PLoS Genetics

9.8k papers and 532.8k indexed citations i.

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The 9.8k papers published in PLoS Genetics in the last decades have received a total of 532.8k indexed citations. Papers published in PLoS Genetics usually cover Molecular Biology (6.7k papers), Genetics (3.0k papers) and Plant Science (1.9k papers) specifically the topics of Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (1.0k papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (902 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (862 papers). The most active scholars publishing in PLoS Genetics are Jonathan K. Pritchard, Alkes L. Price, David Reich, Frank Dudbridge, Nick Patterson, Peter Donnelly, Jonathan Marchini, Joseph K. Pickrell, Bryan Howie and Carlos D. Bustamante.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in PLoS Genetics

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in PLoS Genetics. 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 PLoS Genetics.

Countries where authors publish in PLoS Genetics

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