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King County Medical Examiner's Office

In research, King County Medical Examiner's Office stands highest in Medicine (#13,806 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#16,075 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#25,488
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#5,460
of 8,685
Research works
286
▲ 24% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.5k
22.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
16%
world 28%

What is King County Medical Examiner's Office known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #13,806 of 17,978 10.6%144
Health SciencesDomain #16,075 of 20,462 11.5%159

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where King County Medical Examiner's Office 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).

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: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.10× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.57× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 16.47× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.72× its world share, 12 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 1.96× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.42× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 16.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at King County Medical Examiner's Office?

Ranked on the composite score, W. S. Playfair lead among researchers whose main affiliation is King County Medical Examiner's Office.

  1. 1 W. S. Playfair United States · #849,715 worldwide 1 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at King County Medical Examiner's Office

Which keywords describe research at King County Medical Examiner's Office?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Factors, Mental Health, Mortality Risk, Prevalence, Psychological Impact, Epidemiology, Intervention and Drug Analysis.

▲ 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 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. Risk Factors3▲ 13×10 topics
  2. Epidemiology2▲ 2.6×14 topics
  3. Mental Health2▲ 7.3×10 topics
  4. Mortality Risk2▲ 43×2 topics
  5. Prevalence2▲ 16×2 topics
  6. Psychological Impact2▲ 20×3 topics
  7. Public Health1▲ 4.0×3 topics
  8. Drug Analysis1▲ 311×1 topic
  9. Forensic Toxicology1▲ 212×1 topic
  10. Injury Prevention1▲ 45×2 topics
  11. Intervention1▲ 142×2 topics
  12. Chronic Pain Management1▲ 159×1 topic
  13. Elder Abuse1▲ 413×1 topic
  14. Neglect1▲ 413×1 topic
  15. Opioid Prescribing1▲ 159×1 topic
  16. Conducted Electrical Weapons1▲ 437×1 topic
  17. Excited Delirium Syndrome1▲ 437×1 topic
  18. Firearm Violence1▲ 432×1 topic
  19. Gun Ownership1▲ 432×1 topic
  20. Poison Control Centers1▲ 286×1 topic
  21. Post-mortem Imaging1▲ 387×1 topic
  22. Toxic Exposure Surveillance1▲ 286×1 topic
  23. Virtual Autopsy1▲ 387×1 topic

Which research topics does King County Medical Examiner's Office publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Elder Abuse and Neglect and Poisoning and overdose treatments.

Forensic Toxicology and …1Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis: 1 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Trea…1Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: 1 fractional worksElder Abuse and Neglect1Elder Abuse and Neglect: 1 fractional worksPoisoning and overdose t…1Poisoning and overdose treatments: 1 fractional worksRestraint-Related Deaths1Restraint-Related Deaths: 1 fractional worksGun Ownership and Violen…1Gun Ownership and Violence Research: 1 fractional worksAutopsy Techniques and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksSuicide and Self-Harm Studies: 1 fractional worksForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies: 0 fractional worksHomicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse: 0 fractional works
ToxicologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthDemographyEmergency Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis Toxicology 1 works
  2. 2 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  3. 3 Elder Abuse and Neglect Demography 1 works
  4. 4 Poisoning and overdose treatments Emergency Medicine 1 works
  5. 5 Restraint-Related Deaths Emergency Medicine 1 works
  6. 6 Gun Ownership and Violence Research Health 1 works
  7. 7 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  8. 8 Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Clinical Psychology 1 works
  9. 9 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archeology 0 works
  10. 10 Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse Sociology and Political Science 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 available15.6%not open84.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.3%domestic only82.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has King County Medical Examiner's Office's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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