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Researcher · Fraser Health · Canada

Valerie MacDonald

Valerie MacDonald publishes mostly in Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and General Health Professions, on topics such as Hip and Femur Fractures, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,203,410
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#102,400
of 183,316
Works
31
Citations
624
Citations per work
20.1
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 30% in Surgery
Valerie MacDonald

What does Valerie MacDonald research?

Valerie MacDonald's work is mostly in Medicine (55%), Health Professions (8%).

Health Sciences: 19 works · 62.7% of their workMedicine: 17 works · 55.0% of their workSurgery: 10 works · 33.3% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 7.7% of their workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 works · 5.1% of their workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 works · 5.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 7.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 37.3% of their workTHEIR WORKValerie MacDonald31works
Health Sciences63%

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. Medicine1755.0%
    2. Health Professions27.7%
  2. Everything else1237.3%
  1. 1Surgery33% of their works
  2. 2Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine8% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions8% of their works
  4. 4Geriatrics and Gerontology5% of their works
  5. 5Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valerie MacDonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Elderly Patients, Complications, Mortality, Rehabilitation, Hip Fracture, Surgery, Epidemiology and Arthroplasty.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Elderly Patients223 topics
  2. Complications212 topics
  3. Mortality202 topics
  4. Rehabilitation182 topics
  5. Hip Fracture141 topic
  6. Surgery141 topic
  7. Epidemiology92 topics
  8. Arthroplasty71 topic
  9. Total Knee Replacement71 topic
  10. Cardiac Risk61 topic
  11. Perioperative61 topic
  12. Delirium41 topic
  13. Frailty41 topic
  14. Geriatric Assessment41 topic
  15. Intensive Care Unit41 topic
  16. Primary Care42 topics
  17. Bone Mineral Density21 topic
  18. Chronic Conditions21 topic
  19. Diabetes21 topic
  20. Fractures21 topic
  21. Multimorbidity21 topic
  22. Self-Management21 topic

Where does Valerie MacDonald work?

Valerie MacDonald's main affiliation in the publication record is Fraser Health, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Valerie MacDonald have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 624 citations for Valerie MacDonald, an h-index of 14, ranking #3,203,410 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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