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Gilead Sciences (United States)

In research, Gilead Sciences (United States) stands highest in Health Sciences (#616 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#674 of 8,541 worldwide) and Infectious Diseases (#76 of 421 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Statistics and Probability (Hepatology is 26.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,129
of 22,385 · #1,584 all time
Rank in United States
#396
of 3,332
Research works
2.1k
▲ 44% vs 2018-21
Citations
81k
38.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.16×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Gilead Sciences (United States)

What is Gilead Sciences (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #616 of 9,902 17.9%320 #451
MedicineField #674 of 8,541 18.1%309 #506
Infectious DiseasesSubfield #76 of 421 24.5%76 #53
Life SciencesDomain #1,268 of 6,403 14.5%106 #1235

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gilead Sciences (United States) 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#451 #616
  2. Medicine#506 #674
  3. Infectious Diseases#53 #76
  4. Life Sciences#1,235 #1,268
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Gilead Sciences (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 63% of research at Gilead Sciences (United States) is in Health Sciences, 21% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (61%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 366 fractional works · 63.3% of its workMedicine: 353 fractional works · 61.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 91 fractional works · 15.7% of its workEpidemiology: 49 fractional works · 8.5% of its workOncology: 47 fractional works · 8.1% of its workHepatology: 30 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 25 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 15 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHematology: 11 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSurgery: 11 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFamily Practice: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 124 fractional works · 21.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 59 fractional works · 10.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 34 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 41 fractional works · 7.1% of its workImmunology: 21 fractional works · 3.6% of its workVirology: 18 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 19 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPharmacology: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 59 fractional works · 10.3% of its workMathematics: 23 fractional works · 3.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 22 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 14 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpectroscopy: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGilead Sciences(United States)578fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences63%Social Sciences5%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine35361.1%
    2. Health Professions101.8%
    3. Veterinary10.3%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5910.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology417.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics193.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.6%
    5. Neuroscience20.3%
    1. Mathematics233.9%
    2. Chemistry142.5%
    3. Computer Science91.5%
    4. Engineering61.1%
    5. Materials Science40.6%
    6. Environmental Science30.6%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    9. Energy00.0%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance132.3%
    2. Decision Sciences61.0%
    3. Social Sciences40.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.4%
    5. Psychology20.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Gilead Sciences (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 26.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 29.9 works27×
  2. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 90.6 works23×
  3. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 22.3 works18×
← 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: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.90× its world share, 59 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.08× its world share, 41 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 9.31× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.59× its world share, 14 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.19× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.35× its world share, 23 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.18× its world share, 353 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.87× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.08× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 9.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics9.31×19 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology7.08×41 works
  3. Mathematics3.35×23 works
  4. Medicine3.18×353 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.90×59 works
  6. Veterinary1.87×2 works
  7. Chemistry1.59×14 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.08×13 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.03×6 works
  10. Health Professions0.67×10 works
  11. Neuroscience0.19×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.19×9 works
  13. Materials Science0.17×4 works
  14. Nursing0.17×0 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×3 works
  17. Psychology0.12×2 works
  18. Environmental Science0.11×3 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.11×2 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.09×1 works
  21. Engineering0.07×6 works
  22. Dentistry0.07×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.06×4 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works
  25. Energy0.01×0 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Gilead Sciences (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, G. Mani Subramanian, Andrew Cheng and Diana M. Brainard lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gilead Sciences (United States).

  1. 1 G. Mani Subramanian United States · #26,859 worldwide 26k citations · 217 works
  2. 2 Andrew Cheng United States · #35,642 worldwide 11k citations · 118 works
  3. 3 Diana M. Brainard United States · #45,990 worldwide 27k citations · 303 works
  4. 4 Tomáš Cihlář United States · #47,129 worldwide 23k citations · 231 works
  5. 5 Lauri J. Diehl United States · #48,113 worldwide 8.9k citations · 124 works
  6. 6 Hadas Dvory‐Sobol United States · #63,897 worldwide 11k citations · 144 works
  7. 7 James F. Rooney United States · #65,425 worldwide 24k citations · 213 works
  8. 8 Richard W. Wagner United States · #66,810 worldwide 11k citations · 108 works
  9. 9 Cynthia C Brinson United States · #73,697 worldwide 5.2k citations · 74 works
  10. 10 Phillip S. Pang United States · #73,744 worldwide 11k citations · 89 works
All ranked researchers at Gilead Sciences (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Gilead Sciences (United States)?

The most cited paper from Gilead Sciences (United States) is "Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men" (Robert M. Grant et al., 2010), with 5,186 citations. Next come "Selection of single-stranded DNA molecules that bind and inhibit human thrombin" (2,479) and "Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the acquisition of HIV-1 infection (PROUD): effectiveness results from the pilot phase of a pragmatic open-label randomised trial" (1,919).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men Robert M. Grant et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Nov 2010 5,186
2 Selection of single-stranded DNA molecules that bind and inhibit human thrombin Louis C. Bock, Linda C. Griffin, John A Latham et al. · Nature Feb 1992 2,479
3 Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the acquisition of HIV-1 infection (PROUD): effectiveness results from the pilot phase of a pragmatic open-label randomised trial Sheena McCormack et al. · The Lancet Open access 11 Sep 2015 1,919
4 Comparative therapeutic efficacy of remdesivir and combination lopinavir, ritonavir, and interferon beta against MERS-CoV Timothy P. Sheahan, Amy María Sims, Sarah R. Leist et al. · Nature Communications Open access 10 Jan 2020 1,817
5 Regression of cirrhosis during treatment with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for chronic hepatitis B: a 5-year open-label follow-up study Patrick Marcellin, Edward John Gane, Marı́a Buti et al. · The Lancet 9 Dec 2012 1,802
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Gilead Sciences (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, Immune Response, Epidemiology, HIV Infection, 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 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. Antiretroviral Therapy94▲ 99×6 topics
  2. Immune Response73▲ 22×16 topics
  3. Epidemiology73▲ 3.2×64 topics
  4. HIV Infection45▲ 75×3 topics
  5. Vaccine39▲ 17×11 topics
  6. Antiviral Therapy36▲ 66×3 topics
  7. Inflammation36▲ 3.0×52 topics
  8. Hepatotoxicity36▲ 127×2 topics
  9. Drug Resistance34▲ 20×6 topics
  10. Liver Disease34▲ 65×3 topics
  11. Adverse Effects32▲ 120×2 topics
  12. Integrase Inhibitors32▲ 263×1 topic
  13. Nucleoside Analogues32▲ 263×1 topic
  14. Mortality Rates30▲ 54×2 topics
  15. HIV Transmission29▲ 67×2 topics
  16. Viral Load29▲ 65×2 topics
  17. Preexposure Prophylaxis28▲ 100×1 topic
  18. Stigma and Discrimination28▲ 100×1 topic
  19. Hepatocellular Carcinoma28▲ 24×3 topics
  20. Treatment28▲ 3.9×24 topics
  21. Genetic Variation27▲ 21×5 topics
  22. Insulin Resistance27▲ 10×7 topics
  23. HIV26▲ 53×4 topics
  24. Pandemic24▲ 4.2×7 topics
  25. SARS-CoV-223▲ 13×4 topics
  26. ACE2 Receptor22▲ 17×2 topics
  27. Antibodies20▲ 60×2 topics
  28. Biomarkers19▲ 4.8×14 topics
  29. Chemotherapy19▲ 4.7×18 topics
  30. Hepatitis C Virus19▲ 99×1 topic
  31. Ribavirin19▲ 99×1 topic
  32. Immune Activation18▲ 40×2 topics
  33. AIDS18▲ 124×1 topic
  34. neurocognitive disorders18▲ 124×1 topic
  35. Pathogenesis18▲ 6.0×15 topics
  36. Global Burden16▲ 5.2×9 topics
  37. Immunity16▲ 6.9×8 topics
  38. Chronic Hepatitis B15▲ 77×1 topic
  39. Hepatitis B Virus15▲ 77×1 topic
  40. Thrombosis14▲ 8.8×7 topics

Which research topics does Gilead Sciences (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Hepatitis C virus research and HIV Research and Treatment.

HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 32 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 28 fractional worksHepatitis C virus research19Hepatitis C virus research: 19 fractional worksHIV Research and Treatment18HIV Research and Treatment: 18 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies: 15 fractional worksHIV-related health complications and treatments: 13 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …13Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 13 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 12 fractional worksDrug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms: 11 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 9 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesHepatologyVirologyEpidemiology2 others

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

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 32 works
  2. 2 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 28 works
  3. 3 Hepatitis C virus research Hepatology 19 works
  4. 4 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 18 works
  5. 5 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 15 works
  6. 6 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 13 works
  7. 7 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 13 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 12 works
  9. 9 Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms Oncology 11 works
  10. 10 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 9 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 available47.1%not open52.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.8%domestic only72.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gilead Sciences (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Gilead Sciences (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Gilead Sciences (United States)0.0027% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Gilead Sciences (United States) 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 counting10%20%30%Gilead Sciences (United States)15.4% 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 28.7% in 1995.

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