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Health Care for Women International
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Health Care for Women International

0739-9332

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhcw20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 904 15 15 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 37
Documents by Best Scientists*: 33
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 63
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.531
Impact Factor: 0.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Health Care for Women International?

Health Care for Women International facilitates discussions on Health care, Nursing, Clinical psychology, Gerontology and Family medicine. It focuses on different Health care studies like Health policy, Health education and Health promotion. In it, Developing country, Childbirth and Qualitative research are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Nursing research.

Issues in Clinical psychology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Mental health, Psychiatry, Depression (differential diagnoses) and Social support. Psychiatry study tackled is connected to the field of Suicide prevention. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Family medicine and the similar topic of MEDLINE.

  • Health care (16.93%)
  • Nursing (16.13%)
  • Clinical psychology (12.94%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Content analysis: Method, applications, and issues (1588 citations)
  • Member checking with older women: a framework for negotiating meaning. (198 citations)
  • Health effects of experiences of sexual violence for women with abusive partners (191 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Health Care for Women International:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Health care, Clinical psychology, Nursing, Gerontology and Social psychology. The most cited papers explore research in Health care alongside concepts in Family medicine and other areas of study in Breast cancer. Issues in Clinical psychology were discussed in the published articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Mental health, Psychiatry, Anxiety and Social support.

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Law
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are MEDLINE, Family medicine, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology and Qualitative research. The concepts on MEDLINE presented in Health Care for Women International can also apply to other research fields, including Health care, Gerontology, Nursing, Obstetrics and Breast cancer. The majority of Nursing studies are focused on the issues of Psychological intervention.

Obstetrics research presented in Health Care for Women International encompasses a variety of subjects, including Breastfeeding, Randomized controlled trial and Anxiety. Clinical psychology and Mental health are closely related fields of research discussed in it. Health Care for Women International links adjacent topics like Developmental psychology with Affect (psychology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Psychological well-being and happiness among Middle-aged women: A cross-sectional study. (6 citations)
  • Female Nigerian asylum seekers in Italy: An exploration of gender identity dimensions through an interpretative phenomenological analysis (5 citations)
  • The effect of square dance on family cohesion and subjective well-being of middle-aged and empty-nest women in China. (4 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 Health Care for Women International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eleanor Krassen Covan (102 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Phyllis Noerager Stern (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Afaf Ibrahim Meleis (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Eun-Ok Im (14 papers) absent at the last 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 Health Care for Women International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, San Francisco (66 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (61 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Johns Hopkins University (53 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Alberta (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Chicago (27 papers) absent at the last 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, 6.10% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 3.90% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.60% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.09% of all publications and 84.42% 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

  • Living in fear: The relationship between fear of COVID-19, distress, health, and marital satisfaction among Israeli women.

    Abira Reizer;Meni Koslowsky;Lilach Geffen

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Biopsychosocial predictors of symptoms of depression in a sample of South African women diagnosed with endometriosis.

    Rizwana Roomaney;Ashraf Kagee;Sulaiman Heylen

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • The embodiment of childhood abuse and anorexia nervosa: A body mapping study

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Becoming a mother in the context of sex work: Women's experiences of bonding with their children.

    Ruth Elsdon;Ruth O’Shaughnessy;Suzanne M. Hodge;Craig D. Murray

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Psychological and cognitive factors implicated in pain experience in women with endometriosis

    Cristina Zarbo;Agostino Brugnera;Angelo Compare;Chiara Malandrino

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Stress reduction intervention with mothers of children/adolescents with asthma: a randomized controlled study in Brazil

    Sandra Cairo de Oliveira Amaral;Filipa Pimenta;João Marôco;Clemax Couto Sant'Anna

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • The psychological impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy: The moderating role of gender and emotion regulation

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Restrictions and distress in daily, social, and sexual functioning, and intimate relationships in women with pelvic floor complaints: A mixed-method study

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Maternal knowledge of essential newborn care in rural Zambia.

    Julie M Buser;Cheryl A Moyer;Carol J Boyd;Davy Zulu

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • A feminist phenomenological approach to the analysis of body maps: Childhood trauma and anorexia nervosa.

    (2022)
    3 Citations

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