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Institut d'Assistència Sanitària

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World rank, all time
#31,924
of 34,923
Rank in Spain
#617
of 646
Research works
132
▼ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
14.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Institut d'Assistència Sanitària

Which fields of science does Institut d'Assistència Sanitària work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Institut d'Assistència Sanitària is in Health Sciences, 36% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (37%), Psychology (17%), Health Professions (13%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 11 fractional works · 50.7% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 37.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 11.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 6.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 13.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 35.6% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 17.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 10.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutd'Assistència…22fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences51%Social Sciences36%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine837.2%
    2. Health Professions313.2%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    1. Psychology417.4%
    2. Social Sciences210.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities15.8%
    4. Decision Sciences00.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Neuroscience14.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.2%
    1. Environmental Science12.9%
    2. Computer Science01.0%
    3. Engineering00.2%
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: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 2.62× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 5.00× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.94× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.00× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 5.72× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology5.72×4 works
  2. Health Professions5.00×3 works
  3. Neuroscience2.62×1 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.00×1 works
  5. Medicine1.94×8 works
  6. Social Sciences0.85×2 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.77×0 works
  8. Nursing0.76×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.59×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.58×1 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.47×0 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.35×0 works
  13. Computer Science0.13×0 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×0 works
  15. Engineering0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Institut d'Assistència Sanitària?

Ranked on the quality score, Jordi Cid, Ramón Novell and Susanna Esteba‐Castillo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institut d'Assistència Sanitària.

  1. 1 Jordi Cid Spain · #1,270,079 worldwide 700 citations · 73 works
  2. 2 Ramón Novell Spain · #2,743,816 worldwide 565 citations · 32 works
  3. 3 Susanna Esteba‐Castillo Spain · #5,017,878 worldwide 691 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Institut d'Assistència Sanitària

What are the most cited papers from Institut d'Assistència Sanitària?

The most cited paper from Institut d'Assistència Sanitària is "Differential features of burden between spouse and adult-child caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: An exploratory comparative design" (Josep Lluís Conde‐Sala, Josep Garre‐Olmo, Oriol Turró Garriga et al., 2010), with 284 citations. Next come "Microbiota alterations in proline metabolism impact depression" (230) and "Prevalence and Risk Factors of Suspected Elder Abuse Subtypes in People Aged 75 and Older" (162).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Differential features of burden between spouse and adult-child caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: An exploratory comparative design Josep Lluís Conde‐Sala, Josep Garre‐Olmo, Oriol Turró Garriga et al. · International Journal of Nursing Studies 6 Apr 2010 284
2 Microbiota alterations in proline metabolism impact depression Jordi Mayneris‐Perxachs et al. · Cell Metabolism Open access May 2022 230
3 Prevalence and Risk Factors of Suspected Elder Abuse Subtypes in People Aged 75 and Older Josep Garre‐Olmo, Xènia Planas‐Pujol, Secundino López Pousa et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 8 Apr 2009 162
4 Factors related to perceived quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease: the patient's perception compared with that of caregivers Josep Lluís Conde‐Sala, Josep Garre‐Olmo, Oriol Turró Garriga et al. · International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 21 Nov 2008 160
5 Prevalence of dementia and major dementia subtypes in Spanish populations: A reanalysis of dementia prevalence surveys, 1990-2008 Jesús de Pedro‐Cuesta et al. · BMC Neurology Open access 19 Oct 2009 155
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Which keywords describe research at Institut d'Assistència Sanitària?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Quality of Life, Depression, Prevalence, Cognitive Therapy, Primary Care, Metabolic Syndrome and Antipsychotic Drugs.

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

All 14 words, with their numbers
  1. Mental Health3▲ 8.2×11 topics
  2. Quality of Life2▲ 7.7×11 topics
  3. Depression2▲ 11×13 topics
  4. Cognitive Therapy2▲ 77×2 topics
  5. Prevalence2▲ 21×5 topics
  6. Epidemiology2▲ 1.94×15 topics
  7. Antipsychotic Drugs2▲ 176×1 topic
  8. Metabolic Syndrome2▲ 8.7×2 topics
  9. Neurocognitive Deficits2▲ 176×1 topic
  10. Primary Care2▲ 20×6 topics
  11. Public Health1▲ 4.2×7 topics
  12. Meta-Analysis1▲ 8.1×6 topics
  13. Health Disparities1▲ 17×2 topics
  14. Migrant Integration1▲ 132×2 topics

Which research topics does Institut d'Assistència Sanitària publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Schizophrenia research and treatment, Down syndrome and intellectual disability research, Child and Adolescent Health and Social Sciences and Policies.

Schizophrenia research a…2Schizophrenia research and treatment: 2 fractional worksDown syndrome and intellectual disability research: 1 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Hea…1Child and Adolescent Health: 1 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Poli…1Social Sciences and Policies: 1 fractional worksAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: 1 fractional worksGastrointestinal motility and disorders: 0 fractional worksPsychiatric care and men…0Psychiatric care and mental health services: 0 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 0 fractional worksPsychological Treatments and Disorders: 0 fractional worksMigration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics: 0 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthGeneral Health ProfessionsGeneral Social Sciences3 others

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

  1. 1 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  2. 2 Down syndrome and intellectual disability research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  3. 3 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 1 works
  4. 4 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 1 works
  5. 5 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Psychiatry and Mental health 1 works
  6. 6 Gastrointestinal motility and disorders Gastroenterology 0 works
  7. 7 Psychiatric care and mental health services Clinical Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Psychological Treatments and Disorders Clinical Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics Cultural Studies 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 available55.4%not open44.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.6%domestic only84.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Institut d'Assistència Sanitària's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower 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 Institut d'Assistència Sanitària as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000084% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Institut d'Assistència Sanitària0.000058% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Institut d'Assistència Sanitària over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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