Nathaniel Comfort

878 total citations
33 papers, 401 citations indexed

About

Nathaniel Comfort is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel Comfort has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 401 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel Comfort's work include Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease (4 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers). Nathaniel Comfort is often cited by papers focused on Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease (4 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers). Nathaniel Comfort collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Nathaniel Comfort's co-authors include Carl D. Hopkins, Andrew H. Bass, Joseph Bastian, Matthew Cobb, Jeremy Freese, Dalton Conley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee, K. Paige Harden and Michelle N. Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel Comfort

31 papers receiving 370 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathaniel Comfort United States 12 104 94 85 53 41 33 401
Krishna R. Dronamraju United States 16 117 1.1× 239 2.5× 19 0.2× 90 1.7× 6 0.1× 62 664
Lynn K. Nyhart United States 9 42 0.4× 65 0.7× 15 0.2× 26 0.5× 50 1.2× 36 423
Joel B. Hägen United States 13 128 1.2× 73 0.8× 40 0.5× 32 0.6× 6 0.1× 28 424
Rori V. Rohlfs United States 10 196 1.9× 243 2.6× 15 0.2× 44 0.8× 3 0.1× 21 475
Alfred Russel Wallace United States 9 23 0.2× 58 0.6× 36 0.4× 31 0.6× 15 0.4× 41 339
Toby Α. Appel United States 8 130 1.3× 36 0.4× 9 0.1× 22 0.4× 49 1.2× 19 486
Stijn Conix Belgium 10 49 0.5× 47 0.5× 58 0.7× 30 0.6× 25 259
Yan Wong United Kingdom 7 122 1.2× 220 2.3× 11 0.1× 28 0.5× 2 0.0× 8 371
Jean S. Medawar United Kingdom 7 93 0.9× 49 0.5× 6 0.1× 7 0.1× 22 0.5× 8 250
Nina Marchi France 11 91 0.9× 252 2.7× 32 0.4× 45 0.8× 5 0.1× 17 453

Countries citing papers authored by Nathaniel Comfort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathaniel Comfort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathaniel Comfort

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All Works

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Cobb, Matthew & Nathaniel Comfort. (2023). What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. Nature. 616(7958). 657–660. 13 indexed citations
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Meyer, Michelle N., Paul S. Appelbaum, Daniel J. Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility. The Hastings Center Report. 53(S1). S2–S49. 33 indexed citations
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Wald, Priscilla, et al.. (2018). Orphan Black as protest. Science Fiction Film & Television. 11(3). 359–415. 1 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2018). Nature still battles nurture in the haunting world of social genomics. Nature. 553(7688). 278–280. 5 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel, Kevin Padian, Jane Maienschein, et al.. (2015). Summer books. Nature. 523(7562). 528–530. 1 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2015). Genetics: Dawkins, redux. Nature. 525(7568). 184–185. 1 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2012). The Science of Human Perfection. Yale University Press eBooks. 45 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2011). When Your Sources Talk Back: Toward a Multimodal Approach to Scientific Biography. Journal of the History of Biology. 44(4). 651–669. 2 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2009). The Tangled Field. Harvard University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2009). The prisoner as model organism: malaria research at Stateville Penitentiary. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 40(3). 190–203. 22 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel, Daniel J. Kevles, Scott F. Gilbert, et al.. (2007). The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. 6 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2006). "Polyhybrid Heterogeneous Bastards": Promoting Medical Genetics in America in the 1930s and 1940s. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 61(4). 415–455. 14 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2001). Are genes real. Natural history. 110(5). 28–37. 2 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2001). From controlling elements to transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize1. Trends in Genetics. 17(8). 475–478. 20 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (2001). From controlling elements to transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 26(7). 454–457. 31 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (1999). “The Real Point is Control”: The Reception of Barbara McClintock's Controlling Elements. Journal of the History of Biology. 32(1). 133–162. 20 indexed citations
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Comfort, Nathaniel. (1995). Two genes, no enzyme: a second look at Barbara McClintock and the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.. Genetics. 140(4). 1161–1166. 9 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Carl D., Nathaniel Comfort, Joseph Bastian, & Andrew H. Bass. (1990). Functional Analysis of Sexual Dimorphism in an Electric Fish, <i>Hypopomus pinnicaudatus, </i>Order Gymnotiformes. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 35(6). 350–367. 89 indexed citations

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