Contribution of Genome-Wide Association Studies to Scientific Research: A Bibliometric Survey of the Citation Impacts of GWAS and Candidate Gene Studies Published during the Same Period and in the Same Journals

Yohann Mansiaux; Fabrice Carrat

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051408

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Contribution of Genome-Wide Association Studies to Scientific Research: A Bibliometric Survey of the Citation Impacts of GWAS and Candidate Gene Studies Published during the Same Period and in the Same Journals

Yohann Mansiaux ,

* E-mail: mansiaux@u707.jussieu.fr

Affiliations Epidemiology, Information System, Modeling, UMR-S 707, University Paris 6-UPMC, Paris, France, Inserm U707, Paris, France
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Fabrice Carrat

Affiliations Epidemiology, Information System, Modeling, UMR-S 707, University Paris 6-UPMC, Paris, France, Inserm U707, Paris, France, Public Health Unit, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France
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Contribution of Genome-Wide Association Studies to Scientific Research: A Bibliometric Survey of the Citation Impacts of GWAS and Candidate Gene Studies Published during the Same Period and in the Same Journals

Yohann Mansiaux,
Fabrice Carrat

Published: December 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051408

About the Authors

Yohann Mansiaux

* E-mail: mansiaux@u707.jussieu.fr

Affiliations Epidemiology, Information System, Modeling, UMR-S 707, University Paris 6-UPMC, Paris, France, Inserm U707, Paris, France

Fabrice Carrat

Affiliations Epidemiology, Information System, Modeling, UMR-S 707, University Paris 6-UPMC, Paris, France, Inserm U707, Paris, France, Public Health Unit, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM FC. Performed the experiments: YM. Analyzed the data: YM. Wrote the paper: YM FC.

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