Datapoints: Top Boston-based Nature authors

The 12 most published local authors in Nature journals

Research by Caitlin Stier

Boston authors who had the highest number of peer reviewed papers published in Nature journals (including Nature, the monthly research journals and the review journals) from 2002 to 2006

Author Affiliation Article Count
Eric Lander Broad Institute / MIT / Harvard Medical School 31
Mark Daly Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School 17
David Altshuler Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute 16
Rakesh Jain Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School 15
Todd Golub Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute 13
Norbert Perrimon Harvard Medical School 13
Steven Gygi Harvard Medical School 13
Ulrich von Andrian The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research / Harvard Medical School 13
Jonathan Butler Broad Institute 11
Robert Langer MIT 11
Leonard Zon Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School 11
Michael Zody Broad Institute 11

Citation counts were determined using Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science citation database. Review articles were included, but correspondence, corrections, commentaries, and News and Views pieces were not.

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