University of California, San Francisco

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: United States · web domain: ucsf.edu

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Key findings#

University of California, San Francisco was involved in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #1602 of 3,880 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (1).
Countries: United States (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of California, San Francisco took part in 428 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (339), AI (38) and statistics (27).
48 of them were published in 2025, against 48 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harvard University (23), Johns Hopkins University (17) and Stanford University (16).
The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (57), SSM - Population Health (20) and International Journal for Equity in Health (19).
The most-cited of them is “A comprehensive comparison of handcrafted features and convolutional autoencoders for epileptic seizures detection in EEG signals” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2020), with 146 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of California, San Francisco has 325,339 works with 60,655,946 citations (h-index 1,925).
The tracked journals hold 397 of its 125,459 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.3%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (9,893), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (9,155) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (6,061).
OpenAlex lists it under University of California System.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Health Economics and Policy	46	39	25	32	36	30	33	38	39	21
AI	1	1	1	1	7	4	5	4	6	8
Statistics	1	1	3	4	6	3	5	1	2	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	1
Management	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0
Information Systems	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
Economics	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All categories	48	43	31	38	52	44	48	45	48	31

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Social Science & Medicine	57
2	SSM - Population Health	20
3	International Journal for Equity in Health	19
4	Medical Image Analysis	9
5	BMC Medical Research Methodology	7
6	Implementation Science	7
7	Nature Machine Intelligence	7
8	Journal of Health Economics	4
9	Innovative Higher Education	3
10	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	3

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Harvard University	23
2	Johns Hopkins University	17
3	Stanford University	16
4	University of California, Berkeley	16
5	Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies	15
6	University of California, Los Angeles	14
7	Stanford Medicine	12
8	University of Southern California	12
9	Boston University	9

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	172
2	United Kingdom	28
3	Canada	18
4	Uganda	9
5	Australia	7
6	Switzerland	7
7	China	6
8	South Korea	6
9	Netherlands	6
10	South Africa	6

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	health disparities	16
2	COVID-19 pandemic	9
3	HIV	6
4	cost-effectiveness	6
5	gender differences	6
6	health equity	6
7	intersectionality	6
8	depression	5
9	depressive symptoms	5
10	mental health	5

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	146	1.9	A comprehensive comparison of handcrafted features and convolutional autoencoders for epileptic seizures detection in EEG signals	Expert Systems with Applications	2020-07-29	Afshin Shoeibi, Navid Ghassemi, Roohallah Alizadehsani et al.
2	143	2.1	Handling of uncertainty in medical data using machine learning and probability theory techniques: a review of 30 years (1991–2020)	Annals of Operations Research	2021-03-21	Roohallah Alizadehsani, Mohamad Roshanzamir, Sadiq Hussain et al.
3	131	3.1	Game changers in science and technology - now and beyond	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2023-05-04	Ulrich A. K. Betz, Loukik Arora, R.A. Assal et al.
4	108	1.9	ESG Assurance in the United States	Review of Accounting Studies	2022-01-01	Brandon Gipper, Samantha Ross, Shawn X. Shi
5	95	4.8	Transformers and genome language models	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-03-13	Micaela Elisa Consens, Cameron Dufault, Michael Wainberg et al.
6	77	0.8	The prevalence and co-occurrence of psychiatric conditions among entrepreneurs and their families	Small Business Economics	2018-05-10	Michael A. Freeman, Paige J. Staudenmaier, Mackenzie Zisser et al.
7	67	0.7	Analysis of speech production real-time MRI	Computer Speech & Language	2018-04-16	Vikram Ramanarayanan, Sam Tilsen, Michael Proctor et al.
8	63	1.1	Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality	Journal of Business Venturing	2022-02-17	Richard A. Hunt, Daniel A. Lerner, Sheri Lynn Johnson et al.
9	60	1.4	Biomonitoring and precision health in deep space supported by artificial intelligence	Nature Machine Intelligence	2023-03-23	Ryan T. Scott, Lauren Sanders, Erik Antonsen et al.
10	59	1.0	The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity	Journal of Public Health Policy	2021-11-22	Genna Reed, Yogi Hale Hendlin, Anita Desikan et al.

In OpenAlex#

University of California, San Francisco in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	San Francisco, California, United States
Also known as	UCSF, UC San Francisco, Universidad de California en San Francisco, Université de Californie à San Francisco
Part of	University of California System
Units listed in OpenAlex	7
Works in OpenAlex	325,339
Citations	60,655,946
h-index	1,925
i10-index	524,638
2-year mean citedness	6.77
Website	www.ucsf.edu
ROR	ror.org/043mz5j54
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I180670191

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions	Medicine	9,893
2	Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research	Medicine	9,155
3	Alzheimer's disease research and treatments	Medicine	6,061
4	Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment	Medicine	5,706
5	Innovations in Medical Education	Medicine	5,480

Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals
Year	Works in OpenAlex	Citations received	In the tracked journals	Share
2026 (so far)	14,160	996,668	31	0.2%
2025	16,163	1,169,864	48	0.3%
2024	15,448	1,177,985	45	0.3%
2023	14,904	1,115,938	48	0.3%
2022	14,821	1,119,972	44	0.3%
2021	14,599	1,153,167	52	0.4%
2020	14,430	1,033,716	38	0.3%
2019	12,460	867,419	31	0.2%
2018	11,656	786,467	43	0.4%
2017	10,978	755,273	48	0.4%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-30	A Primer on Economic Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs	Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research	Jean Yoon, Richard Nelson, Jack Tsai et al.	University of California, San Francisco; VA Palo Alto Health Care System; University of Utah; …

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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of California, San Francisco. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-san-francisco

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