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Race, Genetics, and Society

Race, Genetics, and Society is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex intersection of race and genetics in biomedical research, focusing on the impact of race and ethnicity on health disparities, genetic ancestry, epigenetics, and population genetics. It delves into the social implications and ethical considerations surrounding the use of racial categories in genetic studies and healthcare.

  • Race
  • Genetics
  • Biomedical Research
  • Health Disparities
  • Ethnicity
  • Epigenetics
  • Ancestry
  • Social Inequality
  • Population Genetics
  • Healthcare
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Race, Genetics, and Society

Which countries lead Race, Genetics, and Society research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (904 and 192 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 904 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 192 works
  3. 3 Germany 98 works
  4. 4 Canada 89 works
  5. 5 Australia 86 works
  6. 6 France 62 works
  7. 7 Brazil 56 works
  8. 8 China 53 works
  9. 9 India 46 works
  10. 10 Italy 36 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 55.8%United Kingdom: 11.8%Germany: 6.0%Canada: 5.5%6 others listed: 20.9%56%largest
United States904 · 55.8%United Kingdom192 · 11.8%Germany98 · 6.0%Canada89 · 5.5%6 others listed339 · 20.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Race, Genetics, and Society research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Race, Genetics, and Society research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  5. 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 15 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 13 works
  8. 8 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Race, Genetics, and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Race, Genetics, and Society include George Davey Smith, Richard M. Durbin and Mark J. Daly.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  3. 3 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States 300k citations
  6. 6 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Race, Genetics, and Society?

The most cited paper in Race, Genetics, and Society is "Genetic Structure of Human Populations" (Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber et al., 2002), with 3,080 citations. Next come "Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution" (3,076) and "“Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States" (2,534).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Genetic Structure of Human Populations Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber et al. · Science 19 Dec 2002 3,080
2 Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking, Allan C. Wilson · Nature 1987 3,076
3 “Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States Arline T. Geronimus, Margaret T. Hicken, Danya E. Keene et al. · American Journal of Public Health Open access 27 Dec 2005 2,534
4 The Swedish personal identity number: possibilities and pitfalls in healthcare and medical research Jonas Filip Ludvigsson, P Otterblad-Olausson, Birgitta U. Pettersson et al. · European Journal of Epidemiology Open access 5 Jun 2009 2,439
5 THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY Eben Kirksey, Stefan Helmreich · Cultural Anthropology Open access 13 Oct 2010 2,243
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Where is Race, Genetics, and Society research done?

The largest centres of Race, Genetics, and Society research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 29 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 29 works
  5. 5 Chapel HillUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 27 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 20 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 28.2 works7.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Race, Genetics, and Society than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Race, Genetics, and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Oxford score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 13.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityNew York UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of North …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.025.1%3.5×20 +65.4%
2University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 56.22.9%8.9×29 +186.4%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.75.0%5.9×15 +67.1%
4New York UniversityUnited States 54.111.8%6.5×13 +84.6%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 52.513.0%5.6×15 +30.6%
6University of MichiganUnited States 52.418.3%3.9×11 +38.4%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 49.518.9%6.0×13 -39.9%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 48.520.0%4.8×10 +55.3%
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 47.914.1%5.1×9 +173.3%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 47.09.4%4.6×13 +78.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Race, Genetics, and Society, country by country

Is Race, Genetics, and Society research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Race, Genetics, and Society.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Race, Genetics, and Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Race, Genetics, and Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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