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Jette, Alan  PhD

Leading researcher with 521 publications
Dr. Jette's research interests include late-life exercise, evaluation of rehabilitation treatment outcomes, and the measurement, epidemiology, and prevention of disability. Dr. Jette is an international expert in the development and dissemination of contemporary outcome measurement instruments to evaluate health care quality and outcomes. He has published over 180 peer reviewed articles on these topics. Dr. Jette currently directs the project entitled, “Use of Computer Adaptive Testing to Assist with theSocial Security Work Disability Determination Process”. He and his collaborators in the Department of Rehabilitation at the NIH Clinical Center are assisting the Social Security Administration to improve their work disability determination process by analyzing existing social security datasets and developing new measures to be used within the process. Throughout his 30+ year research career, Dr. Jette has received consistent research funding from numerous NIH Institutes, the NIDRR, CDC, CMS, SSA, as well as from several foundations and private corporations. Currently, he directs the Boston Rehabilitation Outcome Measurement Center funded by NCMRR/NIH, serves on the Executive Committee of the Boston Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center funded by NIA/NIH, and is Co-Project Director of the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, funded by NIDRR. For 10 years he directed the BU Post Doctoral Fellowship Program in Outcomes Research funded by NIDRR and from 1996-2004 he served as Dean of Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. At a national level, in 1990, Dr. Jette served as Co-Chair of the Panel on Assessment & Epidemiology on the Hunt Valley Task Force on Medical Rehabilitation which was instrumental in founding the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research within NIH. From 1998-2002, Dr. Jette was a Member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee to Review SSA’s Disability Decision Process. From 2004-2008 Dr. Jette served as a member of the National Advisory Board for the NCMRR/NIH. From 2005- 2007, Dr.Jette chaired the Institute of Medicine’s study and co-edited the report, The Future of Disability in America which highlights disability priorities for the nation. From 2010 -2011, he served on the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council’s Panel that conducted an External Evaluation of NIDRR’s Research Programs. He currently serves on the NIH Blue Ribbon Panel that is evaluating rehabilitation research funding within the NIH. In the international area, Dr. Jette served as a member of the International Advisory Panel on the evaluation of Swedish research on disability, Swedish Council for Social Research (2000-2001) was an International Review Panel Member, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (2006-2007), and in 2010 was a Member, Research Review Committee, The Academy of Finland Research Council. He received a BS in Physical Therapy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1973 and a MPH (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) in Public Health from the University of Michigan. show More

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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity
Aggregated career metrics
521

Total documents

3.63

Normalized Impact

161

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

9.4

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications


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Dimensions One by One

Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic attributes. Each dimension includes a set of indicators and has a especific weight on the One Index. More information here...

Activity

805
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.

Impact

943
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Excellence

986
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Leadership

519
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Cooperation

215
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Openness

938
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Community Support

0
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Community Recognition

0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Transference

0
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Fundraising

0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

All indicators

Performance

Activity

Reflects an author's research output.

Documents 521 Count of all document types.
Docs/Year 11.09 Average of documents published by author per year.
Citable docs 437 Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews.
Journal Articles 420 Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed.
Conferences 2 Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium.
Reviews 15 Review papers authored by the researcher.
Patents 0 Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Theses 0 Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings
Books 1 A whole monograph or the entire book.
Book Chapters 0 Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator.
Datasets 14 Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation.
Editorials 55 Papers where the author contributed editorial content.
Reports 0 Research reports or white papers authored.
Grants 0 Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author.
Pre-Prints 0 Number of publications freely available in pre-print format.
Clinical Trials N/A Number of clinical trials where the author has participated.
Other types 0 Other type of documents.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citations 30505 Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types).
Self Citations 861 Citations where the author references their own previous work.
Self Citation Rate 2.822 Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count.
Non Self Citation Rate 97.178 Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations.
Hot Citations 492 Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months.
Citations/Document 58.55 Average of citations recieved per document.
% Not Cited 0.0 Percentage of documents with no citations recieved.
Relative Citation Index 3.629 Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
Journal Relative Citation Index 2.611 Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
H Index 87 Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
G Index 165 Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times.
i10 Index 271 Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citation Score 0.702 Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th.
Citation Normalized Percentile 0.679 Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex.
Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) 161 Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Higly Cited Papers 3.09 Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 1%) 19 Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Outstanding Papers 3.647 Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) 3 Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Hot Papers 26 Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.

Interaction within community

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Docs Leadership 324 Number of documents lead by the author.
% Leadership 62.19 Percentage of documents lead by the author.
Docs International Leadership 14 Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
% International Leadership 2.69 Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
Principal Investigator N/A Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project.
Associations Founded N/A Number of associations founded by the author.
Societies Founded N/A Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author.
Foundations Founded N/A Number of research-related foundations established by the author.
Councils N/A Number of councils founded by author.

Cooperation

Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Authors/Paper 6.03 Average number of authors per document.
% Highly Authored Papers 0.77 Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors.
Countries/Paper 0.94 Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document.
Docs International Collaboration 49 Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line.
% International Collaboration 9.4 Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line.

Community Support

Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Peer Review Counts 0 Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications.
Society Membership N/A Number of societies of wich the author is a member.
Society Memberships N/A Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies.
Editorial Board Memberships N/A Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board.
Panelists N/A Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls.

Community Recognition

Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Distinctions 0 Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career.
Invitations N/A Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations.
Talks N/A Number of times the author has been invited to talks.
Professorships N/A Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips.
Commissioned Reports N/A Commissioned reports done by the author.

Interaction with society

Openness

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Open Access Documents 306 Number of documents in Open Access mode.
% Open Access Documents 58.73 Percentage of documents in Open Access mode.
Open Access Gold 24 Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
Open Access Green 89 Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
Open Access Hybrid 26 Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
Open Access Bronze 166 Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.
Open Access Closed 215 Non Open Access documents.

Transference

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Patents 0 Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Advisory Boards N/A Number of advisory boards of which the author is member.
Companies N/A Number of companies created or founded by the author.

Fundraising

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

Funding Counts N/A Number of activities reported as funding recieved.
ERC Grantees N/A Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council.
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