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Cell Systems
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Cell Systems

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Molecular Biology 36 49 60 27
Biology and Biochemistry 78 174 168 46

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 442
Documents by Best Scientists*: 302
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 25
SCIMAGO H-index: 98
SCIMAGO SJR: 4.943
Impact Factor: 7.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Cell systems?

Cell systems primarily focuses on research topics in Computational biology, Cell biology, Gene, Genetics and Artificial intelligence. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Computational biology, it also covered topics in Cancer, Transcriptome, Proteomics and Genome. It links adjacent topics like Proteomics with Proteome.

In addition to Cell biology research, Cell systems aims to explore topics under Chromatin, Cell and Transcription factor. The journal primarily discusses Gene topics, particularly Gene expression, Regulation of gene expression and Phenotype. Artificial intelligence study tackled is connected to the field of Machine learning.

  • Computational biology (30.61%)
  • Cell biology (16.69%)
  • Gene (13.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection (2978 citations)
  • Juicer provides a one-click system for analyzing loop-resolution Hi-C experiments (858 citations)
  • A Single-Cell Transcriptomic Map of the Human and Mouse Pancreas Reveals Inter- and Intra-cell Population Structure. (639 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Cell systems:

The published articles mostly deal with topics like Computational biology, Genetics, Gene, Cell biology and Transcriptome. The most cited publications explore topics in Computational biology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Proteomics, Function (biology), Bioinformatics and Genomics. The research on Cell biology presented in the most cited publications often intersects with areas of study such as

  • Gene expression and related RNA,
  • Cellular differentiation and related Stem cell..

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

  • Gene
  • DNA
  • Enzyme

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Computational biology, Systems biology, Gene, Cell biology and Function (biology). The journal focuses on Computational biology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Cancer, Cell, Transcriptome, Genome and Proteomics. While it focused on Systems biology, it was also able to explore topics like Field (computer science), Biological network and Synthetic biology.

Most of the Gene studies addressed also intersect with Cell type. The Cell biology works featured in the journal incorporate elements from RNA virus and Amyloid precursor protein. The research on Function (biology) featured in Cell systems combines topics in other fields like Cell growth and Protein–protein interaction.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Large-Scale Multi-omic Analysis of COVID-19 Severity. (131 citations)
  • A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family. (20 citations)
  • Benchmarking Computational Doublet-Detection Methods for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data. (18 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 Cell systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Quincey Justman (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Bonnie Berger (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Peter K. Sorger (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Trey Ideker (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Joshua J. Coon (7 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 Cell systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (90 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 17 less than at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (66 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, San Diego (49 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (45 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, San Francisco (35 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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, 5.71% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 43.43% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.14% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.14% of all publications and 28.28% 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

  • Ultra-High-Throughput Clinical Proteomics Reveals Classifiers of COVID-19 Infection.

    Christoph B. Messner;Vadim Demichev;Vadim Demichev;Daniel Wendisch;Laura Michalick

    (2020)
    571 Citations
  • Large-Scale Multi-omic Analysis of COVID-19 Severity.

    Katherine A. Overmyer;Evgenia Shishkova;Ian J. Miller;Joseph Balnis

    (2021)
    528 Citations
  • Learning the protein language: Evolution, structure, and function.

    Tristan Bepler;Bonnie Berger

    (2021)
    322 Citations
  • nucleAIzer: A Parameter-free Deep Learning Framework for Nucleus Segmentation Using Image Style Transfer.

    Reka Hollandi;Abel Szkalisity;Timea Toth;Timea Toth;Ervin Tasnadi;Ervin Tasnadi

    (2020)
    255 Citations
  • Artificial intelligence for proteomics and biomarker discovery

    Matthias Mann;Chanchal Kumar;Wen-Feng Zeng;Maximilian T. Strauss

    (2021)
    210 Citations
  • A time-resolved proteomic and prognostic map of COVID-19.

    Vadim Demichev;Vadim Demichev;Vadim Demichev;Pinkus Tober-Lau;Oliver Lemke;Tatiana Nazarenko

    (2021)
    206 Citations
  • Fast and Flexible Protein Design Using Deep Graph Neural Networks

    Alexey Strokach;David Becerra;Carles Corbi-Verge;Albert Perez-Riba

    (2020)
    188 Citations

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