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John Maynard Smith

Active 1955–2005

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John Maynard-Smith
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55,150
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Citations

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Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,537 citing papers, 28.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 2,100 citing papers, 13.2% of this breakdownGermany: 892 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownChina: 843 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownFrance: 785 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownCanada: 677 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownSpain: 430 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 422 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 418 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 369 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownJapan: 364 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSweden: 299 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology33.1%
  • Social Sciences17.4%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.4%
  • Medicine9.8%
  • Computer Science4.7%
  • Environmental Science4.3%
  • Other18.3%

Topics

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics10.1%
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation8.8%
  • Plant and animal studies4.2%
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models3.2%
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction3.2%
  • Genetic diversity and population structure3.2%
  • Other67.3%

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  1. The Logic of Animal Conflict

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, George Price - Nature 1973 cited by 6,297

  2. Evolution and the Theory of Games

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1982 cited by 8,022

  3. The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, John Haigh - Genetics Research 1974 cited by 3,577

  4. The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Journal of Theoretical Biology 1974 cited by 2,453

  5. The major evolutionary transitions

    Authors: Eörs Szathmáry, John Maynard Smith - Nature 1995 cited by 1,123

  6. Natural Selection and the Concept of a Protein Space

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Nature 1970 cited by 979

  7. Developmental Constraints and Evolution: A Perspective from the Mountain Lake Conference on Development and Evolution

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, Richard M. Burian, Stuart Kauffman, Pere Alberch, James F. Campbell, B. C. Goodwin, Robert H. Lande, David M. Raup, Lewis Wolpert - The Quarterly Review of Biology 1985 cited by 1,489

  8. The Major Transitions of Evolution.

    Authors: Egbert Giles Leigh, John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry - Evolution 1995 cited by 826

  9. Group Selection and Kin Selection

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Nature 1964 cited by 2,051

  10. Evolution of genetic redundancy

    Authors: Martin A. Nowak, Maarten C. Boerlijst, Jonathan Cooke, John Maynard Smith - Nature 1997 cited by 804

  11. The Major Transitions in Evolution

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry - Journal of the History of Biology 1996 cited by 2,597

  12. How clonal are bacteria?

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, N. H. Smith, Mark Allen O’Rourke, Brian G. Spratt - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1993 cited by 1,825

  13. Optimization Theory in Evolution

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1978 cited by 1,144

  14. Optimality theory in evolutionary biology

    Authors: George A. Parker, John Maynard Smith - Nature 1990 cited by 1,011

  15. How Clonal Is Staphylococcus aureus ?

    Authors: Edward J. Feil, Jessica E. Cooper, Hajo Grundmann, D. Ashley Robinson, Mark C. Enright, Tony Berendt, Sharon J. Peacock, John Maynard Smith, Michael Murphy, Brian G. Spratt, Catrin E. Moore, Nicholas Day - Journal of Bacteriology 2003 cited by 624

  16. Animal Signals

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, D. Harper - 2003 cited by 904

  17. Role of mutator alleles in adaptive evolution

    Authors: François Taddéi, Miroslav Radman, John Maynard-Smith, Bruno Toupance, Pierre‐Henri Gouyon, Bernard Godelle - Nature 1997 cited by 712

  18. Comparisons of dN/dS are time dependent for closely related bacterial genomes

    Authors: Eduardo P. C. Rocha, John Maynard Smith, Laurence D. Hurst, Matthew T. G. Holden, Jessica E. Cooper, Noel H. Smith, Edward J. Feil - Journal of Theoretical Biology 2005 cited by 444

  19. Game theory and the evolution of behaviour

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 1979 cited by 373

  20. From Replicators to Reproducers: the First Major Transitions Leading to Life

    Authors: Eörs Szathmáry, John Maynard Smith - Journal of Theoretical Biology 1997 cited by 363

  21. Mathematical Ideas in Biology

    Authors: John Maynard Smith - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1968 cited by 518

  22. The Origins of Life

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry - 1999 cited by 332

  23. Ecotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    Authors: Noel H. Smith, Kristin Kremer, Jacqueline Inwald, James Dale, Jeffrey Driscoll, Stephen V. Gordon, Dick van Soolingen, R. Glyn Hewinson, John Maynard Smith - Journal of Theoretical Biology 2005 cited by 206

  24. The logic of asymmetric contests

    Authors: John Maynard Smith, George A. Parker - Animal Behaviour 1976 cited by 1,960