Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the
same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within
it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
2007Genetics Research
2003Animal Signals
1997Oxford University Press eBooks
1995Evolution
1995Nature
1993Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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John Maynard Smith is a scholar working on Aging, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 227 papers that have together received 47.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (61 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (47 papers), Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (16 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (12 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (12.8k citations), Genetics (18.2k citations) and Developmental Biology (1.2k citations). John Maynard Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include George Price, John Haigh, Eörs Szathmáry, George A. Parker, Brian G. Spratt, N. H. Smith, Mark Allen O’Rourke, Eörs Szathmáry, D. Harper and Noel H. Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Journal of Theoretical Biology, The American Naturalist, Genetics Research and Evolution.
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