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Douglas G. Altman

Douglas G. Altman publishes mostly in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

World rank
#199
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#16
of 90,785
Works
108
Citations
23k
Citations per work
208.6

What does Douglas G. Altman research?

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 15.3%Statistics and Probability: 13.5%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10.8%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7.2%other fields: 53.2%15%top field
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty15.3%Statistics and Probability13.5%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10.8%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine7.2%other fields53.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty15% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability14% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health11% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine7% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas G. Altman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality Assessment, Meta-Analysis, PRISMA Statement, Bayesian Methods, Adaptive Designs, False Discovery Rate, Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Quality of Life.

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 Assessment212 topics
  2. Meta-Analysis161 topic
  3. PRISMA Statement161 topic
  4. Bayesian Methods92 topics
  5. Adaptive Designs71 topic
  6. False Discovery Rate71 topic
  7. Cost-effectiveness Analysis61 topic
  8. Quality of Life61 topic
  9. Clinical Guidelines51 topic
  10. Guideline Development51 topic
  11. Clinical Trials41 topic
  12. Informed Consent41 topic
  13. Bayesian Modeling21 topic
  14. Data Science21 topic
  15. Multiple Imputation21 topic
  16. Regularization21 topic
  17. Statistics Anxiety21 topic
  18. Variable Selection21 topic

Where does Douglas G. Altman work?

Douglas G. Altman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Douglas G. Altman have?

Science Explorer counts 108 works and 22,526 citations for Douglas G. Altman, ranking #199 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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