---
title: "University of California, San Francisco: research profile"
description: "Research profile of University of California, San Francisco: 428 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and AI; h-index 1,925."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of California, San Francisco: 428 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly health economics and policy and AI; h-index 1,925. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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---

# University of California, San Francisco

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/5.md)

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

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md



## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 46 | 39 | 25 | 32 | 36 | 30 | 33 | 38 | 39 | 21 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [Johns Hopkins University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/johns-hopkins-university.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [University of California, Berkeley](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-berkeley.md) | 16 |
| 5 | Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies | 15 |
| 6 | [University of California, Los Angeles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-los-angeles.md) | 14 |
| 7 | Stanford Medicine | 12 |
| 8 | [University of Southern California](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-california.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-disparities.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 3 | HIV | 6 |
| 4 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 6 |
| 7 | intersectionality | 6 |
| 8 | [depression](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/depression.md) | 5 |
| 9 | depressive symptoms | 5 |
| 10 | [mental health](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mental-health.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113788) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04006-2) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2021-03-21 | Roohallah Alizadehsani, Mohamad Roshanzamir, Sadiq Hussain et al. |
| 3 | 131 | 3.1 | [Game changers in science and technology - now and beyond](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122588) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2023-05-04 | Ulrich A. K. Betz, Loukik Arora, R.A. Assal et al. |
| 4 | 108 | 1.9 | [ESG Assurance in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-024-09856-2) | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 2022-01-01 | Brandon Gipper, Samantha Ross, Shawn X. Shi |
| 5 | 95 | 4.8 | [Transformers and genome language models](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01007-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0059-8) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2018-05-10 | Michael A. Freeman, Paige J. Staudenmaier, Mackenzie Zisser et al. |
| 7 | 67 | 0.7 | [Analysis of speech production real-time MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2018.04.002) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106190) | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00617-5) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-021-00318-6) | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 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](https://openalex.org/I2803209242) |
| 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](https://www.ucsf.edu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/043mz5j54](https://ror.org/043mz5j54) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I180670191](https://openalex.org/I180670191) |

*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% |

*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 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [A Primer on Economic Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-026-01536-4) | [Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/administration-and-policy-in-mental-health-and-mental-health-services-research.md) | Jean Yoon, Richard Nelson, Jack Tsai et al. | University of California, San Francisco; VA Palo Alto Health Care System; University of Utah; … |

## Cite this page

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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {University of California, San Francisco},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-san-francisco}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).