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Pennsylvania State University
Short name
PennState
Country, city
USA, State College
Publications
218 387
Citations
8 014 112
h-index
718
Top-3 journals
Astrophysical Journal
Astrophysical Journal (2278 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (1924 publications)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (3183 publications)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (2994 publications)
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (2658 publications)
Top-3 foreign organizations
University of Toronto
University of Toronto (1250 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (1019 publications)
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge (953 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Since 1918

Total publications
218387
Total citations
8014112
Citations per publication
36.7
Average publications per year
2003.55
Average authors per publication
5.55
h-index
718
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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General Medicine, 13971, 6.4%
General Medicine
13971 publications, 6.4%
Condensed Matter Physics, 9411, 4.31%
Condensed Matter Physics
9411 publications, 4.31%
Biochemistry, 8850, 4.05%
Biochemistry
8850 publications, 4.05%
General Materials Science, 7975, 3.65%
General Materials Science
7975 publications, 3.65%
Molecular Biology, 7506, 3.44%
Molecular Biology
7506 publications, 3.44%
Mechanical Engineering, 7188, 3.29%
Mechanical Engineering
7188 publications, 3.29%
Education, 7145, 3.27%
Education
7145 publications, 3.27%
General Chemistry, 7083, 3.24%
General Chemistry
7083 publications, 3.24%
General Physics and Astronomy, 6900, 3.16%
General Physics and Astronomy
6900 publications, 3.16%
Materials Chemistry, 6235, 2.86%
Materials Chemistry
6235 publications, 2.86%
Space and Planetary Science, 6094, 2.79%
Space and Planetary Science
6094 publications, 2.79%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5936, 2.72%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
5936 publications, 2.72%
Genetics, 5810, 2.66%
Genetics
5810 publications, 2.66%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), 5457, 2.5%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
5457 publications, 2.5%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 5101, 2.34%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
5101 publications, 2.34%
Mechanics of Materials, 5099, 2.33%
Mechanics of Materials
5099 publications, 2.33%
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 4933, 2.26%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
4933 publications, 2.26%
Sociology and Political Science, 4868, 2.23%
Sociology and Political Science
4868 publications, 2.23%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 4675, 2.14%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
4675 publications, 2.14%
Multidisciplinary, 4632, 2.12%
Multidisciplinary
4632 publications, 2.12%
Cell Biology, 4578, 2.1%
Cell Biology
4578 publications, 2.1%
General Engineering, 4574, 2.09%
General Engineering
4574 publications, 2.09%
Developmental and Educational Psychology, 4542, 2.08%
Developmental and Educational Psychology
4542 publications, 2.08%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 4511, 2.07%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
4511 publications, 2.07%
Computer Science Applications, 3931, 1.8%
Computer Science Applications
3931 publications, 1.8%
Psychiatry and Mental health, 3823, 1.75%
Psychiatry and Mental health
3823 publications, 1.75%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 3810, 1.74%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
3810 publications, 1.74%
Acoustics and Ultrasonics, 3610, 1.65%
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
3610 publications, 1.65%
Oncology, 3561, 1.63%
Oncology
3561 publications, 1.63%
Physiology, 3394, 1.55%
Physiology
3394 publications, 1.55%
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Journals

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
3193 publications, 1.46%
Astrophysical Journal
2278 publications, 1.04%
SSRN Electronic Journal
1924 publications, 0.88%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
1911 publications, 0.88%
Physical Review B
1285 publications, 0.59%
Applied Physics Letters
1234 publications, 0.57%
Journal of Applied Physics
1219 publications, 0.56%
FASEB Journal
1200 publications, 0.55%
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
1174 publications, 0.54%
Science
990 publications, 0.45%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
984 publications, 0.45%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
972 publications, 0.45%
Journal of Chemical Physics
944 publications, 0.43%
Physical Review D
944 publications, 0.43%
PLoS ONE
932 publications, 0.43%
Physical Review Letters
870 publications, 0.4%
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
862 publications, 0.39%
MRS Proceedings
783 publications, 0.36%
Journal of the American Chemical Society
776 publications, 0.36%
Nature
759 publications, 0.35%
Scientific Reports
708 publications, 0.32%
Innovation in Aging
694 publications, 0.32%
Nature Communications
682 publications, 0.31%
Cancer Research
674 publications, 0.31%
Journal of Biological Chemistry
663 publications, 0.3%
Biochemistry
600 publications, 0.27%
Macromolecules
590 publications, 0.27%
Astronomical Journal
576 publications, 0.26%
Blood
557 publications, 0.26%
ECS Meeting Abstracts
531 publications, 0.24%
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Publishers

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Elsevier
44748 publications, 20.49%
Springer Nature
27564 publications, 12.62%
Wiley
22823 publications, 10.45%
Taylor & Francis
12312 publications, 5.64%
SAGE
10382 publications, 4.75%
Oxford University Press
8446 publications, 3.87%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
7591 publications, 3.48%
AIP Publishing
4396 publications, 2.01%
American Physical Society (APS)
4100 publications, 1.88%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
4054 publications, 1.86%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
3985 publications, 1.82%
Cambridge University Press
3705 publications, 1.7%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
3213 publications, 1.47%
American Astronomical Society
2838 publications, 1.3%
MDPI
2718 publications, 1.24%
IOP Publishing
2233 publications, 1.02%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
2099 publications, 0.96%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
1871 publications, 0.86%
ASME International
1779 publications, 0.81%
American Psychological Association (APA)
1697 publications, 0.78%
American Society for Microbiology
1546 publications, 0.71%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1329 publications, 0.61%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1328 publications, 0.61%
Frontiers Media S.A.
1320 publications, 0.6%
American Meteorological Society
1311 publications, 0.6%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1243 publications, 0.57%
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
1200 publications, 0.55%
American Physiological Society
1177 publications, 0.54%
The Electrochemical Society
1093 publications, 0.5%
Emerald
1075 publications, 0.49%
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With other organizations

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Harvard University
3183 publications, 1.46%
University of Michigan
2994 publications, 1.37%
Johns Hopkins University
2658 publications, 1.22%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2585 publications, 1.18%
Cornell University
2503 publications, 1.15%
University of Pennsylvania
2475 publications, 1.13%
Ohio State University
2340 publications, 1.07%
University of Washington
2318 publications, 1.06%
University of Pittsburgh
2233 publications, 1.02%
University of Florida
2142 publications, 0.98%
Stanford University
2076 publications, 0.95%
University of Minnesota
2041 publications, 0.93%
Yale University
2028 publications, 0.93%
Columbia University
1892 publications, 0.87%
University of Maryland, College Park
1744 publications, 0.8%
University of Arizona
1734 publications, 0.79%
University of California, Berkeley
1728 publications, 0.79%
Northwestern University
1709 publications, 0.78%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1683 publications, 0.77%
University of California, Los Angeles
1632 publications, 0.75%
University of Texas at Austin
1606 publications, 0.74%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1601 publications, 0.73%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1580 publications, 0.72%
Purdue University
1518 publications, 0.7%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1465 publications, 0.67%
California Institute of Technology
1439 publications, 0.66%
Agricultural Research Service
1424 publications, 0.65%
Michigan State University
1418 publications, 0.65%
Princeton University
1352 publications, 0.62%
Duke University
1339 publications, 0.61%
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With foreign organizations

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University of Toronto
1250 publications, 0.57%
University of Oxford
1019 publications, 0.47%
University of Cambridge
953 publications, 0.44%
Tsinghua University
852 publications, 0.39%
University College London
794 publications, 0.36%
University of British Columbia
758 publications, 0.35%
University of Tokyo
727 publications, 0.33%
University of Padua
695 publications, 0.32%
University of Copenhagen
693 publications, 0.32%
Peking University
678 publications, 0.31%
Imperial College London
664 publications, 0.3%
McGill University
654 publications, 0.3%
University of Edinburgh
645 publications, 0.3%
National Institute for Astrophysics
619 publications, 0.28%
ETH Zurich
546 publications, 0.25%
Harbin Institute of Technology
542 publications, 0.25%
University of Amsterdam
540 publications, 0.25%
Sorbonne University
513 publications, 0.23%
University of Alberta
509 publications, 0.23%
Seoul National University
485 publications, 0.22%
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
463 publications, 0.21%
Tel Aviv University
462 publications, 0.21%
Durham University
451 publications, 0.21%
University of Southampton
436 publications, 0.2%
Nanjing University
428 publications, 0.2%
University of Sydney
427 publications, 0.2%
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
421 publications, 0.19%
University of Leicester
419 publications, 0.19%
University of Melbourne
416 publications, 0.19%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
395 publications, 0.18%
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With other countries

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China, 12937, 5.92%
China
12937 publications, 5.92%
United Kingdom, 8421, 3.86%
United Kingdom
8421 publications, 3.86%
Canada, 6686, 3.06%
Canada
6686 publications, 3.06%
Germany, 6332, 2.9%
Germany
6332 publications, 2.9%
Italy, 4058, 1.86%
Italy
4058 publications, 1.86%
France, 3629, 1.66%
France
3629 publications, 1.66%
Australia, 3594, 1.65%
Australia
3594 publications, 1.65%
Japan, 3462, 1.59%
Japan
3462 publications, 1.59%
Republic of Korea, 3206, 1.47%
Republic of Korea
3206 publications, 1.47%
Netherlands, 2684, 1.23%
Netherlands
2684 publications, 1.23%
Spain, 2530, 1.16%
Spain
2530 publications, 1.16%
India, 2197, 1.01%
India
2197 publications, 1.01%
Switzerland, 2028, 0.93%
Switzerland
2028 publications, 0.93%
Sweden, 1604, 0.73%
Sweden
1604 publications, 0.73%
Brazil, 1484, 0.68%
Brazil
1484 publications, 0.68%
Israel, 1375, 0.63%
Israel
1375 publications, 0.63%
Denmark, 1358, 0.62%
Denmark
1358 publications, 0.62%
Belgium, 1320, 0.6%
Belgium
1320 publications, 0.6%
Mexico, 1182, 0.54%
Mexico
1182 publications, 0.54%
Poland, 1111, 0.51%
Poland
1111 publications, 0.51%
Russia, 1078, 0.49%
Russia
1078 publications, 0.49%
Austria, 1059, 0.48%
Austria
1059 publications, 0.48%
Turkey, 965, 0.44%
Turkey
965 publications, 0.44%
South Africa, 929, 0.43%
South Africa
929 publications, 0.43%
Chile, 857, 0.39%
Chile
857 publications, 0.39%
Singapore, 833, 0.38%
Singapore
833 publications, 0.38%
New Zealand, 800, 0.37%
New Zealand
800 publications, 0.37%
Norway, 745, 0.34%
Norway
745 publications, 0.34%
Finland, 708, 0.32%
Finland
708 publications, 0.32%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1918 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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