TY - JOUR
T1 - Publication Trends Over 55 Years of Behavioral Genetic Research
AU - Ayorech, Ziada
AU - Selzam, Saskia
AU - Smith-Woolley, Emily
AU - Knopik, Valerie S.
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
AU - DeFries, John C.
AU - Plomin, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
RP is supported by a program grant from the UK Medical Research Council [G0901245; and previously G0500079], with additional support from the US National Institutes of Health [HD044454; HD059215]. RP is also supported by a Medical Research Council Research Professorship award [G19/2] and a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award [295366]. SS is supported by the MRC/IoPPN Excellence Award and SS and ZA are supported by the EU Framework Programme 7 (602768). ESW is supported by MRC TEDS (MR/M021475/1). JCD is supported by HD-27,802 and AG046938 from the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Author(s).
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10519-016-9786-2
DO - 10.1007/s10519-016-9786-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 26992731
AN - SCOPUS:84961200004
VL - 46
SP - 603
EP - 607
JO - Behavior Genetics
JF - Behavior Genetics
SN - 0001-8244
IS - 5
ER -