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Research in San Carlos

Science Explorer records 17 research institutions in San Carlos, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Natera (United States).

Research institutions
17
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
911
▲ 64% vs 2018-21
Citations
22k
24.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
15.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
San Carlos

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 San Carlos?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Natera (United States)Company 344 #14,750
2Protein Metrics (United States)Company 198 #8,900 all time
3TiVo (United States)Company 86 not ranked
4Go2 for Lung CancerNonprofit 72 not ranked
5Natus (United States)Company 50 not ranked
6Cellerant Therapeutics (United States)Company 32 not ranked
7Rosa (United States)Company 31 not ranked
8Allakos (United States)Company 29 not ranked
9Apexigen (United States)Company 20 not ranked
10Omniox (United States)Company 19 not ranked
11Addario Lung Cancer Medical InstituteHospital / health system 18 not ranked
12BioCardia (United States)Company 7 not ranked
13Kiko Labs (United States)Company 3 not ranked
14Penfold Patterson Research InstituteNonprofit 1 not ranked
15BAROnova (United States)Company 1 not ranked
16Prescient Surgical (United States)Company 1 not ranked
17LiveLeaf (United States)Company 1 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.

Natera (United States): 37.7%Protein Metrics (United States): 21.7%TiVo (United States): 9.4%Go2 for Lung Cancer: 7.9%13 others listed: 23.3%38%largest
Natera (United States)344 · 37.7%Protein Metrics (United States)198 · 21.7%TiVo (United States)86 · 9.4%Go2 for Lung Cancer72 · 7.9%13 others listed213 · 23.3%

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

Which fields of science does San Carlos work in?

In 2022-now, 53% of research in San Carlos is in Health Sciences, 32% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (50%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Engineering (3%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Health Sciences: 204 fractional works · 52.6% of its workMedicine: 195 fractional works · 50.2% of its workOncology: 38 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 26 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSurgery: 20 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 16 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 12 fractional works · 3.1% of its workTransplantation: 10 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 9 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNephrology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 125 fractional works · 32.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 107 fractional works · 27.6% of its workCancer Research: 35 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 35 fractional works · 9.0% of its workGenetics: 32 fractional works · 8.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology: 8 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 30 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSan Carlos388fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences32%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences53%Social Sciences8%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine19550.2%
    2. Health Professions71.9%
    3. Dentistry10.2%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10727.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology82.1%
    3. Neuroscience51.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences92.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.7%
    3. Decision Sciences61.5%
    4. Psychology51.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    1. Engineering102.6%
    2. Computer Science71.8%
    3. Environmental Science51.3%
    4. Mathematics30.8%
    5. Chemistry20.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    8. Materials Science10.1%
    9. Energy00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is San Carlos strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in San Carlos is most concentrated in Cancer Research, Genetics and Oncology (17.8× the world share in Cancer Research).

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 24.7 works18×
  2. GeneticsSubfield · 27.0 works10×
  3. OncologySubfield · 31.7 works8.8×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.82× its world share, 82 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.45× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.79× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.72× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.80× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.65× its world share, 163 worksMedicineNursing: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.81× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.90× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.44× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.82×82 works
  2. Medicine2.65×163 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology2.45×8 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.81×6 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.90×6 works
  6. Health Professions0.80×7 works
  7. Neuroscience0.79×4 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.72×1 works
  9. Dentistry0.62×1 works
  10. Mathematics0.60×2 works
  11. Veterinary0.54×0 works
  12. Chemistry0.44×2 works
  13. Psychology0.44×4 works
  14. Nursing0.37×1 works
  15. Environmental Science0.25×4 works
  16. Computer Science0.24×6 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.24×2 works
  18. Social Sciences0.19×8 works
  19. Engineering0.18×9 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×2 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.08×1 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×1 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×0 works
  24. Energy0.03×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in San Carlos?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cell-Free DNA, Targeted Therapy, Genomic Instability, Somatic Mutations, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Chemotherapy and Precision Medicine.

▲ 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. Cell-Free DNA43▲ 115×2 topics
  2. Targeted Therapy43▲ 50×5 topics
  3. Genomic Instability33▲ 76×3 topics
  4. Somatic Mutations32▲ 101×2 topics
  5. Cancer Genomics32▲ 114×1 topic
  6. Mutational Signatures32▲ 114×1 topic
  7. Chemotherapy23▲ 8.2×21 topics
  8. Precision Medicine21▲ 11×7 topics
  9. Clinical Trials19▲ 7.2×15 topics
  10. Genetic Testing17▲ 38×3 topics
  11. Cancer Risk17▲ 20×3 topics
  12. Prenatal Diagnosis13▲ 24×5 topics
  13. Immunotherapy12▲ 4.3×15 topics
  14. Molecular Characterization12▲ 18×5 topics
  15. Gene Expression12▲ 5.0×8 topics
  16. Kidney Transplantation12▲ 49×2 topics
  17. Genomic Sequencing12▲ 26×2 topics
  18. Graft Survival12▲ 35×3 topics
  19. Aneuploidy Screening12▲ 117×1 topic
  20. Maternal Plasma DNA Sequencing12▲ 117×1 topic
  21. Breast Cancer11▲ 11×8 topics
  22. Transplantation10▲ 25×4 topics
  23. Adjuvant Chemotherapy9▲ 35×2 topics
  24. Radiotherapy9▲ 6.1×10 topics
  25. Immunosuppressive Drugs9▲ 38×2 topics
  26. Antibody-Mediated Rejection9▲ 61×1 topic
  27. Renal Allograft9▲ 61×1 topic
  28. Ovarian Cancer9▲ 25×2 topics
  29. Hereditary Syndromes9▲ 75×1 topic
  30. Microsatellite Instability9▲ 75×1 topic
  31. Immunosuppressive Therapy8▲ 11×6 topics
  32. BRCA18▲ 75×1 topic
  33. BRCA28▲ 75×1 topic
  34. Genomic Profiling8▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Resistance Mechanisms8▲ 23×2 topics
  36. ALK Inhibitors8▲ 32×1 topic
  37. EGFR Mutations8▲ 32×1 topic
  38. Treatment Guidelines8▲ 9.1×2 topics
  39. Genetic Variants8▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Rejection7▲ 42×2 topics

What research is done in San Carlos?

Cancer Genomics and Diag…22Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 22 fractional worksPrenatal Screening and D…11Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics: 11 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments a…7Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 7 fractional worksGenetic factors in colorectal cancer: 7 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in cancer: 6 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 6 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 6 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional worksCancer Cells and Metastasis: 4 fractional works
Cancer ResearchPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePathology and Forensic Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 22 works
  2. 2 Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 11 works
  3. 3 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  4. 4 Genetic factors in colorectal cancer Pathology and Forensic Medicine 7 works
  5. 5 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 6 works
  6. 6 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 6 works
  7. 7 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 6 works
  8. 8 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 5 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  10. 10 Cancer Cells and Metastasis Oncology 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%San Carlos10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 37.6% in 2016.

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