France

2.6M papers and 74.0M indexed citations

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In recent decades scholars affiliated with institutions in France have published 2.6M papers, which have received a total of 74.0M indexed citations. Scholars in France publish mostly in Molecular Biology (331.6k papers), Materials Chemistry (213.9k papers) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (182.7k papers) and are cited by scholars working on Molecular Biology (13.3M citations), Materials Chemistry (6.7M citations) and Biomedical Engineering (4.7M citations). Scholars in France collaborate with scholars from United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Scholars in France have published in prestigous journals including Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

France

405.4k papers receiving 4.8M citations

Fields of papers citing works of authors working in France

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by authors working at institutions in France. 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 authors working at institutions in France. The network helps show where authors in France may publish in the future.

Countries collaborating with authors based in France

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by institutions in France. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers from institutions in France with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites France more than expected).

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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