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Illumina (United States)

In research, Illumina (United States) stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,624 of 6,403 worldwide), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#1,073 of 2,964 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,983 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Genetics and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Genetics is 10.9× its share of world research).

illumina.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#4,364
of 22,385 · #2,034 all time
Rank in United States
#608
of 3,332
Research works
1.1k
▲ 65% vs 2018-21
Citations
57k
50.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Illumina (United States)

What is Illumina (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
Life SciencesDomain #1,624 of 6,403 15.0%76 #1031
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,073 of 2,964 15.6%66 #721
Health SciencesDomain #3,983 of 9,902 16.0%67 #2856
MedicineField #3,798 of 8,541 16.6%63 #2738
Physical SciencesDomain #6,142 of 10,670 8.9%70 #3634

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Illumina (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. Life Sciences#1,031 #1,624
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#721 #1,073
  3. Health Sciences#2,856 #3,983
  4. Medicine#2,738 #3,798
  5. Physical Sciences#3,634 #6,142
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 Illumina (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 33% of research at Illumina (United States) is in Life Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Medicine (25%), Engineering (14%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 98 fractional works · 32.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 84 fractional works · 27.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 34 fractional works · 11.4% of its workGenetics: 27 fractional works · 9.0% of its workCancer Research: 19 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 83 fractional works · 27.6% of its workEngineering: 41 fractional works · 13.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 6.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 79 fractional works · 26.3% of its workMedicine: 75 fractional works · 24.8% of its workOncology: 20 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 41 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKIllumina (UnitedStates)302fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences26%Social Sciences14%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8427.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences72.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology41.2%
    4. Neuroscience30.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    1. Engineering4113.7%
    2. Computer Science216.9%
    3. Environmental Science93.0%
    4. Mathematics41.4%
    5. Materials Science20.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.5%
    8. Chemistry10.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Medicine7524.8%
    2. Health Professions41.3%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences155.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance103.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities51.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting41.4%
    5. Decision Sciences41.2%
    6. Psychology20.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Illumina (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Genetics takes 10.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeneticsSubfield · 27.1 works11×
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 83.7 works5.2×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.20× its world share, 84 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.21× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.89× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.91× its world share, 41 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.60× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.19× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.49× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.29× its world share, 75 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.61× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.20× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.62× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 15 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, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.20×84 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.62×10 works
  3. Medicine1.29×75 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.21×4 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.20×4 works
  6. Mathematics1.19×4 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.92×1 works
  8. Engineering0.91×41 works
  9. Computer Science0.89×21 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.61×5 works
  11. Environmental Science0.60×9 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.58×1 works
  13. Neuroscience0.56×3 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×7 works
  15. Health Professions0.49×4 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.42×4 works
  17. Social Sciences0.40×15 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.30×2 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.29×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.28×1 works
  21. Dentistry0.27×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.24×2 works
  23. Psychology0.24×2 works
  24. Nursing0.23×0 works
  25. Energy0.09×0 works
  26. Veterinary0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Illumina (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Gary P. Schroth, Shujun J. Luo and Kyle Kai‐How Farh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Illumina (United States).

  1. 1 Gary P. Schroth United States · #15,515 worldwide 37k citations · 217 works
  2. 2 Shujun J. Luo United States · #16,322 worldwide 26k citations · 166 works
  3. 3 Kyle Kai‐How Farh United States · #37,007 worldwide 23k citations · 66 works
  4. 4 Frank J. Steemers United States · #39,436 worldwide 22k citations · 77 works
  5. 5 Ryan J. Taft United States · #49,085 worldwide 14k citations · 228 works
  6. 6 Jian‐Bing Fan United States · #73,682 worldwide 19k citations · 280 works
  7. 7 Irina Khrebtukova United States · #101,227 worldwide 15k citations · 63 works
  8. 8 Cindy Lawley United States · #134,155 worldwide 9.5k citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Kevin L. Gunderson United States · #152,427 worldwide 16k citations · 88 works
  10. 10 Arnold Oliphant United States · #158,565 worldwide 22k citations · 53 works
All ranked researchers at Illumina (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Illumina (United States) is "A global reference for human genetic variation" (Corresponding authors et al., 2015), with 20,444 citations. Next come "TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions" (13,857) and "The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data" (10,121).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A global reference for human genetic variation Corresponding authors et al. · Nature Open access815 authors 29 Sep 2015 20,444
2 TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions Daehwan Kim, Geo M. Pertea, Cole Trapnell et al. · Genome biology Open access 25 Apr 2013 13,857
3 The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data Clare Bycroft, Colin Freeman, Desislava Petkova et al. · Nature Open access 2 Oct 2018 10,121
4 Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber, William Anton Walters et al. · The ISME Journal Open access 8 Mar 2012 9,285
5 An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes Gil A. McVean et al. · Nature Open access363 authors 31 Oct 2012 8,281
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Illumina (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Targeted Therapy, Cell-Free DNA, Genomic Instability, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Genetic Variants, Clinical Genomics and Sequence Interpretation.

▲ 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. Targeted Therapy22▲ 33×3 topics
  2. Cell-Free DNA22▲ 75×2 topics
  3. Genomic Instability18▲ 54×2 topics
  4. Cancer Genomics18▲ 82×1 topic
  5. Mutational Signatures18▲ 82×1 topic
  6. Machine Learning15▲ 1.46×28 topics
  7. Deep Learning12▲ 1.17×25 topics
  8. Genetic Variants12▲ 22×5 topics
  9. Clinical Genomics11▲ 96×1 topic
  10. Sequence Interpretation11▲ 96×1 topic
  11. Gene Expression11▲ 5.8×11 topics
  12. Precision Medicine10▲ 6.9×7 topics
  13. Tumor Microenvironment9▲ 6.5×6 topics
  14. Clinical Trials9▲ 4.3×10 topics
  15. Cancer Risk7▲ 11×3 topics
  16. Genetic Testing7▲ 20×3 topics
  17. Immune Checkpoint Blockade7▲ 20×1 topic
  18. PD-1 and PD-L17▲ 20×1 topic
  19. Chemotherapy7▲ 3.1×12 topics
  20. Adaptive Control6▲ 14×3 topics
  21. Ovarian Cancer6▲ 20×2 topics
  22. Breast Cancer6▲ 7.3×4 topics
  23. RNA-Seq6▲ 15×2 topics
  24. Model Reference5▲ 846×1 topic
  25. Robust Fixed Point Transformations5▲ 846×1 topic
  26. Prenatal Diagnosis5▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Genomic Sequencing5▲ 14×2 topics
  28. Simulation5▲ 6.1×6 topics
  29. BRCA15▲ 56×1 topic
  30. BRCA25▲ 56×1 topic
  31. Cancer Incidence5▲ 11×4 topics
  32. Aneuploidy Screening4▲ 56×1 topic
  33. Maternal Plasma DNA Sequencing4▲ 56×1 topic
  34. Supply Chain4▲ 7.0×3 topics
  35. Genomic Profiling4▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Logistics4▲ 9.2×3 topics
  37. Bioinformatics4▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Cost of Care4▲ 44×1 topic
  39. Economic Evaluation4▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Financial Toxicity4▲ 44×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Aerospace Engineering and Applications.

Cancer Genomics and Diag…18Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 18 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 11 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 7 fractional worksAerospace Engineering and Applications: 5 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in cancer: 5 fractional worksPrenatal Screening and Diagnostics: 4 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 4 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 4 fractional worksTransport and Logistics Innovations: 4 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 4 fractional works
Cancer ResearchGeneticsOncologyControl and Systems Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 18 works
  2. 2 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 11 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 7 works
  4. 4 Aerospace Engineering and Applications Control and Systems Engineering 5 works
  5. 5 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 5 works
  6. 6 Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  7. 7 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  8. 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  9. 9 Transport and Logistics Innovations Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available52.8%not open47.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.8%domestic only70.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 65% 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 Illumina (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Illumina (United States)0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Illumina (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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Illumina (United States)9.8% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.1% in 2012.

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