Boston University

121.9k papers and 5.5M indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Boston University have published 121.9k papers, which have received a total of 5.5M indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 17.3k papers in Molecular Biology, 9.9k papers in Epidemiology and 9.1k papers in Surgery on the topics of Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (1.8k papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (1.8k papers) and Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS Infection (1.6k papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Molecular Biology (971.8k citations), Epidemiology (430.8k citations) and Surgery (409.4k citations). Authors at Boston University collaborate with scholars in United States, United Kingdom and Canada and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Cell. Some of Boston University's most productive authors include Michael F. Holick, H. Eugene Stanley, William B. Kannel, Ralph B. D’Agostino, Timothy A. Brown, Stephen Grossberg, David T. Felson, Daniel Levy, Ramachandran S. Vasan and Howard Eichenbaum.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at Boston University

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Boston University at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with Boston University at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at Boston University

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at Boston University. 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 produced at Boston University with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Boston University 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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