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Press Ganey

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World rank, all time
#27,060
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,659
of 7,310
Research works
188
▲ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.9k
21.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Press Ganey

Which fields of science does Press Ganey work in?

In 2022-now, 73% of research at Press Ganey is in Health Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Health Professions (40%), Nursing (24%), Medicine (9%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 29 fractional works · 72.8% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 39.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 29.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 24.2% of its workResearch and Theory: 5 fractional works · 13.1% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 4 fractional works · 10.5% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 8.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 22.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.8% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKPress Ganey40fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences73%Social Sciences22%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions1639.9%
    2. Nursing1024.2%
    3. Medicine48.8%
    1. Social Sciences48.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance26.1%
    3. Psychology24.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting13.2%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Engineering12.2%
    2. Computer Science11.3%
    3. Environmental Science00.9%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Press Ganey specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health Sciences takes 3.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health SciencesDomain · 29.3 works3.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 15.11× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 49.33× its world share, 10 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.85× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.42× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.69× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 49.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing49.33×10 works
  2. Health Professions15.11×16 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.85×2 works
  4. Psychology1.42×2 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting0.98×1 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.78×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.69×4 works
  8. Medicine0.46×4 works
  9. Environmental Science0.18×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.17×0 works
  11. Engineering0.15×1 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.12×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Press Ganey?

Ranked on the quality score, Maxwell Drain, Catima Potter and Angela Pascale lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Press Ganey.

  1. 1 Maxwell Drain United States · #892,732 worldwide 2.2k citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Catima Potter United States · #1,182,550 worldwide 443 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Angela Pascale United States · #1,344,460 worldwide 61 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Christina Dempsey United States · #1,606,674 worldwide 307 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 Robert J. Wolosin United States · #2,377,627 worldwide 1.6k citations · 63 works
  6. 6 Melvin Hall United States · #3,099,577 worldwide 284 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Deirdre E. Mylod United States · #3,226,496 worldwide 330 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Nancy Gregory United States · #4,715,989 worldwide 109 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Lisa Gordon United States · #6,136,336 worldwide 142 citations · 64 works
All ranked researchers at Press Ganey

What are the most cited papers from Press Ganey?

The most cited paper from Press Ganey is "Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement" (Michael E. Porter, Stefan Larsson, Thomas Ho-yin Lee, 2016), with 633 citations. Next come "Communication Skills Training for Physicians Improves Patient Satisfaction" (578) and "Patient Satisfaction and Its Relationship With Clinical Quality and Inpatient Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction" (418).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement Michael E. Porter, Stefan Larsson, Thomas Ho-yin Lee · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Feb 2016 633
2 Communication Skills Training for Physicians Improves Patient Satisfaction Adrienne R. Boissy, Amy K. Windover, Dan Bokar et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine Open access 26 Feb 2016 578
3 Patient Satisfaction and Its Relationship With Clinical Quality and Inpatient Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction Seth W. Glickman, William Boulding, Matthew P. Manary et al. · Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 24 Feb 2010 418
4 Conceptualizing self‐monitoring: links to materialism and product involvement Beverly A. Browne, Dennis Oliver Kaldenberg · Journal of Consumer Marketing Feb 1997 331
5 Measuring and Incorporating Vulnerability into Conservation Planning Kerrie A. Wilson, Robert L. Pressey, Adrian C. Newton et al. · Environmental Management May 2005 310
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Press Ganey?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Job Satisfaction, Patient Outcomes, Qualitative Research, Primary Care, Clinical Practice, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Environment and Nursing Staffing.

▲ 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. Job Satisfaction8▲ 44×5 topics
  2. Patient Outcomes7▲ 275×3 topics
  3. Qualitative Research6▲ 19×2 topics
  4. Primary Care6▲ 42×8 topics
  5. Clinical Practice6▲ 96×2 topics
  6. Quality Improvement6▲ 71×6 topics
  7. Healthcare Environment5▲ 435×1 topic
  8. Nursing Staffing5▲ 435×1 topic
  9. Public Health5▲ 8.8×8 topics
  10. Health Policy4▲ 67×3 topics
  11. Nursing Education3▲ 59×2 topics
  12. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 23×6 topics
  13. Nursing Advocacy3▲ 723×1 topic
  14. Political Participation3▲ 80×1 topic
  15. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 30×2 topics
  16. Healthcare Workers2▲ 25×5 topics
  17. Mental Health2▲ 3.7×7 topics
  18. Patient Care2▲ 43×2 topics
  19. Electronic Health Records2▲ 47×2 topics
  20. Health Care Utilization2▲ 46×2 topics
  21. Healthcare2▲ 4.3×6 topics
  22. Health Care Spending2▲ 122×1 topic
  23. Insurance Markets2▲ 122×1 topic
  24. Clinical Reasoning2▲ 126×2 topics
  25. Health Workforce2▲ 109×2 topics
  26. Healthcare Quality2▲ 45×4 topics
  27. Anxiety2▲ 8.4×3 topics
  28. Choosing Wisely2▲ 173×1 topic
  29. Collaborative Practice2▲ 88×2 topics
  30. Continuity of Care2▲ 80×1 topic
  31. Evidence-Based Practice2▲ 27×2 topics
  32. Healthcare Outcomes2▲ 69×2 topics
  33. Low-Value Care2▲ 173×1 topic
  34. Nursing Diagnoses2▲ 308×1 topic
  35. Nursing Documentation2▲ 308×1 topic
  36. Patient-Centered Medical Home2▲ 113×1 topic
  37. Physician Burnout2▲ 48×2 topics
  38. Leadership1▲ 7.2×7 topics
  39. Physician Migration1▲ 118×1 topic
  40. Rural Health1▲ 118×1 topic

Which research topics does Press Ganey publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Nursing education and management, Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership, Healthcare Policy and Management and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

Nursing education and ma…5Nursing education and management: 5 fractional worksNursing Education, Pract…3Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership: 3 fractional worksHealthcare Policy and Ma…2Healthcare Policy and Management: 2 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health Outcomes: 2 fractional worksNursing Diagnosis and Documentation: 2 fractional worksHealthcare cost, quality, practices: 2 fractional worksGlobal Health Workforce Issues: 1 fractional worksHealthcare innovation and challenges: 1 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 1 fractional worksHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout: 1 fractional works
Research and TheoryIssues, ethics and legal aspectsEconomics and EconometricsGeneral Health Professions2 others

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

  1. 1 Nursing education and management Research and Theory 5 works
  2. 2 Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership Issues, ethics and legal aspects 3 works
  3. 3 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  4. 4 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 2 works
  5. 5 Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation Issues, ethics and legal aspects 2 works
  6. 6 Healthcare cost, quality, practices General Health Professions 2 works
  7. 7 Global Health Workforce Issues Emergency Medical Services 1 works
  8. 8 Healthcare innovation and challenges Education 1 works
  9. 9 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 1 works
  10. 10 Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout General Health Professions 1 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 available13.8%not open86.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.5%domestic only91.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Press Ganey's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% 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 Press Ganey as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00013% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Press Ganey0.00018% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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