BioScience

380.3k citations
6.7k papers · indexed · active since 1950

BioScience

4.6k papers receiving 332.0k citations

Peers

BioScience
Comparison fields: 5 of 250
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 102.5k
  • Ecological Modeling 31.7k
  • Ecology 163.9k
  • Global and Planetary Change 109.9k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 53.6k
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Countries where authors publish in BioScience

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

Fields of papers published in BioScience

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in BioScience. 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 BioScience.

About BioScience

The 6.7k papers published in BioScience in the last decades have received a total of 380.3k indexed citations . Papers published in BioScience usually cover Ecological Modeling (515 papers), Nature and Landscape Conservation (780 papers) and Ecology (1.4k papers) specifically the topics of Species Distribution and Climate Change (515 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (431 papers), Plant and animal studies (401 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (265 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (219 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (178 papers), Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (173 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (172 papers). The most active scholars publishing in BioScience are Michael L. McKinney, Marc D. Abrams, Marion H. O’Leary, Kenneth W. Cummins, Steven L. Lima, Mark L. Shaffer, Éric F. Lambin, Eugene P. Odum, Helmut Geist and Richard E. Sparks.

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