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.
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
19794.6k citationsStephen Jay Gould et al.profile →
Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
19823.0k citationsStephen Jay Gould et al.profile →
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering
20183.0k citationsStephen Jay Gould et al.profile →
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
19772.9k citationsStephen Jay GouldPhilosophy of Scienceprofile →
Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism
19722.0k citationsStephen Jay Gould et al.profile →
Citations per field, relative to Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould · 1×
×0.86.3kPALEO
×0.74.1kGENET
×0.42.5kEEBS
×0.31.8kSPS
×0.63.8kCVPR
Citations per year, relative to Stephen Jay Gould
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Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Jay Gould
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This map shows the geographic impact of Stephen Jay Gould's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Stephen Jay Gould with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Stephen Jay Gould more than expected).
Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Jay Gould
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Stephen Jay Gould. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Stephen Jay Gould. The network helps show where Stephen Jay Gould may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Jay Gould
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Jay Gould.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Jay Gould based on the total number of
citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges
represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together.
Node borders
signify the number of papers an author published with Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
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