Alan John Forster
Alan John Forster publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and General Health Professions, on topics such as Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.
- World rank
- #105,727 of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
- Rank in Canada
- #3,360 of 183,316
- Works
- 351
- Citations
- 21k
- Citations per work
- 58.5
What does Alan John Forster research?
Alan John Forster's work is mostly in Medicine (31%), Health Professions (15%).
Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.
The fields and subfields, with their numbers
- Everything else19054.2%
- Health Sciences16145.8%
- Medicine10830.9%
- Health Professions5214.9%
- 1Epidemiology9% of their works
- 2Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine8% of their works
- 3General Health Professions8% of their works
- 4Emergency Medical Services7% of their works
- 5Emergency Medicine7% of their works
- 6Surgery6% of their works
Research topics
Which keywords describe Alan John Forster's research?
The keywords of their largest research topics: Medication Errors, Medical Errors, Epidemiology, Patient Safety Culture, Surgical Safety Checklist, Guidelines, Sepsis and Septic Shock.
- Patient Safety
- Electronic Health Records
- Perioperative
- Frailty
- Heart Failure
- Patient Satisfaction
- Septic Shock
- Guidelines
- Patient Safety Culture
- Medical Errors
- Medication Errors
- Epidemiology
- Surgical Safety Checklist
- Sepsis
- Emergency Department Crowding
- Diagnosis
- Cardiac Risk
- Geriatric Assessment
- Clinical Decision Support Systems
- Hospital Handoffs
Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.
All 20 words, with their numbers
- Medication Errors872 topics
- Medical Errors842 topics
- Epidemiology802 topics
- Patient Safety Culture611 topic
- Surgical Safety Checklist611 topic
- Guidelines602 topics
- Sepsis491 topic
- Septic Shock491 topic
- Emergency Department Crowding351 topic
- Patient Satisfaction351 topic
- Diagnosis311 topic
- Heart Failure311 topic
- Cardiac Risk291 topic
- Frailty291 topic
- Geriatric Assessment291 topic
- Perioperative291 topic
- Clinical Decision Support Systems261 topic
- Electronic Health Records261 topic
- Hospital Handoffs231 topic
- Patient Safety231 topic
Where does Alan John Forster work?
Alan John Forster's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Ottawa, Canada.
How many publications and citations does Alan John Forster have?
OpenAlex counts 351 works and 20,525 citations for Alan John Forster, an h-index of 66, ranking #105,727 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.
Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.
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