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Researcher · Urban Institute · United States

Brenda C. Spillman

Brenda C. Spillman publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Demography and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Health disparities and outcomes and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

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World rank
#137,020
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#51,942
of 1,627,098
Works
50
Citations
4.6k
Citations per work
91.1
h-index
26
i10-index 36Top 7.8% in General Health Professions
Brenda C. Spillman

What does Brenda C. Spillman research?

Brenda C. Spillman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Health Professions (27%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 22 works · 43.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 39.9% of their workDemography: 10 works · 20.7% of their workHealth: 5 works · 9.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 9.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 3.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 31.8% of their workHealth Professions: 14 works · 27.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 14 works · 27.4% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 4.4% of their workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 24.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBrenda C.Spillman50works
Health Sciences32%Social Sciences44%

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. Social Sciences2039.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23.7%
    1. Health Professions1427.4%
    2. Medicine24.4%
  3. Everything else1224.6%
  1. 1General Health Professions27% of their works
  2. 2Demography21% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Health10% of their works
  5. 5Geriatrics and Gerontology4% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brenda C. Spillman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Long-Term Care, Social Support, Nursing Home, Quality of Care, Mortality Risk, Social Relationships, Family Support and Intergenerational Relations.

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. Long-Term Care332 topics
  2. Social Support262 topics
  3. Nursing Home201 topic
  4. Quality of Care201 topic
  5. Mortality Risk182 topics
  6. Social Relationships182 topics
  7. Family Support131 topic
  8. Intergenerational Relations131 topic
  9. Loneliness131 topic
  10. Socioeconomic Inequalities131 topic
  11. Ageing Population111 topic
  12. Aging Workforce111 topic
  13. Health Care Expenditure111 topic
  14. Lifestyle Migration111 topic
  15. Retirement111 topic
  16. Retirement Migration111 topic
  17. Aging102 topics
  18. Emotion51 topic
  19. Frailty51 topic
  20. Geriatric Assessment51 topic
  21. Successful Aging51 topic

Where does Brenda C. Spillman work?

Brenda C. Spillman's main affiliation in the publication record is Urban Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brenda C. Spillman have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 4,557 citations for Brenda C. Spillman, an h-index of 26, ranking #137,020 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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