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Saint Alphonsus Health System

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Research works
17
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
219
12.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Saint Alphonsus Health System

Not ranked overall: Saint Alphonsus Health System 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 Saint Alphonsus Health System work in?

In all years, 85% of research at Saint Alphonsus Health System is in Health Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (64%), Health Professions (20%), Engineering (5%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 14 fractional works · 85.2% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 63.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 13.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 9.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 20.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 13.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSaint AlphonsusHealth System17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences85%Social Sciences8%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1163.7%
    2. Health Professions320.5%
    3. Nursing01.1%
    1. Social Sciences13.3%
    2. Psychology02.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    1. Engineering15.3%
    2. Computer Science01.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Neuroscience00.1%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Saint Alphonsus Health System?

The most cited paper from Saint Alphonsus Health System is "Can We Make Postoperative Patient Handovers Safer? A Systematic Review of the Literature" (Noa Segall, Alberto S. Bonifacio, Rebecca A. Schroeder et al., 2012), with 258 citations. Next come "Incidence of and Risk Factors For Post-Intubation Hypotension in the Critically Ill" (90) and "Prospective Evaluation of Protocol for Surgical Treatment of Lesser MTP Joint Plantar Plate Tears" (80).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Can We Make Postoperative Patient Handovers Safer? A Systematic Review of the Literature Noa Segall, Alberto S. Bonifacio, Rebecca A. Schroeder et al. · Anesthesia & Analgesia ReviewOpen access May 2012 258
2 Incidence of and Risk Factors For Post-Intubation Hypotension in the Critically Ill Nathan J. Smischney, Onur Demirci, Daniel A. Diedrich et al. · Medical Science Monitor Open access 2 Feb 2016 90
3 Prospective Evaluation of Protocol for Surgical Treatment of Lesser MTP Joint Plantar Plate Tears Caio Augusto de Souza Nery, Michael J. Coughlin, Daniel Soares Baumfeld et al. · Foot & Ankle International 23 Jun 2014 80
4 Hallux valgus and hypermobility of the first ray: facts and fiction Jesse F. Doty, Michael J. Coughlin · International Orthopaedics Open access 29 Jul 2013 73
5 Toward Designing Information Display to Support Critical Care Sherry A. Dunbar, Brekk C Macpherson, Eugene Moretti et al. · Applied Clinical Informatics Open access Oct 2016 68
All 57 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Saint Alphonsus Health System publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies and Meningioma and schwannoma management.

Intracranial Aneurysms: …0Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications: 0 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 0 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defib…0Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 0 fractional worksMeningioma and schwannom…0Meningioma and schwannoma management: 0 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…0Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 0 fractional worksVascular Malformations D…0Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 0 fractional worksTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Impact on Reproduction: 0 fractional worksMaternal and Perinatal Health Interventions: 0 fractional works
NeurologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1 others

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

  1. 1 Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications Neurology 0 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  3. 3 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  4. 4 Meningioma and schwannoma management Epidemiology 0 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment Neurology 0 works
  7. 7 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  8. 8 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction Obstetrics and Gynecology 0 works
  10. 10 Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 available37.4%not open62.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.9%domestic only84.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Saint Alphonsus Health System's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower 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 Saint Alphonsus Health System as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Saint Alphonsus Health System over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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