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Research in Foster City

Science Explorer records 9 research institutions in Foster City, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Gilead Sciences (United States) and Visa (United States).

Research institutions
9
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.5k
▲ 49% vs 2018-21
Citations
91k
36.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
20.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Foster City

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Foster City?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Gilead Sciences (United States)Company 2,116 #2,129
2Visa (United States)Company 168 #21,289
3SciClone Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 102 not ranked
4Interdisciplinary Dental Education AcademyUniversity 41 not ranked
5Notable Labs (United States)Company 29 not ranked
6TeraRecon (United States)Company 14 not ranked
7Guidewire (United States)Company 12 not ranked
8Apollomics (United States)Company 5 not ranked
9Active Spectrum (United States)Company 3 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Gilead Sciences (United States): 85.0%Visa (United States): 6.7%SciClone Pharmaceuticals (United States): 4.1%Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy: 1.6%5 others listed: 2.5%85%largest
Gilead Sciences (United States)2,116 · 85.0%Visa (United States)168 · 6.7%SciClone Pharmaceuticals (United States)102 · 4.1%Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy41 · 1.6%5 others listed63 · 2.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Foster City work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research in Foster City is in Health Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (52%), Computer Science (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 386 fractional works · 54.0% of its workMedicine: 371 fractional works · 51.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 91 fractional works · 12.7% of its workEpidemiology: 50 fractional works · 7.0% of its workOncology: 50 fractional works · 6.9% of its workHepatology: 31 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 26 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHematology: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSurgery: 12 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 144 fractional works · 20.1% of its workComputer Science: 81 fractional works · 11.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 35 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 24 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 22 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 133 fractional works · 18.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 65 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 38 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCancer Research: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 43 fractional works · 6.0% of its workImmunology: 22 fractional works · 3.1% of its workVirology: 18 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 19 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPharmacology: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 53 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 16 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKFoster City715fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences54%Social Sciences7%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine37151.8%
    2. Health Professions121.6%
    3. Dentistry20.2%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science8111.3%
    2. Mathematics243.3%
    3. Engineering162.2%
    4. Chemistry152.1%
    5. Environmental Science40.6%
    6. Materials Science40.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    10. Energy00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology659.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology436.0%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics192.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.5%
    5. Neuroscience30.4%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance162.3%
    2. Social Sciences111.6%
    3. Decision Sciences111.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting101.3%
    5. Psychology30.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Foster City strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Foster City is most concentrated in Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (23.1× the world share in Hepatology).

  1. HepatologySubfield · 27.8 works23×
  2. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 76.5 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.64× its world share, 55 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 6.03× its world share, 38 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7.09× its world share, 16 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.33× its world share, 13 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.54× its world share, 75 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.78× its world share, 20 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.69× its world share, 325 worksMedicineNursing: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.33× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.33× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.63× its world share, 10 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.04× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics7.09×16 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology6.03×38 works
  3. Mathematics2.78×20 works
  4. Medicine2.69×325 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.64×55 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.63×10 works
  7. Computer Science1.54×75 works
  8. Chemistry1.33×13 works
  9. Veterinary1.33×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.04×14 works
  11. Health Professions0.64×11 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.33×7 works
  13. Dentistry0.28×1 works
  14. Neuroscience0.18×2 works
  15. Materials Science0.17×4 works
  16. Engineering0.16×15 works
  17. Nursing0.16×0 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.14×0 works
  19. Psychology0.14×3 works
  20. Environmental Science0.12×4 works
  21. Social Sciences0.11×9 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×3 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.08×1 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works
  25. Energy0.02×0 works
  26. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Foster City?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, Immune Response, HIV Infection, Epidemiology, Vaccine, Antiviral Therapy, Hepatotoxicity and Drug Resistance.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy94▲ 81×6 topics
  2. Epidemiology74▲ 2.6×64 topics
  3. Immune Response74▲ 18×16 topics
  4. HIV Infection46▲ 61×3 topics
  5. Vaccine39▲ 14×11 topics
  6. Inflammation38▲ 2.5×55 topics
  7. Antiviral Therapy36▲ 53×3 topics
  8. Hepatotoxicity36▲ 104×2 topics
  9. Drug Resistance36▲ 17×6 topics
  10. Liver Disease34▲ 52×3 topics
  11. Adverse Effects33▲ 98×2 topics
  12. Integrase Inhibitors32▲ 214×1 topic
  13. Nucleoside Analogues32▲ 214×1 topic
  14. Mortality Rates30▲ 44×2 topics
  15. HIV Transmission29▲ 54×2 topics
  16. Viral Load29▲ 53×2 topics
  17. Hepatocellular Carcinoma28▲ 19×3 topics
  18. Preexposure Prophylaxis28▲ 81×1 topic
  19. Stigma and Discrimination28▲ 81×1 topic
  20. Treatment28▲ 3.3×25 topics
  21. Genetic Variation27▲ 17×5 topics
  22. Insulin Resistance27▲ 8.3×7 topics
  23. HIV26▲ 43×4 topics
  24. Pandemic24▲ 3.4×7 topics
  25. SARS-CoV-223▲ 11×4 topics
  26. ACE2 Receptor22▲ 14×2 topics
  27. Biomarkers20▲ 4.0×14 topics
  28. Chemotherapy20▲ 3.9×19 topics
  29. Antibodies20▲ 49×2 topics
  30. Hepatitis C Virus19▲ 80×1 topic
  31. Ribavirin19▲ 80×1 topic
  32. Prognostic Factors19▲ 6.1×11 topics
  33. Immune Activation19▲ 33×2 topics
  34. AIDS18▲ 101×1 topic
  35. neurocognitive disorders18▲ 101×1 topic
  36. Pathogenesis18▲ 4.9×15 topics
  37. Immunity16▲ 5.7×8 topics
  38. Chronic Hepatitis B15▲ 63×1 topic
  39. Hepatitis B Virus15▲ 63×1 topic
  40. Thrombosis14▲ 7.2×7 topics

What research is done in Foster City?

HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 28 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 24 fractional worksHepatitis C virus research17Hepatitis C virus research: 17 fractional worksHIV Research and Treatment16HIV Research and Treatment: 16 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies: 13 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 13 fractional worksHIV-related health compl…11HIV-related health complications and treatments: 11 fractional worksDrug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms: 10 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 10 fractional worksAcute Myeloid Leukemia Research: 9 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesHepatologyVirologyEpidemiology3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 28 works
  2. 2 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 24 works
  3. 3 Hepatitis C virus research Hepatology 17 works
  4. 4 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 16 works
  5. 5 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 13 works
  6. 6 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 13 works
  7. 7 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 11 works
  8. 8 Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms Oncology 10 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 10 works
  10. 10 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 9 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%60%Foster City18.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 53.9% in 2003.

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