François Jacob

191 total papers · 19.4k total citations
87 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

François Jacob is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Jacob has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in François Jacob’s work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). François Jacob is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). François Jacob collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. François Jacob's co-authors include Jacques Monod, Jean‐Pierre Changeux, Arthur B. Pardee, Charles Babinet, François Hyafil, Yukinori Hirota, David Schubert, Karen Artzt, Gabriel Gachelin and Agnès Ullmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Jacob

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of François Jacob. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of François Jacob based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with François Jacob. François Jacob is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

François Jacob

83 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by François Jacob

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by François Jacob. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by François Jacob. The network helps show where François Jacob may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by François Jacob

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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