BioScience

4.9k papers and 340.6k indexed citations i.

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The 4.9k papers published in BioScience in the last decades have received a total of 340.6k indexed citations. Papers published in BioScience usually cover Ecology (1.2k papers), Global and Planetary Change (770 papers) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (715 papers) specifically the topics of Species Distribution and Climate Change (453 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (397 papers) and Plant and animal studies (332 papers). The most active scholars publishing in BioScience are Michael L. McKinney, Marc D. Abrams, Marion H. O’Leary, Kenneth W. Cummins, Steven L. Lima, Mark L. Shaffer, Eugene P. Odum, Éric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist and John D. Aber.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in BioScience

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in BioScience. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in BioScience.

Countries where authors publish in BioScience

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research published in BioScience. 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 published in BioScience with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites BioScience 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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