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Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences
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Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

1040-8363

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ilab20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 1594 43 42 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 73
Documents by Best Scientists*: 64
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 97
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.695
Impact Factor: 5.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences?

The foci of Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences are Internal medicine, Immunology, Disease, Endocrinology and Bioinformatics. In addition to Internal medicine research, it aims to explore topics under Gastroenterology, Oncology and Cardiology. The research on Immunology discussed in Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences draws on the closely related field of Cancer.

The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Cancer, apply to Cancer research as well. While Disease is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Biomarker (medicine) and Intensive care medicine.

  • Internal medicine (20.72%)
  • Immunology (20.00%)
  • Disease (16.69%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Gamma Glutamyl Transferase (768 citations)
  • The Toxicology of Mercury (733 citations)
  • Dipeptidyl-peptidase IV from bench to bedside: an update on structural properties, functions, and clinical aspects of the enzyme DPP IV. (722 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences:

The published papers investigate studies in Internal medicine, Immunology, Endocrinology, Biochemistry and Disease. The published papers facilitate discussions on Internal medicine that incorporate concepts from other fields like Gastroenterology, Diabetes mellitus and Cardiology. The journal papers with studies in Immunology featured incorporate elements of Cancer and Cancer research.

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Gene
  • Enzyme

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Disease, Intensive care medicine, Medical laboratory, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Biomarker (medicine). The study of Disease encompasses disciplines such as Bioinformatics, as well as fields such as Metabolic syndrome, Glycation, Endothelial dysfunction, Diabetes mellitus and Pathogenesis, all of which overlap with one another. The featured Biomarker (medicine) study falls within the wider topic of Internal medicine.

The work on Internal medicine presented in the journal focuses on Prostate cancer in particular. The journal aims to investigate interdisciplinary topics such as In patient and Immunology. Specifically, studies on Inflammation are prevalent in the Immunology works discussed.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • COVID-19: from an acute to chronic disease? Potential long-term health consequences. (17 citations)
  • Molecular diagnostic assays for COVID-19: an overview. (5 citations)
  • Progress in understanding COVID-19: insights from the omics approach. (5 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 Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eleftherios P. Diamandis (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Giuseppe Lippi (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joris R. Delanghe (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Marijn M. Speeckaert (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Christophe Hirtz (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Toronto (33 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Western Australia (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Padua (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Virginia (12 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, 5.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.42% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.53% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 5.26% of all publications and 65.79% 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.

Potential Careers in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

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Top Publications

  • COVID-19: from an acute to chronic disease? Potential long-term health consequences.

    Victoria Higgins;Dorsa Sohaei;Eleftherios P. Diamandis;Ioannis Prassas

    (2021)
    340 Citations
  • Fructose and hepatic insulin resistance.

    Samir Softic;Samir Softic;Kimber L. Stanhope;Jeremie Boucher;Senad Divanovic;Senad Divanovic

    (2020)
    177 Citations
  • Current concepts and advances in biomarkers of acute kidney injury

    Yumeng Wen;Chirag R. Parikh

    (2021)
    133 Citations
  • Potential value and impact of data mining and machine learning in clinical diagnostics.

    Maryam Saberi-Karimian;Zahra Khorasanchi;Hamideh Ghazizadeh;Maryam Tayefi

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Managing hemolyzed samples in clinical laboratories.

    Ana-Maria Simundic;Geoffrey Baird;Janne Cadamuro;Seán J Costelloe

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • Extracellular vesicles and their role in glioblastoma

    Clarissa A Whitehead;Andrew H Kaye;Andrew H Kaye;Katharine J Drummond;Katharine J Drummond;Samuel S Widodo

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics and biological heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: A literature review.

    Kirsten E. J. Wesenhagen;Charlotte E. Teunissen;Pieter Jelle Visser;Betty M. Tijms

    (2020)
    48 Citations
  • Choice of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test: challenges and key considerations for the future

    (2022)
    42 Citations
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of C-reactive protein as a biomarker in breast cancer

    (2022)
    35 Citations
  • Recent evolutions of machine learning applications in clinical laboratory medicine

    Sander De Bruyne;Marijn M. Speeckaert;Wim Van Biesen;Joris R. Delanghe

    (2021)
    35 Citations

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