American Scientist

2.1k papers and 42.8k indexed citations i.

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The 2.1k papers published in American Scientist in the last decades have received a total of 42.8k indexed citations. Papers published in American Scientist usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (137 papers), Ecology (79 papers) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (70 papers) specifically the topics of Astro and Planetary Science (56 papers), Plant and animal studies (37 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (30 papers). The most active scholars publishing in American Scientist are Robert Plutchik, Brian Hayes, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Lyudmila N. Trut, T. El‐Raghy, Michel W. Barsoum, Thomas W. Schoener, Endel Tulving, Lloyd L. Loope and Carla M. D’Antonio.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in American Scientist

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in American Scientist. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in American Scientist.

Countries where authors publish in American Scientist

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in American Scientist. 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 published in American Scientist with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites American Scientist 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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