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Table 1 Journals Indexed in PubMed Linked to Most Sequences (Including Genome Sequencing Projects)

From: GenBank and PubMed: How connected are they?

 

Citations in GenBank Sequence Records

Journal Name

Percent of sequences associated with a citation

Ave #seqs/article

Number of distinct journal articles

Number of sequences

PLOS Biology

17.7

60199 (32517)*

108 (105)

6501501(3414295)

Genome Research

13.9

10091

505

5095937

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

7.6

325

8564

2779264

Science

5.4

1299

1532

1989825

Nature

4.6

703

2384

1675206

Genome Biology

4.0

19737

74

1460541

Plant Physiology

2.5

430

2173

935009

BMC Genomics

2.0

2975

247

734823

Plant Molecular Biology

1.7

235

2695

633337

Nature Genetics

1.3

694

710

492838

  1. * Values in parentheses are generated after the exclusion of the metagenomic papers from the Global Ocean Sampling expedition ([10–12])
  2. Citation data extracted from the GenBank records was used to determine how many sequences are associated with each journal. This table lists the top ten journals indexed in PubMed as defined by the number of GenBank sequences that cite an article in that journal. The percentage of sequences associated with the journal is calculated from the total number of GenBank entries that have some citation information. As described in the discussion, three article in PLoS Biology resulted in the more than 3 million sequences being deposited in GenBank. These adjusted calculated values based on omitting theses sequences are shown in parentheses.