UCSF Lung Transplant Program
Evidence level: bibliometric count (OpenAlex affiliation); official programme page
The lung transplant programme of UCSF Health, established in 1991.
As of . Primary source: Lung Transplant Program, UCSF Health (official page).
Summary
The official UCSF Health page states that the programme has performed more than 1,000 lung transplants since 1991 and performs more lung transplants than any other centre on the West Coast, and describes its outcomes as far exceeding national averages (the programme's own statements, not independently verified here). The Division of Cardiac Surgery page states that the programme was an early adopter of ex vivo lung perfusion and that it is conducting research on lung preservation temperature. The ranking figures refer to papers with an author affiliated with UCSF as recorded in OpenAlex, and the UCSF paper count includes work from other UCSF departments.
Citation ranking (10 years)
Rank 13 of 25 on this site; rank 13 among 30 institutions tested.
- Papers (whole count)
- 93
- Papers (fractional)
- 58.6
- Citations
- 972
- Citations per paper
- 10.5
- Median citations per paper
- 3
- Mean field-weighted citation impact
- 3.15
- Papers with a first or last author here
- 64
- Top-decile share
- 0.26
Order and numbers: a bibliometric ordering of CLAD publications, not a judgement of clinical quality or patient outcomes. Centres are ordered by the total citations of CLAD-related papers published 2016-10-11 to 2026-10-10, counted in OpenAlex on 2026-10-10 (2,461 works; one fixed title and abstract query; a paper counts for every centre with an author at that centre). Institution identifiers have not been fully audited, citation counts lag for recent papers, and consensus statements can inflate totals. Rank is shown among the 25 centres on this site and among 30 institutions tested. Methodology.
Details
- city
- San Francisco, California
- country
- United States
- parent
- UCSF Health; University of California, San Francisco
- selection basis
- Citation ranking over 10 years (OpenAlex), added to the site by rank; not an official ranking
- selection rank
- 13 of 30 institutions tested (10-year citations)
- selection date
- 2026-10-10
Sources and links
Related
Links from this record
- author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Persistent and progressive acute lung allograft dysfunction is linked to cell compositional and transcriptional changes in small airways
- author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Macrophage and CD8 T cell discordance are associated with acute lung allograft dysfunction progression
- author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Scientific Statement on pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection and proposed graft, antibody, and pathology (GAP) definition
- author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Considerations for Endpoints in Lung Transplant Clinical Trials: An ISHLT Consensus Statement
- author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Latent Class Analysis Identifies Pulmonary Function Trajectory Phenotypes in Lung Transplant Recipients with Chronic Allograft Dysfunction
Known gaps in this record
- funding sources
- founding year
- named CLAD investigators
- clinical outcomes and transplant volumes (official statements are not verified here)
- institution identifiers in the citation ranking have not been fully audited
Information resource only. Not medical advice. Not a substitute for the care of the patient's transplant team.