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Synthetic Biology

Oxford University Press
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ISSN: 19397267, 23977000, 20529007

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.5
SJR
0.762
CiteScore
4.6
Categories
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Bioengineering
Biomaterials
Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology
Areas
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Chemical Engineering
Engineering
Materials Science
Years of issue
2018-2025
journal names
Synthetic Biology
SYN BIOL
Publications
222
Citations
2 688
h-index
29
Publications
142
Citations
2 459
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
Imperial College London
Imperial College London (13 publications)
University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh (9 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (95 publications)
United Kingdom (39 publications)
Germany (12 publications)
USA (52 publications)
United Kingdom (21 publications)
Netherlands (10 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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ACS Synthetic Biology
266 citations, 9.9%
Nature Communications
71 citations, 2.64%
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
71 citations, 2.64%
Synthetic Biology
59 citations, 2.19%
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
45 citations, 1.67%
Trends in Biotechnology
42 citations, 1.56%
Nucleic Acids Research
37 citations, 1.38%
Metabolic Engineering
36 citations, 1.34%
Methods in Molecular Biology
31 citations, 1.15%
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology
27 citations, 1%
Biotechnology Advances
27 citations, 1%
Scientific Reports
25 citations, 0.93%
bioRxiv
25 citations, 0.93%
Chemical Reviews
23 citations, 0.86%
Biochemical Engineering Journal
19 citations, 0.71%
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
17 citations, 0.63%
Microbial Biotechnology
17 citations, 0.63%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
16 citations, 0.6%
Microbial Cell Factories
16 citations, 0.6%
Microorganisms
15 citations, 0.56%
Biotechnology Journal
15 citations, 0.56%
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
15 citations, 0.56%
Nature Reviews Genetics
14 citations, 0.52%
SLAS Technology
14 citations, 0.52%
Molecules
13 citations, 0.48%
Nature Biotechnology
13 citations, 0.48%
Frontiers in Microbiology
13 citations, 0.48%
Nature Chemical Biology
12 citations, 0.45%
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
11 citations, 0.41%
Science advances
11 citations, 0.41%
Engineering Biology
11 citations, 0.41%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
10 citations, 0.37%
Frontiers in Plant Science
10 citations, 0.37%
Current Opinion in Systems Biology
10 citations, 0.37%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
10 citations, 0.37%
Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering
9 citations, 0.33%
PLoS ONE
9 citations, 0.33%
Methods and Protocols
9 citations, 0.33%
Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
8 citations, 0.3%
Journal of the American Chemical Society
8 citations, 0.3%
Frontiers in Education
8 citations, 0.3%
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
8 citations, 0.3%
ChemBioChem
8 citations, 0.3%
Natural Product Reports
8 citations, 0.3%
Plant Journal
8 citations, 0.3%
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
8 citations, 0.3%
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
8 citations, 0.3%
Life
8 citations, 0.3%
Biosensors
7 citations, 0.26%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
7 citations, 0.26%
Pharmaceuticals
6 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
6 citations, 0.22%
Advanced Science
6 citations, 0.22%
Bioresource Technology
6 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
6 citations, 0.22%
Metabolic Engineering Communications
6 citations, 0.22%
New Biotechnology
6 citations, 0.22%
Processes
6 citations, 0.22%
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
6 citations, 0.22%
PLoS Computational Biology
6 citations, 0.22%
IFAC-PapersOnLine
5 citations, 0.19%
Environmental Microbiology
5 citations, 0.19%
ACS Catalysis
5 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
5 citations, 0.19%
FEMS Yeast Research
5 citations, 0.19%
ACS Nano
5 citations, 0.19%
Genes
5 citations, 0.19%
Plant Physiology
5 citations, 0.19%
Carbohydrate Polymers
5 citations, 0.19%
Current Opinion in Microbiology
5 citations, 0.19%
ACS Omega
5 citations, 0.19%
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 citations, 0.19%
Critical Reviews in Biotechnology
5 citations, 0.19%
Trends in Microbiology
5 citations, 0.19%
Heliyon
5 citations, 0.19%
Bioengineering
5 citations, 0.19%
Algal Research
5 citations, 0.19%
eLife
5 citations, 0.19%
Angewandte Chemie
5 citations, 0.19%
Nature Reviews Methods Primers
5 citations, 0.19%
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
5 citations, 0.19%
SynBio
5 citations, 0.19%
Frontiers in Synthetic Biology
5 citations, 0.19%
Nanoscale
4 citations, 0.15%
Green Chemistry
4 citations, 0.15%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
4 citations, 0.15%
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
4 citations, 0.15%
iScience
4 citations, 0.15%
BioSpektrum
4 citations, 0.15%
mBio
4 citations, 0.15%
Small
4 citations, 0.15%
Biochemical Society Transactions
4 citations, 0.15%
Communications Biology
4 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Biotechnology
4 citations, 0.15%
Fermentation
4 citations, 0.15%
BioDrugs
4 citations, 0.15%
Plants
4 citations, 0.15%
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
4 citations, 0.15%
ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering
4 citations, 0.15%
Plant Biotechnology Journal
4 citations, 0.15%
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Elsevier
527 citations, 19.61%
Springer Nature
403 citations, 14.99%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
388 citations, 14.43%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
331 citations, 12.31%
Wiley
193 citations, 7.18%
MDPI
160 citations, 5.95%
Oxford University Press
141 citations, 5.25%
Frontiers Media S.A.
139 citations, 5.17%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
49 citations, 1.82%
Taylor & Francis
35 citations, 1.3%
American Society for Microbiology
27 citations, 1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
24 citations, 0.89%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
20 citations, 0.74%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
17 citations, 0.63%
Annual Reviews
15 citations, 0.56%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
13 citations, 0.48%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
11 citations, 0.41%
Portland Press
11 citations, 0.41%
Mary Ann Liebert
9 citations, 0.33%
Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
9 citations, 0.33%
Pleiades Publishing
7 citations, 0.26%
The Royal Society
7 citations, 0.26%
F1000 Research
7 citations, 0.26%
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology
6 citations, 0.22%
eLife Sciences Publications
5 citations, 0.19%
AIP Publishing
3 citations, 0.11%
The Company of Biologists
3 citations, 0.11%
PeerJ
3 citations, 0.11%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
3 citations, 0.11%
IOP Publishing
3 citations, 0.11%
Walter de Gruyter
2 citations, 0.07%
Rockefeller University Press
2 citations, 0.07%
SAGE
2 citations, 0.07%
Hindawi Limited
2 citations, 0.07%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
2 citations, 0.07%
Research Square Platform LLC
2 citations, 0.07%
IMR Press
1 citation, 0.04%
Emerald
1 citation, 0.04%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
1 citation, 0.04%
EDP Sciences
1 citation, 0.04%
Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.04%
Duke University Press
1 citation, 0.04%
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
1 citation, 0.04%
American Physical Society (APS)
1 citation, 0.04%
AME Publishing Company
1 citation, 0.04%
Tsinghua University Press
1 citation, 0.04%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1 citation, 0.04%
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
1 citation, 0.04%
1 citation, 0.04%
Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos (ITAL)
1 citation, 0.04%
Canadian Science Publishing
1 citation, 0.04%
Bio-Protocol
1 citation, 0.04%
SciELO
1 citation, 0.04%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
1 citation, 0.04%
Volgograd State Medical University
1 citation, 0.04%
Baishideng Publishing Group
1 citation, 0.04%
Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
1 citation, 0.04%
IntechOpen
1 citation, 0.04%
Ural State Law University
1 citation, 0.04%
Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - BMB Reports
1 citation, 0.04%
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Imperial College London
13 publications, 5.86%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 publications, 4.5%
University of Edinburgh
9 publications, 4.05%
University of Groningen
9 publications, 4.05%
University of Minnesota
8 publications, 3.6%
University of Manchester
7 publications, 3.15%
Northwestern University
7 publications, 3.15%
Newcastle University
7 publications, 3.15%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
6 publications, 2.7%
Harvard University
5 publications, 2.25%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4 publications, 1.8%
University of Washington
4 publications, 1.8%
University of Bristol
4 publications, 1.8%
Polytechnic University of Valencia
4 publications, 1.8%
United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
4 publications, 1.8%
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
3 publications, 1.35%
University of Liverpool
3 publications, 1.35%
Technical University of Denmark
3 publications, 1.35%
William Marsh Rice University
3 publications, 1.35%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
3 publications, 1.35%
Stanford University
3 publications, 1.35%
Colorado State University
3 publications, 1.35%
New York University Langone Health
3 publications, 1.35%
University of California, Davis
3 publications, 1.35%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3 publications, 1.35%
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
3 publications, 1.35%
Philipps University of Marburg
3 publications, 1.35%
Waseda University
3 publications, 1.35%
Joint Genome Institute
3 publications, 1.35%
United States Naval Research Laboratory
3 publications, 1.35%
University of Tennessee
3 publications, 1.35%
National Center for Biotechnology
3 publications, 1.35%
Radboud University Nijmegen
2 publications, 0.9%
ETH Zurich
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Warwick
2 publications, 0.9%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 0.9%
Carnegie Mellon University
2 publications, 0.9%
California Institute of Technology
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Western Australia
2 publications, 0.9%
Macquarie University
2 publications, 0.9%
Arizona State University
2 publications, 0.9%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2 publications, 0.9%
Virginia Tech
2 publications, 0.9%
Duke University
2 publications, 0.9%
University of California, Santa Cruz
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.9%
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2 publications, 0.9%
Japan Science and Technology Agency
2 publications, 0.9%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 0.9%
Technical University of Darmstadt
2 publications, 0.9%
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2 publications, 0.9%
Hokkaido University
2 publications, 0.9%
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Tokyo
2 publications, 0.9%
NOVA University Lisbon
2 publications, 0.9%
Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics
2 publications, 0.9%
Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Colorado Boulder
2 publications, 0.9%
University of Utah
2 publications, 0.9%
Université Paris-Saclay
2 publications, 0.9%
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2 publications, 0.9%
Montana State University
2 publications, 0.9%
Boğaziçi University
1 publication, 0.45%
Jawaharlal Nehru University
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Tübingen
1 publication, 0.45%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 0.45%
Fudan University
1 publication, 0.45%
Israel Agricultural Research Organization
1 publication, 0.45%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.45%
Technical University of Munich
1 publication, 0.45%
Uppsala University
1 publication, 0.45%
Chalmers University of Technology
1 publication, 0.45%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.45%
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.45%
Karolinska Institute
1 publication, 0.45%
Stockholm University
1 publication, 0.45%
National Sun Yat-sen University
1 publication, 0.45%
University of New South Wales
1 publication, 0.45%
Delft University of Technology
1 publication, 0.45%
East China Normal University
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Basel
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Technology Sydney
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Milan
1 publication, 0.45%
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Turin
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.45%
ShanghaiTech University
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.45%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
1 publication, 0.45%
Novo Nordisk
1 publication, 0.45%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.45%
Sorbonne University
1 publication, 0.45%
National University of Singapore
1 publication, 0.45%
Michigan State University
1 publication, 0.45%
Queensland University of Technology
1 publication, 0.45%
University of Southampton
1 publication, 0.45%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0.45%
Kaohsiung Medical University
1 publication, 0.45%
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University of Groningen
9 publications, 6.34%
Imperial College London
8 publications, 5.63%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 publications, 4.23%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
6 publications, 4.23%
Newcastle University
5 publications, 3.52%
University of Edinburgh
4 publications, 2.82%
University of Minnesota
4 publications, 2.82%
Technical University of Denmark
3 publications, 2.11%
Colorado State University
3 publications, 2.11%
Harvard University
3 publications, 2.11%
New York University Langone Health
3 publications, 2.11%
University of Washington
3 publications, 2.11%
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
3 publications, 2.11%
Philipps University of Marburg
3 publications, 2.11%
Waseda University
3 publications, 2.11%
Polytechnic University of Valencia
3 publications, 2.11%
National Center for Biotechnology
3 publications, 2.11%
United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
3 publications, 2.11%
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2 publications, 1.41%
Radboud University Nijmegen
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Manchester
2 publications, 1.41%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Western Australia
2 publications, 1.41%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
2 publications, 1.41%
Stanford University
2 publications, 1.41%
Duke University
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 1.41%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Bristol
2 publications, 1.41%
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2 publications, 1.41%
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2 publications, 1.41%
Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics
2 publications, 1.41%
Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Colorado Boulder
2 publications, 1.41%
United States Naval Research Laboratory
2 publications, 1.41%
University of Tennessee
2 publications, 1.41%
Montana State University
2 publications, 1.41%
Boğaziçi University
1 publication, 0.7%
Jawaharlal Nehru University
1 publication, 0.7%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 0.7%
Fudan University
1 publication, 0.7%
Israel Agricultural Research Organization
1 publication, 0.7%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.7%
Uppsala University
1 publication, 0.7%
Chalmers University of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.7%
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Karolinska Institute
1 publication, 0.7%
Stockholm University
1 publication, 0.7%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 0.7%
National Sun Yat-sen University
1 publication, 0.7%
Delft University of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
East China Normal University
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Technology Sydney
1 publication, 0.7%
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
1 publication, 0.7%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Liverpool
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.7%
Novo Nordisk
1 publication, 0.7%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.7%
National University of Singapore
1 publication, 0.7%
Michigan State University
1 publication, 0.7%
Carnegie Mellon University
1 publication, 0.7%
Queensland University of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0.7%
Kaohsiung Medical University
1 publication, 0.7%
National Chung Hsing University
1 publication, 0.7%
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
1 publication, 0.7%
Italian Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Georgia Institute of technology
1 publication, 0.7%
California Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Iowa State University
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.7%
Griffith University
1 publication, 0.7%
Macquarie University
1 publication, 0.7%
Australian Research Council
1 publication, 0.7%
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
1 publication, 0.7%
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Sungkyunkwan University
1 publication, 0.7%
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
1 publication, 0.7%
Korea University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Arizona State University
1 publication, 0.7%
Washington University in St. Louis
1 publication, 0.7%
Chonnam National University
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 0.7%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1 publication, 0.7%
Oregon State University
1 publication, 0.7%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 0.7%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.7%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.7%
University of California, Santa Cruz
1 publication, 0.7%
Northeastern University
1 publication, 0.7%
Kyoto University
1 publication, 0.7%
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.7%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1 publication, 0.7%
Keele University
1 publication, 0.7%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 0.7%
Japan Science and Technology Agency
1 publication, 0.7%
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USA, 95, 42.79%
USA
95 publications, 42.79%
United Kingdom, 39, 17.57%
United Kingdom
39 publications, 17.57%
Germany, 12, 5.41%
Germany
12 publications, 5.41%
Australia, 10, 4.5%
Australia
10 publications, 4.5%
Netherlands, 10, 4.5%
Netherlands
10 publications, 4.5%
Japan, 10, 4.5%
Japan
10 publications, 4.5%
China, 8, 3.6%
China
8 publications, 3.6%
Spain, 8, 3.6%
Spain
8 publications, 3.6%
Switzerland, 7, 3.15%
Switzerland
7 publications, 3.15%
France, 5, 2.25%
France
5 publications, 2.25%
Norway, 4, 1.8%
Norway
4 publications, 1.8%
Denmark, 3, 1.35%
Denmark
3 publications, 1.35%
Italy, 3, 1.35%
Italy
3 publications, 1.35%
Canada, 3, 1.35%
Canada
3 publications, 1.35%
Saudi Arabia, 3, 1.35%
Saudi Arabia
3 publications, 1.35%
Sweden, 3, 1.35%
Sweden
3 publications, 1.35%
Portugal, 2, 0.9%
Portugal
2 publications, 0.9%
Brazil, 2, 0.9%
Brazil
2 publications, 0.9%
Greece, 2, 0.9%
Greece
2 publications, 0.9%
Singapore, 2, 0.9%
Singapore
2 publications, 0.9%
Chile, 2, 0.9%
Chile
2 publications, 0.9%
Austria, 1, 0.45%
Austria
1 publication, 0.45%
Argentina, 1, 0.45%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.45%
Belgium, 1, 0.45%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.45%
Bulgaria, 1, 0.45%
Bulgaria
1 publication, 0.45%
Hungary, 1, 0.45%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.45%
Israel, 1, 0.45%
Israel
1 publication, 0.45%
India, 1, 0.45%
India
1 publication, 0.45%
New Zealand, 1, 0.45%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.45%
Thailand, 1, 0.45%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.45%
Finland, 1, 0.45%
Finland
1 publication, 0.45%
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USA, 52, 36.62%
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52 publications, 36.62%
United Kingdom, 21, 14.79%
United Kingdom
21 publications, 14.79%
Netherlands, 10, 7.04%
Netherlands
10 publications, 7.04%
Australia, 7, 4.93%
Australia
7 publications, 4.93%
China, 6, 4.23%
China
6 publications, 4.23%
Spain, 6, 4.23%
Spain
6 publications, 4.23%
Germany, 5, 3.52%
Germany
5 publications, 3.52%
Japan, 5, 3.52%
Japan
5 publications, 3.52%
Denmark, 3, 2.11%
Denmark
3 publications, 2.11%
Sweden, 3, 2.11%
Sweden
3 publications, 2.11%
Brazil, 2, 1.41%
Brazil
2 publications, 1.41%
Norway, 2, 1.41%
Norway
2 publications, 1.41%
Saudi Arabia, 2, 1.41%
Saudi Arabia
2 publications, 1.41%
Singapore, 2, 1.41%
Singapore
2 publications, 1.41%
France, 1, 0.7%
France
1 publication, 0.7%
Austria, 1, 0.7%
Austria
1 publication, 0.7%
Belgium, 1, 0.7%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.7%
Israel, 1, 0.7%
Israel
1 publication, 0.7%
India, 1, 0.7%
India
1 publication, 0.7%
Canada, 1, 0.7%
Canada
1 publication, 0.7%
New Zealand, 1, 0.7%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.7%
Finland, 1, 0.7%
Finland
1 publication, 0.7%
Chile, 1, 0.7%
Chile
1 publication, 0.7%
Switzerland, 1, 0.7%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.7%
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