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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

In research, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care stands highest in Health Sciences (#508 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#597 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,777
of 22,385 · #859 all time
Rank in United States
#350
of 3,332
Research works
1.4k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
67k
47.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

What is Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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 #508 of 9,902 17.6%171 #242
MedicineField #597 of 8,541 16.1%142 #297

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is in Health Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (48%), Health Professions (8%), Environmental Science (8%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 200 fractional works · 58.0% of its workMedicine: 167 fractional works · 48.4% of its workEpidemiology: 24 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 23 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 fractional works · 4.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 14 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhysiology: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOncology: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workReproductive Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFamily Practice: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 28 fractional works · 8.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 15 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 54 fractional works · 15.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 fractional works · 4.9% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 16 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 47 fractional works · 13.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 27 fractional works · 7.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 19 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 12 fractional works · 3.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 45 fractional works · 13.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGenetics: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workImmunology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workToxicology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKHarvard PilgrimHealth Care344fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences58%Social Sciences16%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine16748.4%
    2. Health Professions288.0%
    3. Nursing41.2%
    4. Dentistry10.3%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance185.2%
    2. Psychology164.7%
    3. Social Sciences154.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting30.7%
    5. Decision Sciences20.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Environmental Science277.8%
    2. Mathematics133.9%
    3. Computer Science51.5%
    4. Engineering10.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology247.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology92.6%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics51.4%
    4. Neuroscience41.2%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.8%
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: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.32× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.56× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.95× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.56× its world share, 27 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 3.32× its world share, 14 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.04× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.52× its world share, 167 worksMedicineNursing: 2.36× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.45× its world share, 18 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.53× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.95×5 works
  2. Mathematics3.32×14 works
  3. Health Professions3.04×28 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology2.56×9 works
  5. Medicine2.52×167 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.45×18 works
  7. Nursing2.36×4 works
  8. Environmental Science1.56×27 works
  9. Psychology1.53×16 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.32×24 works
  11. Neuroscience0.74×4 works
  12. Dentistry0.68×1 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.59×2 works
  14. Social Sciences0.34×15 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.23×2 works
  16. Computer Science0.19×5 works
  17. Veterinary0.18×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×3 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works
  21. Engineering0.02×1 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care?

Ranked on the quality score, Chanu Rhee, Tracy A. Lieu and Sengwee Toh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

  1. 1 Chanu Rhee United States · #87,278 worldwide 11k citations · 310 works
  2. 2 Tracy A. Lieu United States · #96,224 worldwide 17k citations · 279 works
  3. 3 Sengwee Toh United States · #162,138 worldwide 8.4k citations · 290 works
  4. 4 Landon D. Hughes United States · #196,075 worldwide 719 citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Jeffrey Scott Brown United States · #300,670 worldwide 12k citations · 327 works
  6. 6 Anita Katharina Wagner United States · #380,859 worldwide 8.6k citations · 167 works
  7. 7 Alison Amidei Galbraith United States · #387,172 worldwide 2.3k citations · 121 works
  8. 8 Casie E. Horgan United States · #431,465 worldwide 1.6k citations · 31 works
  9. 9 James Frank Wharam United States · #483,575 worldwide 3.6k citations · 161 works
  10. 10 Weiling Katherine Yih United States · #492,542 worldwide 4.3k citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

What are the most cited papers from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care?

The most cited paper from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is "Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021" (Laura Evans et al., 2021), with 5,314 citations. Next come "Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society" (4,027) and "Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research" (3,344).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021 Laura Evans et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 2 Oct 2021 5,314
2 Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky, Michael Klompas et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 14 Jul 2016 4,027
3 Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research Anita Katharina Wagner, Stephen B. Soumerai, Fucheng Zhang et al. · Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics Aug 2002 3,344
4 Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Matthew K. Nock, Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes Borges, E. J. Bromet et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews Open access 14 May 2008 2,913
5 Screening for Colorectal Cancer US Preventive Services Task Force, Kirsten B. Bibbins-Domingo, David C. Grossman et al. · JAMA 15 Jun 2016 2,541
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Effects, Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, Biomarkers, Obesity and Physical Activity.

▲ 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. Epidemiology56▲ 4.1×70 topics
  2. Public Health36▲ 7.1×29 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease20▲ 5.0×28 topics
  4. Metabolic Syndrome18▲ 6.4×19 topics
  5. Health Effects17▲ 8.0×14 topics
  6. Biomarkers16▲ 6.6×14 topics
  7. Obesity15▲ 5.5×17 topics
  8. Inflammation14▲ 1.94×47 topics
  9. Quality of Life13▲ 2.7×24 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress13▲ 2.3×27 topics
  11. Mental Health12▲ 2.5×20 topics
  12. Physical Activity12▲ 7.0×8 topics
  13. Mortality11▲ 5.7×8 topics
  14. Genetics10▲ 4.3×14 topics
  15. Management10▲ 3.7×11 topics
  16. Risk Factors10▲ 2.6×16 topics
  17. Chronic Disease10▲ 17×4 topics
  18. Clinical Trials10▲ 4.2×12 topics
  19. Pandemic10▲ 2.8×7 topics
  20. Infectious Diseases10▲ 8.3×7 topics
  21. SARS-CoV-29▲ 9.0×6 topics
  22. Primary Care9▲ 7.1×11 topics
  23. Adolescents9▲ 7.0×7 topics
  24. Global Burden of Disease9▲ 10×4 topics
  25. Prevalence8▲ 5.5×9 topics
  26. Critical Care8▲ 8.9×6 topics
  27. Sepsis7▲ 12×5 topics
  28. Septic Shock7▲ 25×2 topics
  29. Type 2 Diabetes7▲ 9.2×5 topics
  30. Community Health7▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Infection7▲ 8.4×4 topics
  32. Health Disparities7▲ 7.8×8 topics
  33. Health Outcomes7▲ 7.5×6 topics
  34. ACE2 Receptor7▲ 8.8×3 topics
  35. Antimicrobial Therapy7▲ 30×1 topic
  36. Prognostic Models7▲ 23×1 topic
  37. Healthcare-Associated Infections6▲ 14×5 topics
  38. Early-Life Conditions6▲ 36×1 topic
  39. Fetal Programming6▲ 36×1 topic
  40. Health Care Utilization6▲ 15×3 topics

Which research topics does Harvard Pilgrim Health Care publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Birth, Development, and Health, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.

Sepsis Diagnosis and Tre…7Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 7 fractional worksBirth, Development, and …6Birth, Development, and Health: 6 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 6 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques: 5 fractional worksGestational Diabetes Research and Management: 4 fractional worksNosocomial Infections in ICU: 4 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…4Climate Change and Health Impacts: 4 fractional worksUrban Green Space and Health: 4 fractional worksHealth, Environment, Cognitive Aging: 4 fractional works
EpidemiologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthEconomics and EconometricsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 7 works
  2. 2 Birth, Development, and Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  3. 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 6 works
  4. 4 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5 works
  5. 5 Advanced Causal Inference Techniques Statistics and Probability 5 works
  6. 6 Gestational Diabetes Research and Management Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  7. 7 Nosocomial Infections in ICU Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 4 works
  8. 8 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  9. 9 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  10. 10 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 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 available58.6%not open41.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.0%domestic only79.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Harvard Pilgrim Health Care as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Harvard Pilgrim Health Care0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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 counting20%40%Harvard Pilgrim Health Care19.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.7% in 2007.

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