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Researcher · Brigham and Women's Hospital · United States

Jerry Avorn

Jerry Avorn publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Pharmacology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy and Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare.

ORCID 0000-0003-0255-2346 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,031
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,312
of 1,627,098
Works
661
Citations
53k
Citations per work
80.5
h-index
120
i10-index 459Top 0.1% in Economics and Econometrics
Jerry Avorn

What does Jerry Avorn research?

Jerry Avorn's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (19%), Medicine (15%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (6%).

Everything else: 365 works · 55.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 129 works · 19.5% of their workMedicine: 100 works · 15.2% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 40 works · 6.0% of their workFamily Practice: 30 works · 4.6% of their workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 30 works · 4.6% of their workHealth Professions: 28 works · 4.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 28 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 126 works · 19.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 126 works · 19.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 126 works · 19.0% of their workLife Sciences: 42 works · 6.3% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 42 works · 6.3% of their workPharmacology: 42 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJerry Avorn661works
Life Sciences6%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences19%

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 else36555.2%
    1. Medicine10015.2%
    2. Health Professions284.3%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12619.0%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics426.3%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics19% of their works
  2. 2Pharmacology6% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Geriatrics and Gerontology5% of their works
  5. 5Family Practice5% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jerry Avorn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pharmaceutical Industry, Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Quality of Life, Clinical Trials, Drug Development Costs, Generic Drugs, Medication Adherence and Conflict of Interest.

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
  1. Pharmaceutical Industry2462 topics
  2. Cost-effectiveness Analysis1611 topic
  3. Quality of Life1611 topic
  4. Clinical Trials1602 topics
  5. Drug Development Costs1461 topic
  6. Generic Drugs1461 topic
  7. Medication Adherence1412 topics
  8. Conflict of Interest1001 topic
  9. Research Outcome1001 topic
  10. Adverse Drug Reactions982 topics
  11. Patient Compliance811 topic
  12. Treatment Adherence811 topic
  13. Inappropriate Medication Use791 topic
  14. Polypharmacy791 topic
  15. Off-Label Drug Use601 topic
  16. Pediatric Pharmacokinetics601 topic
  17. Pharmacovigilance381 topic
  18. Signal Detection381 topic
  19. Causal Inference351 topic
  20. Propensity Score351 topic

Where does Jerry Avorn work?

Jerry Avorn's main affiliation in the publication record is Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jerry Avorn have?

OpenAlex counts 661 works and 53,200 citations for Jerry Avorn, an h-index of 120, ranking #15,031 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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