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Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
H-index 23

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Published by: Springer

https://jpro.springeropen.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 1048 145 162 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 242
Documents by Best Scientists*: 248
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.93
Impact Factor: 2.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Physical therapy, Quality of life, Clinical psychology, Patient-reported outcome and Content validity. The journal holds forums on Physical therapy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Construct validity and Clinical trial. The presented Quality of life research focuses mostly on Disease and, on occasion, topics in Patient experience.

In Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, Test (assessment), Cronbach's alpha, Item response theory and Scale (social sciences) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Clinical psychology research. Some problems in Cronbach's alpha that were presented in Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes overlapped with concepts under Confirmatory factor analysis, Intraclass correlation and Psychometrics. Studies in Patient-reported outcome and Prom are the key highlights in it.

The concepts on Content validity presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Context (language use), Recall, Validity, Quality of life (healthcare) and Debriefing. While Cancer is the key highlight in Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, it also covered some subjects on Family medicine and Quality of Life Research. The majority of Adverse effect studies are focused on the issues of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.

  • Physical therapy (24.23%)
  • Quality of life (22.56%)
  • Clinical psychology (20.89%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Japanese version of the National Cancer Institute’s patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse events (PRO-CTCAE): psychometric validation and discordance between clinician and patient assessments of adverse events (215 citations)
  • Japanese translation and linguistic validation of the US National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) (148 citations)
  • How do patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) support clinician-patient communication and patient care? A realist synthesis (101 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes:

The most cited publications primarily tackle Patient-reported outcome, Process (engineering), Systematic review, Medical education and Linguistic validation. The study of Patient-reported outcome in the journal articles encompasses disciplines such as Quality of Life Research, as well as fields such as Terminology and Family medicine, all of which overlap with one another. In addition to Systematic review research, the published papers aim to explore topics under Internal medicine, Clinical trial and Protocol (science).

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Cancer

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Patient-reported outcome, Physical therapy, Quality of life, Clinical psychology and Content validity. Topics in Patient-reported outcome explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Outpatient clinic, Rotator cuff injury and Healthcare system. While it mainly focused on Physical therapy studies, it also tackled the scientific discipline of interrelated fields such as

  • Confidence interval that intertwine with fields like Equivalence (measure theory),
  • Cancer most often made with reference to Patient experience..

Quality of life research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Pediatrics and Mood. Issues in Clinical psychology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Test (assessment), Cronbach's alpha, Item response theory, Differential item functioning and Construct validity. The studies on Content validity discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Context (language use), Recall, Debriefing and Quality of life (healthcare).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Patient-reported burden of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis on functioning and well-being (4 citations)
  • Assessing the acceptability, reliability, and validity of the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-C30) in Kenyan cancer patients: a cross-sectional study (2 citations)
  • Swedish translation and cross-cultural adaptation of eight pediatric item banks from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)®. (1 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 Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David Cella (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Dennis A. Revicki (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Anne Skalicky (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Ron D. Hays (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Niels Henrik Hjollund (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 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 Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Northwestern University (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Research Triangle Park (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Eli Lilly and Company (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Copenhagen (12 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Pfizer (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less 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, 7.69% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.25% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.08% of all publications and 29.17% 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

  • Patient-reported outcomes and experiences from the perspective of colorectal cancer survivors: meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.

    Claudia Rutherford;Fabiola Müller;Nasiba Faiz;Madeleine T. King

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Describing the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment symptoms associated with Maslach Burnout Inventory subscale scores in US physicians: an item response theory analysis.

    Keri J. S. Brady;Pengsheng Ni;R. Christopher Sheldrick;Mickey T. Trockel

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Incorporating patient experience into drug development for ulcerative colitis: development of the Urgency Numeric Rating Scale, a patient-reported outcome measure to assess bowel urgency in adults

    (2022)
    55 Citations
  • Selection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for use in health systems.

    Fatima Al Sayah;Xuejing Jin;Jeffrey A. Johnson

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Implementing patient-reported outcomes in routine clinical care for diverse and underrepresented patients in the United States

    (2022)
    44 Citations
  • Patient-reported outcome measures for life engagement in mental health: a systematic review

    (2022)
    39 Citations
  • Agreement between older adult patient and caregiver proxy symptom reports

    (2022)
    33 Citations
  • Patient and healthcare provider perceptions on using patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) in routine clinical care: a systematic review of qualitative studies

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • A multi-level approach for the use of routinely collected patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) data in healthcare systems.

    Fatima Al Sayah;Markus Lahtinen;Gouke J Bonsel;Arto Ohinmaa

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • A multicenter paper-based and web-based system for collecting patient-reported outcome measures in patients undergoing local treatment for prostate cancer: first experiences

    Christoph Kowalski;Rebecca Roth;Günther Carl;Günter Feick

    (2020)
    30 Citations

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