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Gladstone Institutes

In research, Gladstone Institutes stands highest in Life Sciences (#360 of 6,403 worldwide), Health Sciences (#720 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#701 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Molecular Biology (Molecular Biology is 9.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,594
of 22,385 · #702 all time
Rank in United States
#321
of 3,332
Research works
1.6k
▲ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
193k
119.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.21×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
69%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Gladstone Institutes

What is Gladstone Institutes 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
Life SciencesDomain #360 of 6,403 19.4%133 #176
Health SciencesDomain #720 of 9,902 21.5%67 #320
MedicineField #701 of 8,541 21.6%64 #309
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #287 of 2,964 19.1%90 #155
Molecular BiologySubfield #221 of 1,880 18.3%66 #131

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gladstone Institutes 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. Life Sciences#176 #360
  2. Health Sciences#320 #720
  3. Medicine#309 #701
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#155 #287
  5. Molecular Biology#131 #221
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 Gladstone Institutes work in?

In 2022-now, 60% of research at Gladstone Institutes is in Life Sciences, 31% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (29%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%). It does 4.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 151 fractional works · 60.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 103 fractional works · 41.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 75 fractional works · 29.9% of its workGenetics: 12 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBiophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCell Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStructural Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 22 fractional works · 8.8% of its workImmunology: 18 fractional works · 7.1% of its workVirology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 20 fractional works · 8.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 77 fractional works · 30.5% of its workMedicine: 73 fractional works · 29.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPhysiology: 10 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGladstoneInstitutes251fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences60%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences31%Social Sciences2%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10341.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology228.8%
    3. Neuroscience208.1%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Medicine7329.2%
    2. Health Professions20.9%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Environmental Science62.5%
    2. Engineering52.2%
    3. Computer Science20.9%
    4. Chemistry20.9%
    5. Materials Science10.4%
    6. Mathematics00.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences10.6%
    2. Psychology10.4%
    3. Decision Sciences10.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Gladstone Institutes specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Molecular Biology takes 9.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Molecular BiologySubfield · 75.2 works9.9×
← 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: 0.42× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7.70× its world share, 103 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 8.73× its world share, 22 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.96× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.50× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.52× its world share, 73 worksMedicineNursing: 0.91× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology8.73×22 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.70×103 works
  3. Neuroscience4.96×20 works
  4. Medicine1.52×73 works
  5. Nursing0.91×1 works
  6. Chemistry0.55×2 works
  7. Environmental Science0.50×6 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.47×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.42×5 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.35×1 works
  11. Health Professions0.34×2 works
  12. Mathematics0.17×0 works
  13. Veterinary0.16×0 works
  14. Energy0.14×0 works
  15. Engineering0.14×6 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×1 works
  17. Psychology0.14×1 works
  18. Computer Science0.11×2 works
  19. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.09×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.05×1 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Gladstone Institutes?

Ranked on the quality score, Katherine S. Pollard, Robert W. Mahley and Eric M. Verdin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gladstone Institutes.

  1. 1 Katherine S. Pollard United States · #2,879 worldwide 59k citations · 474 works
  2. 2 Robert W. Mahley United States · #3,032 worldwide 63k citations · 378 works
  3. 3 Eric M. Verdin United States · #4,830 worldwide 75k citations · 463 works
  4. 4 Robert V. Farese United States · #5,580 worldwide 50k citations · 313 works
  5. 5 Lennart Mucke United States · #7,497 worldwide 54k citations · 251 works
  6. 6 Israel F. Charo United States · #8,131 worldwide 38k citations · 221 works
  7. 7 Warner C. Greene United States · #12,210 worldwide 43k citations · 385 works
  8. 8 Steven M. Finkbeiner United States · #15,016 worldwide 48k citations · 315 works
  9. 9 Benoit G. Bruneau United States · #17,615 worldwide 27k citations · 264 works
  10. 10 T L Innerarity United States · #17,866 worldwide 15k citations · 91 works
All ranked researchers at Gladstone Institutes

What are the most cited papers from Gladstone Institutes?

The most cited paper from Gladstone Institutes is "Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors" (Kazutoshi Takahashi, Koji Tanabe, Mari Ohnuki et al., 2007), with 20,424 citations. Next come "Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome" (12,195) and "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)" (6,023).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors Kazutoshi Takahashi, Koji Tanabe, Mari Ohnuki et al. · Cell Nov 2007 20,424
2 Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome Curtis Huttenhower et al. · Nature Open access248 authors Jun 2012 12,195
3 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy Open access2,467 authors 2 Jan 2016 6,023
4 Reference-based analysis of lung single-cell sequencing reveals a transitional profibrotic macrophage Dvir Aran, Agnieszka P. Looney, Leqian Liu et al. · Nature Immunology Open access 4 Jan 2019 5,566
5 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
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Gladstone Institutes?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neurodegeneration, Gene Expression, Vaccine, Neuroinflammation, Innate Immunity, Oxidative Stress, Immune Response and Genome Engineering.

▲ 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. Neurodegeneration16▲ 20×10 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress15▲ 3.6×27 topics
  3. Gene Expression14▲ 8.8×15 topics
  4. Epidemiology14▲ 1.36×48 topics
  5. Inflammation13▲ 2.5×50 topics
  6. Vaccine12▲ 12×8 topics
  7. Neuroinflammation12▲ 16×5 topics
  8. Innate Immunity11▲ 14×10 topics
  9. Immune Response10▲ 6.9×17 topics
  10. Cancer9▲ 2.7×32 topics
  11. Genome Engineering9▲ 58×1 topic
  12. RNA-Guided9▲ 58×1 topic
  13. RNA-Seq9▲ 30×2 topics
  14. Transcriptional Regulation8▲ 20×8 topics
  15. Brain Development8▲ 17×4 topics
  16. Data Integration7▲ 17×2 topics
  17. Immunity7▲ 7.1×6 topics
  18. Single-Cell7▲ 52×1 topic
  19. Transcriptomics7▲ 52×1 topic
  20. Cancer Immunotherapy7▲ 17×3 topics
  21. Therapeutic Strategies7▲ 27×2 topics
  22. Amyloid Hypothesis6▲ 43×1 topic
  23. Tau Pathology6▲ 43×1 topic
  24. Neurological Disorders6▲ 4.4×12 topics
  25. Gene Regulation6▲ 25×4 topics
  26. Cytokines6▲ 8.3×6 topics
  27. SARS-CoV-26▲ 7.9×4 topics
  28. Antiretroviral Therapy6▲ 14×5 topics
  29. Coronavirus6▲ 11×2 topics
  30. ACE2 Receptor5▲ 9.1×2 topics
  31. Microglia5▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Pluripotent Stem Cells5▲ 39×2 topics
  33. Differentiation5▲ 32×2 topics
  34. Ischemic Stroke5▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Astrocytes5▲ 33×1 topic
  36. Autoimmunity5▲ 13×5 topics
  37. Synaptic Pruning5▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Chromatin5▲ 38×2 topics
  39. Lymphoma5▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Embryonic Stem Cells5▲ 41×2 topics

Which research topics does Gladstone Institutes publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

CRISPR and Genetic Engin…9CRISPR and Genetic Engineering: 9 fractional worksSingle-cell and spatial …7Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: 7 fractional worksAlzheimer's disease rese…6Alzheimer's disease research and treatments: 6 fractional worksNeuroinflammation and Ne…5Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms: 5 fractional worksPluripotent Stem Cells Research: 4 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 4 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and…4Immune Cell Function and Interaction: 4 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional worksGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics: 4 fractional worksT-cell and B-cell Immuno…4T-cell and B-cell Immunology: 4 fractional works
Molecular BiologyPhysiologyNeurologyOncology2 others

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

  1. 1 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 9 works
  2. 2 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 7 works
  3. 3 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 6 works
  4. 4 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms Neurology 5 works
  5. 5 Pluripotent Stem Cells Research Molecular Biology 4 works
  6. 6 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 4 works
  7. 7 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 4 works
  8. 8 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works
  9. 9 Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Molecular Biology 4 works
  10. 10 T-cell and B-cell Immunology Immunology 4 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 available68.6%not open31.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.1%domestic only75.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gladstone Institutes's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% 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 Gladstone Institutes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00093% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Gladstone Institutes0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gladstone Institutes 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 counting20%40%60%Gladstone Institutes15.9% 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 42.0% in 1994.

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