topic
  19. Nursing Staffing6▲ 143×1 topic
  20. Quality Improvement6▲ 22×7 topics
  21. Professionalism5▲ 23×3 topics
  22. Interventions5▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Physician Burnout5▲ 46×2 topics
  24. Work-Life Balance5▲ 19×2 topics
  25. Medical Student Distress5▲ 65×1 topic
  26. Organizational Culture5▲ 8.9×4 topics
  27. Psychological Adjustment5▲ 24×4 topics
  28. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 10×7 topics
  29. Social Support4▲ 5.7×10 topics
  30. Health Workforce4▲ 72×2 topics
  31. Healthcare Workers4▲ 12×5 topics
  32. Mortality4▲ 5.1×6 topics
  33. Guidelines4▲ 6.0×8 topics
  34. Health Equity4▲ 9.2×4 topics
  35. Health Promotion3▲ 7.9×10 topics
  36. Quality of Care3▲ 29×4 topics
  37. Collaborative Practice3▲ 56×2 topics
  38. Medical Education3▲ 8.8×6 topics
  39. Healthcare Quality3▲ 22×3 topics
  40. Nursing3▲ 12×5 topics

Which research topics does American Nurses Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership, Nursing education and management, Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

Nursing Education, Pract…7Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership: 7 fractional worksNursing education and management: 6 fractional worksHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout: 5 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 3 fractional worksReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology: 2 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 2 fractional worksNursing Roles and Practices: 2 fractional worksGlobal Health Workforce Issues: 2 fractional worksMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues: 2 fractional worksCannabis and Cannabinoid Research: 2 fractional works
Issues, ethics and legal aspectsResearch and TheoryGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth4 others

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

  1. 1 Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership Issues, ethics and legal aspects 7 works
  2. 2 Nursing education and management Research and Theory 6 works
  3. 3 Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout General Health Professions 5 works
  4. 4 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 3 works
  5. 5 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology Health 2 works
  6. 6 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  7. 7 Nursing Roles and Practices General Health Professions 2 works
  8. 8 Global Health Workforce Issues Emergency Medical Services 2 works
  9. 9 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 2 works
  10. 10 Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Pharmacology 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 available9.5%not open90.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.9%domestic only91.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Nurses Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 84% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American Nurses Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00054% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%American Nurses Association0.00061% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Nurses Association over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025American Nurses Association5.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.6% in 2009.

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