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SCImago
Q2
Impact factor
0.8
SJR
0.262
CiteScore
1.4
Categories
History and Philosophy of Science
Health Policy
Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Medicine
Nursing
Years of issue
1957-2025
journal names
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
PERSPECT BIOL MED
Top-3 citing journals

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(705 citations)

Social Science and Medicine
(227 citations)

PLoS ONE
(195 citations)
Top-3 organizations

University of Chicago
(87 publications)

Harvard University
(25 publications)

Yale University
(18 publications)

Cornell University
(1 publication)

Johns Hopkins University
(1 publication)

University of Cambridge
(1 publication)
Top-3 countries
Most cited in 5 years
Top-100
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
705 citations, 2.14%
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Social Science and Medicine
227 citations, 0.69%
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PLoS ONE
195 citations, 0.59%
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Medical Hypotheses
151 citations, 0.46%
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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
142 citations, 0.43%
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Science
142 citations, 0.43%
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Academic Medicine
131 citations, 0.4%
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
128 citations, 0.39%
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Journal of Biological Chemistry
116 citations, 0.35%
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The Lancet
104 citations, 0.32%
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American Journal of Bioethics
103 citations, 0.31%
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Nature
98 citations, 0.3%
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New England Journal of Medicine
97 citations, 0.29%
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
92 citations, 0.28%
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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
88 citations, 0.27%
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Medical Education
84 citations, 0.25%
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
82 citations, 0.25%
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Frontiers in Psychology
77 citations, 0.23%
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Journal of Theoretical Biology
76 citations, 0.23%
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Brain Research
75 citations, 0.23%
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
73 citations, 0.22%
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Archives of Sexual Behavior
73 citations, 0.22%
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Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
72 citations, 0.22%
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SSRN Electronic Journal
72 citations, 0.22%
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
66 citations, 0.2%
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Journal of Medical Ethics
66 citations, 0.2%
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Medical Teacher
63 citations, 0.19%
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
61 citations, 0.18%
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Scientific Reports
60 citations, 0.18%
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Physiology and Behavior
59 citations, 0.18%
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Philosophy and Medicine
59 citations, 0.18%
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American Journal of Public Health
57 citations, 0.17%
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Journal of Perinatal Medicine
57 citations, 0.17%
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Isis
56 citations, 0.17%
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
55 citations, 0.17%
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Biology and Philosophy
55 citations, 0.17%
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Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
53 citations, 0.16%
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American Journal of Medicine
52 citations, 0.16%
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Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
50 citations, 0.15%
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Sociology of Health and Illness
49 citations, 0.15%
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
49 citations, 0.15%
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
46 citations, 0.14%
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Journal of Medical Humanities
46 citations, 0.14%
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Social Studies of Science
46 citations, 0.14%
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Synthese
46 citations, 0.14%
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Journal of Biomedical Informatics
45 citations, 0.14%
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Pediatrics
45 citations, 0.14%
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Journal of General Internal Medicine
44 citations, 0.13%
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
43 citations, 0.13%
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Life Sciences
42 citations, 0.13%
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BMC Medical Ethics
42 citations, 0.13%
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
42 citations, 0.13%
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BMC Medical Education
41 citations, 0.12%
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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
40 citations, 0.12%
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BMJ Open
40 citations, 0.12%
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American Journal of Cardiology
40 citations, 0.12%
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Biochemical Pharmacology
40 citations, 0.12%
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
40 citations, 0.12%
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Ecological Indicators
38 citations, 0.12%
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Progress in Brain Research
38 citations, 0.12%
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Journal of Neurochemistry
37 citations, 0.11%
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
37 citations, 0.11%
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BMC Public Health
37 citations, 0.11%
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Journal of the History of Biology
37 citations, 0.11%
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Journal of Steroid Biochemistry
37 citations, 0.11%
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Pain
35 citations, 0.11%
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Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
35 citations, 0.11%
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
34 citations, 0.1%
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Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
34 citations, 0.1%
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General and Comparative Endocrinology
34 citations, 0.1%
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology
34 citations, 0.1%
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Psychosomatics
33 citations, 0.1%
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Ecology
33 citations, 0.1%
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BMC Bioinformatics
33 citations, 0.1%
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Journal of Religion and Health
33 citations, 0.1%
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Qualitative Health Research
32 citations, 0.1%
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Medical Humanities
32 citations, 0.1%
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International Review of Cytology
32 citations, 0.1%
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Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
31 citations, 0.09%
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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
30 citations, 0.09%
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Nutrients
30 citations, 0.09%
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Economics and Human Biology
30 citations, 0.09%
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Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
29 citations, 0.09%
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Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
29 citations, 0.09%
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Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
28 citations, 0.08%
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Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
28 citations, 0.08%
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
28 citations, 0.08%
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology
28 citations, 0.08%
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Journal of Clinical Ethics
28 citations, 0.08%
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Environmental Health Perspectives
28 citations, 0.08%
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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes
28 citations, 0.08%
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American Biology Teacher
27 citations, 0.08%
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Health (United Kingdom)
27 citations, 0.08%
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Science and Engineering Ethics
27 citations, 0.08%
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
27 citations, 0.08%
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BioScience
27 citations, 0.08%
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Gastroenterology
27 citations, 0.08%
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
27 citations, 0.08%
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Personality and Individual Differences
26 citations, 0.08%
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Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
26 citations, 0.08%
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Elsevier
7188 citations, 21.78%
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Springer Nature
4785 citations, 14.5%
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Wiley
3571 citations, 10.82%
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Taylor & Francis
1897 citations, 5.75%
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Cambridge University Press
1401 citations, 4.25%
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SAGE
1310 citations, 3.97%
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Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
771 citations, 2.34%
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Oxford University Press
659 citations, 2%
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MDPI
554 citations, 1.68%
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Frontiers Media S.A.
441 citations, 1.34%
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BMJ
295 citations, 0.89%
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
257 citations, 0.78%
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
197 citations, 0.6%
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University of Chicago Press
177 citations, 0.54%
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
159 citations, 0.48%
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Mary Ann Liebert
155 citations, 0.47%
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
139 citations, 0.42%
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
132 citations, 0.4%
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Emerald
127 citations, 0.38%
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Walter de Gruyter
126 citations, 0.38%
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SciELO
110 citations, 0.33%
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
102 citations, 0.31%
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Massachusetts Medical Society
99 citations, 0.3%
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The Royal Society
98 citations, 0.3%
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American Physiological Society
86 citations, 0.26%
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MIT Press
85 citations, 0.26%
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Hindawi Limited
85 citations, 0.26%
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American Society for Microbiology
83 citations, 0.25%
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Annual Reviews
81 citations, 0.25%
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
81 citations, 0.25%
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG
67 citations, 0.2%
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IGI Global
66 citations, 0.2%
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American Public Health Association
63 citations, 0.19%
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S. Karger AG
58 citations, 0.18%
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
57 citations, 0.17%
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
54 citations, 0.16%
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American Academy of Pediatrics
52 citations, 0.16%
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Duke University Press
46 citations, 0.14%
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
45 citations, 0.14%
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Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
40 citations, 0.12%
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JMIR Publications
40 citations, 0.12%
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SLACK
40 citations, 0.12%
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American Medical Association (AMA)
37 citations, 0.11%
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F1000 Research
36 citations, 0.11%
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
35 citations, 0.11%
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American Society for Nutrition
35 citations, 0.11%
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Pleiades Publishing
32 citations, 0.1%
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American Psychological Association (APA)
31 citations, 0.09%
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Canadian Science Publishing
30 citations, 0.09%
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Environmental Health Perspectives
30 citations, 0.09%
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CAIRN
29 citations, 0.09%
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
29 citations, 0.09%
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National Association of Biology Teachers
28 citations, 0.08%
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The Endocrine Society
27 citations, 0.08%
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IOP Publishing
26 citations, 0.08%
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American Thoracic Society
26 citations, 0.08%
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University Pub. Group
26 citations, 0.08%
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American Diabetes Association
24 citations, 0.07%
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Mark Allen Group
24 citations, 0.07%
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Ubiquity Press
23 citations, 0.07%
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21 citations, 0.06%
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American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
20 citations, 0.06%
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
20 citations, 0.06%
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20 citations, 0.06%
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IntechOpen
20 citations, 0.06%
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The Company of Biologists
19 citations, 0.06%
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Health Affairs (Project Hope)
19 citations, 0.06%
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Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
18 citations, 0.05%
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Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
18 citations, 0.05%
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Akademiai Kiado
18 citations, 0.05%
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Baishideng Publishing Group
18 citations, 0.05%
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Bristol University Press
18 citations, 0.05%
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Hogrefe Publishing Group
18 citations, 0.05%
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IOS Press
16 citations, 0.05%
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AIP Publishing
16 citations, 0.05%
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
15 citations, 0.05%
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American Society for Clinical Investigation
14 citations, 0.04%
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American Speech Language Hearing Association
14 citations, 0.04%
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Society for Neuroscience
14 citations, 0.04%
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OpenEdition
14 citations, 0.04%
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World Scientific
13 citations, 0.04%
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Portland Press
13 citations, 0.04%
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CSIRO Publishing
13 citations, 0.04%
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Spandidos Publications
12 citations, 0.04%
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University of Montreal
12 citations, 0.04%
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Medknow
12 citations, 0.04%
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Brill
11 citations, 0.03%
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11 citations, 0.03%
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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
11 citations, 0.03%
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Human Kinetics
11 citations, 0.03%
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Guilford Publications
11 citations, 0.03%
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Edinburgh University Press
10 citations, 0.03%
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Springer Publishing Company
10 citations, 0.03%
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Consortium Erudit
10 citations, 0.03%
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EDP Sciences
9 citations, 0.03%
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American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
9 citations, 0.03%
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PeerJ
9 citations, 0.03%
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eLife Sciences Publications
9 citations, 0.03%
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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
9 citations, 0.03%
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Media Sphere Publishing House
9 citations, 0.03%
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University of Chicago
87 publications, 2.05%
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Harvard University
25 publications, 0.59%
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Yale University
18 publications, 0.42%
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University of Michigan
16 publications, 0.38%
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University of Pennsylvania
16 publications, 0.38%
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Johns Hopkins University
14 publications, 0.33%
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University of Illinois at Chicago
14 publications, 0.33%
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Michigan State University
13 publications, 0.31%
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Indiana University Bloomington
13 publications, 0.31%
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Case Western Reserve University
12 publications, 0.28%
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University of Washington
12 publications, 0.28%
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
11 publications, 0.26%
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Washington University in St. Louis
11 publications, 0.26%
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University of British Columbia
11 publications, 0.26%
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Northwestern University
10 publications, 0.24%
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Stanford University
9 publications, 0.21%
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Columbia University
9 publications, 0.21%
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Boston University
9 publications, 0.21%
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Brown University
9 publications, 0.21%
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University of California, Berkeley
8 publications, 0.19%
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New York University
8 publications, 0.19%
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Baylor College of Medicine
8 publications, 0.19%
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Pennsylvania State University
7 publications, 0.17%
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Cornell University
6 publications, 0.14%
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Oregon Health & Science University
6 publications, 0.14%
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University of California, San Diego
6 publications, 0.14%
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University of California, San Francisco
6 publications, 0.14%
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Vanderbilt University
6 publications, 0.14%
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McGill University
6 publications, 0.14%
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Temple University
6 publications, 0.14%
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University of Toronto
6 publications, 0.14%
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University College London
5 publications, 0.12%
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Georgetown University
5 publications, 0.12%
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Duke University Hospital
5 publications, 0.12%
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Ohio University
5 publications, 0.12%
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Rockefeller University
5 publications, 0.12%
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5 publications, 0.12%
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
5 publications, 0.12%
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University of Kentucky
5 publications, 0.12%
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Oxford
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Cambridge
4 publications, 0.09%
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 publications, 0.09%
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Dalhousie University
4 publications, 0.09%
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Massachusetts General Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of California, Los Angeles
4 publications, 0.09%
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Loyola University Chicago
4 publications, 0.09%
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Trinity College Dublin
4 publications, 0.09%
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Tulane University
4 publications, 0.09%
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Medical College of Wisconsin
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Sheffield
4 publications, 0.09%
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Western University
4 publications, 0.09%
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Houston Methodist Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Miami
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Delaware
4 publications, 0.09%
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University of Connecticut Health
4 publications, 0.09%
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Meir Medical Center
3 publications, 0.07%
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 publications, 0.07%
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Imperial College London
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Copenhagen
3 publications, 0.07%
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Florida State University
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Southern California
3 publications, 0.07%
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Stony Brook University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Drexel University
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Siena
3 publications, 0.07%
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California Institute of Technology
3 publications, 0.07%
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George Washington University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Princeton University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Arizona State University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Colorado State University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3 publications, 0.07%
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Duke University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Ohio State University
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Notre Dame
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.07%
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McMaster University
3 publications, 0.07%
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Dartmouth College
3 publications, 0.07%
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Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
3 publications, 0.07%
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Emory University
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.07%
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Mayo Clinic
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Ottawa
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Guelph
3 publications, 0.07%
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Wake Forest University
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Cincinnati
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Rochester
3 publications, 0.07%
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Indiana University School of Medicine
3 publications, 0.07%
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
3 publications, 0.07%
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
3 publications, 0.07%
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Tel Aviv University
2 publications, 0.05%
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Hadassah Medical Center
2 publications, 0.05%
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Ghent University
2 publications, 0.05%
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Australian National University
2 publications, 0.05%
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Aston University
2 publications, 0.05%
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University of Liverpool
2 publications, 0.05%
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University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.05%
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National University of Singapore
2 publications, 0.05%
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University of Auckland
2 publications, 0.05%
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University of Otago
2 publications, 0.05%
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University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.38%
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Cornell University
1 publication, 0.38%
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Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.38%
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Victoria University of Wellington
1 publication, 0.38%
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Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.38%
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Harvard University
1 publication, 0.38%
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Lurie Children's Hospital
1 publication, 0.38%
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USA
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USA, 787, 18.57%
USA
787 publications, 18.57%
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom, 56, 1.32%
United Kingdom
56 publications, 1.32%
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Canada
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Canada, 56, 1.32%
Canada
56 publications, 1.32%
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Israel
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Israel, 23, 0.54%
Israel
23 publications, 0.54%
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Australia
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Australia, 14, 0.33%
Australia
14 publications, 0.33%
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Germany
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Germany, 11, 0.26%
Germany
11 publications, 0.26%
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New Zealand
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New Zealand, 11, 0.26%
New Zealand
11 publications, 0.26%
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Belgium
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Belgium, 9, 0.21%
Belgium
9 publications, 0.21%
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Italy
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Italy, 9, 0.21%
Italy
9 publications, 0.21%
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Ireland
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Ireland, 8, 0.19%
Ireland
8 publications, 0.19%
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Netherlands
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Netherlands, 8, 0.19%
Netherlands
8 publications, 0.19%
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South Africa
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South Africa, 7, 0.17%
South Africa
7 publications, 0.17%
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Denmark
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Denmark, 5, 0.12%
Denmark
5 publications, 0.12%
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Norway
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Norway, 5, 0.12%
Norway
5 publications, 0.12%
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Republic of Korea
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Republic of Korea, 5, 0.12%
Republic of Korea
5 publications, 0.12%
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France
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France, 4, 0.09%
France
4 publications, 0.09%
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Switzerland
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Switzerland, 4, 0.09%
Switzerland
4 publications, 0.09%
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Sweden
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Sweden, 4, 0.09%
Sweden
4 publications, 0.09%
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Brazil
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Brazil, 3, 0.07%
Brazil
3 publications, 0.07%
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India
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India, 3, 0.07%
India
3 publications, 0.07%
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China
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China, 2, 0.05%
China
2 publications, 0.05%
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Portugal
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Portugal, 2, 0.05%
Portugal
2 publications, 0.05%
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Austria
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Austria, 2, 0.05%
Austria
2 publications, 0.05%
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Greece
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Greece, 2, 0.05%
Greece
2 publications, 0.05%
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Spain
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Spain, 2, 0.05%
Spain
2 publications, 0.05%
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Mexico
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Mexico, 2, 0.05%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.05%
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Singapore
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Singapore, 2, 0.05%
Singapore
2 publications, 0.05%
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Finland
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Finland, 2, 0.05%
Finland
2 publications, 0.05%
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Romania
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Romania, 1, 0.02%
Romania
1 publication, 0.02%
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Croatia
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Croatia, 1, 0.02%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.02%
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Japan
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Japan, 1, 0.02%
Japan
1 publication, 0.02%
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USA, 5, 1.92%
USA
5 publications, 1.92%
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom, 1, 0.38%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.38%
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New Zealand
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New Zealand, 1, 0.38%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.38%
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