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Iowa Department on Aging

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Research works
6
▲ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
63
10.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
49%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Iowa Department on Aging

Not ranked overall: Iowa Department on Aging is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Iowa Department on Aging work in?

In all years, 68% of research at Iowa Department on Aging is in Health Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Health Professions (39%), Psychology (22%), Nursing (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 4 fractional works · 67.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 39.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 29.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 9.7% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 11.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.9% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 22.2% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 1 fractional works · 19.2% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKIowa Departmenton Aging6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences68%Social Sciences28%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions239.2%
    2. Nursing111.6%
    3. Medicine111.1%
    4. Dentistry05.7%
    1. Psychology122.2%
    2. Social Sciences05.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.8%
    1. Environmental Science00.7%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Iowa Department on Aging?

The most cited paper from Iowa Department on Aging is "Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults" (Barbara J. Kamp, Nancy S. Wellman, Carlene Russell, 2010), with 90 citations. Next come "Gender disparities in the attribution of cardiac-related symptoms: Contribution of common sense models of illness." (35) and "Predictors of having a dentist among older adults in Iowa" (13).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults Barbara J. Kamp, Nancy S. Wellman, Carlene Russell · Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Mar 2010 90
2 Gender disparities in the attribution of cardiac-related symptoms: Contribution of common sense models of illness. René Martin, Ellen E. I. Gordon, Patricia Lounsbury · Health Psychology 1998 35
3 Predictors of having a dentist among older adults in Iowa Leonardo Guedes Marchini, Julie Christine Reynolds, Daniel J. Caplan et al. · Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology 10 Feb 2020 13
4 Encore Café: An Innovative and Effective Congregate Nutrition Program Savannah Schultz, Sarah L Francis, Carlene Russell et al. · Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics 2 Oct 2021 5
5 Critical Elements of Care Coordination for Older Persons in Rural Communities: An Evaluation of the Iowa Return to Community Service Demonstration Brian P. Kaskie, Erblin Shehu, Kent Ohms et al. · Journal of Applied Gerontology 12 Dec 2023 4
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Which research topics does Iowa Department on Aging publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Aging and Gerontology Research, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

Aging and Gerontology Re…1Aging and Gerontology Research: 1 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 0 fractional worksFood Security and Health…0Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 0 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health …0Primary Care and Health Outcomes: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional works
Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth

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

  1. 1 Aging and Gerontology Research Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 1 works
  2. 2 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 0 works
  3. 3 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
  6. 6 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 0 works
  7. 7 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  8. 8 Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 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 available48.8%not open51.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.4%domestic only95.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Iowa Department on Aging's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Iowa Department on Aging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000028% in 2023.

0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Iowa Department on Aging0.0000024% in 2024200020102020

Fractional works of Iowa Department on Aging over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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