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Tacoma Pierce County Health Department

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Research works
65
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.5k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Tacoma Pierce County Health Department is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 11.69× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 10.74× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.06× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 5.79× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 11.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Tacoma Pierce County Health Department?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, Pain Management, Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Epidemiology7▲ 2.6×27 topics
  2. Public Health6▲ 6.8×16 topics
  3. Quality of Life3▲ 3.5×8 topics
  4. Health Promotion3▲ 16×4 topics
  5. Mental Health2▲ 3.5×7 topics
  6. Treatment2▲ 3.0×9 topics
  7. Health Equity2▲ 20×2 topics
  8. Social Determinants of Health2▲ 17×2 topics
  9. Pain Management2▲ 16×6 topics
  10. Evidence-Based Practice2▲ 20×3 topics
  11. Immune Response2▲ 5.5×6 topics
  12. Quality Improvement2▲ 16×3 topics
  13. Risk Factors2▲ 3.1×8 topics
  14. Vaccine2▲ 7.9×6 topics
  15. Patient Outcomes2▲ 49×2 topics
  16. Prevalence2▲ 7.9×4 topics
  17. Community Health2▲ 21×2 topics
  18. Ethics2▲ 6.4×2 topics
  19. Qualitative Research2▲ 5.0×3 topics
  20. Water Quality2▲ 6.8×4 topics
  21. Health Effects2▲ 4.6×4 topics
  22. Healthcare2▲ 4.0×3 topics
  23. Policy2▲ 16×1 topic
  24. Population Health2▲ 90×1 topic
  25. Cultural Competence2▲ 21×3 topics
  26. Electronic Health Records2▲ 41×2 topics
  27. Adolescents2▲ 6.4×2 topics
  28. Direct Payments2▲ 145×1 topic
  29. Job Satisfaction2▲ 9.2×2 topics
  30. Nursing Diagnoses2▲ 165×1 topic
  31. Nursing Documentation2▲ 165×1 topic
  32. Personalisation2▲ 145×1 topic
  33. Soft Skills2▲ 67×2 topics
  34. Chronic Pain1▲ 9.7×3 topics
  35. Groundwater1▲ 26×1 topic
  36. Health Consequences1▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Hydrogeology1▲ 55×1 topic
  38. Postoperative Pain1▲ 22×3 topics
  39. Behavior Change1▲ 19×2 topics
  40. Global Access1▲ 37×2 topics

Which research topics does Tacoma Pierce County Health Department publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health Policy Implementation Science, Community Health and Development, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing and Respiratory viral infections research.

Health Policy Implementa…0Health Policy Implementation Science: 0 fractional worksCommunity Health and Dev…0Community Health and Development: 0 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 detection and…0SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing: 0 fractional worksRespiratory viral infect…0Respiratory viral infections research: 0 fractional worksPublic Health Policies a…0Public Health Policies and Education: 0 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis re…0Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 0 fractional worksDental Health and Care Utilization: 0 fractional worksMobile Health and mHealth Applications: 0 fractional worksEducational Environments and Student Outcomes: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsInfectious DiseasesEpidemiologyNutrition and Dietetics2 others

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

  1. 1 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Community Health and Development General Health Professions 0 works
  3. 3 SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing Infectious Diseases 0 works
  4. 4 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 0 works
  5. 5 Public Health Policies and Education General Health Professions 0 works
  6. 6 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  7. 7 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  8. 8 Dental Health and Care Utilization Periodontics 0 works
  9. 9 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications General Health Professions 0 works
  10. 10 Educational Environments and Student Outcomes Education 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.8%domestic only88.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Tacoma Pierce County Health Department's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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