GWAS Researcher Prestige Analysis

Matching last-author affiliations to QS 2005 World University Rankings

141,923
Total PMIDs
21,245
Matched to QS Top 200
185
QS Institutions Matched
15.0%
Match Rate

Key Result

Of 142K GWAS papers analyzed, 21,245 (15%) have last authors affiliated with QS 2005 top 200 universities. 185 of the 200 QS institutions are represented in our dataset.

Methodology

This analysis extracts last-author affiliation data from OpenAlex for 142,645 GWAS-related PMIDs, then matches institutions to QS 2005 World University Rankings.

  1. OpenAlex Extraction: Scanned 363GB of OpenAlex snapshot data (971 files) using 49 parallel HPC jobs to extract last-author affiliations
  2. Institution Classification: Used OpenAlex API to classify 8,991 unique institutions by type (education, healthcare, facility, etc.)
  3. QS Matching: Matched education institutions to QS 2005 rankings using OpenAlex display names, alternative names, and 36 manual mappings for naming discrepancies

Institution Types

Type Count Percentage
Education62,55044.1%
Healthcare37,12026.2%
Unknown11,6928.2%
Other10,7687.6%
Facility10,4557.4%
Nonprofit3,7992.7%
Government3,2922.3%
Company2,1991.5%

Top 10 QS Institutions by PMID Count

Rank Institution PMIDs
36University of Michigan - Ann Arbor470
16The University of Tokyo463
193University of Pittsburgh429
17University of California - San Francisco413
7Yale University398
32University of Pennsylvania390
105Osaka University370
27Johns Hopkins University355
169Shanghai Jiao Tong University353
58Washington University in St. Louis351

Verification Examples

Three random examples for manual verification on PubMed:

PMID Last Author Institution QS Rank
19212328 Stephen B. Calderwood Harvard University 1
24708766 Stefanie S. Jeffrey Stanford University 5
20482762 Antonis C. Antoniou University of Cambridge 3

QS ↔ OpenAlex Institution Matching Table

QS Rank QS Institution OpenAlex Name Match Type

Data Sources