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George Mason University
Short name
GMU
Country, city
USA, Fairfax
Publications
37 915
Citations
952 984
h-index
320
Top-3 journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (2299 publications)
Astrophysical Journal
Astrophysical Journal (618 publications)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 foreign organizations
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (178 publications)
University College London
University College London (168 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (166 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Since 1972

Total publications
37915
Total citations
952984
Citations per publication
25.13
Average publications per year
702.13
Average authors per publication
4.73
h-index
320
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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Sociology and Political Science, 2160, 5.7%
Sociology and Political Science
2160 publications, 5.7%
General Medicine, 2041, 5.38%
General Medicine
2041 publications, 5.38%
Education, 1886, 4.97%
Education
1886 publications, 4.97%
Economics and Econometrics, 1827, 4.82%
Economics and Econometrics
1827 publications, 4.82%
Space and Planetary Science, 1451, 3.83%
Space and Planetary Science
1451 publications, 3.83%
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1203, 3.17%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
1203 publications, 3.17%
Computer Science Applications, 1172, 3.09%
Computer Science Applications
1172 publications, 3.09%
Law, 1057, 2.79%
Law
1057 publications, 2.79%
Software, 1048, 2.76%
Software
1048 publications, 2.76%
Atmospheric Science, 1032, 2.72%
Atmospheric Science
1032 publications, 2.72%
Developmental and Educational Psychology, 954, 2.52%
Developmental and Educational Psychology
954 publications, 2.52%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 941, 2.48%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
941 publications, 2.48%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 934, 2.46%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
934 publications, 2.46%
Geography, Planning and Development, 906, 2.39%
Geography, Planning and Development
906 publications, 2.39%
History, 799, 2.11%
History
799 publications, 2.11%
Applied Mathematics, 770, 2.03%
Applied Mathematics
770 publications, 2.03%
General Earth and Planetary Sciences, 759, 2%
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
759 publications, 2%
Psychiatry and Mental health, 754, 1.99%
Psychiatry and Mental health
754 publications, 1.99%
Strategy and Management, 749, 1.98%
Strategy and Management
749 publications, 1.98%
Applied Psychology, 727, 1.92%
Applied Psychology
727 publications, 1.92%
Multidisciplinary, 665, 1.75%
Multidisciplinary
665 publications, 1.75%
General Chemistry, 659, 1.74%
General Chemistry
659 publications, 1.74%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), 631, 1.66%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
631 publications, 1.66%
Computer Networks and Communications, 624, 1.65%
Computer Networks and Communications
624 publications, 1.65%
Information Systems, 620, 1.64%
Information Systems
620 publications, 1.64%
General Environmental Science, 613, 1.62%
General Environmental Science
613 publications, 1.62%
Social Psychology, 612, 1.61%
Social Psychology
612 publications, 1.61%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 602, 1.59%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
602 publications, 1.59%
Condensed Matter Physics, 574, 1.51%
Condensed Matter Physics
574 publications, 1.51%
Clinical Psychology, 571, 1.51%
Clinical Psychology
571 publications, 1.51%
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Journals

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SSRN Electronic Journal
2299 publications, 6.06%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
736 publications, 1.94%
Astrophysical Journal
618 publications, 1.63%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
417 publications, 1.1%
Public Choice
327 publications, 0.86%
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
288 publications, 0.76%
PLoS ONE
234 publications, 0.62%
Physical Review B
201 publications, 0.53%
Review of Austrian Economics
195 publications, 0.51%
Journal of Climate
184 publications, 0.49%
Cancer Research
161 publications, 0.42%
Climate Dynamics
129 publications, 0.34%
Scientific Reports
129 publications, 0.34%
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
129 publications, 0.34%
Geophysical Research Letters
127 publications, 0.33%
Journal of Social History
117 publications, 0.31%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
114 publications, 0.3%
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
106 publications, 0.28%
Physical Review Letters
96 publications, 0.25%
World Medical and Health Policy
93 publications, 0.25%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
90 publications, 0.24%
Science
86 publications, 0.23%
Journal of Geophysical Research
84 publications, 0.22%
Remote Sensing
82 publications, 0.22%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
78 publications, 0.21%
Biotechnology Law Report
75 publications, 0.2%
Solar Physics
73 publications, 0.19%
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
73 publications, 0.19%
Innovation in Aging
72 publications, 0.19%
Constitutional Political Economy
70 publications, 0.18%
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Publishers

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Springer Nature
6813 publications, 17.97%
Elsevier
5362 publications, 14.14%
Wiley
3723 publications, 9.82%
Taylor & Francis
3057 publications, 8.06%
SAGE
2775 publications, 7.32%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
2284 publications, 6.02%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1210 publications, 3.19%
Oxford University Press
1124 publications, 2.96%
Cambridge University Press
844 publications, 2.23%
MDPI
799 publications, 2.11%
American Astronomical Society
762 publications, 2.01%
American Physical Society (APS)
457 publications, 1.21%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
441 publications, 1.16%
Frontiers Media S.A.
409 publications, 1.08%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
396 publications, 1.04%
American Meteorological Society
388 publications, 1.02%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
365 publications, 0.96%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
304 publications, 0.8%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
296 publications, 0.78%
AIP Publishing
295 publications, 0.78%
American Psychological Association (APA)
277 publications, 0.73%
Emerald
269 publications, 0.71%
IOP Publishing
215 publications, 0.57%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
214 publications, 0.56%
Mary Ann Liebert
196 publications, 0.52%
American Geophysical Union
187 publications, 0.49%
IGI Global
153 publications, 0.4%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
141 publications, 0.37%
Walter de Gruyter
117 publications, 0.31%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
115 publications, 0.3%
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With other organizations

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United States Naval Research Laboratory
1221 publications, 3.22%
University of Maryland, College Park
1075 publications, 2.84%
Goddard Space Flight Center
882 publications, 2.33%
Harvard University
527 publications, 1.39%
George Washington University
514 publications, 1.36%
Johns Hopkins University
488 publications, 1.29%
Pennsylvania State University
398 publications, 1.05%
Yale University
373 publications, 0.98%
Columbia University
360 publications, 0.95%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
355 publications, 0.94%
University of Pennsylvania
343 publications, 0.9%
University of Washington
332 publications, 0.88%
University of Michigan
329 publications, 0.87%
University of Virginia
315 publications, 0.83%
Arizona State University
303 publications, 0.8%
Virginia Commonwealth University
298 publications, 0.79%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
293 publications, 0.77%
University of California, Los Angeles
293 publications, 0.77%
Stanford University
286 publications, 0.75%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
284 publications, 0.75%
University of California, Berkeley
277 publications, 0.73%
Virginia Tech
275 publications, 0.73%
Georgetown University
252 publications, 0.66%
University of Minnesota
252 publications, 0.66%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
251 publications, 0.66%
Ohio State University
238 publications, 0.63%
University of Florida
235 publications, 0.62%
Michigan State University
234 publications, 0.62%
University of Arizona
231 publications, 0.61%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
230 publications, 0.61%
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With foreign organizations

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
178 publications, 0.47%
University College London
168 publications, 0.44%
University of Oxford
166 publications, 0.44%
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
154 publications, 0.41%
University of Cambridge
154 publications, 0.41%
University of Toronto
144 publications, 0.38%
University of British Columbia
133 publications, 0.35%
National University of Singapore
113 publications, 0.3%
Imperial College London
112 publications, 0.3%
Peking University
109 publications, 0.29%
University of Queensland
109 publications, 0.29%
Wuhan University
108 publications, 0.28%
Tsinghua University
95 publications, 0.25%
Sapienza University of Rome
94 publications, 0.25%
University of Milan
92 publications, 0.24%
Nanjing University
91 publications, 0.24%
University of Melbourne
91 publications, 0.24%
University of São Paulo
90 publications, 0.24%
National Institute for Astrophysics
89 publications, 0.23%
University of Edinburgh
85 publications, 0.22%
National Autonomous University of Mexico
85 publications, 0.22%
University of Tokyo
84 publications, 0.22%
Fudan University
83 publications, 0.22%
University of Birmingham
83 publications, 0.22%
McGill University
83 publications, 0.22%
University of Bologna
81 publications, 0.21%
University of Exeter
80 publications, 0.21%
Observatoire de Paris
76 publications, 0.2%
Macquarie University
75 publications, 0.2%
University of Helsinki
74 publications, 0.2%
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With other countries

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China, 1939, 5.11%
China
1939 publications, 5.11%
United Kingdom, 1580, 4.17%
United Kingdom
1580 publications, 4.17%
Germany, 1206, 3.18%
Germany
1206 publications, 3.18%
Italy, 1042, 2.75%
Italy
1042 publications, 2.75%
Canada, 970, 2.56%
Canada
970 publications, 2.56%
Australia, 766, 2.02%
Australia
766 publications, 2.02%
France, 581, 1.53%
France
581 publications, 1.53%
Netherlands, 467, 1.23%
Netherlands
467 publications, 1.23%
Russia, 462, 1.22%
Russia
462 publications, 1.22%
Spain, 450, 1.19%
Spain
450 publications, 1.19%
Japan, 409, 1.08%
Japan
409 publications, 1.08%
India, 349, 0.92%
India
349 publications, 0.92%
Israel, 331, 0.87%
Israel
331 publications, 0.87%
Switzerland, 321, 0.85%
Switzerland
321 publications, 0.85%
Republic of Korea, 316, 0.83%
Republic of Korea
316 publications, 0.83%
Sweden, 306, 0.81%
Sweden
306 publications, 0.81%
Brazil, 284, 0.75%
Brazil
284 publications, 0.75%
Belgium, 231, 0.61%
Belgium
231 publications, 0.61%
Mexico, 220, 0.58%
Mexico
220 publications, 0.58%
Saudi Arabia, 186, 0.49%
Saudi Arabia
186 publications, 0.49%
Poland, 178, 0.47%
Poland
178 publications, 0.47%
Denmark, 177, 0.47%
Denmark
177 publications, 0.47%
Singapore, 174, 0.46%
Singapore
174 publications, 0.46%
South Africa, 170, 0.45%
South Africa
170 publications, 0.45%
Finland, 162, 0.43%
Finland
162 publications, 0.43%
Austria, 156, 0.41%
Austria
156 publications, 0.41%
New Zealand, 151, 0.4%
New Zealand
151 publications, 0.4%
Chile, 151, 0.4%
Chile
151 publications, 0.4%
Greece, 137, 0.36%
Greece
137 publications, 0.36%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1972 are ignored in the statistics.
  • The horizontal charts show the 30 top positions.
  • Journals quartiles values are relevant at the moment.
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