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Academic Pediatrics
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Academic Pediatrics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 1339 101 163 18

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 274
Documents by Best Scientists*: 366
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 99
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.316
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Academic Pediatrics?

The foci of Academic Pediatrics are Family medicine, Medical education, Nursing, Health care and Curriculum. While work presented in Academic Pediatrics provided substantial information on Family medicine, it also covered topics in Psychological intervention, Odds ratio, MEDLINE and Confidence interval. The studies on Odds ratio discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Odds and Pediatrics.

The studies in Confidence interval featured incorporate elements of Demography and Logistic regression. In particular, the Medical education works presented emphasize discussions on Graduate medical education. The study of Accreditation serves as the foundation of the Graduate medical education research discussed in the journal.

Academic Pediatrics connects the study in Nursing with the closely related area of Quality management. The majority of Health care studies in it are focused on the subject of Medicaid.

  • Family medicine (25.33%)
  • Medical education (19.85%)
  • Nursing (13.72%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Use of Interrupted Time Series Analysis in Evaluating Health Care Quality Improvements (486 citations)
  • Prevalence and Trends of Severe Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents (292 citations)
  • Associations Between Obesity and Comorbid Mental Health, Developmental, and Physical Health Conditions in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Children Aged 10 to 17 (258 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Academic Pediatrics:

The journal articles investigate studies in Health care, Family medicine, Pediatrics, Odds ratio and Nursing. The most cited publications focus on Family medicine but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Psychological intervention which is concerned with Mental health and PsycINFO. The journal papers explore topics in Nursing which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Curriculum and Quality management.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Law
  • Health care

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Family medicine, Medical education, Psychological intervention, Health care and Confidence interval. Concepts in Emergency department, as well as related topics in Emergency medicine, are covered in the Family medicine research presented in the journal. Research in Intervention (counseling) and the interrelating topic of Randomized controlled trial were among the subjects of interest in the Psychological intervention studies discussed in Academic Pediatrics.

Issues in Health care were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Nursing and Mental health. The work on Confidence interval tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Odds ratio, Logistic regression, Odds and Demography. The journal connects research in Odds ratio with the related topic of Pediatrics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Planning for Virtual Interviews: Residency Recruitment During a Pandemic. (8 citations)
  • Optimizing Synchronous Online Teaching Sessions: A Guide to the "New Normal" in Medical Education. (6 citations)
  • Facilitators and Inhibitors to Assessing Entrustable Professional Activities in Pediatric Residency (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Academic Pediatrics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Daniel J. Schumacher (44 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Rebecca Blankenburg (41 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Alan Schwartz (41 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Peter G. Szilagyi (35 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Su-Ting Terry Li (34 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Academic Pediatrics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Boston Children's Hospital (267 papers) published 44 papers at the last edition, 11 more than at the previous edition,
  • Harvard University (178 papers) published 23 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (131 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (114 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (111 papers) published 26 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.07% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 48.94% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.55% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.25% of all publications and 17.25% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • The Association of the Childhood Opportunity Index on Pediatric Readmissions and Emergency Department Revisits.

    (2021)
    95 Citations
  • Communicating With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: A Narrative Review.

    Rupali J Limaye;Douglas J Opel;Amanda Dempsey;Mallory Ellingson

    (2021)
    87 Citations
  • Vibrant and healthy kids: Aligning science, practice, and policy to advance health equity.

    James M. Perrin;Michael C. Lu;Amy Geller;Jennifer E. DeVoe

    (2020)
    84 Citations
  • Pediatrician Attitudes Toward and Experiences With Telehealth Use: Results From a National Survey.

    Blake Sisk;Joshua Alexander;Chelsea Bodnar;Chelsea Bodnar;Alison Curfman

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • Identifying Milestones in Language Development for Young Children Ages 1 to 6 Years.

    Margot I. Visser-Bochane;Sijmen A. Reijneveld;Wim P. Krijnen;Cees P. van der Schans;Cees P. van der Schans

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • The Impact of Telemedicine on Transfer Rates of Newborns at Rural Community Hospitals

    Sarah C. Haynes;Madan Dharmar;Barry C. Hill;Kristin R. Hoffman

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Parents' Use of Technologies for Health Management: A Health Literacy Perspective.

    Nicole Meyers;Alexander F. Glick;Alan L. Mendelsohn;Ruth M. Parker

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Racial Disparities in Developmental Delay Diagnosis and Services Received in Early Childhood

    Abraham Gallegos;Rebecca Dudovitz;Christopher Biely;Paul J. Chung;Paul J. Chung

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Healthy and Ready to Learn: Prevalence and Correlates of School Readiness among United States Preschoolers

    Reem M. Ghandour;Ashley H. Hirai;Kristin A. Moore;Lara R. Robinson

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Barriers to Attendance of Prenatal and Well-Child Visits.

    Elizabeth R. Wolf;Elizabeth R. Wolf;Erin Donahue;Roy T. Sabo;Bergen B. Nelson;Bergen B. Nelson

    (2021)
    29 Citations

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