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Pact Atlanta

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Research works
8
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
151
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
51%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Pact Atlanta

Not ranked overall: Pact Atlanta 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 Pact Atlanta work in?

In all years, 51% of research at Pact Atlanta is in Health Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (27%), Health Professions (18%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 4 fractional works · 50.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 27.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 18.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 17.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 24.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 15.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 13.3% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 6.6% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 20.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 17.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 11.0% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKPact Atlanta8fractional works, all years
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences51%Social Sciences24%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine227.5%
    2. Health Professions118.4%
    3. Dentistry03.7%
    4. Veterinary00.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities115.5%
    2. Social Sciences18.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology117.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.7%
    3. Neuroscience01.5%
    1. Engineering03.3%
    2. Environmental Science00.9%
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: 2.21× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 2.31× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 45.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.66× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.82× its world share, 1 worksMedicine1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 45.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry45.03×0 works
  2. Medicine2.82×1 works
  3. Neuroscience2.31×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.21×0 works
  5. Health Professions1.66×0 works
  6. Environmental Science1.06×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Pact Atlanta?

The most cited paper from Pact Atlanta is "A Legionella-like Bacterium Related to WIGA in a Fatal Case of Pneumonia" (Berenice M. Thomason, PATRICIA P. HARRIS, MARTIN D. HICKLIN et al., 1979), with 52 citations. Next come "Familial Cardiomyopathy, Hypogonadism, and Collagenoma" (38) and "COVID-19 in artisanal and small-scale mining communities: Preliminary results from a global rapid data collection exercise" (27).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Legionella-like Bacterium Related to WIGA in a Fatal Case of Pneumonia Berenice M. Thomason, PATRICIA P. HARRIS, MARTIN D. HICKLIN et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine Nov 1979 52
2 Familial Cardiomyopathy, Hypogonadism, and Collagenoma Harvey N. Sacks, I. SYLVIA CRAWLEY, JOHN A. WARD et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine Dec 1980 38
3 COVID-19 in artisanal and small-scale mining communities: Preliminary results from a global rapid data collection exercise Rachel Perks, Nathan Schneck · Environmental Science & Policy Open access 26 Mar 2021 27
4 Deep TMS H1 Coil treatment for depression: Results from a large post marketing data analysis Aron Tendler et al. · Psychiatry Research Open access 24 Mar 2023 25
5 Education, Income, and Incident Heart Failure in Post-Menopausal Women Rashmee U. Shah, Marilyn A. Winkleby, Linda Van Horn et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Sep 2011 24
All 13 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Pact Atlanta publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Healthcare Systems and Public Health, Oral Health Pathology and Treatment, Rural Development and Agriculture and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Healthcare Systems and P…0Healthcare Systems and Public Health: 0 fractional worksOral Health Pathology an…0Oral Health Pathology and Treatment: 0 fractional worksRural Development and Ag…0Rural Development and Agriculture: 0 fractional worksAgricultural Innovations and Practices: 0 fractional worksOral and Maxillofacial Pathology: 0 fractional worksTumors and Oncological C…0Tumors and Oncological Cases: 0 fractional worksAutoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders: 0 fractional worksAgriculture, Land Use, Rural Development: 0 fractional worksOral and Craniofacial Le…0Oral and Craniofacial Lesions: 0 fractional works
EpidemiologyPeriodonticsManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences3 others

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

  1. 1 Healthcare Systems and Public Health Epidemiology 0 works
  2. 2 Oral Health Pathology and Treatment Periodontics 0 works
  3. 3 Rural Development and Agriculture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  5. 5 Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Oral Surgery 0 works
  6. 6 Tumors and Oncological Cases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  7. 7 Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Epidemiology 0 works
  8. 8 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  9. 9 Oral and Craniofacial Lesions Speech and Hearing 0 works
  10. 10 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 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 available51.0%not open49.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.9%domestic only90.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Pact Atlanta's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% 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 Pact Atlanta as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000074% in 2023.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Pact Atlanta0.0000085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pact Atlanta over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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