Brian W. Powers

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Brian W. Powers is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian W. Powers has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in General Health Professions, 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Brian W. Powers's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (24 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (14 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (12 papers). Brian W. Powers is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (24 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (14 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (12 papers). Brian W. Powers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Brian W. Powers's co-authors include Ziad Obermeyer, Christine Vogeli, Sendhil Mullainathan, Sachin Jain, Jared B. Hawkins, Sachin Jain, John S. Brownstein, Claudia Großmann, William H. Shrank and Sreekanth K. Chaguturu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Brian W. Powers

51 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

2019 2.9k citations Ziad Obermeyer, Brian W. Powers et al. Science profile →
The digital phenotype

2015 267 citations Sachin Jain, Brian W. Powers et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian W. Powers United States	19	1.2k	908	902	731	580	56	4.1k
I. Glenn Cohen United States	37	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	978 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	403 0.7×	244	5.9k
Christine Vogeli United States	21	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	880 1.0×	958 1.3×	584 1.0×	59	5.6k
Alessandro Blasimme Switzerland	23	854 0.7×	359 0.4×	675 0.7×	683 0.9×	236 0.4×	73	2.8k
Ziad Obermeyer United States	34	2.4k 1.9×	1.2k 1.3×	2.0k 2.2×	1.4k 1.9×	759 1.3×	71	9.3k
Dominic King United Kingdom	27	819 0.7×	902 1.0×	672 0.7×	536 0.7×	73 0.1×	64	4.2k
Jessica Morley United Kingdom	26	690 0.6×	304 0.3×	593 0.7×	431 0.6×	899 1.6×	85	3.7k
Marzyeh Ghassemi United States	33	1.8k 1.5×	308 0.3×	2.1k 2.3×	438 0.6×	300 0.5×	111	4.8k
Bertalan Meskó Hungary	23	1.5k 1.2×	519 0.6×	865 1.0×	467 0.6×	114 0.2×	50	3.4k
Stacy M. Carter Australia	38	465 0.4×	1.8k 2.0×	268 0.3×	1.2k 1.6×	130 0.2×	186	5.7k
David Magnus United States	25	619 0.5×	436 0.5×	340 0.4×	804 1.1×	116 0.2×	70	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian W. Powers

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Leff, Bruce, Christine S. Ritchie, Sarah L. Szanton, et al.. (2024). Epidemiology of Homebound Population Among Beneficiaries of a Large National Medicare Advantage Plan. Annals of Internal Medicine. 177(9). 1199–1208. 1 indexed citations

Powers, Brian W., et al.. (2023). Association Between Community-Level Social Risk and Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Health Forum. 4(3). e230266–e230266. 11 indexed citations

Rosenfeld, Lisa C, et al.. (2022). Remote Care Management for Older Adult Populations With Elevated Prevalence of Depression or Anxiety and Comorbid Chronic Medical Illness: A Systematic Review. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. 63(3). 198–212. 8 indexed citations

Schwartz, Aaron L., et al.. (2022). Comparison of Low-Value Services Among Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Health Forum. 3(9). e222935–e222935. 12 indexed citations

Lakin, Joshua R., Margaret G. Robinson, Ziad Obermeyer, et al.. (2019). Prioritizing Primary Care Patients for a Communication Intervention Using the “Surprise Question”: a Prospective Cohort Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 34(8). 1467–1474. 14 indexed citations

Obermeyer, Ziad, Brian W. Powers, Christine Vogeli, & Sendhil Mullainathan. (2019). Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations. Science. 366(6464). 447–453. 2882 indexed citations breakdown →

Powers, Brian W., Jiali Yan, Jingsan Zhu, et al.. (2018). Subgroups of High-Cost Medicare Advantage Patients: an Observational Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 34(2). 218–225. 27 indexed citations

Yan, Jiali, Kristin A. Linn, Brian W. Powers, et al.. (2018). Applying Machine Learning Algorithms to Segment High-Cost Patient Populations. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 34(2). 211–217. 22 indexed citations

Powers, Brian W., et al.. (2017). Engaging small independent practices in value-based payment: Building Aledade's medicare ACOs. Healthcare. 6(1). 79–87. 6 indexed citations

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Powers, Brian W., et al.. (2016). When doctors go to business school: career shoices of physician-MBAs.. PubMed. 22(6). e196–8. 5 indexed citations

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Powers, Brian W., Amol S. Navathe, Sreekanth K. Chaguturu, Timothy G. Ferris, & David F. Torchiana. (2016). Aligning incentives for value: The internal performance framework at Partners HealthCare. Healthcare. 5(3). 141–149. 10 indexed citations

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Powers, Brian W., Augustus A. White, Nancy E. Oriol, & Sachin Jain. (2016). Race-Conscious Professionalism and African American Representation in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine. 91(7). 913–915. 35 indexed citations

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Lakin, Joshua R., Margaret G. Robinson, Rachelle Bernacki, et al.. (2016). Estimating 1-Year Mortality for High-Risk Primary Care Patients Using the “Surprise” Question. JAMA Internal Medicine. 176(12). 1863–1863. 48 indexed citations

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Powers, Brian W., et al.. (2016). Nonemergency Medical Transportation. JAMA. 316(9). 921–921. 73 indexed citations

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Huang, Yi, Brian W. Powers, & Lev Reyzin. (2015). Training-time optimization of a budgeted booster. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3583–3589. 1 indexed citations

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Jain, Sachin, Brian W. Powers, Jared B. Hawkins, & John S. Brownstein. (2015). The digital phenotype. Nature Biotechnology. 33(5). 462–463. 267 indexed citations breakdown →

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Powers, Brian W. & Sachin Jain. (2014). The Prejudiced Patient. PubMed. 16(6). 434–439. 4 indexed citations

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McGinnis, J. Michael & Brian W. Powers. (2012). Healthy People and the Design Sciences. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 43(5). S407–S409. 1 indexed citations

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Großmann, Claudia, Brian W. Powers, & J. Michael McGinnis. (2011). Visioning Perspectives on the Digital Health Utility. 1 indexed citations

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Wildes, Tanya M., Dorina Kallogjeri, Brian W. Powers, et al.. (2010). The benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage III colorectal cancer is independent of age and comorbidity. Journal of Geriatric Oncology. 1(2). 48–56. 19 indexed citations

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