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2025

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D-Index
85
Citations
34798
World Ranking
266
National Ranking
120

Gerard F. Anderson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard F. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 407 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Gerard F. Anderson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard F. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 85 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Gerard F. Anderson is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The researcher's work spans areas primarily within economics, econometrics, and finance, alongside significant contributions to medicine. Their main fields of study include Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions, with additional focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pharmacology, and Family Practice.

Their research topics concentrate on aspects such as Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical studies and practices, Healthcare cost, quality, practices, and Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare.

The researcher has contributed papers published across a variety of prominent venues, including:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • Value in Health
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Health Affairs
  • JAMA Health Forum

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • Variation in the estimated costs of pivotal clinical benefit trials supporting the US approval of new therapeutic agents, 2015-2017: a cross-sectional study (2020), published in BMJ Open
  • The likely economic impact of fewer elective surgical procedures on US hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in Surgery
  • Analysis Suggests Government And Nonprofit Hospitals' Charity Care Is Not Aligned With Their Favorable Tax Treatment (2021), published in Health Affairs
  • Varying Trends In The Financial Viability Of US Rural Hospitals, 2011-17 (2020), published in Health Affairs
  • Allocation of National Institutes of Health Funding by Disease Category in 2008 and 2019 (2021), published in JAMA Network Open

The researcher collaborates frequently with notable co-authors such as Mariana P. Socal, Ge Bai, Michael J. DiStefano, Jeromie Ballreich, and Mark K. Meiselbach. These collaborations have contributed to an extensive body of work in their respective fields.

This scientific profile reflects a career concentrating on the intersection of economics and health, with a substantial focus on healthcare policy, hospital financial viability, and pharmaceutical economics. The researcher's extensive publication record and collaboration network demonstrate ongoing engagement with core issues in healthcare systems and economic policy research.

Best Publications

  • Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity: Implications for Improved Targeting and Care

    Linda P. Fried;Luigi Ferrucci;Jonathan Darer;Jeff D. Williamson

  • Prevalence, expenditures, and complications of multiple chronic conditions in the elderly

    Jennifer L. Wolff;Barbara Starfield;Gerard Anderson

  • Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure

    Joel B Braunstein;Gerard F Anderson;Gary Gerstenblith;Wendy Weller

  • It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries

    Gerard F. Anderson;Uwe E. Reinhardt;Peter S. Hussey;Varduhi Petrosyan

  • The Growing Burden of Chronic Disease in America

    Gerard Anderson;Jane Horvath

  • Chronic Care: Making the Case for Ongoing Care

    Anderson G

  • Population aging: a comparison among industrialized countries.

    Gerard F. Anderson;Peter Sotir Hussey

  • The relation between funding by the National Institutes of Health and the burden of disease.

    Cary P. Gross;Gerard F. Anderson;Neil R. Powe

  • Out-Of-Pocket Medical Spending For Care Of Chronic Conditions

    Wenke Hwang;Wendy Weller;Henry Ireys;Gerard Anderson

  • The Relationship Between a Dementia Diagnosis, Chronic Illness, Medicare Expenditures, and Hospital Use

    Julie P. W. Bynum;Peter V. Rabins;Wendy Weller;Marlene Niefeld

  • Hospital Readmissions in the Medicare Population

    Gerard F. Anderson;Earl P. Steinberg

  • Intensive care unit telemedicine: Alternate paradigm for providing continuous intensivist care

    Brian A. Rosenfeld;Todd Dorman;Michael J. Breslow;Peter Pronovost

  • U.S. Health Care Spending In An International Context

    Uwe E. Reinhardt;Peter S. Hussey;Gerard F. Anderson

  • Postdischarge Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors and the Likelihood of Early Hospital Readmission Among Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries

    Alicia I. Arbaje;Jennifer L. Wolff;Qilu Yu;Neil R. Powe

  • Health Care Spending And Use Of Information Technology In OECD Countries

    Gerard F. Anderson;Bianca K. Frogner;Roger A. Johns;Uwe E. Reinhardt

  • Health spending in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world.

    Gerard F. Anderson;Peter S. Hussey;Bianca K. Frogner;Hugh R. Waters

  • National Outcomes of Cataract Extraction: Retinal Detachment and Endophthalmids after Outpatient Cataract Surgery

    Jonathan C. Javitt;Jonathan C. Javitt;Debra A. Street;James M. Tielsch;Qin Wang

  • Chronic medical illness, depression, and use of acute medical services among Medicare beneficiaries.

    Seth Himelhoch;Wendy E. Weller;Albert W. Wu;Gerard F. Anderson

  • Comorbidity and the use of primary care and specialist care in the elderly.

    Barbara Starfield;Klaus W. Lemke;Robert Herbert;Wendy D. Pavlovich

  • Estimated Costs of Pivotal Trials for Novel Therapeutic Agents Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, 2015-2016

    Thomas J. Moore;Hanzhe Zhang;Gerard Anderson;G. Caleb Alexander

  • Health Insurers' Assessment of Medical Necessity

    Mark A. Hall;Gerard F. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil R. Powe
Neil R. Powe University of California, San Francisco
Peter S. Hussey
Peter S. Hussey RAND Corporation
Martin Gaynor
Martin Gaynor Carnegie Mellon University
Eric B. Bass
Eric B. Bass Johns Hopkins University
Albert W. Wu
Albert W. Wu Johns Hopkins University
Paul K. Whelton
Paul K. Whelton Tulane University
Kalipso Chalkidou
Kalipso Chalkidou Center for Global Development
Judith R. Lave
Judith R. Lave University of Pittsburgh
Mark A. Hall
Mark A. Hall Wake Forest University
Barbara Starfield
Barbara Starfield Johns Hopkins University

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