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Pfizer (United States)

In research, Pfizer (United States) stands highest in Medicine (#315 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#494 of 11,982 worldwide) and Infectious Diseases (#15 of 345 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Statistics and Probability, Pharmacology and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics — Statistics and Probability is 11.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#882
of 28,054 · #635 all time
Rank in United States
#161
of 4,192
Research works
19k
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
791k
40.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Pfizer (United States) 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 #315 of 10,443 23.7%1,003 #235
Health SciencesDomain #494 of 11,982 23.4%1,058 #299
Infectious DiseasesSubfield #15 of 345 41.0%101 #94
Life SciencesDomain #415 of 7,800 26.5%531 #272
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #392 of 3,579 28.4%318 #296
EpidemiologySubfield #126 of 976 25.2%161 #158
Molecular BiologySubfield #330 of 2,175 29.5%198 #238
Physical SciencesDomain #2,083 of 12,888 23.5%312 #1437
Organic ChemistrySubfield #183 of 615 26.7%63 #168
ChemistryField #413 of 1,330 22.3%104 #288

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Pfizer (United States) 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#235 #315
  2. Health Sciences#299 #494
  3. Infectious Diseases#94 #15
  4. Life Sciences#272 #415
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#296 #392
  6. Epidemiology#158 #126
  7. Molecular Biology#238 #330
  8. Physical Sciences#1,437 #2,083
  9. Organic Chemistry#168 #183
  10. Chemistry#288 #413
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 Pfizer (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Statistics and Probability takes 11.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 48.9 works11×
  2. PharmacologySubfield · 33.2 works8.7×
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsField · 57.5 works8.0×
  4. HematologySubfield · 47.5 works7.7×
  5. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 100.6 works7.2×
← 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: 0.25× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.91× its world share, 318 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.57× its world share, 115 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.49× its world share, 16 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7.97× its world share, 58 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 3.24× its world share, 104 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.29× its world share, 47 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 60 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.21× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 18 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.30× its world share, 55 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 43 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.55× its world share, 1,003 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.21× its world share, 9 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.37× its world share, 60 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 17 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 45 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 8.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Pfizer (United States)?

Ranked on the composite score, Bradford D. Gessner, William C. Gruber and María Koehler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Pfizer (United States).

  1. 1 Bradford D. Gessner · #7,660 worldwide 1.6k citations · 53 works
  2. 2 William C. Gruber · #25,697 worldwide 604 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 María Koehler · #40,286 worldwide 460 citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Ira Jacobs · #40,480 worldwide 298 citations · 51 works
  5. 5 Keith D. Wilner · #40,613 worldwide 481 citations · 33 works
  6. 6 Jennifer C. Moïsi · #63,610 worldwide 310 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Max Kühn · #77,017 worldwide 1.3k citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Jon Bordner · #84,122 worldwide 187 citations · 41 works
  9. 9 Annaliesa S. Anderson · #87,529 worldwide 275 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 Xin Huang · #97,218 worldwide 263 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Pfizer (United States)

Which keywords describe research at Pfizer (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2, Pandemic, Monoclonal Antibodies, ACE2 Receptor, Vaccine, Vaccine Development and Clinical Trials.

▲ 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. Epidemiology294▲ 3.6×109 topics
  2. Inflammation100▲ 2.3×71 topics
  3. Pandemic91▲ 4.2×10 topics
  4. SARS-CoV-276▲ 11×6 topics
  5. Clinical Trials72▲ 5.2×17 topics
  6. Biomarkers66▲ 4.7×14 topics
  7. Vaccine64▲ 7.8×11 topics
  8. Monoclonal Antibodies64▲ 35×3 topics
  9. ACE2 Receptor64▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Vaccine Development63▲ 12×8 topics
  11. Clinical Practice Guidelines61▲ 5.4×14 topics
  12. Cancer60▲ 2.2×48 topics
  13. Immunity59▲ 7.1×11 topics
  14. Pathogenesis58▲ 5.5×20 topics
  15. Immunotherapy57▲ 3.9×19 topics
  16. Viral Infections57▲ 49×2 topics
  17. Disease Burden57▲ 38×2 topics
  18. Pharmacokinetics56▲ 10×9 topics
  19. Human Metapneumovirus56▲ 60×1 topic
  20. Respiratory Syncytial Virus56▲ 60×1 topic
  21. Antimicrobial Resistance55▲ 14×8 topics
  22. Immune Response55▲ 4.7×19 topics
  23. Chemotherapy54▲ 3.8×23 topics
  24. Medicinal Chemistry54▲ 9.4×11 topics
  25. Mutation49▲ 13×5 topics
  26. Coronavirus42▲ 9.7×3 topics
  27. Glycosylation42▲ 18×3 topics
  28. Breast Cancer41▲ 8.4×10 topics
  29. Biopharmaceuticals41▲ 39×3 topics
  30. Therapeutic Antibodies41▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Immunogenicity40▲ 45×3 topics
  32. Respiratory Infections39▲ 16×3 topics
  33. Viral Transmission39▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Vaccination38▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Community-Acquired Pneumonia38▲ 55×1 topic
  36. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine38▲ 55×1 topic
  37. antibody38▲ 17×1 topic
  38. spike protein38▲ 17×1 topic
  39. Targeted Therapy37▲ 8.2×5 topics
  40. Bayesian Methods30▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does Pfizer (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Respiratory viral infections research, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Respiratory viral infect…56Respiratory viral infections research: 56 fractional worksPneumonia and Respirator…38Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 38 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …38SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 38 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…29Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 29 fractional worksComputational Drug Discovery Methods: 29 fractional worksStatistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 26 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…26Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 26 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 26 fractional worksMonoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research: 25 fractional worksPharmacogenetics and Dru…25Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism: 25 fractional works
EpidemiologyInfectious DiseasesEconomics and EconometricsComputational Theory and Mathematics4 others

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

  1. 1 Respiratory viral infections researchEpidemiology 56 works
  2. 2 Pneumonia and Respiratory InfectionsEpidemiology 38 works
  3. 3 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchInfectious Diseases 38 works
  4. 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics and Econometrics 29 works
  5. 5 Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputational Theory and Mathematics 29 works
  6. 6 Statistical Methods in Clinical TrialsStatistics and Probability 26 works
  7. 7 Vaccine Coverage and HesitancyHealth 26 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesInfectious Diseases 26 works
  9. 9 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies ResearchRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 25 works
  10. 10 Pharmacogenetics and Drug MetabolismPharmacology 25 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 available33.1%not open66.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.9%domestic only79.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Pfizer (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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