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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Biology and life sciences
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 2nd highest h-index and the 28th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 15 925 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 58% |
| China | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 12% |
| Germany | 11% |
| France | 7% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 94% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks (2023, 1 173 citations)
- Endosomal escape: A bottleneck for LNP-mediated therapeutics (2024, 581 citations)
- Using cognitive psychology to understand GPT-3 (2023, 551 citations)
- Enumerating soil biodiversity (2023, 506 citations)
- Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (2023, 497 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 0027-8424):
- 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 Journal of Cell Biology
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