Nature Methods

4.1k papers and 782.9k indexed citations i.

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The 4.1k papers published in Nature Methods in the last decades have received a total of 782.9k indexed citations. Papers published in Nature Methods usually cover Molecular Biology (2.8k papers), Biophysics (907 papers) and Biomedical Engineering (496 papers) specifically the topics of Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (636 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (491 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (489 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Nature Methods are Steven L. Salzberg, Ben Langmead, Kevin W. Eliceiri, Wayne Rasband, R. C. Edgar, Daehwan Kim, Paul J. McMurdie, Michael Rosen, Benjamin J. Callahan and Susan Holmes.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Nature Methods

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Nature Methods. 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 Nature Methods.

Countries where authors publish in Nature Methods

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