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Health Affairs

In research, Health Affairs stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,917 of 11,982 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,449 of 6,365 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,607 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Reproductive Medicine — Reproductive Medicine is 12.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,495
of 28,054 · #5,403 all time
Rank in United States
#871
of 4,192
Research works
6.5k
▲ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
28k
4.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Health Affairs 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 #1,917 of 11,982 4.8%328 #1059
Social SciencesField #1,449 of 6,365 4.2%266 #2261
Social SciencesDomain #2,607 of 10,521 4.3%491 #2777
Health ProfessionsField #509 of 1,928 7.3%98 #397
MedicineField #7,862 of 10,443 3.5%202 #2394
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,279 of 2,578 4.4%92 #2262
Physical SciencesDomain #12,016 of 12,888 3.8%115 #13734
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #1,753 of 1,775 4.4%65 #1578

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Health Affairs 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,059 #1,917
  2. Social Sciences#2,261 #1,449
  3. Social Sciences#2,777 #2,607
  4. Health Professions#397 #509
  5. Medicine#2,394 #7,862
  6. Sociology and Political Science#2,262 #2,279
  7. Physical Sciences#13,734 #12,016
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,578 #1,753
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Health Affairs specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Reproductive Medicine takes 12.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Reproductive MedicineSubfield · 28.3 works13×
← 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: 0.47× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 21 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.59× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.24× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.34× its world share, 26 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 34 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 24 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.44× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.65× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.73× its world share, 98 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.06× its world share, 202 worksMedicineNursing: 4.36× its world share, 21 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.97× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.52× its world share, 44 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.07× its world share, 34 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.47× its world share, 33 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.06× its world share, 65 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.60× its world share, 48 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.12× its world share, 266 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Health Affairs?

Ranked on the composite score, Lorna Idol, Mary Ellen K. Davis and Christopher J. Ward lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Health Affairs.

  1. 1 Lorna Idol · #262,326 worldwide 120 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Mary Ellen K. Davis · #305,109 worldwide 3 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Christopher J. Ward · #315,262 worldwide 47 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Dominick L. Flarey · #341,725 worldwide 77 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Phillip S. Leventhal · #394,103 worldwide 76 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Joseph R. Matthews · #396,068 worldwide 13 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Katherine Brown · #424,716 worldwide 11 citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Raj K. Singhal · #426,387 worldwide 27 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Stephanie Orphan · #454,622 worldwide 5 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 S. L. Nightingale · #538,687 worldwide 14 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Health Affairs

Which keywords describe research at Health Affairs?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: International Law, Corporate Governance, Public Health, Ethics, Peer Review, Economic Evaluation, Monetary Policy and Human Rights.

▲ 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. Public Health53▲ 3.6×38 topics
  2. International Law47▲ 15×11 topics
  3. Corporate Governance46▲ 6.3×13 topics
  4. Mental Health41▲ 2.8×33 topics
  5. Human Rights38▲ 3.8×25 topics
  6. COVID-1935▲ 2.6×21 topics
  7. Education35▲ 2.0×43 topics
  8. Ethics31▲ 6.5×18 topics
  9. Qualitative Research31▲ 3.6×11 topics
  10. Peer Review29▲ 99×3 topics
  11. Healthcare29▲ 2.5×22 topics
  12. Economic Evaluation28▲ 23×2 topics
  13. Monetary Policy28▲ 11×6 topics
  14. Asset Pricing27▲ 31×3 topics
  15. Scholarly Communication27▲ 107×2 topics
  16. Primary Care26▲ 6.8×12 topics
  17. Financial Analysis24▲ 21×1 topic
  18. Panel Data Models24▲ 78×1 topic
  19. Reflexivity24▲ 86×3 topics
  20. Health Claims22▲ 75×2 topics
  21. Copyright Law22▲ 112×2 topics
  22. Feminism21▲ 7.6×13 topics
  23. antitrust laws21▲ 437×1 topic
  24. scientific opinion21▲ 437×1 topic
  25. Ethical Considerations21▲ 6.3×11 topics
  26. Nursing Education19▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Environmental Governance19▲ 29×4 topics
  28. Evidence-Based Practice19▲ 15×7 topics
  29. Health Policy18▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Global Financial Crisis18▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Science Communication18▲ 22×3 topics
  32. Data Privacy Laws17▲ 240×1 topic
  33. Regulatory Policymaking17▲ 240×1 topic
  34. Research Integrity17▲ 63×2 topics
  35. Interviewing17▲ 109×2 topics
  36. Open Access17▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Research Dissemination17▲ 93×2 topics
  38. Translation17▲ 9.6×2 topics
  39. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis16▲ 145×1 topic
  40. Positionality16▲ 145×1 topic

Which research topics does Health Affairs publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Legal Cases and Commentary, Legal case studies and regulations and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics.

Diverse Scientific and E…24Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 24 fractional worksLegal Cases and Commentary21Legal Cases and Commentary: 21 fractional worksLegal case studies and r…17Legal case studies and regulations: 17 fractional worksQualitative Research Met…16Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics: 16 fractional worksAcademic Publishing and Open Access: 15 fractional worksNursing Education, Practice, and Leadership: 14 fractional worksAcademic Writing and Pub…12Academic Writing and Publishing: 12 fractional worksEarthquake and Disaster Impact Studies: 11 fractional worksOccupational Therapy Practice and Research: 10 fractional worksHuman auditory perception and evaluation: 9 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsReproductive MedicinePolitical Science and International RelationsSociology and Political Science6 others

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

  1. 1 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 24 works
  2. 2 Legal Cases and Commentary Reproductive Medicine 21 works
  3. 3 Legal case studies and regulations Political Science and International Relations 17 works
  4. 4 Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics Sociology and Political Science 16 works
  5. 5 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 15 works
  6. 6 Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership Issues, ethics and legal aspects 14 works
  7. 7 Academic Writing and Publishing History and Philosophy of Science 12 works
  8. 8 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 11 works
  9. 9 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research Occupational Therapy 10 works
  10. 10 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 9 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 available40.8%not open59.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Health Affairs's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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