eLife

16.4k papers and 573.1k indexed citations i.

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The 16.4k papers published in eLife in the last decades have received a total of 573.1k indexed citations. Papers published in eLife usually cover Molecular Biology (8.5k papers), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (3.0k papers) and Cognitive Neuroscience (2.5k papers) specifically the topics of Neural dynamics and brain function (1.5k papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (1.2k papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (937 papers). The most active scholars publishing in eLife are David P. Bartel, George W. Bell, Jin‐Wu Nam, Vikram Agarwal, Sjors H. W. Scheres, Erik Lindahl, Dari Kimanius, Steven Henikoff, Nikolaus Grigorieff and Jennifer A. Doudna.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in eLife

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries where authors publish in eLife

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