North Korea

1.3k papers and 19.9k indexed citations
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In recent decades scholars affiliated with institutions in North Korea have published 1.3k papers, which have received a total of 19.9k indexed citations. Scholars in North Korea publish mostly in Materials Chemistry (194 papers), Molecular Biology (188 papers) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (152 papers) and are cited by scholars working on Materials Chemistry (4.8k citations), Molecular Biology (3.6k citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (3.6k citations). Scholars in North Korea collaborate with scholars from China, South Korea and Japan. Scholars in North Korea have published in prestigous journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

North Korea

432 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Fields of papers citing works of authors working in North Korea

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by authors working at institutions in North Korea. 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 authors working at institutions in North Korea. The network helps show where authors in North Korea may publish in the future.

Countries collaborating with authors based in North Korea

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by institutions in North Korea. 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 papers from institutions in North Korea with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites North Korea more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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