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Researcher · Scottish Health Services · United Kingdom

Vera Carstairs

Vera Carstairs publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Health and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

OpenAlex
World rank
#388,376
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#34,272
of 367,258
Works
36
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
79.7
h-index
19
i10-index 23Top 15% in General Health Professions
Vera Carstairs

What does Vera Carstairs research?

Vera Carstairs's work is mostly in Health Professions (35%), Social Sciences (23%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Social Sciences: 14 works · 39.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 23.0% of their workHealth: 6 works · 17.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 5.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 6.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 6.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 5.1% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 works · 5.1% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 5.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 2 works · 5.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 34.6% of their workHealth Professions: 12 works · 34.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 12 works · 34.6% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 25.8% of their workTHEIR WORKVera Carstairs36works
Health Sciences35%Social Sciences40%

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 Sciences823.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance26.4%
    3. Decision Sciences25.1%
    4. Psychology25.1%
    1. Health Professions1234.6%
  3. Everything else925.8%
  1. 1General Health Professions35% of their works
  2. 2Health18% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vera Carstairs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Support, Social Relationships, Socioeconomic Inequalities, Health Outcomes, Ageing Population, Health Care Expenditure, Quality of Life and Cost-effectiveness Analysis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Support172 topics
  2. Social Relationships141 topic
  3. Socioeconomic Inequalities141 topic
  4. Health Outcomes112 topics
  5. Ageing Population91 topic
  6. Health Care Expenditure91 topic
  7. Quality of Life72 topics
  8. Cost-effectiveness Analysis41 topic
  9. Health Utility Measures41 topic
  10. Mental Health42 topics
  11. Aging31 topic
  12. Elderly31 topic
  13. Small Area Estimation31 topic
  14. Spatial Microsimulation31 topic
  15. Healthcare Legislation21 topic
  16. Nursing Home21 topic
  17. Patient Rights21 topic
  18. Precarious Employment21 topic
  19. Quality of Care21 topic
  20. Unemployment21 topic

Where does Vera Carstairs work?

Vera Carstairs's main affiliation in the publication record is Scottish Health Services, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Vera Carstairs have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 2,868 citations for Vera Carstairs, an h-index of 19, ranking #388,376 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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