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APLA Health

In research, APLA Health stands highest in Health Sciences (#15,093 of 16,688 worldwide), Life Sciences (#10,101 of 11,023 worldwide) and Medicine (#13,407 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology (Oncology is 13.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#20,607
of 22,385 · #26,682 all time
Rank in United States
#3,053
of 3,332
Research works
582
▲ 117% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.1k
13.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
21%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
APLA Health

What is APLA Health known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #15,093 of 16,688 10.1%285
Life SciencesDomain #10,101 of 11,023 10.7%145
MedicineField #13,407 of 14,558 9.6%250

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where APLA Health sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does APLA Health work in?

In 2022-now, 48% of research at APLA Health is in Health Sciences, 28% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (46%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Health Sciences: 72 fractional works · 47.6% of its workMedicine: 69 fractional works · 45.6% of its workOncology: 24 fractional works · 15.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 43 fractional works · 28.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 fractional works · 17.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 8.5% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiotechnology: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 fractional works · 8.5% of its workImmunology: 12 fractional works · 7.8% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 24 fractional works · 16.0% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 8.0% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKAPLA Health152fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences28%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences48%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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6945.6%
    2. Health Professions21.2%
    3. Nursing10.8%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2717.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology138.5%
    3. Neuroscience21.6%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Computer Science128.0%
    2. Engineering74.6%
    3. Mathematics32.0%
    4. Environmental Science10.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    6. Materials Science00.2%
    7. Chemistry00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Social Sciences53.2%
    2. Psychology32.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does APLA Health specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 13.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 23.6 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.36× its world share, 27 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 8.48× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.01× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.03× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.69× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.37× its world share, 69 worksMedicineNursing: 1.57× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.75× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 8.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology8.48×13 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.36×27 works
  3. Medicine2.37×69 works
  4. Mathematics1.69×3 works
  5. Nursing1.57×1 works
  6. Computer Science1.03×12 works
  7. Neuroscience1.01×2 works
  8. Psychology0.75×4 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.58×2 works
  10. Health Professions0.44×2 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.40×0 works
  12. Engineering0.31×7 works
  13. Veterinary0.27×0 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.27×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.25×5 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.23×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.16×0 works
  18. Chemistry0.14×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.10×0 works
  20. Environmental Science0.08×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.07×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.07×0 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at APLA Health?

Ranked on the quality score, Terry Smith, Bitta P. Kahangi and Jeffery P. Simons lead among researchers whose main affiliation is APLA Health.

  1. 1 Terry Smith United States · #1,214,386 worldwide 1.8k citations · 85 works
  2. 2 Bitta P. Kahangi United States · #1,858,472 worldwide 54 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Jeffery P. Simons United States · #2,241,843 worldwide 1.5k citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Lee E. Klosinski United States · #2,532,008 worldwide 362 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Bryce McDavitt United States · #2,655,983 worldwide 1.1k citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Edgar Perez Reyes United States · #4,196,687 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at APLA Health

What are the most cited papers from APLA Health?

The most cited paper from APLA Health is "SCENIC International Consensus Statement on Surveillance and Management of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease" (Loren Laine et al., 2015), with 776 citations. Next come "An Introduction to the Sport Commitment Model" (630) and "COVID-19 Related Medical Mistrust, Health Impacts, and Potential Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans Living With HIV" (496).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SCENIC International Consensus Statement on Surveillance and Management of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Loren Laine et al. · Gastroenterology Open access 20 Feb 2015 776
2 An Introduction to the Sport Commitment Model Tara Kost Scanlan, Paul J. Carpenter, Jeffery P. Simons et al. · Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Mar 1993 630
3 COVID-19 Related Medical Mistrust, Health Impacts, and Potential Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans Living With HIV Laura M. Bogart, Bisola O. Ojikutu, Keshav Tyagi et al. · JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes Open access 16 Nov 2020 496
4 Health-related quality of life in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the United States: results from the HIV cost and services utilization study Ron D. Hays, William E. Cunningham, Cathy Donald Sherbourne et al. · The American Journal of Medicine Jun 2000 367
5 The Sport Commitment Model: Measurement Development for the Youth-Sport Domain Tara Kost Scanlan, Paul J. Carpenter, Jeffery P. Simons et al. · Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Mar 1993 355
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at APLA Health?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Immunotherapy, Tumor Microenvironment, Cancer Immunotherapy, Tumor Regression, Cancer, Immune Checkpoint Blockade, PD-1 and PD-L1 and Innate Immunity.

▲ 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 institution'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. Immunotherapy20▲ 18×13 topics
  2. Tumor Microenvironment14▲ 21×8 topics
  3. Cancer Immunotherapy11▲ 48×3 topics
  4. Tumor Regression11▲ 65×2 topics
  5. Cancer10▲ 5.0×21 topics
  6. Immune Checkpoint Blockade8▲ 48×1 topic
  7. PD-1 and PD-L18▲ 48×1 topic
  8. Inflammation8▲ 2.4×24 topics
  9. Innate Immunity7▲ 14×6 topics
  10. Lymphoma7▲ 28×3 topics
  11. Leukemia7▲ 53×2 topics
  12. Tumor Targeting7▲ 24×3 topics
  13. Immunity7▲ 11×5 topics
  14. CAR T Cells6▲ 58×1 topic
  15. Chimeric Antigen Receptor6▲ 58×1 topic
  16. Antigen Presentation6▲ 41×2 topics
  17. Gene Therapy6▲ 19×5 topics
  18. Chemotherapy5▲ 5.0×14 topics
  19. Arginine Deprivation5▲ 79×1 topic
  20. Bacterial Therapy5▲ 79×1 topic
  21. Gene Expression5▲ 4.8×7 topics
  22. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 18×5 topics
  23. Cell Death4▲ 12×5 topics
  24. Dendritic Cells4▲ 32×1 topic
  25. Tumor Antigen4▲ 47×1 topic
  26. Cancer Therapy4▲ 4.9×12 topics
  27. Clinical Trials4▲ 3.9×8 topics
  28. Prognostic Factors4▲ 6.1×11 topics
  29. Radiotherapy4▲ 6.1×8 topics
  30. Breast Cancer4▲ 9.4×8 topics
  31. Security4▲ 3.4×4 topics
  32. Targeted Therapy3▲ 10×5 topics
  33. Mortality Rates3▲ 22×2 topics
  34. Reactive Oxygen Species3▲ 4.9×5 topics
  35. Genomic Profiling3▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Ferroptosis2▲ 19×1 topic
  37. HIV Transmission2▲ 21×1 topic
  38. Lipid Peroxidation2▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Preexposure Prophylaxis2▲ 32×1 topic
  40. Viral Load2▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does APLA Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy research, Cancer Research and Treatments and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…8Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 8 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 6 fractional worksCancer Research and Treatments: 5 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune Responses: 4 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 2 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and In…2HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 2 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and Interaction: 2 fractional worksinterferon and immune responses: 2 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 2 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 2 fractional works
OncologyBiotechnologyImmunologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 8 works
  2. 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 6 works
  3. 3 Cancer Research and Treatments Biotechnology 5 works
  4. 4 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 4 works
  5. 5 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 2 works
  7. 7 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 2 works
  8. 8 interferon and immune responses Immunology 2 works
  9. 9 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 2 works
  10. 10 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available20.7%not open79.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.0%domestic only88.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has APLA Health's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 117% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is APLA Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00046% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%APLA Health0.00082% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of APLA Health over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025APLA Health8.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.6% in 2022.

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