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Current Opinion in Lipidology
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Current Opinion in Lipidology

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Published by: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

https://journals.lww.com/co-lipidology/pages/default.aspx

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Biology and Biochemistry 736 14 16 6
Medicine 1212 66 111 20

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 88
Documents by Best Scientists*: 128
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 138
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.342
Impact Factor: 4.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Current Opinion in Lipidology?

Current Opinion in Lipidology mainly deals with areas of study such as Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Disease, Biochemistry and Cholesterol. In the journal, Diabetes mellitus and Cardiology are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Internal medicine research. Many of the studies tackled connect Endocrinology with a similar field of study like Receptor.

Some problems in Disease that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Bioinformatics and Intensive care medicine. Lipid metabolism is part of Biochemistry studies tackled in it. The Lipid metabolism study featured in the journal draws parallels with the field of Cell biology.

The work tackled in the journal goes beyond the discipline of Cholesterol as it also encompasses Pharmacology. The Very low-density lipoprotein works, particularly on Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 8 are tackled in Current Opinion in Lipidology. The study on Apolipoprotein B presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Apolipoprotein E.

  • Internal medicine (30.91%)
  • Endocrinology (20.23%)
  • Disease (14.97%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Dietary pattern analysis: a new direction in nutritional epidemiology. (2639 citations)
  • PGC-1alpha, SIRT1 and AMPK, an energy sensing network that controls energy expenditure. (986 citations)
  • Cholesterol metabolism in the brain (740 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Current Opinion in Lipidology:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Biochemistry, Cholesterol and Disease. The works on Internal medicine tackled in the journal papers bring together disciplines like Diabetes mellitus and Cardiology. In addition to Disease research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Inflammation, Immunology and Bioinformatics.

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 concepts of Bioinformatics, Disease, MEDLINE, Internal medicine and Lipoprotein are tackled in Current Opinion in Lipidology. Topics in Bioinformatics explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Polygenic risk score, Coronary artery disease, Hypertriglyceridemia, PCSK9 and Pharmacotherapy. The studies in Disease featured incorporate elements of Observational study, Familial hypercholesterolemia, Intensive care medicine, Confounding and Risk factor.

The Internal medicine works featured in it incorporate elements from Endocrinology, Oncology and Cardiology. Most of the works presented in Current Opinion in Lipidology deals with Endocrinology but it intersects with the subject of Liver disease. Topics in Lipoprotein were tackled in line with various other fields like Receptor, Cell biology and Apolipoprotein B.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Impact of ultra-processed food consumption on metabolic health. (4 citations)
  • Inhibition of angiopoietin-like 3 for the management of severe hypercholesterolemia. (3 citations)
  • The need for polygenic score reporting standards in evidence-based practice: lipid genetics use case. (2 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 Opinion in Lipidology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gerald F. Watts (31 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Alan Rees (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert A. Hegele (25 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • John J.P. Kastelein (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dawn C. Schwenke (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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 Current Opinion in Lipidology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Los Angeles (34 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Western Ontario (33 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (31 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Harvard University (30 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 3.39% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.28% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 26.32% of all publications and 42.11% 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.

Career Opportunities for Graduates

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Top Publications

  • Regulation of lipoprotein lipase-mediated lipolysis of triglycerides.

    Debapriya Basu;Ira J. Goldberg

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • CD36 (SR-B2) as master regulator of cellular fatty acid homeostasis

    (2022)
    71 Citations
  • Very long-chain saturated fatty acids and diabetes and cardiovascular disease

    (2021)
    69 Citations
  • Remnant lipoproteins: are they equal to or more atherogenic than LDL?

    Carlos A Aguilar Salinas;M John Chapman

    (2020)
    60 Citations
  • ANGPTL3 as therapeutic target.

    Sander Kersten

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • Mendelian randomization as a tool for causal inference in human nutrition and metabolism.

    Susanna C. Larsson

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Measurement of carotid plaque burden.

    J David Spence

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Genetic, biochemical, and clinical features of LCAT deficiency: update for 2020.

    Chiara Pavanello;Laura Calabresi

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Small dense low-density lipoprotein particles: clinically relevant?

    (2022)
    40 Citations
  • Consensus and guidelines on lipoprotein(a) – seeing the forest through the trees

    (2022)
    40 Citations

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