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.
2015Nature
2012PLoS Genetics
1997Nucleic Acids Research
1995Cell
1994Nature
1993Nature
1992Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1989Nature
1986Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1986Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
1985Journal of Neuroscience
1983Journal of Molecular Biology
1980Developmental Biology
1980Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1979Genetics
1979Molecular and General Genetics MGG
1977Genetics
1976Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
1976Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
1975The Journal of Comparative Neurology
1975The Journal of Comparative Neurology
1974Genetics
1974Genetics
1974Journal of Molecular Biology
1973British Medical Bulletin
1970Journal of Molecular Biology
1968Nature
1966Nature
1965Journal of Molecular Biology
1965Nature
1965Journal of Molecular Biology
1963Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
1961Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Countries citing papers authored by Sydney Brenner
Since Specialization
Citations
This map shows the geographic impact of Sydney Brenner'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 Sydney Brenner with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sydney Brenner more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sydney Brenner. 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 Sydney Brenner. The network helps show where Sydney Brenner may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Sydney Brenner, linked wherever they have
co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they
share.
Border = papers with Sydney BrennerLine = papers co-authored togetherSydney Brenner links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.
Sydney Brenner is a scholar working on Aging, Molecular Biology and Genetics, having authored 305 papers that have together received 45.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (36 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (22 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (19 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (19 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (17.0k citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (6.3k citations) and Molecular Biology (25.3k citations). Sydney Brenner has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. Frequent co-authors include J. Nichol Thomson, Eileen Southgate, JG White, Byrappa Venkatesh, R.W. Horne, F Jacob, John Sulston, Jonathan Hodgkin, Jonathan Karn and Richard A. Lerner. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Current Biology and Gene.
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incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and
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