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BMC Microbiology
H-index 34

BMC Microbiology

1471-2180

Published by: Springer

https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 91 170 162 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 609
Documents by Best Scientists*: 473
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 23
SCIMAGO H-index: 147
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.032
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at BMC Microbiology?

The topics of Microbiology, Gene, Genetics, Parasitology and Virulence are the focal point of discussions in BMC Microbiology. The concepts on Microbiology presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Bacteria, Biofilm, Virology, Mutant and Escherichia coli. Virus is a primary topic of Virology research in BMC Microbiology.

Wild type is a major topic of Mutant research presented in it. Gene studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Biochemistry. The study on Biochemistry featured in the journal expounds on the topic of Enzyme in particular.

Genome, Phylogenetic tree, Phylogenetics and Multilocus sequence typing are all areas of Genetics tackled in the journal. Parasitology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Polymerase chain reaction and Genotype. Research on Virulence addressed in BMC Microbiology frequently intersections with the field of Pathogen.

  • Microbiology (55.24%)
  • Gene (17.69%)
  • Genetics (16.11%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio of the human microbiota changes with age. (925 citations)
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology (922 citations)
  • Evaluation of the bacterial diversity in the feces of cattle using 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) (922 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at BMC Microbiology:

The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Microbiology, Genetics, Parasitology, Gene and Bacteria. While the journal publications mainly focused on Microbiology studies, they also tackled the scientific discipline of interrelated fields such as

  • Virulence which intersects with area such as Pathogen,
  • Biofilm that connect with fields like Pseudomonas aeruginosa.. In addition to Parasitology research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Genotype and Polymerase chain reaction.

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

  • Bacteria
  • Gene
  • Enzyme

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

BMC Microbiology is organized to address concerns in the fields of Microbiology, Parasitology, Microbiome, Bacteria and Gene. It explores research in Microbiology alongside concepts in Virulence and other areas of study in Pathogen. The journal focuses on Parasitology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Genotype.

Some problems in Microbiome that were presented in BMC Microbiology overlapped with concepts under Gut flora, Immunology, Physiology and Metagenomics. Research in the field of Genetics was used to conduct the presented Gene study. The research on Antibiotic resistance featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Multilocus sequence typing and Escherichia coli.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of human gut microbiota using MinION™ nanopore sequencing confers species-level resolution. (12 citations)
  • Dysbiosis of gut microbiota and its correlation with dysregulation of cytokines in psoriasis patients. (7 citations)
  • A metabolic and physiological design study of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 capable of anaerobic respiration. (7 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 BMC Microbiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Adly M. M. Abd-Alla (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mario Vaneechoutte (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Keim (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Didier Raoult (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christophe Lacroix (11 papers) published 1 paper 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 BMC Microbiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (65 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (58 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pasteur Institute (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Copenhagen (57 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (57 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous 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, 3.15% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 9.03% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.42% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.03% of all publications and 76.53% 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

  • An improved bind-n-seq strategy to determine protein-DNA interactions validated using the bacterial transcriptional regulator YipR

    Shi-Qi An;Shi-Qi An;Miguel A Valvano;Yan-Hua Yu;Jeremy S Webb

    (2020)
    67 Citations
  • Relative abundance of the Prevotella genus within the human gut microbiota of elderly volunteers determines the inter-individual responses to dietary supplementation with wheat bran arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides

    Wing Sun Faith Chung;Alan W. Walker;Douwina Bosscher;Vicenta Garcia-Campayo

    (2020)
    62 Citations
  • Altered Gut Microbiota in Infants is Associated with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease Severity

    Jeffrey N Harding;David Siefker;Luan Vu;Dahui You

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • Rapid identification of capsulated Acinetobacter baumannii using a density-dependent gradient test.

    Hadas Kon;David Schwartz;Elizabeth Temkin;Yehuda Carmeli;Yehuda Carmeli

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Changes in the gut microbiome community of nonhuman primates following radiation injury.

    Raj Kalkeri;Kevin Walters;William Van Der Pol;Braden C. McFarland

    (2021)
    52 Citations
  • Multi-omic profiling reveals associations between the gut mucosal microbiome, the metabolome, and host DNA methylation associated gene expression in patients with colorectal cancer

    Qing Wang;Qing Wang;Jianzhong Ye;Daiqiong Fang;Longxian Lv

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • Isolation and characterization of antagonistic Paenibacillus polymyxa HX-140 and its biocontrol potential against Fusarium wilt of cucumber seedlings

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Distribution of serotypes and antibiotic resistance of invasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a multi-country collection

    (2022)
    38 Citations
  • Short-term physical exercise impacts on the human holobiont obtained by a randomised intervention study.

    Lucas Moitinho-Silva;Michelle Wegener;Sandra May;Florian Schrinner

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Diversity of mucoid to non-mucoid switch among carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.

    Adriana Chiarelli;Adriana Chiarelli;Adriana Chiarelli;Nicolas Cabanel;Nicolas Cabanel;Isabelle Rosinski-Chupin;Isabelle Rosinski-Chupin;Pengdbamba Dieudonné Zongo;Pengdbamba Dieudonné Zongo

    (2020)
    33 Citations

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