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11.4K(top 2%)

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625.9K(top 1%)

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257(top 1%)

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5.7(top 5%)

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90.8K

all documents

702.7K

doc citations

349(top 1%)

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Top Authors (by article citations)

#	Author	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Zesheng Zheng	1	235	1	1
1	Nathan Vannier	1	235	1	1
1	Matthew T Agler	1	235	1	1
1	Stéphane Hacquard	1	235	1	1
5	Amélie Pagliuzza	1	186	1	1
5	Nicolas Chomont	1	186	3	1
5	Jean-pierre Routy	2	199	1	1
5	Amy E Baxter	1	186	1	2
5	Caroline Dufour	1	186	1	1
5	Marta Massanella	1	186	2	1
5	Louise Leyre	1	186	1	1
5	Rémi Fromentin	1	186	1	1
5	Daniel E Kaufmann	1	186	1	1
14	Sarah O'flaherty	1	174	1	1
14	Rodolphe Barrangou	1	174	4	1
14	Casey M Theriot	1	174	1	2
14	Matthew H Foley	1	174	1	1
18	Claudio Grassi	1	170	2	1
18	Anna Teresa Palamara	1	170	1	1
18	Giorgia Napoletani	1	170	1	1
18	Giovanna De Chiara	1	170	1	1
18	Marco Fabiani	1	170	1	1
18	Virginia Protto	1	170	1	1
18	Dolores Limongi	1	170	2	1
18	Paul R Eizenhöfer	1	170	1	1
18	Roberto Piacentini	1	170	1	1
18	Christoph Glotzbach	1	170	1	1
18	Maria Elena Marcocci	1	170	1	1
29	Dana Ferraris	2	215	1	1
29	Chad V Kuny	1	166	1	1
29	Karen L Smith	1	166	1	1
29	Masanori Aikawa	1	166	3	1
29	Anthony R Fehr	2	215	1	2
29	Stanley Perlman	1	166	1	4
35	Kendra Maas	1	132	1	1
35	Anna Dongari-bagtzoglou	1	132	2	2
35	Patricia I Diaz	1	132	1	2
35	Martinna Bertolini	1	132	1	1
39	James M Wells	1	130	3	4
39	Loryn Holokai	1	130	1	1
39	Richard M Peek	1	130	1	1
39	Nambirajan Sundaram	1	130	2	1
39	Jayati Chakrabarti	1	130	2	1
39	Yana Zavros	1	130	1	1
39	Michael A Helmrath	1	130	3	2
39	Jiang Wang	1	130	1	1
47	Hailing Jin	1	127	1	2
47	Qiang Cai	1	127	1	1
47	Victor I Band	1	127	1	1
47	Yin Ning Chiang	1	127	1	1
47	John Chen	1	127	1	1
47	José R Penadés	2	205	2	2
47	Baoye He	1	127	1	1
47	David S Weiss	1	127	1	1
47	Amy H Buck	1	127	1	1
47	Arne Weiberg	1	127	1	1
57	Meritxell Genesc	1	126	2	1
57	Mario Martin	1	126	1	1
57	Joaquin Burgos	1	126	1	1
57	Judith Grau-expósito	1	126	2	1
57	Laura Luque-ballesteros	1	126	2	1
57	Vicenç Falc	1	126	2	1
57	Adrià Curran	1	126	1	1
57	Bibiana Planas	1	126	1	1
57	Esteban Ribera	1	126	1	1
57	Jesus Fernandez-sojo	1	126	1	1
57	Jordi Navarro	1	126	1	1
57	Rosa Badía	1	126	1	1
57	Ariadna Torrella	1	126	1	1
57	Maria J Buzon	1	126	2	1
71	L Ya Rozhinskaya	1	123	1	1
71	Pei-jane Tsai	1	123	2	1
71	Yen-chung Lai	1	123	1	1
71	Chiao-hsuan Chao	1	123	1	1
71	Trai-ming Yeh	1	123	1	1
76	Sebastien Gagneux	1	122	3	3
76	Sebastian Duchene	1	122	2	4
76	P Tipton	1	122	3	4
76	Fabrizio Menardo	1	122	1	2
76	Daniela Brites	1	122	2	2
81	Alexander Donath	1	121	2	4
81	Malte Petersen	1	121	1	3
81	Shanlin Liu	1	121	2	5
81	Robert M Hoffman	1	121	9	3
81	Xin Zhou	1	121	3	3
81	Sandra Junglen	1	121	3	2
81	Martin Middendorf	1	121	1	2
81	Alex Ivanov	1	121	1	1
81	Terry C Jones	1	121	1	1
81	Sofia Paraskevopoulou	1	121	1	1
81	Simon Käfer	1	121	1	1
92	Joana Rocha-pereira	1	120	1	1
92	Johan Neyts	2	146	2	1
92	Myra Hosmillo	2	195	1	1
92	Annelii Ny	1	120	1	1
92	Arno Cuvry	1	120	1	1
92	Ian Goodfellow	2	193	1	1
92	Peter De Witte	1	120	1	1
92	Jelle Matthijnssens	1	120	1	1
92	Jana Van Dycke	1	120	1	1
92	Tatiane C Nogueira	1	120	1	1
102	Andre J Van Der Ven	2	156	1	2
143	Lei Xu	2	127	1	1
150	Jesús R Requena	3	161	1	1
173	Yonggang Pei	2	107	1	1
173	Rajnish Kumar Singh	3	124	1	1
173	Fengchao Lang	3	124	1	1
173	Erle S Robertson	5	200	1	1
173	Kunfeng Sun	2	107	1	1
224	Christina A Cuomo	2	141	3	2
224	Angelika Gründling	2	126	1	1
224	Gordon Dougan	2	109	2	3
246	Mary Ann Jabra-rizk	2	126	1	1
262	Ralf Bartenschlager	2	118	1	1
262	Andreas Pichlmair	2	102	1	2
262	Michael Gale	3	149	1	4
272	Rongxiang Fang	2	90	1	1
293	Christiane E Wobus	2	85	1	1
293	David Wang	2	106	1	2
293	Karla D Passalacqua	2	85	1	1
293	Carmen Mirabelli	2	101	1	1
293	Andrew B Janowski	2	109	1	1
324	Francis M Jiggins	2	79	1	2
324	Dario S Zamboni	4	180	1	1
347	Xueping Zhou	3	162	2	2
379	Penny L Moore	3	90	1	1
379	Lynn Morris	3	90	1	1
401	M Wielers	2	105	4	5
422	Andrew B Ward	2	104	5	7
462	Brent E Palmer	2	107	1	1
477	Anne Müller	2	101	1	1
477	Burkhard Becher	2	94	1	6
514	Ivo Gomperts Boneca	2	73	1	1
525	Kevin O Saunders	2	65	1	4
525	Kevin Wiehe	2	67	1	3
525	Bette Korber	2	80	1	2
525	Barton F Haynes	2	65	1	9
525	Tongqing Zhou	2	80	1	4
525	John R Mascola	2	76	3	11
525	Celia C Labranche	2	81	3	5
525	David C Montefiori	3	86	3	7
525	S Munir Alam	2	65	1	4
525	Amanda Eaton	2	65	1	2
525	Peter D Kwong	3	87	1	5
556	Michael Hensel	2	109	1	1
581	Regina Joice Cordy	2	79	1	1
612	Karyna Rosario	2	99	1	3
612	Nolwenn M Dheilly	3	99	1	1
612	Raina N Fichorova	2	82	1	1
612	Paul J Brindley	2	82	1	2
650	Neil D Young	2	87	2	2
650	Aidan M Emery	2	83	1	1
650	Robin B Gasser	2	87	4	5
650	Pasi K Korhonen	2	87	2	1
650	Bonnie L Webster	2	83	2	2
650	David Rollinson	2	83	1	2
681	Edward C Holmes	3	102	4	7
681	Miles P Davenport	2	76	1	2
694	Deyin Guo	2	76	1	2
694	Renaud Mahieux	2	82	1	1
694	Deyin Guo	2	76	1	1
727	Frank J M Van Kuppeveld	3	128	1	2
727	Michael S Diamond	4	151	1	4
781	Renan V H De Carvalho	2	87	1	2
781	Luíza Antunes De Castro-jorge	2	87	1	1
842	Jason Buehler	2	87	1	1
842	Joan A Geoghegan	2	88	1	1
842	Felicia Goodrum	2	87	1	1
878	Rebecca Hoh	2	90	1	3
878	Steven G Deeks	2	90	2	9
950	Min-hua Luo	2	90	1	2
993	Jun Han	2	80	2	1
993	Anthony A Holder	2	76	1	2
1052	Yves F Dufrêne	2	83	1	2
1080	Javier Buesa	2	49	1	1
1080	Dominique Mengin-lecreulx	2	55	1	2
1122	Matthew K Waldor	2	60	2	4
1122	Peter D Nagy	4	113	1	1
1166	Haifeng Zhang	2	71	1	4
1166	Xiaobo Zheng	2	71	1	3
1181	Carlito B Lebrilla	2	67	2	2
1181	Thorsten Nürnberger	2	80	1	2
1245	Thomas J Hope	2	59	2	3
1245	Jon T Skare	2	71	1	1
1245	Annette Oxenius	2	61	1	3
1245	Nicolas S Baumann	2	61	1	1
1245	Brandon L Garcia	2	78	1	1
1245	Mariana Borsa	2	61	1	1
1245	Katharina Pallmer	2	61	1	1
1318	Dominique Soldati-favre	2	69	1	4
1356	Ryan Basom	2	49	1	3
1356	Julie Overbaugh	2	49	1	3
1451	Carolina B López	2	40	1	4
1525	Jorge E Galán	2	68	1	1
1576	Harry L T Mobley	2	65	2	2
1576	Chuan Qin	2	50	1	5
1576	Lili Zhao	2	65	1	2
1576	Jing Xue	2	50	1	1
1576	Michael A Bachman	2	65	1	1
1610	Gregory Q Del Prete	2	53	1	2
1610	Matthew W A Dixon	2	55	1	1
1610	Adrienne E Swanstrom	2	53	1	1
1610	Michele A Di Bari	2	63	1	1
1662	Scott E Lindner	2	49	1	2
1707	Paul M Lieberman	2	48	1	4
1707	Ellen Knuepfer	2	52	1	1
1707	Saurabh Verma	2	52	1	1
1707	Sara Lustigman	2	53	2	2
1707	Richard J Martin	2	52	1	1
1707	Denis Voronin	2	53	1	1
1833	Zhiqiang An	2	42	1	4
1833	Leike Li	2	42	1	2
1833	Ningyan Zhang	2	42	1	4
1833	Florine E M Scholte	2	49	1	2
1833	Ric Bergeron	2	49	1	5
1952	Lauren A Gay	2	53	1	1
1952	Rolf Renne	2	53	1	2
1952	Denise A Galloway	2	52	1	1
1952	Jean-daniel Lelièvre	2	33	2	2
1952	Luka Cicin-sain	3	70	1	2
1952	Enrique A Mesri	2	44	1	1
2048	Richard K Grencis	2	50	1	4
2048	Douglas S Reed	2	47	1	1
2154	Jeffrey M Kidd	2	30	1	3
2154	Tracey J Lamb	2	46	1	2
2490	Eva G Rakasz	2	28	1	4
2490	Nicholas S Heaton	2	28	1	2
2490	Jessica C Kissinger	2	42	1	4
2490	Derek W Trobaugh	2	40	1	2
2490	Matthew D Dunn	2	40	1	1
2490	William B Klimstra	2	40	1	2
2624	Eric T Harvill	2	24	1	2
2624	Kalyan K Dewan	2	24	1	1
2624	Jason Gorman	2	27	1	4
2624	Amarendra Pegu	2	36	1	3
2717	Guy Boivin	2	35	2	6
2792	Zachary L Lamplugh	2	28	1	1
2850	Alok Bhattacharya	2	26	1	2
2850	Vu Thuy Khanh Le-trilling	2	22	1	3
2850	Samudrala Gourinath	2	26	2	2
2934	Ke Lan	2	30	1	4
2954	Eric Hunter	2	21	1	4

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