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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
89
Citations
128575
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
97

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Robert S. Kaplan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a strong focus on medicine and economics. The main fields of study include Medicine and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, supported by substantial contributions to related subfields.

The scientist's work covers diverse subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Their research topics emphasize healthcare cost, quality, and practices, health systems and economic evaluations, healthcare policy and management, economic and financial impacts of cancer, cardiac and surgical outcomes, climate change policy and economics, as well as healthcare operations and scheduling optimization.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert S. Kaplan include Thomas W. Feeley, Karthik Ramanna, Andrea L. Pusic, Nikhil G. Thaker, and Steven J. Frank.

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • NEJM Catalyst
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Journal of the American College of Radiology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert S. Kaplan include:

  • Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • How to Fix ESG Reporting, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Health Care Measurements that Improve Patient Outcomes, 2021, NEJM Catalyst

Robert S. Kaplan has also been involved in multidisciplinary research published in other venues such as Health Affairs and Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality & Outcomes.

Their book publication is titled Data-Driven Strategic Planning: Aligning Program Planning, Budgeting, and Strategic Goals, released in 2023 by RAND Corporation eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The balanced scorecard : measures that drive performance

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

    Thomas H. Johnson;Robert S. Kaplan

  • The Balanced Scorecard

    Eric R. Ziegel;R. Kaplan;D. Norton

  • Advanced Management Accounting

    Robert Steven Kaplan;Anthony A Atkinson

  • PUTTING THE BALANCED SCORECARD TO WORK

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Linking the Balanced Scorecard to Strategy

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • The strategy-focused organization

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Having trouble with your strategy? Then map it.

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions

    Robin Cooper;Robert S. Kaplan

  • Transforming the Balanced Scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management: Part II

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton

  • Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets

    Robert S Kaplan;David P Norton

  • The evolution of management accounting

    Robert S. Kaplan;Robert S. Kaplan

  • Measuring manufacturing performance: a new challenge for managerial accounting research

    Robert S. Kaplan

  • Time-driven activity-based costing.

    Robert S. Kaplan;Steven R. Anderson

  • The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

    Robert S. Kaplan;David P. Norton;Shahid Ansari Reviewer

  • Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations

    Robert S. Kaplan

  • How to solve the cost crisis in health care.

    Robert S Kaplan;Michael E Porter

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Norton
David P. Norton University of Florida
Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter Harvard University
Arnold Milstein
Arnold Milstein Stanford University
Lara Jehi
Lara Jehi Cleveland Clinic
Lester B. Lave
Lester B. Lave Carnegie Mellon University

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