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Samson Institute For Ageing Research

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Research works
6
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
270
48.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
89%
world 40%
International
53%
world 18%
Samson Institute For Ageing Research

Not ranked overall: Samson Institute For Ageing Research 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 Samson Institute For Ageing Research work in?

In all years, 54% of research at Samson Institute For Ageing Research is in Health Sciences, 42% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (37%), Health Professions (33%), Medicine (22%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 3 fractional works · 54.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 32.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 32.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 21.5% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 6.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 41.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 37.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 13.9% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 8.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workALL ITS WORKSamson InstituteFor Ageing…6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences54%Social Sciences42%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions232.7%
    2. Medicine121.5%
    1. Social Sciences237.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.4%
    3. Psychology01.2%
    1. Mathematics02.0%
    2. Environmental Science00.7%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology01.4%
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 Samson Institute For Ageing Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Leon Neville Geffen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Samson Institute For Ageing Research.

  1. 1 Leon Neville Geffen South Africa · #873,250 worldwide 1.5k citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Samson Institute For Ageing Research

What are the most cited papers from Samson Institute For Ageing Research?

The most cited paper from Samson Institute For Ageing Research is "Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries" (Peter G Lloyd-Sherlock, Shah B J Ebrahim, Leon Neville Geffen et al., 2020), with 396 citations. Next come "“They don’t care about us”: older people’s experiences of primary healthcare in Cape Town, South Africa" (130) and "WHO must prioritise the needs of older people in its response to the covid-19 pandemic" (102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries Peter G Lloyd-Sherlock, Shah B J Ebrahim, Leon Neville Geffen et al. · BMJ 13 Mar 2020 396
2 “They don’t care about us”: older people’s experiences of primary healthcare in Cape Town, South Africa Gabrielle Kelly, Lindeka Mrengqwa, Leon Neville Geffen · BMC Geriatrics Open access 4 Apr 2019 130
3 WHO must prioritise the needs of older people in its response to the covid-19 pandemic Peter G Lloyd-Sherlock, Alexandre Kalache, Martin McKee et al. · BMJ 23 Mar 2020 102
4 Peer-to-peer support model to improve quality of life among highly vulnerable, low-income older adults in Cape Town, South Africa Leon Neville Geffen, Gabrielle Kelly, John N. Morris et al. · BMC Geriatrics Open access 22 Oct 2019 71
5 Hearing the Voice of the Resident in Long-Term Care Facilities—An Internationally Based Approach to Assessing Quality of Life John N. Morris, Anja Declercq, John P. Hirdes et al. · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Open access 13 Oct 2017 52
All 21 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Samson Institute For Ageing Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies, Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism, Healthcare innovation and challenges and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

Migration, Aging, and To…0Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies: 0 fractional worksGlobal Healthcare and Me…0Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism: 0 fractional worksHealthcare innovation an…0Healthcare innovation and challenges: 0 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursi…0Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Impact and Responses: 0 fractional worksElder Abuse and Neglect: 0 fractional worksHomelessness and Social Issues: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional worksIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving: 0 fractional worksChronic Disease Management Strategies: 0 fractional works
DemographyGeneral Health ProfessionsEducationEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies Demography 0 works
  2. 2 Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism General Health Professions 0 works
  3. 3 Healthcare innovation and challenges Education 0 works
  4. 4 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 Elder Abuse and Neglect Demography 0 works
  7. 7 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
  9. 9 Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Chronic Disease Management Strategies Epidemiology 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 available89.1%not open10.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.3%domestic only46.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Samson Institute For Ageing Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021.

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