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Current Genetics
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Current Genetics

0172-8083

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/294

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 94 18 24 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 62
Documents by Best Scientists*: 70
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 95
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.668
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Current Genetics?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Genetics, Gene, Molecular biology, Biochemistry and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The journal focuses on different Genetics studies like Mitochondrial DNA, Genome, Plasmid, Nucleic acid sequence and Intron. Research on Mitochondrial DNA addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Mitochondrion.

Many of the studies tackled connect Plasmid with a similar field of study like Transformation (genetics). In the Gene research discussed, Mutant, Gene expression, Transcription (biology), Open reading frame and Locus (genetics) are all tackled. Mutant research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Mutation and Microbiology.

Some problems in Molecular biology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Chloroplast DNA, Restriction map, RNA, DNA and Molecular cloning. Biochemistry, which encompasses Amino acid, Enzyme, Aspergillus nidulans, Peptide sequence and Neurospora crassa, is the main subject of Current Genetics. Current Genetics addresses concerns in the field of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by exploring it in line with topics in Cell biology which intersect with Proteomics subjects.

  • Genetics (50.79%)
  • Gene (43.65%)
  • Molecular biology (30.19%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • High efficiency transformation of intact yeast cells using single stranded nucleic acids as a carrier. (1933 citations)
  • OrganellarGenomeDRAW (OGDRAW): a tool for the easy generation of high-quality custom graphical maps of plastid and mitochondrial genomes. (736 citations)
  • One-step transformation of yeast in stationary phase. (604 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Current Genetics:

The journal papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Genetics, Gene, Molecular biology, Biochemistry and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The most cited papers aim to address concerns in Genetics, specifically in the areas of Genome, Mitochondrial DNA, Plasmid, DNA and Chloroplast DNA. The journal publications focus on Molecular biology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Complementary DNA, Molecular cloning, Locus (genetics), Open reading frame and Transcription (biology).

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

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • DNA

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Current Genetics was organized to reinforce research efforts on Cell biology, Gene, Proteomics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Computational biology. The studies on Cell biology discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Cell division, Yeast, Chromatin, Histone and DNA replication. Gene studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Genetics.

The journal covers research in Genetics, particularly Bacteriophage and Candida glabrata and how they are related with concepts in Context (language use). In the journal, Pathogen, Biophysics, Ribosome profiling, Ribosome and Function (biology) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Proteomics research. Current Genetics explores research in Saccharomyces cerevisiae alongside concepts in DNA damage and other areas of study in Homologous recombination.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Model systems for studying polyphosphate biology: a focus on microorganisms. (7 citations)
  • A cellular handbook for collided ribosomes: surveillance pathways and collision types. (6 citations)
  • Establishment of conidial fusion in the asexual fungus Verticillium dahliae as a useful system for the study of non-sexual genetic interactions (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 Current Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Martin Brendel (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ulrich Kück (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Martin Kupiec (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Karl Esser (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jeffrey D. Palmer (20 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 Current Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (114 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ruhr University Bochum (67 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Tokyo (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (54 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Cornell University (52 papers) published 1 paper 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, 1.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 3.88% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.80% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.59% of all publications and 75.73% 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

  • SMC complexes organize the bacterial chromosome by lengthwise compaction

    Jarno Mäkelä;David J. Sherratt

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Yeast chromatin remodeling complexes and their roles in transcription.

    Aiyang Lin;Aiyang Lin;Ying Du;Wei Xiao;Wei Xiao

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Translocation of non-lytic antimicrobial peptides and bacteria penetrating peptides across the inner membrane of the bacterial envelope.

    Jakob Frimodt-Møller;Christopher Campion;Peter E Nielsen;Anders Løbner-Olesen

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Comparing the utility of in vivo transposon mutagenesis approaches in yeast species to infer gene essentiality.

    Anton Levitan;Andrew N. Gale;Emma K. Dallon;Darby W. Kozan

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • How yeast cells deal with stalled replication forks

    Matan Arbel;Batia Liefshitz;Martin Kupiec

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Single-strand template repair: key insights to increase the efficiency of gene editing.

    Danielle N Gallagher;James E Haber

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Innate immunity to prions: anti-prion systems turn a tsunami of prions into a slow drip.

    Reed B Wickner;Herman K Edskes;Moonil Son;Songsong Wu

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • The SR-protein FgSrp2 regulates vegetative growth, sexual reproduction and pre-mRNA processing by interacting with FgSrp1 in Fusarium graminearum

    Yimei Zhang;Yimei Zhang;Yafeng Dai;Yi Huang;Kai Wang

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Scaling gene expression for cell size control and senescence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Yuping Chen;Bruce Futcher

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • How do small chromosomes know they are small? Maximizing meiotic break formation on the shortest yeast chromosomes.

    Hajime Murakami;Xiaojing Mu;Xiaojing Mu;Scott Keeney;Scott Keeney

    (2021)
    11 Citations

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