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United States National Library of Medicine
Short name
NLM
Country, city
USA, Bethesda
Publications
4 938
Citations
544 902
h-index
301
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 foreign organizations
Institut Pasteur
Institut Pasteur (118 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (57 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Since 1959

Total publications
4938
Total citations
544902
Citations per publication
110.35
Average publications per year
73.7
Average authors per publication
7.56
h-index
301
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, 16.52%
Genetics
816 publications, 16.52%
Molecular Biology, 811, 16.42%
Molecular Biology
811 publications, 16.42%
Computer Science Applications, 492, 9.96%
Computer Science Applications
492 publications, 9.96%
Biochemistry, 428, 8.67%
Biochemistry
428 publications, 8.67%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 402, 8.14%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
402 publications, 8.14%
General Medicine, 401, 8.12%
General Medicine
401 publications, 8.12%
Multidisciplinary, 392, 7.94%
Multidisciplinary
392 publications, 7.94%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 351, 7.11%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
351 publications, 7.11%
Health Informatics, 318, 6.44%
Health Informatics
318 publications, 6.44%
Microbiology, 298, 6.03%
Microbiology
298 publications, 6.03%
Structural Biology, 263, 5.33%
Structural Biology
263 publications, 5.33%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 230, 4.66%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
230 publications, 4.66%
Applied Mathematics, 212, 4.29%
Applied Mathematics
212 publications, 4.29%
Immunology, 208, 4.21%
Immunology
208 publications, 4.21%
Information Systems, 193, 3.91%
Information Systems
193 publications, 3.91%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 187, 3.79%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
187 publications, 3.79%
Biotechnology, 180, 3.65%
Biotechnology
180 publications, 3.65%
Library and Information Sciences, 177, 3.58%
Library and Information Sciences
177 publications, 3.58%
Modeling and Simulation, 170, 3.44%
Modeling and Simulation
170 publications, 3.44%
Virology, 168, 3.4%
Virology
168 publications, 3.4%
Cell Biology, 162, 3.28%
Cell Biology
162 publications, 3.28%
Computational Theory and Mathematics, 158, 3.2%
Computational Theory and Mathematics
158 publications, 3.2%
Genetics (clinical), 153, 3.1%
Genetics (clinical)
153 publications, 3.1%
Statistics and Probability, 132, 2.67%
Statistics and Probability
132 publications, 2.67%
Computational Mathematics, 118, 2.39%
Computational Mathematics
118 publications, 2.39%
Infectious Diseases, 117, 2.37%
Infectious Diseases
117 publications, 2.37%
Software, 94, 1.9%
Software
94 publications, 1.9%
Molecular Medicine, 84, 1.7%
Molecular Medicine
84 publications, 1.7%
General Immunology and Microbiology, 76, 1.54%
General Immunology and Microbiology
76 publications, 1.54%
General Chemistry, 75, 1.52%
General Chemistry
75 publications, 1.52%
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Journals

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Nucleic Acids Research
251 publications, 5.08%
American Journal of Public Health
127 publications, 2.57%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
117 publications, 2.37%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
115 publications, 2.33%
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
106 publications, 2.15%
Biology Direct
98 publications, 1.98%
Bioinformatics
93 publications, 1.88%
Science
88 publications, 1.78%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
81 publications, 1.64%
BMC Bioinformatics
79 publications, 1.6%
PLoS ONE
79 publications, 1.6%
Nature
71 publications, 1.44%
Genome Biology
68 publications, 1.38%
Nature Communications
64 publications, 1.3%
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
62 publications, 1.26%
Genome Research
60 publications, 1.22%
Journal of Molecular Biology
46 publications, 0.93%
Environmental Microbiology
44 publications, 0.89%
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
43 publications, 0.87%
Methods in Molecular Biology
36 publications, 0.73%
mBio
35 publications, 0.71%
Genome Biology and Evolution
35 publications, 0.71%
Information Services and Use
35 publications, 0.71%
Nursing and Computers
35 publications, 0.71%
Trends in Genetics
34 publications, 0.69%
Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics
34 publications, 0.69%
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%
PLoS Computational Biology
32 publications, 0.65%
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Publishers

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Springer Nature
1233 publications, 24.97%
Elsevier
784 publications, 15.88%
Oxford University Press
691 publications, 13.99%
Wiley
317 publications, 6.42%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
153 publications, 3.1%
American Society for Microbiology
150 publications, 3.04%
American Public Health Association
127 publications, 2.57%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
119 publications, 2.41%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
117 publications, 2.37%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
106 publications, 2.15%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
99 publications, 2%
Taylor & Francis
86 publications, 1.74%
MDPI
78 publications, 1.58%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
70 publications, 1.42%
Mary Ann Liebert
62 publications, 1.26%
SAGE
47 publications, 0.95%
Frontiers Media S.A.
47 publications, 0.95%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
43 publications, 0.87%
IOS Press
35 publications, 0.71%
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, 0.34%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
17 publications, 0.34%
BMJ
17 publications, 0.34%
Annual Reviews
15 publications, 0.3%
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With other organizations

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National Center for Biotechnology Information
3097 publications, 62.72%
National Cancer Institute
207 publications, 4.19%
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
158 publications, 3.2%
Harvard University
148 publications, 3%
Institut Pasteur
118 publications, 2.39%
Johns Hopkins University
106 publications, 2.15%
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
102 publications, 2.07%
University of Maryland, College Park
99 publications, 2%
European Bioinformatics Institute
94 publications, 1.9%
Food and Drug Administration
90 publications, 1.82%
University of Rochester
86 publications, 1.74%
University of Utah
84 publications, 1.7%
Stanford University
83 publications, 1.68%
National Human Genome Research Institute
83 publications, 1.68%
University of Washington
82 publications, 1.66%
Cornell University
71 publications, 1.44%
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
68 publications, 1.38%
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
68 publications, 1.38%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
65 publications, 1.32%
University of California, San Diego
65 publications, 1.32%
Columbia University
61 publications, 1.24%
Pennsylvania State University
58 publications, 1.17%
University of Oxford
57 publications, 1.15%
National Eye Institute
57 publications, 1.15%
Oregon State University
56 publications, 1.13%
University of Maryland, Baltimore
54 publications, 1.09%
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
54 publications, 1.09%
Washington University in St. Louis
53 publications, 1.07%
Yale University
52 publications, 1.05%
University of California, San Francisco
52 publications, 1.05%
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With foreign organizations

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Institut Pasteur
118 publications, 2.39%
European Bioinformatics Institute
94 publications, 1.9%
University of Oxford
57 publications, 1.15%
Paris Cité University
49 publications, 0.99%
Lomonosov Moscow State University
48 publications, 0.97%
Wellcome Sanger Institute
48 publications, 0.97%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
48 publications, 0.97%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
39 publications, 0.79%
University of Cambridge
39 publications, 0.79%
University of Toronto
39 publications, 0.79%
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
36 publications, 0.73%
Karolinska Institute
33 publications, 0.67%
University of Helsinki
32 publications, 0.65%
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
32 publications, 0.65%
Tel Aviv University
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 Warwick
22 publications, 0.45%
University of Manchester
22 publications, 0.45%
University of Sydney
22 publications, 0.45%
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With other countries

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United Kingdom, 379, 7.68%
United Kingdom
379 publications, 7.68%
Germany, 304, 6.16%
Germany
304 publications, 6.16%
France, 261, 5.29%
France
261 publications, 5.29%
Canada, 207, 4.19%
Canada
207 publications, 4.19%
China, 201, 4.07%
China
201 publications, 4.07%
Russia, 185, 3.75%
Russia
185 publications, 3.75%
Australia, 144, 2.92%
Australia
144 publications, 2.92%
Spain, 138, 2.79%
Spain
138 publications, 2.79%
Netherlands, 137, 2.77%
Netherlands
137 publications, 2.77%
Switzerland, 135, 2.73%
Switzerland
135 publications, 2.73%
Japan, 128, 2.59%
Japan
128 publications, 2.59%
Italy, 114, 2.31%
Italy
114 publications, 2.31%
Sweden, 83, 1.68%
Sweden
83 publications, 1.68%
Belgium, 71, 1.44%
Belgium
71 publications, 1.44%
Brazil, 70, 1.42%
Brazil
70 publications, 1.42%
Israel, 63, 1.28%
Israel
63 publications, 1.28%
Austria, 59, 1.19%
Austria
59 publications, 1.19%
Republic of Korea, 46, 0.93%
Republic of Korea
46 publications, 0.93%
Denmark, 44, 0.89%
Denmark
44 publications, 0.89%
South Africa, 44, 0.89%
South Africa
44 publications, 0.89%
India, 43, 0.87%
India
43 publications, 0.87%
Colombia, 43, 0.87%
Colombia
43 publications, 0.87%
Finland, 43, 0.87%
Finland
43 publications, 0.87%
Singapore, 36, 0.73%
Singapore
36 publications, 0.73%
Norway, 35, 0.71%
Norway
35 publications, 0.71%
Czech Republic, 35, 0.71%
Czech Republic
35 publications, 0.71%
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.