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Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center

In research, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#4,532 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,721 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 11.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#16,688
of 28,054 · #15,071 all time
Rank in United States
#2,377
of 4,192
Research works
719
▲ 73% vs 2013–17
Citations
26k
36.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center 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 #4,532 of 10,443 14.9%146 #3739
Health SciencesDomain #5,721 of 11,982 15.3%153 #4925

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center 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).

What does Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 11.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 22.1 works12×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.97× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.63× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.33× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.25× its world share, 146 worksMedicineNursing: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.27× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Kenneth A. Katz, Ankeet S. Bhatt and Graham Walker lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center.

  1. 1 Kenneth A. Katz United States · #1,331,621 worldwide 26 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Ankeet S. Bhatt United States · #1,553,018 worldwide 7 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Graham Walker United States · #1,559,741 worldwide 2 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease, Guidelines, Diagnosis, Echocardiography and Obesity.

▲ 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. Epidemiology27▲ 3.8×70 topics
  2. Risk Factors14▲ 7.1×17 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease12▲ 5.9×22 topics
  4. Heart Failure11▲ 14×11 topics
  5. Guidelines10▲ 12×9 topics
  6. Quality of Life10▲ 3.7×19 topics
  7. Diagnosis9▲ 5.7×22 topics
  8. Treatment8▲ 3.9×18 topics
  9. Echocardiography8▲ 17×6 topics
  10. Obesity8▲ 6.0×11 topics
  11. Chemotherapy8▲ 6.1×20 topics
  12. Metabolic Syndrome7▲ 5.0×14 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Risk6▲ 10×7 topics
  14. Mortality6▲ 5.5×10 topics
  15. Health-related Quality of Life6▲ 13×4 topics
  16. Inflammatory Bowel Disease6▲ 27×4 topics
  17. Depression5▲ 3.4×9 topics
  18. Cancer Incidence5▲ 20×4 topics
  19. Genetic Mutations5▲ 6.2×14 topics
  20. Management5▲ 3.3×16 topics
  21. Clinical Trials5▲ 3.9×12 topics
  22. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 4.4×12 topics
  23. Insulin Resistance4▲ 5.3×4 topics
  24. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 10×6 topics
  25. Surgical Management4▲ 5.8×8 topics
  26. Chamber Quantification4▲ 30×1 topic
  27. Diastolic Function4▲ 30×1 topic
  28. Radiotherapy4▲ 5.9×8 topics
  29. Anxiety4▲ 4.8×7 topics
  30. Prognostic Factors4▲ 5.2×10 topics
  31. Renal Function4▲ 24×3 topics
  32. Cancer Survivorship4▲ 29×2 topics
  33. Population-Based Study4▲ 32×2 topics
  34. Health Disparities4▲ 7.6×5 topics
  35. Mortality Rates4▲ 21×2 topics
  36. Cardiovascular Health3▲ 9.9×2 topics
  37. Survival Analysis3▲ 6.9×5 topics
  38. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide3▲ 37×1 topic
  39. Hospital Readmission3▲ 37×1 topic
  40. Colorectal Cancer3▲ 22×3 topics

Which research topics does Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Heart Failure Treatment and Management, Cancer survivorship and care and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening.

Cardiovascular Function …4Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 4 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment …3Heart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional worksCancer survivorship and care: 3 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 3 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 3 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 3 fractional worksCardiovascular Health and Risk Factors: 2 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…2Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 2 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 2 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineOncologyEconomics and EconometricsGenetics1 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  2. 2 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 3 works
  4. 4 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 3 works
  5. 5 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  6. 6 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 3 works
  7. 7 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 2 works
  10. 10 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 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 available31.9%not open68.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.9%domestic only92.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 73% 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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