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Researcher · American Hospital Association · United States

Nancy E. Foster

Nancy E. Foster publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Healthcare cost, quality, practices, Primary Care and Health Outcomes and Nosocomial Infections in ICU.

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World rank
#2,191,983
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#657,964
of 1,627,098
Works
43
Citations
848
Citations per work
19.7
h-index
12
i10-index 15Top 32% in General Health Professions
Nancy E. Foster

What does Nancy E. Foster research?

Nancy E. Foster's work is mostly in Health Professions (32%), Medicine (16%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%).

Health Sciences: 21 works · 48.7% of their workHealth Professions: 14 works · 32.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 12 works · 27.6% of their workPharmacy: 2 works · 4.8% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 16.3% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 works · 6.7% of their workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 works · 4.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 2 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 44.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 6.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 6.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy E. Foster43works
Health Sciences49%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. Health Professions1432.4%
    2. Medicine716.3%
  2. Everything else1944.6%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance36.7%
  1. 1General Health Professions28% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases5% of their works
  5. 5Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacy5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy E. Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality Improvement, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Primary Care, Choosing Wisely, Low-Value Care, Public Health, Continuity of Care and Patient-Centered Medical Home.

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. Quality Improvement142 topics
  2. Healthcare-Associated Infections102 topics
  3. Primary Care92 topics
  4. Choosing Wisely81 topic
  5. Low-Value Care81 topic
  6. Public Health82 topics
  7. Continuity of Care61 topic
  8. Patient-Centered Medical Home61 topic
  9. Hand Hygiene51 topic
  10. ICU51 topic
  11. Infection Control51 topic
  12. Obesity51 topic
  13. Overweight51 topic
  14. Ventilator-associated Pneumonia51 topic
  15. Medical Errors41 topic
  16. Patient Safety Culture41 topic
  17. Community Health31 topic
  18. Nursing Home31 topic
  19. Pediatrics31 topic
  20. Quality of Care31 topic

Where does Nancy E. Foster work?

Nancy E. Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is American Hospital Association, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nancy E. Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 43 works and 848 citations for Nancy E. Foster, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,191,983 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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