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Second Foundation (United States)

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Research works
5
fractional, all time
Citations
8
1.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
61%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Second Foundation (United States)

Not ranked overall: Second Foundation (United States) 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 Second Foundation (United States) work in?

In all years, 48% of research at Second Foundation (United States) is in Health Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Neuroscience (27%), Health Professions (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 2 fractional works · 47.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 37.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 10.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 29.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 27.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 22.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 10.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSecond Foundation(United States)5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences29%Health Sciences48%Social Sciences23%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine237.5%
    2. Health Professions010.4%
    1. Neuroscience127.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.1%
    1. Social Sciences010.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities06.2%
    3. Decision Sciences06.2%
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.

Neuroscience: 19.72× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceHealth Professions: 4.55× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.46× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.77× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 8.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 19.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Neuroscience19.72×1 works
  2. Decision Sciences8.28×0 works
  3. Health Professions4.55×0 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.77×0 works
  5. Medicine1.46×1 works
  6. Social Sciences0.95×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Second Foundation (United States)?

The most cited paper from Second Foundation (United States) is "Primary sarcomas of the bladder and prostate: A genomic landscape study" (Dana J. Hariri, Dean Pavlick, Phillipe E. Spiess et al., 2025), with 3 citations. Next come "Clinical Holds in Early Oncology Drug Development" (1) and "CDKN2C homozygous loss identifies a distinct subtype of TP53/RB1 -wildtype leiomyosarcoma with frequent CIC genomic alterations and 1p/19q-codeletion" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Primary sarcomas of the bladder and prostate: A genomic landscape study Dana J. Hariri, Dean Pavlick, Phillipe E. Spiess et al. · Pathology - Research and Practice 15 Feb 2025 3
2 Clinical Holds in Early Oncology Drug Development Alexandra Snyder, Dinesh de Alwis, Asthika Goonewardene et al. · medRxiv PreprintOpen access 6 Jun 2022 1
3 CDKN2C homozygous loss identifies a distinct subtype of TP53/RB1 -wildtype leiomyosarcoma with frequent CIC genomic alterations and 1p/19q-codeletion Erik Abraham Williams, Radwa Sharaf, Brennan Decker et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) PreprintOpen access 4 Mar 2020 1
4 From Potholes to Perceived Social Support: Community Influences on Individuals with Mobility Disabilities and their Care Teams in New Orleans Kesley Witmeier, Georgina Gómez, Michael L. Norman et al. · Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association Open access 21 Nov 2025 0
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Which research topics does Second Foundation (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Embodied and Extended Cognition, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Embodied and Extended Co…1Embodied and Extended Cognition: 1 fractional worksNeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations: 0 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 0 fractional worksComplex Systems and Decision Making: 0 fractional worksPhilosophy and History of Science: 0 fractional worksUrologic and reproductiv…0Urologic and reproductive health conditions: 0 fractional worksUrinary and Genital Oncology Studies: 0 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksOccupational Therapy Practice and Research: 0 fractional worksPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment: 0 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceSafety ResearchManagement Science and Operations ResearchHistory and Philosophy of Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Embodied and Extended Cognition Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  2. 2 Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  3. 3 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 0 works
  4. 4 Complex Systems and Decision Making Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  5. 5 Philosophy and History of Science History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  6. 6 Urologic and reproductive health conditions Rheumatology 0 works
  7. 7 Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies Surgery 0 works
  8. 8 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research Occupational Therapy 0 works
  10. 10 Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Cognitive Neuroscience 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 available60.7%not open39.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.7%domestic only92.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

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