Betsy L. Humphreys

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Betsy L. Humphreys is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, General Health Professions and Health Information Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Betsy L. Humphreys has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in General Health Professions and 15 papers in Health Information Management. Recurrent topics in Betsy L. Humphreys's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (22 papers), Health Sciences Research and Education (15 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (15 papers). Betsy L. Humphreys is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (22 papers), Health Sciences Research and Education (15 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (15 papers). Betsy L. Humphreys collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Ukraine. Betsy L. Humphreys's co-authors include D. A. B. Lindberg, Alexa T. McCray, Donald A. B. Lindberg, G. Octo Barnett, Harold M. Schoolman, Elizabeth Miller, Connie Mitchell, Brigid McCaw, J. Marc Overhage and Alla Keselman and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Betsy L. Humphreys

45 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Unified Medical Language System

1993 857 citations Betsy L. Humphreys, Alexa T. McCray et al. Methods of Information in Medicine profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Betsy L. Humphreys United States	20	1.7k	1.4k	494	436	190	48	2.7k
Alexa T. McCray United States	25	2.7k 1.6×	2.2k 1.5×	492 1.0×	397 0.9×	191 1.0×	75	3.9k
D. A. B. Lindberg United States	15	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	415 0.8×	287 0.7×	151 0.8×	45	2.2k
Stéfan Darmoni France	22	738 0.4×	706 0.5×	190 0.4×	294 0.7×	205 1.1×	213	1.9k
Trevor Cohen United States	27	778 0.5×	904 0.6×	237 0.5×	322 0.7×	236 1.2×	141	2.6k
Graciela Gonzalez‐Hernandez United States	32	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	118 0.2×	235 0.5×	320 1.7×	158	4.4k
Elmer V. Bernstam United States	29	897 0.5×	696 0.5×	714 1.4×	896 2.1×	554 2.9×	139	3.7k
Stefan Schulz Germany	22	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	346 0.7×	99 0.2×	156 0.8×	187	2.3k
C Friedman United States	26	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	487 1.0×	106 0.2×	117 0.6×	43	2.8k
Allen C. Browne United States	18	785 0.5×	802 0.6×	143 0.3×	274 0.6×	52 0.3×	55	1.2k
Brett R. South United States	21	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	309 0.6×	184 0.4×	159 0.8×	54	2.3k

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Dorsch, Josephine L., et al.. (2022). Grateful Med: Direct access to MEDLINE for health professionals with personal computers. Information Services & Use. 42(2). 151–160. 1 indexed citations

Keselman, Alla, et al.. (2017). Libraries and librarians: Key partners for progress in health literacy research and practice. Information Services & Use. 37(1). 85–100. 28 indexed citations

Mork, James G., et al.. (2011). A retrospective cohort study of structured abstracts in MEDLINE, 1992–2006. Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA. 99(2). 160–163. 24 indexed citations

Humphreys, Betsy L., et al.. (2010). Presentation of the 2009 Morris F Collen Award to Betsy L Humphreys, with remarks from the recipient. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 17(4). 481–485. 2 indexed citations

Humphreys, Betsy L. & D. A. B. Lindberg. (2008). Rising Expectations: Access to Biomedical Information. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 17(1). 165–172. 16 indexed citations

Humphreys, Betsy L.. (2002). Adjusting to progress: interactions between the National Library of Medicine and health sciences librarians, 1961-2001.. PubMed. 90(1). 4–20. 11 indexed citations

Overhage, J. Marc, et al.. (2001). A National Agenda for Public Health Informatics: Summarized Recommendations from the 2001 AMIA Spring Congress. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 8(6). 535–545. 65 indexed citations

Yasnoff, William A., J. Marc Overhage, Betsy L. Humphreys, et al.. (2001). A National Agenda for Public Health Informatics. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 7(6). 1–21. 29 indexed citations

Humphreys, Betsy L., et al.. (1999). Powerful connections for public health: the National Library of Medicine and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.. American Journal of Public Health. 89(11). 1633–1636. 8 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L., D. A. B. Lindberg, Harold M. Schoolman, & G. Octo Barnett. (1998). The Unified Medical Language System: An Informatics Research Collaboration. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 5(1). 1–11. 367 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L.. (1998). Meeting information needs in health policy and public health: Priorities for the national library of medicine and the national network of libraries of medicine. Journal of Urban Health. 75(4). 878–883. 12 indexed citations

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Lindberg, D. A. B. & Betsy L. Humphreys. (1997). Contempo 1997 Medical informatics. JAMA. 277(23). 1870–1872. 1 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L.. (1994). The 1994 Unified Medical Language System Knowledge Sources. Health Libraries Review. 11(3). 200–203. 7 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L., et al.. (1993). The unified medical language system: moving beyond the vocabulary of bibliographic retrieval. 31–44. 8 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L., Alexa T. McCray, & D. A. B. Lindberg. (1993). The Unified Medical Language System. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 2(1). 41–51. 379 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L., Alexa T. McCray, & D. A. B. Lindberg. (1993). The Unified Medical Language System. Methods of Information in Medicine. 32(4). 281–291. 857 indexed citations breakdown →

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Humphreys, Betsy L., D. A. B. Lindberg, & William T. Hole. (1991). Assessing and enhancing the value of the UMLS Knowledge Sources.. PubMed. 78–82. 13 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L.. (1990). De Facto, De Rigueur, and Even Useful: Standards for the Published Literature and Their Relationship to Medical Informatics. PubMed Central. 2–8. 4 indexed citations

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Lindberg, Donald A. B. & Betsy L. Humphreys. (1990). Concepts, Issues, and Standards. Current Status of the NLM's Umls Project: The UMLS Knowledge Sources: Tools for Building Better User Interfaces. 121. 1 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Betsy L. & Donald A. B. Lindberg. (1989). Building the Unified Medical Language System. PubMed Central. 475–480. 72 indexed citations

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