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Mount Nittany Medical Center

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Research works
47
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
674
14.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Mount Nittany Medical Center

Not ranked overall: Mount Nittany Medical Center 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 Mount Nittany Medical Center work in?

In all years, 72% of research at Mount Nittany Medical Center is in Health Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (61%), Health Professions (11%), Social Sciences (6%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 34 fractional works · 71.6% of its workMedicine: 28 fractional works · 60.6% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 10.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 10.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 9.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMount NittanyMedical Center47fractional works, all years
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences72%Social Sciences11%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine2860.6%
    2. Health Professions510.9%
    1. Social Sciences35.8%
    2. Psychology23.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology11.5%
    3. Neuroscience11.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.7%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    1. Environmental Science23.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.3%
    3. Engineering11.5%
    4. Materials Science00.4%
    5. Computer Science00.2%
    6. Mathematics00.2%
    7. Chemistry00.0%
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: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.16× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Health Professions: 4.01× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.78× its world share, 9 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions4.01×1 works
  2. Medicine3.78×9 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.16×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology0.88×0 works
  5. Arts and Humanities0.69×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.44×1 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.28×0 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×0 works
  9. Psychology0.11×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Mount Nittany Medical Center?

The most cited paper from Mount Nittany Medical Center is "Prevention of Recurrent Foot Ulcers With Plantar Pressure–Based In-Shoe Orthoses: The CareFUL Prevention Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial" (Jan S. Ulbrecht, Timothy R. Hurley, David T. Mauger et al., 2014), with 187 citations. Next come "Knee Morphological Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury" (161) and "Beyond satisfaction, what service users expect of inpatient mental health care: a literature review" (116).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevention of Recurrent Foot Ulcers With Plantar Pressure–Based In-Shoe Orthoses: The CareFUL Prevention Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Jan S. Ulbrecht, Timothy R. Hurley, David T. Mauger et al. · Diabetes Care Open access 24 Apr 2014 187
2 Knee Morphological Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Steve H. Bayer, Sean J. Meredith, Kevin Wilson et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 21 Jan 2020 161
3 Beyond satisfaction, what service users expect of inpatient mental health care: a literature review Jane Hopkins, Susan J. Loeb, Donna Marie Fick · Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 28 Sep 2009 116
4 Nutrition Education Intervention Improves Vegetable‐Related Attitude, Self‐Efficacy, Preference, and Knowledge of Fourth‐Grade Students Denise Wall, Christine Least, Judy C. Gromis et al. · Journal of School Health 6 Dec 2011 101
5 Delivering Bad or Life-Altering News. Franklin J. Berkey, Joseph P. Wiedemer, Nicki Vithalani · PubMed 15 Jul 2018 84
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Mount Nittany Medical Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Management, Diagnosis, Treatment, Biomarkers, Clinical Guidelines, Healthcare Quality and Infection.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 31 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 31 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology8▲ 4.2×24 topics
  2. Management3▲ 9.4×8 topics
  3. Treatment3▲ 5.3×11 topics
  4. Diagnosis3▲ 6.6×9 topics
  5. Inflammation2▲ 1.83×10 topics
  6. Quality of Life2▲ 3.0×10 topics
  7. Biomarkers2▲ 6.3×5 topics
  8. Risk Factors2▲ 3.4×6 topics
  9. Clinical Guidelines2▲ 11×6 topics
  10. Healthcare Quality2▲ 27×3 topics
  11. Climate Change1◆ 1.11×6 topics
  12. Critical Care1▲ 13×3 topics
  13. Infection1▲ 11×3 topics
  14. Public Health1▲ 2.1×7 topics
  15. Children1▲ 11×3 topics
  16. Risk Assessment1▲ 4.8×5 topics
  17. Ethical Considerations1▲ 8.0×6 topics
  18. Primary Care1▲ 6.3×5 topics
  19. Antimicrobial Resistance1▲ 9.3×5 topics
  20. Clinical Practice Guidelines1▲ 4.1×5 topics
  21. Patient Satisfaction1▲ 8.9×5 topics
  22. Rehabilitation1▲ 6.3×4 topics
  23. Sepsis1▲ 15×1 topic
  24. Septic Shock1▲ 34×1 topic
  25. Survival Rates1▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Cardiac Arrest1▲ 36×1 topic
  27. Clinical Outcomes1▲ 11×4 topics
  28. Complications1▲ 4.2×5 topics
  29. Defensive Medicine1▲ 65×1 topic
  30. Malpractice Risk1▲ 65×1 topic
  31. Resuscitation1▲ 16×1 topic

Which research topics does Mount Nittany Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, Contact Dermatitis and Allergies, Urticaria and Related Conditions and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI.

Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues: 1 fractional worksContact Dermatitis and Allergies: 1 fractional worksUrticaria and Related Conditions: 0 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 0 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 0 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Diseases: 0 fractional worksDiabetes Management and …0Diabetes Management and Research: 0 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 0 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 0 fractional worksCoagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema: 0 fractional works
PharmacyDermatologyRheumatologySafety Research5 others

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

  1. 1 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 1 works
  2. 2 Contact Dermatitis and Allergies Dermatology 1 works
  3. 3 Urticaria and Related Conditions Rheumatology 0 works
  4. 4 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 0 works
  5. 5 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 0 works
  7. 7 Diabetes Management and Research Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 0 works
  8. 8 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 0 works
  9. 9 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema Genetics 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 available29.4%not open70.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.0%domestic only93.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mount Nittany Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% 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 Mount Nittany Medical Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000060% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Mount Nittany Medical Center0.000028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mount Nittany Medical Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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