Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

• Agata Piekniewska,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SciCrunch Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Martijn Roelandse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SciCrunch Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America, martijnroelandse.dev, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, The Netherlands,

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• Kevin C. Kent Lloyd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Mouse Biology Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5318-4144

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• Ian Korf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Stephen Randal Voss,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Giovanni de Castro,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-3860

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• Diogo M. Magnani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1773-2406

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• Zoltan Varga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zebrafish International Resource Center, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Christina James-Zorn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Marko Horb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Xenopus Resource, Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Marine Biological Laboratory, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5067-0518

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• Jeffery S. Grethe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Anita Bandrowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: abandrowski@ucsd.edu

  Affiliations SciCrunch Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5497-0243

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