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San Francisco VA Medical Center

In research, San Francisco VA Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#1,139 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,483 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,239 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 6.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,458
of 28,054 · #1,244 all time
Rank in United States
#489
of 4,192
Research works
5.8k
▼ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
373k
64.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

What is San Francisco VA 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 #1,139 of 10,443 24.9%227 #406
Health SciencesDomain #1,483 of 11,982 25.4%248 #483
Life SciencesDomain #2,239 of 7,800 28.1%62 #506

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where San Francisco VA 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).

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#406 #1,139
  2. Health Sciences#483 #1,483
  3. Life Sciences#506 #2,239
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 San Francisco VA Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 6.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 25.9 works6.7×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.12× its world share, 22 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.54× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.28× its world share, 26 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.85× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.96× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.22× its world share, 227 worksMedicineNursing: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.22× its world share, 25 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Amandeep K. Shergill, Gretchen A. W. Gooding and Raymond A. Swanson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is San Francisco VA Medical Center.

  1. 1 Amandeep K. Shergill United States · #56,153 worldwide 256 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Gretchen A. W. Gooding United States · #60,247 worldwide 157 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Raymond A. Swanson United States · #63,647 worldwide 871 citations · 26 works
  4. 4 James C. Byrd United States · #110,302 worldwide 196 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Guoren Deng United States · #131,685 worldwide 181 citations · 46 works
  6. 6 Peter M. Elias United States · #133,424 worldwide 247 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 John R. Teerlink United States · #133,653 worldwide 354 citations · 77 works
  8. 8 Corey Largman United States · #143,181 worldwide 266 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Paul Simpson United States · #165,917 worldwide 167 citations · 40 works
  10. 10 Warren S. Browner United States · #167,310 worldwide 521 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at San Francisco VA Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Aging, Cardiovascular Disease, Biomarkers, Inflammation, Neuroimaging, Alzheimer's Disease and Heart Failure.

▲ 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. Epidemiology39▲ 2.7×78 topics
  2. Inflammation24▲ 3.1×64 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease21▲ 5.1×31 topics
  4. Aging18▲ 8.9×13 topics
  5. Biomarkers17▲ 6.8×15 topics
  6. Risk Factors16▲ 3.9×27 topics
  7. Treatment14▲ 3.2×34 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress14▲ 2.2×30 topics
  9. Quality of Life13▲ 2.5×35 topics
  10. Neuroimaging13▲ 13×8 topics
  11. Depression12▲ 3.8×17 topics
  12. Diagnosis12▲ 3.6×25 topics
  13. Global Burden12▲ 6.2×9 topics
  14. Alzheimer's Disease12▲ 12×4 topics
  15. Heart Failure12▲ 7.5×13 topics
  16. Mental Health11▲ 2.1×23 topics
  17. Cognitive Training10▲ 31×2 topics
  18. Management10▲ 3.6×18 topics
  19. Public Health10▲ 1.91×25 topics
  20. Mortality10▲ 4.8×12 topics
  21. Guidelines10▲ 5.8×11 topics
  22. Caregiver Burden10▲ 24×2 topics
  23. Cognitive Decline10▲ 22×2 topics
  24. Dementia10▲ 28×1 topic
  25. Mild Cognitive Impairment10▲ 32×1 topic
  26. Chronic Kidney Disease9▲ 10×8 topics
  27. Neuroinflammation9▲ 8.8×6 topics
  28. Clinical Trials9▲ 3.6×15 topics
  29. Neurodegeneration9▲ 8.0×7 topics
  30. Anxiety8▲ 4.9×10 topics
  31. Metabolic Syndrome8▲ 2.8×15 topics
  32. Neurological Disorders8▲ 4.1×14 topics
  33. Mortality Risk8▲ 8.7×6 topics
  34. Echocardiography7▲ 7.3×6 topics
  35. Antiretroviral Therapy7▲ 11×6 topics
  36. Myocardial Infarction7▲ 7.8×6 topics
  37. Cytokines6▲ 5.9×7 topics
  38. Neuroprotection6▲ 4.7×9 topics
  39. Fibrosis6▲ 8.0×7 topics
  40. Elderly Patients5▲ 7.8×4 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments and Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

Dementia and Cognitive I…10Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 10 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 4 fractional worksAlzheimer's disease research and treatments: 4 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 4 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies: 3 fractional worksParathyroid Disorders and Treatments: 3 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment …3Heart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional worksFrailty in Older Adults3Frailty in Older Adults: 3 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brain function: 2 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 2 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthPulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePhysiologyEpidemiology5 others

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

  1. 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 10 works
  2. 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 4 works
  4. 4 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 4 works
  5. 5 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  6. 6 Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments Nephrology 3 works
  7. 7 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Frailty in Older Adults Geriatrics and Gerontology 3 works
  9. 9 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  10. 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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 available39.9%not open60.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.8%domestic only87.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% 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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