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Researcher · Patient Advocate Foundation · United States

Alan James Balch

Alan James Balch publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions, on topics such as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer and Clinical practice guidelines implementation.

ORCID 0000-0002-4086-962X OpenAlex
World rank
#1,013,419
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#330,414
of 1,627,098
Works
53
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
23.5
h-index
16
i10-index 16Top 17% in Economics and Econometrics
Alan James Balch

What does Alan James Balch research?

Alan James Balch's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (42%), Medicine (28%), Health Professions (11%).

Social Sciences: 24 works · 44.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 works · 42.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 23 works · 42.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 2.2% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 works · 2.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 21 works · 38.8% of their workMedicine: 15 works · 27.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 works · 14.2% of their workOncology: 6 works · 10.4% of their workFamily Practice: 2 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 11.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 11.2% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 16.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan James Balch53works
Health Sciences39%Social Sciences45%

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
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2342.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting12.2%
    1. Medicine1527.6%
    2. Health Professions611.2%
  3. Everything else916.5%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics42% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions11% of their works
  4. 4Oncology10% of their works
  5. 5Family Practice3% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan James Balch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality of Life, Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Health Utility Measures, Cost of Care, Financial Toxicity, Health Care Costs, Clinical Guidelines and Guideline Development.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Quality of Life362 topics
  2. Cost-effectiveness Analysis311 topic
  3. Health Utility Measures311 topic
  4. Cost of Care181 topic
  5. Financial Toxicity181 topic
  6. Health Care Costs112 topics
  7. Clinical Guidelines91 topic
  8. Guideline Development91 topic
  9. Choosing Wisely61 topic
  10. Low-Value Care61 topic
  11. COVID-1951 topic
  12. Cancer51 topic
  13. Cancer Survivorship51 topic
  14. End-of-Life51 topic
  15. Palliative Care51 topic
  16. Patient-Reported Outcomes51 topic
  17. Medication Adherence41 topic
  18. Treatment Adherence41 topic

Where does Alan James Balch work?

Alan James Balch's main affiliation in the publication record is Patient Advocate Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan James Balch have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 1,243 citations for Alan James Balch, an h-index of 16, ranking #1,013,419 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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