eLife

616.3k citations
17.0k papers · indexed · active since 1950

eLife

15.9k papers receiving 611.0k citations

Peers

eLife
Comparison fields: 5 of 245
  • Aging 15.2k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 86.4k
  • Molecular Biology 314.5k
  • Structural Biology 6.2k
  • Cell Biology 69.3k
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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).

Fields of papers published in eLife

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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.

About eLife

The 17.0k papers published in eLife in the last decades have received a total of 616.3k indexed citations . Papers published in eLife usually cover Aging (564 papers), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (3.1k papers) and Cell Biology (2.3k papers) specifically the topics of Neural dynamics and brain function (1.5k papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (1.2k papers), RNA Research and Splicing (961 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (920 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (846 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (721 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (670 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (660 papers). The most active scholars publishing in eLife are David P. Bartel, George W. Bell, Jin‐Wu Nam, Vikram Agarwal, Sjors H. W. Scheres, Steven Henikoff, Erik Lindahl, Dari Kimanius, Nikolaus Grigorieff and Jennifer A. Doudna.

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