I was looking to dig into some examples of collaboration patterns in different research areas, when I realized I didn’t even know the basics — what do UCSF researchers actually research?
UCSF Profiles uses PubMed data to extract MeSH keywords for every publication by every UCSF researcher in the system. We can use this to look at the most commonly used MeSH keywords across every researcher’s body of work. There are lots of caveats here (looking at all publications emphasizes past research interests over current ones; we’re not grouping related obscure MeSH terms with more popular ones; MeSH term assignment practices change over time; and this analysis ignores someone’s role as a first, middle, or last author). But this is certainly a start.
Here’s what I found, using the latest UCSF Profiles data:
- 98 researchers have HIV Infections in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 53 researchers have Breast Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 42 researchers have Magnetic Resonance Imaging in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 39 researchers have Tomography, X-Ray Computed in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 39 researchers have Brain Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 37 researchers have Internship and Residency in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 37 researchers have HIV-1 in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 34 researchers have Alzheimer Disease in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 33 researchers have Prostatic Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 32 researchers have Saccharomyces cerevisiae in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 31 researchers have Brain in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 31 researchers have Anti-HIV Agents in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 30 researchers have Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 30 researchers have Smoking in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 29 researchers have Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 29 researchers have Asthma in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 28 researchers have Stroke in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 28 researchers have Sexual Behavior in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 27 researchers have Myocardial Infarction in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 27 researchers have Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 26 researchers have Neurons in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 26 researchers have Skin Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 26 researchers have Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 25 researchers have Cognition Disorders in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 25 researchers have Homosexuality, Male in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 25 researchers have Emergency Service, Hospital in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 25 researchers have Students, Medical in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 24 researchers have Obesity in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 24 researchers have Glioblastoma in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Epilepsy in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Pancreatic Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Dementia in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Liver Transplantation in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Hispanic Americans in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 23 researchers have Education, Medical, Undergraduate in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 22 researchers have Lung in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 22 researchers have Genetic Predisposition to Disease in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 22 researchers have Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 22 researchers have Lung Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 22 researchers have Glioma in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Drosophila in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Mass Screening in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Heart Defects, Congenital in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Anti-Bacterial Agents in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Liver in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Physician-Patient Relations in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Signal Transduction in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Primary Health Care in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Nerve Tissue Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Stem Cells in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 21 researchers have Drosophila melanogaster in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Colorectal Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Calcium in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Health Services Accessibility in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Smoking Cessation in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Epithelial Cells in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Wounds and Injuries in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Drosophila Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 20 researchers have Models, Molecular in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have MicroRNAs in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Curriculum in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Aging in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Embryonic Stem Cells in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Caenorhabditis elegans in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 19 researchers have Kidney Transplantation in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Heart Failure in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Membrane Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Asian Americans in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have DNA in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Tuberculosis in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Mental Disorders in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Transcription Factors in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Coronary Disease in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 18 researchers have Gene Expression Profiling in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have DNA-Binding Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Skin Diseases in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Bacterial Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Apoptosis in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Homeodomain Proteins in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Hypertension in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Stress, Psychological in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have T-Lymphocytes in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Abortion, Induced in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Schizophrenia in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Antineoplastic Agents in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Proteomics in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Multiple Sclerosis in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Teaching in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Hepatitis C in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 17 researchers have Laparoscopy in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 16 researchers have Muscle, Skeletal in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 16 researchers have Amyloid beta-Peptides in their top 5 MeSH keywords
- 16 researchers have Ovarian Neoplasms in their top 5 MeSH keywords