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Researcher · Adelphi Laboratory Center · United States

Alan L. Shields

Alan L. Shields publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics and Rheumatology, on topics such as Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects.

ORCID 0000-0003-3362-3135 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,232,590
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#394,269
of 1,627,098
Works
101
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
34.9
h-index
28
i10-index 46Top 12% in Epidemiology
Alan L. Shields

What does Alan L. Shields research?

Alan L. Shields's work is mostly in Medicine (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Everything else: 67 works · 66.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 22 works · 22.1% of their workMedicine: 22 works · 22.1% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 8.1% of their workOncology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workRheumatology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 6.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 works · 6.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 works · 6.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan L. Shields101works
Life Sciences5%Health Sciences22%Social Sciences7%

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. Everything else6766.4%
    1. Medicine2222.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance76.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.8%
  1. 1Epidemiology8% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  3. 3Rheumatology5% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Oncology5% of their works
  6. 6Surgery4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan L. Shields's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality of Life, Inflammation, Alcohol Dependence, Substance Use Disorders, Oxidative Stress, Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Health Utility Measures and Asthma.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Quality of Life243 topics
  2. Inflammation213 topics
  3. Alcohol Dependence161 topic
  4. Substance Use Disorders161 topic
  5. Oxidative Stress142 topics
  6. Cost-effectiveness Analysis131 topic
  7. Health Utility Measures131 topic
  8. Asthma112 topics
  9. Epidemiology112 topics
  10. Alcohol81 topic
  11. Liver Disease81 topic
  12. Allergic Disease71 topic
  13. Mast Cells71 topic
  14. Allergic Diseases61 topic
  15. Cancer Survivorship61 topic
  16. Eosinophils61 topic
  17. Mitochondria61 topic
  18. Patient-Reported Outcomes61 topic
  19. Reactive Oxygen Species61 topic
  20. Allergen-specific Immunotherapy51 topic
  21. Pollen Allergy51 topic

Where does Alan L. Shields work?

Alan L. Shields's main affiliation in the publication record is Adelphi Laboratory Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan L. Shields have?

OpenAlex counts 101 works and 3,528 citations for Alan L. Shields, an h-index of 28, ranking #1,232,590 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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