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Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

In research, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute stands highest in Medicine (#3,040 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,626 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Health Professions — General Health Professions is 8.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,527
of 28,054 · #7,597 all time
Rank in United States
#1,569
of 4,192
Research works
948
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Citations
40k
41.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

What is Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 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 #3,040 of 10,443 28.0%103 #1768
Health SciencesDomain #3,626 of 11,982 28.3%133 #1826

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 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 Washington Health Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 24.5 works8.8×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 28.5 works5.4×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.91× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.82× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.02× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 3.71× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.36× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.66× its world share, 103 worksMedicineNursing: 0.99× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.10× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.76× its world share, 17 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, David C. Grossman, Diana S.M. Buist and David Arterburn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.

  1. 1 David C. Grossman United States · #28,606 worldwide 396 citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Diana S.M. Buist United States · #33,982 worldwide 323 citations · 62 works
  3. 3 David Arterburn United States · #35,569 worldwide 499 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Gregory E. Simon United States · #47,170 worldwide 483 citations · 57 works
  5. 5 Michael L. Jackson United States · #55,446 worldwide 219 citations · 35 works
  6. 6 Sascha Dublin United States · #113,334 worldwide 216 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Jennifer F. Bobb United States · #143,525 worldwide 324 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Rod Walker United States · #162,309 worldwide 184 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Robert Wellman United States · #199,020 worldwide 157 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 David Carrell United States · #224,623 worldwide 141 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Which keywords describe research at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Factors, Epidemiology, Primary Care, Public Health, Depression, Quality of Life, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.

▲ 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. Epidemiology23▲ 2.9×63 topics
  2. Risk Factors16▲ 7.1×17 topics
  3. Public Health12▲ 4.2×20 topics
  4. Quality of Life12▲ 4.1×30 topics
  5. Mental Health12▲ 3.9×21 topics
  6. Depression10▲ 5.9×14 topics
  7. Primary Care10▲ 13×9 topics
  8. Substance Use Disorders8▲ 57×2 topics
  9. Biomarkers8▲ 6.0×9 topics
  10. Mortality Risk8▲ 17×5 topics
  11. Neuroimaging8▲ 15×7 topics
  12. Aging8▲ 7.3×10 topics
  13. Cancer Incidence8▲ 28×4 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 3.4×23 topics
  15. Health Disparities8▲ 14×7 topics
  16. Global Burden7▲ 6.9×10 topics
  17. Behavior Change7▲ 24×4 topics
  18. Chronic Disease Management7▲ 18×5 topics
  19. Obesity7▲ 4.5×13 topics
  20. Adolescents6▲ 8.4×7 topics
  21. Social Support6▲ 5.5×13 topics
  22. Clinical Trials6▲ 4.3×14 topics
  23. Global Burden of Disease6▲ 12×4 topics
  24. Caregiver Burden6▲ 26×3 topics
  25. Health Outcomes6▲ 10×7 topics
  26. Breast Cancer6▲ 12×10 topics
  27. Preventive Services6▲ 47×2 topics
  28. Population-Based Study6▲ 41×2 topics
  29. Psychiatric Disorders6▲ 21×4 topics
  30. Alzheimer's Disease5▲ 9.6×3 topics
  31. Cognitive Decline5▲ 22×2 topics
  32. Mortality Rates5▲ 28×2 topics
  33. Dementia5▲ 27×1 topic
  34. Mild Cognitive Impairment5▲ 30×1 topic
  35. Breast Cancer Screening5▲ 53×1 topic
  36. Cancer Risk5▲ 11×7 topics
  37. Evidence-Based Practice5▲ 19×5 topics
  38. Global Surveillance5▲ 53×1 topic
  39. Quality Improvement5▲ 12×7 topics
  40. Behavioral Interventions5▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.

Dementia and Cognitive I…5Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 5 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence …5Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 5 fractional worksSubstance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Trea…4Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: 4 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementa…4Health Policy Implementation Science: 4 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 4 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 3 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health …3Primary Care and Health Outcomes: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques: 3 fractional worksBariatric Surgery and Outcomes: 2 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthOncologyEpidemiologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 5 works
  2. 2 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 5 works
  3. 3 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 4 works
  4. 4 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  5. 5 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 4 works
  6. 6 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  7. 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  8. 8 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 3 works
  9. 9 Advanced Causal Inference Techniques Statistics and Probability 3 works
  10. 10 Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes Surgery 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 available70.4%not open29.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.5%domestic only86.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% higher than in 2013–2017.

2005201020152020
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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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.