Question 1

What is Stanford University known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Stanford University stands highest in Health Sciences (#4 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#4 of 8,541 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Structural Biology, Transplantation and Health Informatics (Structural Biology is 8.8× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Stanford University rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Stanford University ranks #3 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#2 all time), and #2 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Stanford University?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Yi Ping Cui, Karl Deisseroth and Albert Bandura lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Stanford University.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Stanford University?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Stanford University is "Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology" (Michael Ashburner, Catherine A. Ball, Judith A. Blake et al., 2000), with 45,425 citations. Next come "ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" (40,843) and "DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data" (37,958).

Question 5

Which research topics does Stanford University publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, CAR-T cell therapy research, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Stanford University?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Inflammation, Deep Learning, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life, Treatment and Precision Medicine.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Stanford University work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 36% of research at Stanford University is in Health Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Engineering (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Stanford University's?

Accepted Answer

University of California, Irvine has the research profile closest to Stanford University's (similarity 0.93 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Neuroscience, followed by University of Virginia and University of California San Diego.

Question 9

Is Stanford University's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021.