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United States National Library of Medicine
Short name
NLM
Country, city
USA, Bethesda
Publications
4 895
Citations
534 316
h-index
299
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 foreign organizations
Institut Pasteur
Institut Pasteur (117 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (57 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Since 1959

Total publications
4895
Total citations
534316
Citations per publication
109.16
Average publications per year
73.06
Average authors per publication
7.52
h-index
299
Metrics description
h-index
A scientist has an h-index if h of his N publications are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (N - h) publications are cited no more than h times each.

Top-30

Fields of science

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Genetics, 816, 16.67%
Genetics
816 publications, 16.67%
Molecular Biology, 811, 16.57%
Molecular Biology
811 publications, 16.57%
Computer Science Applications, 492, 10.05%
Computer Science Applications
492 publications, 10.05%
Biochemistry, 428, 8.74%
Biochemistry
428 publications, 8.74%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 402, 8.21%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
402 publications, 8.21%
General Medicine, 400, 8.17%
General Medicine
400 publications, 8.17%
Multidisciplinary, 392, 8.01%
Multidisciplinary
392 publications, 8.01%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 351, 7.17%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
351 publications, 7.17%
Health Informatics, 318, 6.5%
Health Informatics
318 publications, 6.5%
Microbiology, 298, 6.09%
Microbiology
298 publications, 6.09%
Structural Biology, 263, 5.37%
Structural Biology
263 publications, 5.37%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 230, 4.7%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
230 publications, 4.7%
Applied Mathematics, 212, 4.33%
Applied Mathematics
212 publications, 4.33%
Immunology, 208, 4.25%
Immunology
208 publications, 4.25%
Information Systems, 193, 3.94%
Information Systems
193 publications, 3.94%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 187, 3.82%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
187 publications, 3.82%
Biotechnology, 180, 3.68%
Biotechnology
180 publications, 3.68%
Library and Information Sciences, 177, 3.62%
Library and Information Sciences
177 publications, 3.62%
Modeling and Simulation, 170, 3.47%
Modeling and Simulation
170 publications, 3.47%
Virology, 168, 3.43%
Virology
168 publications, 3.43%
Cell Biology, 162, 3.31%
Cell Biology
162 publications, 3.31%
Computational Theory and Mathematics, 158, 3.23%
Computational Theory and Mathematics
158 publications, 3.23%
Genetics (clinical), 153, 3.13%
Genetics (clinical)
153 publications, 3.13%
Statistics and Probability, 132, 2.7%
Statistics and Probability
132 publications, 2.7%
Computational Mathematics, 118, 2.41%
Computational Mathematics
118 publications, 2.41%
Infectious Diseases, 117, 2.39%
Infectious Diseases
117 publications, 2.39%
Software, 94, 1.92%
Software
94 publications, 1.92%
Molecular Medicine, 84, 1.72%
Molecular Medicine
84 publications, 1.72%
General Immunology and Microbiology, 76, 1.55%
General Immunology and Microbiology
76 publications, 1.55%
General Chemistry, 75, 1.53%
General Chemistry
75 publications, 1.53%
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Journals

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Nucleic Acids Research
250 publications, 5.11%
American Journal of Public Health
127 publications, 2.59%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
115 publications, 2.35%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
115 publications, 2.35%
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
106 publications, 2.17%
Biology Direct
98 publications, 2%
Bioinformatics
93 publications, 1.9%
Science
88 publications, 1.8%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
81 publications, 1.65%
BMC Bioinformatics
79 publications, 1.61%
PLoS ONE
79 publications, 1.61%
Nature
68 publications, 1.39%
Genome Biology
68 publications, 1.39%
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
62 publications, 1.27%
Nature Communications
61 publications, 1.25%
Genome Research
60 publications, 1.23%
Journal of Molecular Biology
46 publications, 0.94%
Environmental Microbiology
44 publications, 0.9%
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
43 publications, 0.88%
Methods in Molecular Biology
36 publications, 0.74%
mBio
35 publications, 0.72%
Genome Biology and Evolution
35 publications, 0.72%
Information Services and Use
35 publications, 0.72%
Nursing and Computers
35 publications, 0.72%
Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics
34 publications, 0.69%
Trends in Genetics
33 publications, 0.67%
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
33 publications, 0.67%
Nature Biotechnology
32 publications, 0.65%
Journal of Bacteriology
32 publications, 0.65%
BMC Genomics
31 publications, 0.63%
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Publishers

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Springer Nature
1221 publications, 24.94%
Elsevier
767 publications, 15.67%
Oxford University Press
687 publications, 14.03%
Wiley
316 publications, 6.46%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
151 publications, 3.08%
American Society for Microbiology
149 publications, 3.04%
American Public Health Association
127 publications, 2.59%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
119 publications, 2.43%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
115 publications, 2.35%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
106 publications, 2.17%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
99 publications, 2.02%
Taylor & Francis
86 publications, 1.76%
MDPI
77 publications, 1.57%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
70 publications, 1.43%
Mary Ann Liebert
62 publications, 1.27%
SAGE
47 publications, 0.96%
Frontiers Media S.A.
47 publications, 0.96%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
43 publications, 0.88%
IOS Press
35 publications, 0.72%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
34 publications, 0.69%
American Medical Association (AMA)
31 publications, 0.63%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
29 publications, 0.59%
Microbiology Society
24 publications, 0.49%
Cambridge University Press
23 publications, 0.47%
American Physical Society (APS)
21 publications, 0.43%
F1000 Research
20 publications, 0.41%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
17 publications, 0.35%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
17 publications, 0.35%
BMJ
17 publications, 0.35%
Annual Reviews
15 publications, 0.31%
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With other organizations

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National Center for Biotechnology Information
3078 publications, 62.88%
National Cancer Institute
201 publications, 4.11%
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
157 publications, 3.21%
Harvard University
146 publications, 2.98%
Institut Pasteur
117 publications, 2.39%
Johns Hopkins University
103 publications, 2.1%
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
97 publications, 1.98%
European Bioinformatics Institute
93 publications, 1.9%
University of Maryland, College Park
93 publications, 1.9%
Food and Drug Administration
89 publications, 1.82%
University of Rochester
86 publications, 1.76%
University of Utah
84 publications, 1.72%
Stanford University
82 publications, 1.68%
National Human Genome Research Institute
82 publications, 1.68%
University of Washington
80 publications, 1.63%
Cornell University
67 publications, 1.37%
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
66 publications, 1.35%
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
66 publications, 1.35%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
64 publications, 1.31%
University of California, San Diego
63 publications, 1.29%
Columbia University
60 publications, 1.23%
University of Oxford
57 publications, 1.16%
Oregon State University
56 publications, 1.14%
Pennsylvania State University
55 publications, 1.12%
National Eye Institute
54 publications, 1.1%
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
54 publications, 1.1%
Washington University in St. Louis
53 publications, 1.08%
University of Maryland, Baltimore
53 publications, 1.08%
Yale University
51 publications, 1.04%
University of California, San Francisco
51 publications, 1.04%
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With foreign organizations

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Institut Pasteur
117 publications, 2.39%
European Bioinformatics Institute
93 publications, 1.9%
University of Oxford
57 publications, 1.16%
Lomonosov Moscow State University
48 publications, 0.98%
Paris Cité University
48 publications, 0.98%
Wellcome Sanger Institute
48 publications, 0.98%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
48 publications, 0.98%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
39 publications, 0.8%
University of Toronto
39 publications, 0.8%
University of Cambridge
38 publications, 0.78%
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
35 publications, 0.72%
Karolinska Institute
33 publications, 0.67%
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
32 publications, 0.65%
Tel Aviv University
31 publications, 0.63%
University of Helsinki
31 publications, 0.63%
University College London
31 publications, 0.63%
University of Queensland
31 publications, 0.63%
University of Copenhagen
30 publications, 0.61%
University of British Columbia
29 publications, 0.59%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
28 publications, 0.57%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
28 publications, 0.57%
Utrecht University
27 publications, 0.55%
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
26 publications, 0.53%
Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
26 publications, 0.53%
ETH Zurich
24 publications, 0.49%
Aix-Marseille University
23 publications, 0.47%
University of Geneva
22 publications, 0.45%
University of Manchester
22 publications, 0.45%
University of Sydney
22 publications, 0.45%
University of Tokyo
22 publications, 0.45%
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With other countries

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United Kingdom, 379, 7.74%
United Kingdom
379 publications, 7.74%
Germany, 304, 6.21%
Germany
304 publications, 6.21%
France, 261, 5.33%
France
261 publications, 5.33%
Canada, 207, 4.23%
Canada
207 publications, 4.23%
China, 201, 4.11%
China
201 publications, 4.11%
Russia, 185, 3.78%
Russia
185 publications, 3.78%
Australia, 144, 2.94%
Australia
144 publications, 2.94%
Spain, 138, 2.82%
Spain
138 publications, 2.82%
Netherlands, 137, 2.8%
Netherlands
137 publications, 2.8%
Switzerland, 135, 2.76%
Switzerland
135 publications, 2.76%
Japan, 128, 2.61%
Japan
128 publications, 2.61%
Italy, 114, 2.33%
Italy
114 publications, 2.33%
Sweden, 83, 1.7%
Sweden
83 publications, 1.7%
Belgium, 71, 1.45%
Belgium
71 publications, 1.45%
Brazil, 70, 1.43%
Brazil
70 publications, 1.43%
Israel, 63, 1.29%
Israel
63 publications, 1.29%
Austria, 59, 1.21%
Austria
59 publications, 1.21%
Republic of Korea, 46, 0.94%
Republic of Korea
46 publications, 0.94%
Denmark, 44, 0.9%
Denmark
44 publications, 0.9%
South Africa, 44, 0.9%
South Africa
44 publications, 0.9%
India, 43, 0.88%
India
43 publications, 0.88%
Colombia, 43, 0.88%
Colombia
43 publications, 0.88%
Finland, 43, 0.88%
Finland
43 publications, 0.88%
Singapore, 36, 0.74%
Singapore
36 publications, 0.74%
Norway, 35, 0.72%
Norway
35 publications, 0.72%
Czech Republic, 35, 0.72%
Czech Republic
35 publications, 0.72%
Thailand, 30, 0.61%
Thailand
30 publications, 0.61%
New Zealand, 29, 0.59%
New Zealand
29 publications, 0.59%
Greece, 27, 0.55%
Greece
27 publications, 0.55%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1959 are ignored in the statistics.
  • The horizontal charts show the 30 top positions.
  • Journals quartiles values are relevant at the moment.