Publication Trends Over 55 Years of Behavioral Genetic Research

Ziada Ng'Ombo Laurel Ayorech; Saskia Selzam; Emily Dawn Smith-Woolley; Valerie S Knopik; Jenae M. Neiderhiser; J C DeFries; Robert Joseph Plomin

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Publication Trends Over 55 Years of Behavioral Genetic Research

Ziada Ng'Ombo Laurel Ayorech, Saskia Selzam, Emily Dawn Smith-Woolley, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, J C DeFries, Robert Joseph Plomin

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We document the growth in published papers on behavioral genetics for 5-year intervals from 1960 through 2014. We used 1861 papers published in Behavior Genetics to train our search strategy which, when applied to Ovid PsychINFO, selected more than 45,000 publications. Five trends stand out: (1) the number of behavioral genetic publications has grown enormously; nearly 20,000 papers were published in 2010-2014. (2) The number of human quantitative genetic (QG) publications (e.g., twin and adoption studies) has steadily increased with more than 3000 papers published in 2010-2014. (3) The number of human molecular genetic (MG) publications increased substantially from about 2000 in 2000-2004 to 5000 in 2005-2009 to 9000 in 2010-2014. (4) Nonhuman publications yielded similar trends. (5) Although there has been exponential growth in MG publications, both human and nonhuman QG publications continue to grow. A searchable resource of this corpus of behavioral genetic papers is freely available online at http://www.teds.ac.uk/public_datasets.html and will be updated annually.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	603-7
Number of pages	5
Journal	Behavior Genetics
Volume	46
Issue number	5
Early online date	18 Mar 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-016-9786-2
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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King’s Biosocial Centre (KBC) - RESILIENCE, RISK AND REVERSIBILITY: Exposures and Interventions for Health and Wellbeing across the Life-course
Plomin, R. (Primary Investigator), Fisher, H. (Co-Investigator) & Sandall, J. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/2017 → 30/09/2023
Project: Research
GHCA: Genetics of High Cognitive Abilities
Plomin, R. (Primary Investigator)
EC European Commission
1/04/2012 → 31/03/2017
Project: Research
Non-Clinical Research Professorship.
Plomin, R. (Primary Investigator)
MRC Medical Research Council
1/10/2010 → 30/09/2015
Project: Research

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