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Genes & Development
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Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 15th highest h-index and the 37th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 407 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 70% |
| Germany | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 8% |
| France | 5% |
| Canada | 4% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics | 14% |
| RNA Research and Splicing | 8% |
| DNA Repair Mechanisms | 6% |
| MicroRNA in disease regulation | 3% |
| Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation | 3% |
| Epigenetics and DNA Methylation | 3% |
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0890-9369):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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- The EMBO Journal
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- Nature Genetics
- Cell
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