Royal Society Open Science

6.1k papers and 92.2k indexed citations i.

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The 6.1k papers published in Royal Society Open Science in the last decades have received a total of 92.2k indexed citations. Papers published in Royal Society Open Science usually cover Ecology (1.0k papers), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (906 papers) and Genetics (634 papers) specifically the topics of Animal Behavior and Reproduction (495 papers), Plant and animal studies (307 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (290 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Royal Society Open Science are David Colquhoun, Stephen J. Beckett, Christopher Wolf, William J. Ripple, Robin Dunbar, Paul E. Smaldino, Richard McElreath, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, Dimitri Veras and Richard Cook.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Royal Society Open Science

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Royal Society Open Science. 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 Royal Society Open Science.

Countries where authors publish in Royal Society Open Science

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

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