Research Collaboration Index · 2026

University of California, San Francisco

North America · Platinum standing

#61World rank
89.0RCI score
1,114Collaborating institutions
81Partner countries
77,836Joint works, 5 yr
3.47FWCI

Strongest in Medicine, at #19 in the world.

The profile

Collaboration profile

98Influence
93Brokerage
86Reach
98Diversity
90Sustained
90Impact
58International

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World rank in each of the 26 subject indices; gold cards mark top-500 standings. Click through to any full subject ranking.

Featured academics

The researchers behind the standing

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Adam Gazzaley

Adam Gazzaley

David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry; Founder and Executive Director, Neuroscape

Gazzaley founded Neuroscape, a UCSF centre where neuroscientists and technologists build video games and closed-loop tools that measure and train cognition. His work produced the first game-based therapeutic cleared by the US FDA, and his team now studies attention, ageing and psychedelics with collaborators across academia and industry.

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Editor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network

A general internist and epidemiologist, Bibbins-Domingo models how prevention policies such as sodium reduction and polypill strategies could avert cardiovascular disease in underserved populations. Former chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force and now editor in chief of JAMA, she shapes evidence standards used by clinicians worldwide.

Monica Gandhi

Monica Gandhi

Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine; Medical Director, Ward 86 HIV Clinic

Gandhi develops objective adherence measures for HIV treatment and prevention, including point-of-care urine tenofovir assays now tested in the United States, South Africa and Kenya. Directing care innovation at San Francisco's Ward 86, one of the oldest HIV clinics in the country, she translates trial evidence into services for vulnerable patients.

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