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Kaiser Permanente

In research, Kaiser Permanente stands highest in Medicine (#335 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#393 of 11,982 worldwide) and Epidemiology (#261 of 976 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Health — Obstetrics and Gynecology is 8.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,274
of 28,054 · #1,380 all time
Rank in United States
#342
of 4,192
Research works
10k
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
373k
36.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Kaiser Permanente known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #335 of 10,443 17.1%1,331 #174
Health SciencesDomain #393 of 11,982 17.7%1,486 #165
EpidemiologySubfield #261 of 976 18.3%134 #165
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #272 of 916 25.9%100 #145
Social SciencesDomain #3,212 of 10,521 22.3%239 #1769
Life SciencesDomain #2,475 of 7,800 15.4%149 #1487
SurgerySubfield #653 of 1,816 15.0%128 #244
Health ProfessionsField #778 of 1,928 23.1%141 #163
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #340 of 828 20.4%122 #199
PsychologyField #1,078 of 2,181 20.5%109 #838

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kaiser Permanente 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#174 #335
  2. Health Sciences#165 #393
  3. Epidemiology#165 #261
  4. General Health Professions#145 #272
  5. Social Sciences#1,769 #3,212
  6. Life Sciences#1,487 #2,475
  7. Surgery#244 #653
  8. Health Professions#163 #778
  9. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#199 #340
  10. Psychology#838 #1,078
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Kaiser Permanente specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Obstetrics and Gynecology takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 48.8 works8.8×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 116.5 works5.7×
  3. HealthSubfield · 29.4 works5.1×
  4. OncologySubfield · 110.8 works5.1×
  5. EpidemiologySubfield · 133.6 works4.9×
← 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: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.82× its world share, 85 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.29× its world share, 25 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.80× its world share, 25 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.88× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 15 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 28 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.75× its world share, 141 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.56× its world share, 1,332 worksMedicineNursing: 0.99× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.86× its world share, 36 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.84× its world share, 109 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 77 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kaiser Permanente?

Ranked on the composite score, Alan S. Go, Michael K. Gould and Steven J. Jacobsen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kaiser Permanente.

  1. 1 Alan S. Go · #768 worldwide 3k citations · 124 works
  2. 2 Michael K. Gould · #4,084 worldwide 1.1k citations · 65 works
  3. 3 Steven J. Jacobsen · #5,536 worldwide 1.6k citations · 152 works
  4. 4 Carlos Iribarren · #9,067 worldwide 698 citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Bette J. Caan · #9,413 worldwide 899 citations · 78 works
  6. 6 Theodore R. Levin · #10,255 worldwide 607 citations · 63 works
  7. 7 Jean M. Lawrence · #10,745 worldwide 793 citations · 97 works
  8. 8 Kristi Reynolds · #12,564 worldwide 734 citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Lawrence H. Kushi · #19,663 worldwide 757 citations · 79 works
  10. 10 Charles P. Quesenberry · #24,693 worldwide 734 citations · 98 works
All ranked researchers at Kaiser Permanente

Which keywords describe research at Kaiser Permanente?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Public Health, Cardiovascular Disease, Mortality, Depression, Quality of Life and Chemotherapy.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology288▲ 3.7×122 topics
  2. Risk Factors129▲ 6.1×33 topics
  3. Public Health104▲ 3.7×45 topics
  4. Cardiovascular Disease95▲ 4.4×36 topics
  5. Quality of Life88▲ 3.1×49 topics
  6. Inflammation83▲ 2.0×72 topics
  7. Mental Health76▲ 2.7×30 topics
  8. Depression75▲ 4.4×20 topics
  9. Treatment71▲ 3.0×44 topics
  10. Mortality70▲ 6.3×13 topics
  11. COVID-1967▲ 2.5×22 topics
  12. Metabolic Syndrome66▲ 4.2×21 topics
  13. Chemotherapy65▲ 4.8×24 topics
  14. Pandemic62▲ 3.0×11 topics
  15. Diagnosis60▲ 3.3×37 topics
  16. Guidelines58▲ 6.3×12 topics
  17. Clinical Trials55▲ 4.2×18 topics
  18. Global Burden54▲ 5.2×12 topics
  19. Primary Care53▲ 7.2×14 topics
  20. Clinical Practice Guidelines48▲ 4.6×14 topics
  21. Obesity48▲ 3.3×23 topics
  22. Health Disparities48▲ 9.3×8 topics
  23. Chronic Disease Management47▲ 13×5 topics
  24. Anxiety47▲ 5.1×12 topics
  25. Global Burden of Disease43▲ 8.9×4 topics
  26. SARS-CoV-242▲ 6.6×6 topics
  27. Immune Response39▲ 3.5×17 topics
  28. Cancer Incidence36▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Cardiovascular Health36▲ 9.7×6 topics
  30. Patient Satisfaction36▲ 5.8×9 topics
  31. Health-related Quality of Life36▲ 7.8×5 topics
  32. Mortality Risk35▲ 7.5×6 topics
  33. Community Health33▲ 11×4 topics
  34. Chronic Disease32▲ 9.6×4 topics
  35. Breast Cancer32▲ 6.9×11 topics
  36. ACE2 Receptor31▲ 6.5×3 topics
  37. Mortality Rates29▲ 16×2 topics
  38. Pregnancy29▲ 7.2×9 topics
  39. Quality Improvement28▲ 7.5×8 topics
  40. Population-Based Study26▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Kaiser Permanente publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Cardiovascular Health an…25Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors: 25 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence …22Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 22 fractional worksTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation: 17 fractional worksMaternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum: 16 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 14 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 14 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 14 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare …14COVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 14 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 14 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 13 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineOncologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthInfectious Diseases2 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 25 works
  2. 2 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 22 works
  3. 3 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 17 works
  4. 4 Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 16 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 14 works
  6. 6 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 14 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 14 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 14 works
  9. 9 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 14 works
  10. 10 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 13 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 available43.0%not open57.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.5%domestic only91.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kaiser Permanente's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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