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Stanford Medicine

In research, Stanford Medicine stands highest in Medicine (#118 of 10,443 worldwide), Life Sciences (#93 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#158 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health Informatics, Hepatology and Genetics — Health Informatics is 6.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#352
of 28,054 · #397 all time
Rank in United States
#73
of 4,192
Research works
19k
▲ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
948k
49.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Stanford Medicine 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 #118 of 10,443 22.0%1,711 #98
Life SciencesDomain #93 of 7,800 33.8%582 #145
Health SciencesDomain #158 of 11,982 22.4%1,859 #122
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #154 of 3,579 34.3%342 #204
Molecular BiologySubfield #106 of 2,175 36.5%196 #158
NeuroscienceField #58 of 1,168 33.3%145 #121
Physical SciencesDomain #1,243 of 12,888 33.4%311 #1127
SurgerySubfield #202 of 1,816 19.1%254 #139
Social SciencesDomain #1,339 of 10,521 22.3%471 #555
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #230 of 1,144 21.5%138 #100

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Stanford Medicine 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#98 #118
  2. Life Sciences#145 #93
  3. Health Sciences#122 #158
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#204 #154
  5. Molecular Biology#158 #106
  6. Neuroscience#121 #58
  7. Physical Sciences#1,127 #1,243
  8. Surgery#139 #202
  9. Social Sciences#555 #1,339
  10. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#100 #230
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 Stanford Medicine specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health Informatics takes 6.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health InformaticsSubfield · 23.8 works6.1×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 27.8 works4.5×
  3. GeneticsSubfield · 38.4 works4.4×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 19 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 342 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.06× its world share, 67 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.77× its world share, 145 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.81× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.32× its world share, 79 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 103 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 47 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.14× its world share, 16 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.45× its world share, 17 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 24 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.48× its world share, 126 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.76× its world share, 1,711 worksMedicineNursing: 1.01× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 18 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 64 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.06× its world share, 73 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.19× its world share, 117 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 180 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Stanford Medicine?

Ranked on the composite score, Daniel E. Ho, Mark A. Lemley and Ronald J. Gilson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Stanford Medicine.

  1. 1 Daniel E. Ho United States · #26,793 worldwide 566 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Mark A. Lemley United States · #30,106 worldwide 341 citations · 123 works
  3. 3 Ronald J. Gilson United States · #33,141 worldwide 336 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Deborah L. Rhode United States · #41,970 worldwide 155 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Rosa Bacchetta United States · #92,363 worldwide 212 citations · 36 works
  6. 6 John Henry Merryman United States · #111,057 worldwide 82 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Curtis J. Milhaupt United States · #143,724 worldwide 68 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Julian Nyarko United States · #175,611 worldwide 384 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 John H. Barton United States · #206,795 worldwide 67 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Barton H. Thompson United States · #249,387 worldwide 140 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Stanford Medicine

Which keywords describe research at Stanford Medicine?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Inflammation, Clinical Trials, Quality of Life, Precision Medicine, Treatment and Risk Factors.

▲ 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. Epidemiology274▲ 2.1×122 topics
  2. Inflammation122▲ 1.82×79 topics
  3. Quality of Life94▲ 2.0×52 topics
  4. Immunotherapy93▲ 4.1×19 topics
  5. Treatment84▲ 2.1×45 topics
  6. Risk Factors80▲ 2.2×36 topics
  7. Cancer78▲ 1.79×48 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress77▲ 1.46×53 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease75▲ 2.1×37 topics
  10. Clinical Trials73▲ 3.4×18 topics
  11. Public Health69▲ 1.47×50 topics
  12. Mortality63▲ 3.4×13 topics
  13. Diagnosis62▲ 2.1×37 topics
  14. Chemotherapy62▲ 2.8×25 topics
  15. Healthcare62▲ 1.70×19 topics
  16. Precision Medicine60▲ 4.0×8 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome58▲ 2.2×23 topics
  18. Management54▲ 2.1×29 topics
  19. Complications53▲ 3.3×17 topics
  20. Radiotherapy52▲ 4.2×13 topics
  21. Prognostic Factors51▲ 3.6×14 topics
  22. Depression51▲ 1.79×23 topics
  23. Genetic Mutations50▲ 3.6×23 topics
  24. Neurological Disorders50▲ 2.7×20 topics
  25. Clinical Practice Guidelines47▲ 2.7×14 topics
  26. Genetics46▲ 2.1×22 topics
  27. Biomarkers46▲ 2.1×16 topics
  28. Guidelines46▲ 3.1×13 topics
  29. Gene Expression46▲ 2.3×17 topics
  30. Medical Imaging46▲ 2.8×9 topics
  31. Heart Failure39▲ 2.8×13 topics
  32. Primary Care37▲ 3.0×15 topics
  33. Patient Satisfaction36▲ 3.5×9 topics
  34. Medical Education36▲ 4.3×10 topics
  35. Health Equity34▲ 3.9×6 topics
  36. Echocardiography34▲ 3.8×8 topics
  37. Clinical Outcomes32▲ 4.7×6 topics
  38. Targeted Therapy32▲ 4.4×5 topics
  39. Chronic Pain31▲ 4.3×5 topics
  40. Transplantation25▲ 7.8×4 topics

Which research topics does Stanford Medicine publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, CAR-T cell therapy research, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Artificial Intelligence …24Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 24 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…18CAR-T cell therapy research: 18 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 16 fractional worksSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics: 15 fractional worksDiversity and Career in Medicine: 14 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 14 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 14 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…13Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 13 fractional worksSleep and Wakefulness Research: 12 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 12 fractional works
Health InformaticsOncologyCancer ResearchMolecular Biology5 others

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

  1. 1 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 24 works
  2. 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 18 works
  3. 3 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 16 works
  4. 4 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 15 works
  5. 5 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 14 works
  6. 6 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 14 works
  7. 7 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 14 works
  8. 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 13 works
  9. 9 Sleep and Wakefulness Research Cognitive Neuroscience 12 works
  10. 10 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 12 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 available41.2%not open58.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.8%domestic only84.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Stanford Medicine's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher 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.

Other research institutions in Stanford

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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.