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Communications Biology
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Communications Biology

Published by: Springer

https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Biology and Biochemistry 36 1700 1680 64

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 6350
Documents by Best Scientists*: 4058
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 246
SCIMAGO H-index: 91
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.071
Impact Factor: 5.1

Top Publications

  • DeepEMhancer: a deep learning solution for cryo-EM volume post-processing.

    Ruben Sanchez-Garcia;Ruben Sanchez-Garcia;Josue Gomez-Blanco;Josue Gomez-Blanco;Ana Cuervo;Jose Maria Carazo

    (2021)
    1312 Citations
  • Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors targeting Mpro and PLpro using in-cell-protease assay

    (2022)
    288 Citations
  • The antimicrobial potential of cannabidiol

    Mark A. T. Blaskovich;Angela M. Kavanagh;Alysha G. Elliott;Bing Zhang

    (2021)
    283 Citations
  • Cancer LncRNA Census reveals evidence for deep functional conservation of long noncoding RNAs in tumorigenesis

    (2020)
    217 Citations
  • CRISPR/Cas12a technology combined with immunochromatographic strips for portable detection of African swine fever virus

    (2020)
    206 Citations
  • Activation of mitochondrial TUFM ameliorates metabolic dysregulation through coordinating autophagy induction.

    Dasol Kim;Hui Yun Hwang;Eun Sun Ji;Jin Young Kim

    (2021)
    201 Citations
  • Extended pharmacodynamic responses observed upon PROTAC-mediated degradation of RIPK2.

    Alina Mares;Afjal H. Miah;Ian E. D. Smith;Mark Rackham

    (2020)
    172 Citations
  • Amplification-free RNA detection with CRISPR-Cas13.

    Hajime Shinoda;Yuya Taguchi;Ryoya Nakagawa;Asami Makino

    (2021)
    167 Citations
  • ExoSTING, an extracellular vesicle loaded with STING agonists, promotes tumor immune surveillance

    (2021)
    164 Citations
  • Human ACE2 receptor polymorphisms and altered susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2.

    Kushal Suryamohan;Devan Diwanji;Eric W. Stawiski;Ravi Gupta

    (2021)
    151 Citations

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