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Annual Review of Genetics
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Annual Review of Genetics

0066-4197

Published by: Annual Reviews

https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/genet

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 74 27 23 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 81
Documents by Best Scientists*: 66
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 8.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Annual Review of Genetics?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Genetics, Gene, Cell biology, Evolutionary biology and Genome. Studies on Genetics discussed in the journal link to the field of Computational biology. In the Gene research discussed, RNA, Phenotype, Transcription (biology), Mutant and Gene duplication are all tackled.

The majority of Cell biology studies presented zero in on Signal transduction.

  • Genetics (56.73%)
  • Gene (24.36%)
  • Cell biology (17.06%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The heat-shock proteins. (4683 citations)
  • Regulation Mechanisms and Signaling Pathways of Autophagy (2624 citations)
  • A Mitochondrial Paradigm of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Aging, and Cancer: A Dawn for Evolutionary Medicine (2595 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Annual Review of Genetics:

The most cited papers investigate studies in Genetics, Gene, Cell biology, Evolutionary biology and Genome. The most cited articles focus on Gene but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Molecular biology and Bacteria. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Cell biology, it also covers topics in Cell cycle and DNA replication.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Gene
  • DNA
  • Genome

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Evolutionary biology, Computational biology, Multicellular organism, Genetics and Gene. Some problems in Evolutionary biology that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Vertebrate, Genome, Meiosis and Homologous recombination. The studies in Computational biology featured incorporate elements of Trans-activating crRNA, Transcriptome, Gene expression, CRISPR and Caenorhabditis elegans.

Multicellular organism research in the journal involves the investigation of Cell fate determination studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Morphogenesis, Mechanism (biology), Germline and Mitosis. Genetics and Enzyme are closely related fields of research discussed in Annual Review of Genetics. Many of the studies tackled connect Gene with a similar field of study like Synaptic plasticity.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Regulatory Themes and Variations by the Stress-Signaling Nucleotide Alarmones (p)ppGpp in Bacteria. (1 citations)
  • Genotype-Phenotype Relationships in the Context of Transcriptional Adaptation and Genetic Robustness. (1 citations)
  • Prevalence and Adaptive Impact of Introgression. (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Annual Review of Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stephen J. O'Brien (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Franklin W. Stahl (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kim Nasmyth (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nancy Kleckner (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frederick M. Ausubel (4 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Annual Review of Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (32 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Stanford University (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 39.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.29% of all publications and 42.86% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • A Field Guide to Eukaryotic Transposable Elements.

    Jonathan N. Wells;Cédric Feschotte

    (2020)
    406 Citations
  • DNA End Resection: Mechanism and Control.

    Petr Cejka;Petr Cejka;Lorraine S Symington

    (2021)
    195 Citations
  • Molecular Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas Immunity in Bacteria.

    Philip M Nussenzweig;Philip M Nussenzweig;Luciano A Marraffini;Luciano A Marraffini

    (2020)
    145 Citations
  • Meiosis: Dances Between Homologs.

    (2023)
    82 Citations
  • Conserved Upstream Open Reading Frame Nascent Peptides That Control Translation.

    Thomas E Dever;Ivaylo P Ivanov;Matthew S Sachs

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Mosaicism in Human Health and Disease.

    Jeremy Thorpe;Jeremy Thorpe;Ikeoluwa A. Osei-Owusu;Ikeoluwa A. Osei-Owusu;Bracha Erlanger Avigdor;Rossella Tupler

    (2020)
    70 Citations
  • Scalable Functional Assays for the Interpretation of Human Genetic Variation.

    (2022)
    62 Citations
  • Histone Variants: The Nexus of Developmental Decisions and Epigenetic Memory.

    Benjamin Loppin;Frédéric Berger

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Evolution and Plasticity of Genome-Wide Meiotic Recombination Rates.

    Ian R Henderson;Kirsten Bomblies

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life.

    Alejandro Burga;Eyal Ben-David;Eyal Ben-David;Leonid Kruglyak

    (2020)
    43 Citations

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