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Research · Los Angeles
What research is done in Los Angeles?
Papers authored at Los Angeles's institutions — University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — with the Prism stance layer.
Summary
Research is deep, concentrated and strongly medical. UCLA contributes 13212 papers and USC 9502, with Cedars-Sinai and several medical centers extending the network; machine learning leads the identified opportunity areas at 233.
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What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.
Opportunities the research points to
Machine Learning · 233Children's Health · 202Neuroscience · 197Women's Health · 191Healthcare · 158Mental Health · 138Breast Cancer · 131Men's Health · 122Deep Learning · 110COVID-19 · 102Alzheimer's Disease · 100Artificial Intelligence · 96
Concerns the research raises
Healthcare · 249Women's Health · 222Children's Health · 184COVID-19 · 166Mental Health · 117Research · 72Patients' Health · 66Public Health · 57HIV · 46Patient Care · 43Education · 41Men's Health · 40
counts = papers carrying the theme · concerns merge cautionary, critical and problem-identifying work
Institutions
University of California, Los Angeles
13.2K
University of Southern California
9,502
2,268Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1,203UCLA Health
684UCLA Medical Center
514Harbor–UCLA Medical Center
289Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute
162Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
143UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
138Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Orientation
Promising
7,062
Descriptive
6,047
Breakthrough
5,662
3,023Problem Identifying
1,846Cautionary
1,158Comparative
875Critical
Output by year (sample)
Opportunities (promising + breakthrough)
Machine Learning · 233Children's Health · 202Neuroscience · 197Women's Health · 191Healthcare · 158Mental Health · 135Breast Cancer · 131Men's Health · 122Deep Learning · 110Alzheimer's Disease · 100Artificial Intelligence · 96COVID-19 · 95
Cautions (cautionary + critical)
Women's Health · 85Children's Health · 79Healthcare · 53COVID-19 · 50Men's Health · 40Mental Health · 32Breast Cancer · 32Climate Change · 29Artificial Intelligence · 26Patients' Health · 23Machine Learning · 21Research · 21
Problems flagged
Healthcare · 196Women's Health · 134COVID-19 · 106Children's Health · 105Mental Health · 80Research · 51Public Health · 47HIV · 46Patient Care · 43Patients' Health · 43Education · 41Cancer · 40
Top research topics
Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics · 334Epigenetics and DNA Methylation · 277Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · 272Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers · 271Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics · 259Health disparities and outcomes · 252Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics · 251Functional Brain Connectivity Studies · 246Genetic Associations and Epidemiology · 223Neural dynamics and brain function · 222Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment · 214Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · 213
Most-cited work
Paper
Year
Cited
Orientation
Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7
2018
10878
Breakthrough
Attention Is All You Need
2025
6510
Breakthrough
Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy in Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
2018
6460
Promising
Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in cancer
2018
5307
Breakthrough
Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure
2020
4820
Descriptive
AASLD guidelines for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
2017
4115
Critical
Colorectal cancer statistics, 2017
2017
3861
Descriptive
An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan
2018
3364
Breakthrough
Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma
2017
3353
Promising
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R
2018
2989
Descriptive
InterPro in 2022
2022
2492
Promising
DNA methylation GrimAge strongly predicts lifespan and healthspan
2019
2454
Breakthrough
Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter
2018
2352
Critical
The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry
2017
2091
Descriptive
Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods…
2018
2088
Breakthrough
figures marked ≈ are scaled estimates from a partial sample · Prism stance layer over 2017+ papers