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Cummings Foundation

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World rank, all time
#31,174
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#6,587
of 7,310
Research works
121
▲ 42% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.1k
17.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Cummings Foundation

Which fields of science does Cummings Foundation work in?

In 2022-now, 40% of research at Cummings Foundation is in Social Sciences, 37% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Health Professions (20%), Medicine (17%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 10 fractional works · 39.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 25.2% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 12.1% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 9.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 37.2% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 19.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 17.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 16.7% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 13.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCummingsFoundation25fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences37%Social Sciences40%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences625.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance28.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting14.0%
    4. Psychology01.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Health Professions519.5%
    2. Medicine417.4%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    1. Computer Science313.3%
    2. Materials Science02.0%
    3. Engineering00.6%
    4. Chemistry00.6%
    5. Environmental Science00.2%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.7%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics12.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.8%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5.91× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.71× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 7.41× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.90× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.25× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.79× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.99× 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, 7.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.41×5 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5.91×0 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.79×2 works
  4. Social Sciences1.99×6 works
  5. Computer Science1.71×3 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.25×1 works
  7. Medicine0.90×4 works
  8. Nursing0.69×0 works
  9. Psychology0.61×0 works
  10. Materials Science0.58×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.52×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.50×1 works
  13. Chemistry0.36×0 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.22×0 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.16×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works
  18. Mathematics0.06×0 works
  19. Engineering0.04×0 works
  20. Environmental Science0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Cummings Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Janet L. Cummings and Marie Hélène Bonneau lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cummings Foundation.

  1. 1 Janet L. Cummings United States · #2,870,333 worldwide 452 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Marie Hélène Bonneau United States · #4,541,538 worldwide 9 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Cummings Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Cummings Foundation?

The most cited paper from Cummings Foundation is "Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Risk Factors" (Paul Poirier, Marc‐André Cornier, Theodore Mazzone et al., 2011), with 339 citations. Next come "Leukocytes mediate retinal vascular remodeling during development and vaso-obliteration in disease" (225) and "Regional myofascial pain: diagnosis and management" (218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Paul Poirier, Marc‐André Cornier, Theodore Mazzone et al. · Circulation Open access 15 Mar 2011 339
2 Leukocytes mediate retinal vascular remodeling during development and vaso-obliteration in disease Susumu Ishida, Kenji Yamashiro, Tomohiko Usui et al. · Nature Medicine 5 May 2003 225
3 Regional myofascial pain: diagnosis and management Mike Cummings, Peter Baldry · Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology Apr 2007 218
4 Increasing Retention of New Graduate Nurses Jennifer Salt, Greta G. Cummings, Joanne Profetto‐McGrath · JONA The Journal of Nursing Administration Jun 2008 118
5 Evidence that ischemic cell death begins in the subendocardium independent of variations in collateral flow or wall tension. J. E. Lowe, Robin G. Cummings, David Adams et al. · Circulation Jul 1983 109
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Which keywords describe research at Cummings Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Training Pathways, Vocational Education, Human Rights, Intersectionality, Poverty, Epidemiological Study, Social Model of Disability and Quality of Life.

▲ 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 23 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Training Pathways3▲ 497×1 topic
  2. Vocational Education3▲ 139×1 topic
  3. Human Rights3▲ 11×3 topics
  4. Intersectionality2▲ 53×2 topics
  5. Poverty2▲ 99×2 topics
  6. Quality of Life2▲ 6.4×3 topics
  7. Epidemiological Study2▲ 133×1 topic
  8. Social Model of Disability2▲ 563×1 topic
  9. Aging2▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Social Support2▲ 12×2 topics
  11. Economic Evaluation2▲ 56×2 topics
  12. Healthcare2▲ 5.5×5 topics
  13. Healthcare Quality1▲ 57×2 topics
  14. Caregiving1▲ 78×1 topic
  15. Defensive Medicine1▲ 217×1 topic
  16. Elderly1▲ 22×1 topic
  17. Malpractice Risk1▲ 217×1 topic
  18. Mental Health1▲ 3.0×3 topics
  19. Bayesian Inference1▲ 42×2 topics
  20. Contract Visualization1▲ 913×1 topic
  21. Financial Analysis1▲ 36×1 topic
  22. Legal Astuteness1▲ 913×1 topic
  23. Monetary Policy1▲ 17×1 topic

Which research topics does Cummings Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Education Systems and Policy, Disability Rights and Representation, Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues and Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues.

Education Systems and Po…3Education Systems and Policy: 3 fractional worksDisability Rights and Representation: 2 fractional worksMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues: 1 fractional worksAging, Elder Care, and Social Issues: 1 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 1 fractional worksBusiness Law and Ethics1Business Law and Ethics: 1 fractional worksTarget Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks: 1 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 0 fractional worksVeterinary Practice and Education Studies: 0 fractional works
EducationSafety ResearchPharmacyGeneral Health Professions5 others

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

  1. 1 Education Systems and Policy Education 3 works
  2. 2 Disability Rights and Representation Safety Research 2 works
  3. 3 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 1 works
  4. 4 Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues General Health Professions 1 works
  5. 5 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  6. 6 Business Law and Ethics Accounting 1 works
  7. 7 Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  8. 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  9. 9 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  10. 10 Veterinary Practice and Education Studies Speech and Hearing 0 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 available34.8%not open65.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.5%domestic only86.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cummings Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cummings Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000030% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Cummings Foundation0.000056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cummings Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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