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SCImago
Q1
Impact factor
1.6
SJR
1.074
CiteScore
2.3
Categories
Music
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Years of issue
1981-1994, 1996-2025
journal names
Music Theory Spectrum
MUSIC THEOR SPECTRUM
Top-3 citing journals
Music Theory Spectrum
(855 citations)
Journal of Music Theory
(368 citations)
Music Theory Online
(339 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Indiana University Bloomington
(2 publications)
University of Cambridge
(1 publication)
University of Oxford
(1 publication)
Top-3 countries
USA
(15 publications)
United Kingdom
(3 publications)
Most cited in 5 years
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Music Theory Spectrum
855 citations, 20.5%
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Journal of Music Theory
368 citations, 8.82%
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Music Theory Online
339 citations, 8.13%
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Music Analysis
313 citations, 7.51%
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Journal of Mathematics and Music
126 citations, 3.02%
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
74 citations, 1.77%
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Music Perception
61 citations, 1.46%
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Contemporary Music Review
53 citations, 1.27%
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Journal of New Music Research
50 citations, 1.2%
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Musicae Scientiae
46 citations, 1.1%
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Twentieth-Century Music
35 citations, 0.84%
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Communications in Computer and Information Science
33 citations, 0.79%
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Intersections Canadian Journal of Music
33 citations, 0.79%
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Popular Music
31 citations, 0.74%
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Psychology of Music
29 citations, 0.7%
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Frontiers in Psychology
24 citations, 0.58%
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review
22 citations, 0.53%
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Journal of the American Musicological Society
20 citations, 0.48%
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Metal Music Studies
19 citations, 0.46%
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Nineteenth Century Music
19 citations, 0.46%
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Perspectives of New Music
19 citations, 0.46%
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Journal of Musicological Research
18 citations, 0.43%
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SSRN Electronic Journal
18 citations, 0.43%
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Journal of the Society for American Music
17 citations, 0.41%
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association
14 citations, 0.34%
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Per Musi
12 citations, 0.29%
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Music & Science
12 citations, 0.29%
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Tempo
11 citations, 0.26%
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Computer Music Journal
11 citations, 0.26%
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Journal of Research in Music Education
10 citations, 0.24%
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Journal of Popular Music Studies
10 citations, 0.24%
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Journal of Musicology
9 citations, 0.22%
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Cognitive Science
8 citations, 0.19%
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Canadian University Music Review
8 citations, 0.19%
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Psychological Research
7 citations, 0.17%
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Plainsong and Medieval Music
7 citations, 0.17%
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Eighteenth-Century Music
7 citations, 0.17%
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
7 citations, 0.17%
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Computational Music Science
7 citations, 0.17%
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Science
6 citations, 0.14%
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Music Education Research
6 citations, 0.14%
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Scientific Reports
6 citations, 0.14%
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Cogent Arts and Humanities
6 citations, 0.14%
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PLoS ONE
6 citations, 0.14%
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
6 citations, 0.14%
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New Sound
6 citations, 0.14%
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Ethnomusicology Forum
5 citations, 0.12%
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Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa
5 citations, 0.12%
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Organised Sound
5 citations, 0.12%
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Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
5 citations, 0.12%
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Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences
5 citations, 0.12%
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Revue musicale OICRM
5 citations, 0.12%
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Journal of Film Music
5 citations, 0.12%
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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
4 citations, 0.1%
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Estudios de Psicologia
4 citations, 0.1%
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British Journal of Music Education
4 citations, 0.1%
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Musicology Australia
4 citations, 0.1%
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Springer Handbooks
4 citations, 0.1%
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Popular Music and Society
4 citations, 0.1%
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Brain Research
4 citations, 0.1%
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Brain and Cognition
4 citations, 0.1%
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Digital Creativity
4 citations, 0.1%
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Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en musique
4 citations, 0.1%
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Studia Musicologica Norvegica
4 citations, 0.1%
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Popular Music Scenes
4 citations, 0.1%
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games
4 citations, 0.1%
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Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
3 citations, 0.07%
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Journal of Mathematical Psychology
3 citations, 0.07%
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Mathematics
3 citations, 0.07%
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Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
3 citations, 0.07%
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
3 citations, 0.07%
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Research Studies in Music Education
3 citations, 0.07%
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
3 citations, 0.07%
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Postmedieval
3 citations, 0.07%
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Topics in Cognitive Science
3 citations, 0.07%
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
3 citations, 0.07%
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Physical Review Research
3 citations, 0.07%
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Perception & Psychophysics
3 citations, 0.07%
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International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing
3 citations, 0.07%
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Circuit Musiques contemporaines
3 citations, 0.07%
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Rock Music Studies
3 citations, 0.07%
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Music and the Moving Image
3 citations, 0.07%
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Zbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti
3 citations, 0.07%
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Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
2 citations, 0.05%
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2 citations, 0.05%
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2 citations, 0.05%
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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2 citations, 0.05%
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Linguistics and Language Compass
2 citations, 0.05%
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Psychology and Marketing
2 citations, 0.05%
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
2 citations, 0.05%
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2 citations, 0.05%
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European Journal of Neuroscience
2 citations, 0.05%
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
2 citations, 0.05%
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Springer Series on Cultural Computing
2 citations, 0.05%
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Renaissance Quarterly
2 citations, 0.05%
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Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
2 citations, 0.05%
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Cognition
2 citations, 0.05%
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Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
2 citations, 0.05%
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Ethnomusicology
2 citations, 0.05%
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Consciousness and Cognition
2 citations, 0.05%
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Oxford University Press
924 citations, 22.16%
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Duke University Press
370 citations, 8.87%
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Wiley
359 citations, 8.61%
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Society for Music Theory
339 citations, 8.13%
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Taylor & Francis
319 citations, 7.65%
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Cambridge University Press
222 citations, 5.32%
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Springer Nature
204 citations, 4.89%
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SAGE
115 citations, 2.76%
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University of California Press
113 citations, 2.71%
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Consortium Erudit
54 citations, 1.29%
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Elsevier
46 citations, 1.1%
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Frontiers Media S.A.
31 citations, 0.74%
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JSTOR
20 citations, 0.48%
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Intellect
20 citations, 0.48%
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
17 citations, 0.41%
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MIT Press
14 citations, 0.34%
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
12 citations, 0.29%
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11 citations, 0.26%
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MDPI
9 citations, 0.22%
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
8 citations, 0.19%
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Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
8 citations, 0.19%
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Equinox Publishing
8 citations, 0.19%
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Walter de Gruyter
7 citations, 0.17%
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
7 citations, 0.17%
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
7 citations, 0.17%
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University of Illinois Press
7 citations, 0.17%
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OpenEdition
7 citations, 0.17%
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Ubiquity Press
6 citations, 0.14%
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University of Chicago Press
5 citations, 0.12%
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Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
5 citations, 0.12%
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
4 citations, 0.1%
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The Royal Society
4 citations, 0.1%
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Hindawi Limited
4 citations, 0.1%
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American Psychological Association (APA)
4 citations, 0.1%
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Liverpool University Press
3 citations, 0.07%
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American Physical Society (APS)
3 citations, 0.07%
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EJournal Publishing
3 citations, 0.07%
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CAIRN
3 citations, 0.07%
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Edinburgh University Press
2 citations, 0.05%
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AIP Publishing
2 citations, 0.05%
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Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
2 citations, 0.05%
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Mathematical Sciences Publishers
2 citations, 0.05%
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International Council for Traditional Music
2 citations, 0.05%
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National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
2 citations, 0.05%
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EDP Sciences
1 citation, 0.02%
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1 citation, 0.02%
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Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
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Trans Tech Publications
1 citation, 0.02%
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Brill
1 citation, 0.02%
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1 citation, 0.02%
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Indiana University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
1 citation, 0.02%
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Linkoping University Electronic Press
1 citation, 0.02%
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Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
1 citation, 0.02%
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Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
1 citation, 0.02%
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Society for Neuroscience
1 citation, 0.02%
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UCL Institute of Education
1 citation, 0.02%
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Vizja Press and IT Limited
1 citation, 0.02%
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American Music Therapy Association
1 citation, 0.02%
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 citation, 0.02%
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China Science Publishing & Media
1 citation, 0.02%
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Annual Reviews
1 citation, 0.02%
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S. Karger AG
1 citation, 0.02%
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SciELO
1 citation, 0.02%
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Project MUSE
1 citation, 0.02%
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Japan Society of Medical Entomology an Zoology
1 citation, 0.02%
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IGI Global
1 citation, 0.02%
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F1000 Research
1 citation, 0.02%
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Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy
1 citation, 0.02%
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AOSIS
1 citation, 0.02%
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South Florida Publishing LLC
1 citation, 0.02%
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
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Guilford Publications
1 citation, 0.02%
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Scientific Scholar
1 citation, 0.02%
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Universitas Islam Indonesia (Islamic University of Indonesia)
1 citation, 0.02%
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World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
1 citation, 0.02%
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Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
1 citation, 0.02%
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The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
1 citation, 0.02%
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Indiana University Bloomington
2 publications, 0.15%
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University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.08%
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University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.08%
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Yale University
1 publication, 0.08%
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Columbia University
1 publication, 0.08%
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University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.08%
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University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.08%
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 0.08%
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Baylor University
1 publication, 0.08%
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University of Colorado Boulder
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USA
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USA, 15, 1.14%
USA
15 publications, 1.14%
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United Kingdom, 3, 0.23%
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