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PolicyLink

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Research works
18
▼ 92% vs 2018-21
Citations
729
40.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
32.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
30%
world 40%
PolicyLink

Not ranked overall: PolicyLink is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does PolicyLink work in?

In all years, 64% of research at PolicyLink is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (49%), Health Professions (30%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 12 fractional works · 64.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 49.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 24.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 12.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 30.4% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 30.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 30.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workALL ITS WORKPolicyLink18fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences30%Social Sciences64%

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 3 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences949.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.4%
    3. Decision Sciences15.5%
    4. Psychology02.8%
    1. Health Professions630.4%
    1. Engineering15.5%
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.

Who are the top researchers at PolicyLink?

Ranked on the quality score, Angela Glover Blackwell, Mildred Thompson and Victor Rubin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is PolicyLink.

  1. 1 Angela Glover Blackwell United States · #1,361,511 worldwide 3.7k citations · 39 works
  2. 2 Mildred Thompson United States · #2,243,149 worldwide 662 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Victor Rubin United States · #4,358,116 worldwide 131 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at PolicyLink

What are the most cited papers from PolicyLink?

The most cited paper from PolicyLink is "Community-Based Participatory Research: Implications for Public Health Funding" (Meredith Minkler, Angela Glover Blackwell, Mildred Thompson et al., 2003), with 551 citations. Next come "Contributions of Community Involvement to Organizational-Level Empowerment: The Federal Healthy Start Experience" (88) and "Policy Solutions To The ‘Grocery Gap’" (74).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Community-Based Participatory Research: Implications for Public Health Funding Meredith Minkler, Angela Glover Blackwell, Mildred Thompson et al. · American Journal of Public Health Open access Aug 2003 551
2 Contributions of Community Involvement to Organizational-Level Empowerment: The Federal Healthy Start Experience Meredith Minkler, Mildred Thompson, Judith M. Bell et al. · Health Education & Behavior Dec 2001 88
3 Policy Solutions To The ‘Grocery Gap’ Allison E. Karpyn, Miriam Manon, Sarah Treuhaft et al. · Health Affairs Mar 2010 74
4 Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Peter Hepburn, Jacob Haas, Nicholas Graetz et al. · RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Open access May 2023 41
5 Communities And Health Policy: A Pathway For Change Judith A. Bell, Marion B. Standish · Health Affairs Mar 2005 38
All 24 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does PolicyLink publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Homelessness and Social Issues, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

Homelessness and Social …0Homelessness and Social Issues: 0 fractional worksMigration, Refugees, and Integration: 0 fractional worksUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies: 0 fractional worksHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism: 0 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political ScienceFinance

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

  1. 1 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Migration, Refugees, and Integration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism Finance 0 works
  5. 5 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 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 available30.3%not open69.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has PolicyLink's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 92% 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 PolicyLink as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000048% in 2018.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%PolicyLink0.0000031% in 2023200020102020

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

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