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Pacific Medical Research Foundation

ROR OpenAlex
Research works
16
▲ 151% vs 2018-21
Citations
377
22.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Pacific Medical Research Foundation

Not ranked overall: Pacific Medical Research Foundation is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Pacific Medical Research Foundation work in?

In all years, 56% of research at Pacific Medical Research Foundation is in Health Sciences, 37% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Social Sciences (24%), Health Professions (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 9 fractional works · 55.9% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 40.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 11.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 36.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 24.3% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 12.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKPacific MedicalResearch…16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences37%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine740.8%
    2. Health Professions211.0%
    3. Dentistry03.0%
    4. Nursing01.0%
    1. Social Sciences424.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting18.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.6%
    4. Psychology00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology01.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.6%
    1. Environmental Science01.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

What are the most cited papers from Pacific Medical Research Foundation?

The most cited paper from Pacific Medical Research Foundation is "Onset, natural history and outcome in idiopathic adult motor neuron disease" (Forbes H. Norris, Rodger Shepherd, Eric H. Denys et al., 1993), with 304 citations. Next come "Efficacy of Entecavir With or Without Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate for Nucleos(t)ide-Naïve Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B" (159) and "Patient Navigation in Cancer: The Business Case to Support Clinical Needs" (127).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Onset, natural history and outcome in idiopathic adult motor neuron disease Forbes H. Norris, Rodger Shepherd, Eric H. Denys et al. · Journal of the Neurological Sciences Aug 1993 304
2 Efficacy of Entecavir With or Without Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate for Nucleos(t)ide-Naïve Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B Anna S. Lok, Huy Trinh, Giampiero Carosi et al. · Gastroenterology Open access 27 May 2012 159
3 Patient Navigation in Cancer: The Business Case to Support Clinical Needs Ronald M. Kline, Gabrielle Betty Rocque, Elizabeth A. Rohan et al. · Journal of Oncology Practice Open access 11 Sep 2019 127
4 A randomized placebo‐controlled phase 3 study of mesenchymal stem cells induced to secrete high levels of neurotrophic factors in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Merit Cudkowicz et al. · Muscle & Nerve Open access 10 Dec 2021 119
5 Health Outcomes With Catheter Ablation or Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation Matthew R. Reynolds, Candace Gunnarsson, Tina D. Hunter et al. · Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Open access 29 Feb 2012 110
All 41 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Pacific Medical Research Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Property Rights and Legal Doctrine, Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, Legal Language and Interpretation and Cancer survivorship and care.

Property Rights and Lega…1Property Rights and Legal Doctrine: 1 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 0 fractional worksLegal Language and Interpretation: 0 fractional worksCancer survivorship and care: 0 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 0 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 0 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 0 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 0 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Law: 0 fractional works
LawEpidemiologyOncologyObstetrics and Gynecology3 others

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

  1. 1 Property Rights and Legal Doctrine Law 1 works
  2. 2 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 0 works
  3. 3 Legal Language and Interpretation Law 0 works
  4. 4 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 0 works
  5. 5 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 0 works
  6. 6 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 0 works
  7. 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  8. 8 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  9. 9 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 0 works
  10. 10 Artificial Intelligence in Law Political Science and International Relations 0 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 available44.3%not open55.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.7%domestic only77.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Pacific Medical Research Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 151% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Pacific Medical Research Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000078% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Pacific Medical Research Foundation0.0000041% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Pacific Medical Research Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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