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Optum (United States)

In research, Optum (United States) stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,847 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,717 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,760
of 22,385 · #7,132 all time
Rank in United States
#1,179
of 3,332
Research works
1k
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
14.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Optum (United States)

What is Optum (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #2,847 of 9,902 8.2%214 #2480
MedicineField #2,717 of 8,541 7.9%182 #2315

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Optum (United States) 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Optum (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Optum (United States) is in Health Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (59%), Health Professions (10%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 231 fractional works · 70.0% of its workMedicine: 196 fractional works · 59.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 24 fractional works · 7.2% of its workEpidemiology: 21 fractional works · 6.2% of its workOncology: 16 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 12 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 12 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSurgery: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPhysiology: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFamily Practice: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNephrology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 32 fractional works · 9.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 6.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 55 fractional works · 16.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 27 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 24 fractional works · 7.2% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 3.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 28 fractional works · 8.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workImmunology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 5.1% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKOptum (UnitedStates)331fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences70%Social Sciences17%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine19659.3%
    2. Health Professions329.8%
    3. Nursing30.9%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance278.3%
    2. Psychology113.4%
    3. Social Sciences92.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting41.3%
    5. Decision Sciences20.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology154.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology61.8%
    3. Neuroscience41.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    1. Computer Science92.7%
    2. Engineering31.1%
    3. Mathematics20.7%
    4. Environmental Science20.5%
    5. Chemistry00.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.84× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.74× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.84× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.34× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.35× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 3.72× its world share, 32 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.08× its world share, 196 worksMedicineNursing: 1.82× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.86× its world share, 27 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.12× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.86×27 works
  2. Health Professions3.72×32 works
  3. Medicine3.08×196 works
  4. Nursing1.82×3 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.74×6 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.34×2 works
  7. Psychology1.12×11 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.84×15 works
  9. Neuroscience0.84×4 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.66×2 works
  11. Mathematics0.61×2 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×4 works
  13. Computer Science0.35×9 works
  14. Social Sciences0.22×9 works
  15. Environmental Science0.09×2 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  17. Engineering0.07×4 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.06×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Optum (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Rifky Tkatch, Stephan C. Dunning and Shirley A. Musich lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Optum (United States).

  1. 1 Rifky Tkatch United States · #290,624 worldwide 1.5k citations · 61 works
  2. 2 Stephan C. Dunning United States · #383,050 worldwide 3.3k citations · 58 works
  3. 3 Shirley A. Musich United States · #388,940 worldwide 4k citations · 95 works
  4. 4 Shaohung S. Wang United States · #471,134 worldwide 1.5k citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Ellen R. Wicker United States · #527,758 worldwide 2k citations · 46 works
  6. 6 Sandra Kraemer United States · #573,653 worldwide 1.1k citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Francisca Azocar United States · #585,873 worldwide 4.4k citations · 70 works
  8. 8 Omid Ameli United States · #593,607 worldwide 11k citations · 47 works
  9. 9 Martha S. Bayliss United States · #617,546 worldwide 7k citations · 93 works
  10. 10 Ken Cohen United States · #618,265 worldwide 3.9k citations · 79 works
All ranked researchers at Optum (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Optum (United States)?

The most cited paper from Optum (United States) is "Comparative Effectiveness of Different Treatment Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder" (Sarah E. Wakeman, Marc R. Larochelle, Omid Ameli et al., 2020), with 1,016 citations. Next come "Patient Empowerment: Results of a randomized controlled trial" (817) and "Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2022" (800).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Comparative Effectiveness of Different Treatment Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder Sarah E. Wakeman, Marc R. Larochelle, Omid Ameli et al. · JAMA Network Open Open access 5 Feb 2020 1,016
2 Patient Empowerment: Results of a randomized controlled trial Robert M. Anderson, Martha M. Funnell, Patricia M. Butler et al. · Diabetes Care Jul 1995 817
3 Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2022 Emily D. Parker, Janice Chien-Ho Lin, Troy Mahoney et al. · Diabetes Care Nov 2023 800
4 The impact of resilience among older adults Stephanie J. Macleod, Shirley A. Musich, Kevin Hawkins et al. · Geriatric Nursing Open access 4 Apr 2016 658
5 Trends in Outpatient Care Delivery and Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine Open access 16 Nov 2020 579
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Which keywords describe research at Optum (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Primary Care, Quality of Life, Diagnosis, Chronic Disease Management, Healthcare, Pandemic and Health Outcomes.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology40▲ 3.0×74 topics
  2. Quality of Life17▲ 3.6×25 topics
  3. Primary Care16▲ 13×12 topics
  4. Machine Learning16▲ 1.43×24 topics
  5. Diagnosis15▲ 4.7×22 topics
  6. Healthcare14▲ 3.8×10 topics
  7. Inflammation14▲ 1.95×31 topics
  8. Pandemic14▲ 4.1×7 topics
  9. Treatment13▲ 3.2×29 topics
  10. COVID-1911▲ 2.6×13 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease11▲ 3.0×26 topics
  12. Clinical Trials11▲ 5.1×14 topics
  13. Management11▲ 4.1×18 topics
  14. Chronic Disease Management11▲ 16×5 topics
  15. Heart Failure10▲ 6.9×10 topics
  16. Health Outcomes10▲ 11×6 topics
  17. Depression10▲ 3.4×13 topics
  18. SARS-CoV-29▲ 9.4×5 topics
  19. Global Burden9▲ 4.9×9 topics
  20. Immune Response9▲ 4.6×13 topics
  21. Glycemic Control8▲ 16×4 topics
  22. Cost of Care8▲ 84×1 topic
  23. Financial Toxicity8▲ 84×1 topic
  24. Big Data Analytics8▲ 12×4 topics
  25. Mortality8▲ 4.4×9 topics
  26. Cost-effectiveness Analysis8▲ 31×1 topic
  27. Diabetes8▲ 4.8×9 topics
  28. Health Utility Measures8▲ 31×1 topic
  29. Respiratory8▲ 24×2 topics
  30. Insulin Therapy8▲ 18×3 topics
  31. Autoantibodies7▲ 8.9×5 topics
  32. Clinical Guidelines7▲ 6.8×6 topics
  33. COPD6▲ 29×1 topic
  34. Quality Improvement6▲ 10×5 topics
  35. spirometry6▲ 29×1 topic
  36. ACE2 Receptor6▲ 8.5×3 topics
  37. Health System Reform6▲ 28×2 topics
  38. Interventions6▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Type 2 Diabetes6▲ 8.4×4 topics
  40. Classification Models6▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does Optum (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.

Economic and Financial I…8Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 8 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…8Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 8 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulm…6Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 6 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …6Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 6 fractional worksMedication Adherence and Compliance: 5 fractional worksDiabetes Treatment and Management: 5 fractional worksHealthcare Policy and Ma…4Healthcare Policy and Management: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare …4COVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…4COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 4 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory d…4Asthma and respiratory diseases: 4 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineHealth Information ManagementFamily Practice4 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  2. 2 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  3. 3 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  4. 4 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 6 works
  5. 5 Medication Adherence and Compliance Family Practice 5 works
  6. 6 Diabetes Treatment and Management Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 5 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 4 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 4 works
  10. 10 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 4 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 available49.6%not open50.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.8%domestic only85.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Optum (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher 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 Optum (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Optum (United States)0.0010% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Optum (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Optum (United States)9.1% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.1% in 2017.

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