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Milken Institute

In research, Milken Institute stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,120 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#1,318 of 8,541 worldwide) and Health Professions (#476 of 1,895 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (General Health Professions is 7.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,331
of 22,385 · #1,710 all time
Rank in United States
#411
of 3,332
Research works
1.3k
▲ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
31k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Milken Institute

What is Milken Institute 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
Health SciencesDomain #1,120 of 9,902 14.2%283 #933
MedicineField #1,318 of 8,541 13.6%209 #1113
Health ProfessionsField #476 of 1,895 16.7%65 #331
Social SciencesDomain #3,447 of 9,585 12.1%136 #1946

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Milken 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 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. Health Sciences#933 #1,120
  2. Medicine#1,113 #1,318
  3. Health Professions#331 #476
  4. Social Sciences#1,946 #3,447
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 Milken Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Milken Institute is in Health Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Health Professions (13%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 326 fractional works · 55.9% of its workMedicine: 240 fractional works · 41.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 50 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEpidemiology: 29 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 25 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPhysiology: 24 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 15 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOncology: 12 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPharmacology: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 76 fractional works · 13.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 61 fractional works · 10.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 155 fractional works · 26.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 61 fractional works · 10.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 30 fractional works · 5.1% of its workHealth: 15 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 41 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 38 fractional works · 6.5% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 40 fractional works · 6.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 19 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 14 fractional works · 2.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 54 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 34 fractional works · 5.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 20 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 48 fractional works · 8.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workVirology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workToxicology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMilken Institute583fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences27%

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. Medicine24041.2%
    2. Health Professions7613.0%
    3. Nursing91.5%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences6110.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance417.1%
    3. Psychology406.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting71.2%
    5. Decision Sciences40.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    1. Environmental Science345.8%
    2. Mathematics91.6%
    3. Engineering40.7%
    4. Computer Science30.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.4%
    6. Chemistry10.1%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    8. Energy00.0%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology203.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology101.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences81.5%
    4. Neuroscience50.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Milken Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 7.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 61.0 works7.6×
  2. Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield · 20.3 works6.6×
  3. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 50.0 works6.5×
  4. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 25.0 works6.3×
← 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: 0.31× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.66× its world share, 20 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.74× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.70× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.16× its world share, 34 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.36× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.93× its world share, 76 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.14× its world share, 240 worksMedicineNursing: 3.13× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.37× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.30× its world share, 41 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.27× its world share, 40 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 60 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions4.93×76 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.30×41 works
  3. Nursing3.13×9 works
  4. Psychology2.27×40 works
  5. Medicine2.14×240 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.74×10 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.70×4 works
  8. Mathematics1.36×9 works
  9. Environmental Science1.16×34 works
  10. Social Sciences0.82×60 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.79×4 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×20 works
  13. Neuroscience0.58×5 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.37×7 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×8 works
  16. Dentistry0.29×1 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.25×2 works
  18. Veterinary0.25×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.08×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  21. Computer Science0.06×3 works
  22. Energy0.05×0 works
  23. Engineering0.05×4 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
  26. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Milken Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Marcia Madden, Todd A. Conner and M. Herson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Milken Institute.

  1. 1 Marcia Madden United States · #549,721 worldwide 1.2k citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Todd A. Conner United States · #610,094 worldwide 2.4k citations · 39 works
  3. 3 M. Herson United States · #628,249 worldwide 1.3k citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Daniel Lorber United States · #695,071 worldwide 5.5k citations · 67 works
  5. 5 Susan Hensley United States · #697,641 worldwide 617 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Xiuqun Gong United States · #729,151 worldwide 572 citations · 38 works
  7. 7 CURTISS L. PUCKETT United States · #755,381 worldwide 639 citations · 40 works
  8. 8 Sydney Paul Pryor United States · #779,653 worldwide 1.4k citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Celeste Waguespack United States · #808,320 worldwide 361 citations · 25 works
  10. 9 Amy Thomassie United States · #808,320 worldwide 361 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Milken Institute

What are the most cited papers from Milken Institute?

The most cited paper from Milken Institute is "World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour" (Fiona Bull et al., 2020), with 11,799 citations. Next come "The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report" (3,118) and "Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies" (2,600).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour Fiona Bull et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 25 Nov 2020 11,799
2 The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report Boyd Anthony Swinburn et al. · The Lancet Open access 27 Jan 2019 3,118
3 Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies Himel Mallick, Ali Rahnavard, Lauren J. McIver et al. · PLoS Computational Biology Open access 16 Nov 2021 2,600
4 Bank regulation and supervision: what works best? James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Eric Levine · Journal of Financial Intermediation 22 Nov 2003 2,361
5 Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity Zachary J. Ward, Sara N. Bleich, Angie L.I. Cradock et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Dec 2019 2,049
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Milken Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Mental Health, Primary Care, Epidemiology, Health Care Utilization, Health Care Spending, Insurance Markets and Health Effects.

▲ 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. Public Health63▲ 7.5×46 topics
  2. Epidemiology61▲ 2.6×95 topics
  3. Mental Health49▲ 5.8×27 topics
  4. Primary Care39▲ 18×13 topics
  5. Health Care Utilization30▲ 48×3 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease29▲ 4.3×30 topics
  7. Health Care Spending27▲ 117×1 topic
  8. Insurance Markets27▲ 117×1 topic
  9. Health Effects26▲ 7.4×16 topics
  10. Risk Factors25▲ 4.0×26 topics
  11. Obesity24▲ 5.4×19 topics
  12. Health Disparities21▲ 14×7 topics
  13. Mortality21▲ 6.4×11 topics
  14. Antiretroviral Therapy20▲ 21×6 topics
  15. Global Burden of Disease20▲ 14×4 topics
  16. Psychiatric Disorders20▲ 25×4 topics
  17. COVID-1920▲ 2.6×19 topics
  18. Physical Activity19▲ 6.8×8 topics
  19. Mortality Rates18▲ 33×2 topics
  20. Adolescents17▲ 8.0×7 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome16▲ 3.5×19 topics
  22. Viral Load16▲ 35×2 topics
  23. HIV Transmission16▲ 36×2 topics
  24. Chronic Disease Management16▲ 14×5 topics
  25. Health Outcomes16▲ 9.9×7 topics
  26. Prevalence15▲ 6.3×9 topics
  27. Preexposure Prophylaxis15▲ 52×1 topic
  28. Stigma and Discrimination15▲ 52×1 topic
  29. Social Determinants of Health14▲ 11×5 topics
  30. Stigma14▲ 18×5 topics
  31. Health Consequences14▲ 8.2×4 topics
  32. Cancer Risk13▲ 10×7 topics
  33. Infectious Diseases13▲ 6.7×7 topics
  34. Chronic Disease12▲ 12×4 topics
  35. Health Promotion12▲ 6.5×10 topics
  36. Quality Improvement12▲ 10×6 topics
  37. Smoking Cessation12▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Tobacco Use12▲ 65×1 topic
  39. Discrimination11▲ 9.3×4 topics
  40. Intersectionality11▲ 10×8 topics

Which research topics does Milken Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Healthcare Policy and Management, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Smoking Behavior and Cessation and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.

Healthcare Policy and Ma…27Healthcare Policy and Management: 27 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 15 fractional worksSmoking Behavior and Cessation: 12 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 11 fractional worksLGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy: 9 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 8 fractional worksFood Security and Health…8Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 8 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 8 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 7 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 7 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsInfectious DiseasesPhysiologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5 others

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

  1. 1 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 27 works
  2. 2 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 15 works
  3. 3 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 12 works
  4. 4 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 11 works
  5. 5 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 9 works
  6. 6 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 8 works
  7. 7 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 8 works
  8. 8 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 8 works
  9. 9 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 7 works
  10. 10 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 7 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 available67.1%not open32.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.4%domestic only76.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Milken Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
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 Milken Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Milken Institute0.0021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Milken Institute 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%Milken Institute12.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.6% in 2019.

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