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Nature Biotechnology
Biology and life sciences
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 10th highest h-index and the 24th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 1 757 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 36% |
| China | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 7% |
| Germany | 6% |
| Canada | 4% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 96% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| CRISPR and Genetic Engineering | 13% |
| Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics | 6% |
| Biotechnology and Related Fields | 5% |
| Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies | 3% |
| RNA Interference and Gene Delivery | 3% |
| CAR-T cell therapy research | 2% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis (2023, 5 489 citations)
- Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek (2023, 2 569 citations)
- Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4 (2023, 1 424 citations)
- Integrative analysis of multimodal mass spectrometry data in MZmine 3 (2023, 1 213 citations)
- Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families (2023, 1 068 citations)
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 0733-222X):
- 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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- Nature Genetics
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