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Current Opinion in Virology
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Current Opinion in Virology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 72 81 89 27
Immunology 82 58 60 20
Medicine 1225 48 47 20

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 195
Documents by Best Scientists*: 186
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 102
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.034
Impact Factor: 5.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Current Opinion in Virology?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Virology, Virus, Immunology, Immune system and Viral replication. Issues in Virology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like RNA, Antibody and Disease. The research on Virus tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Host (biology), Genome, Computational biology and Cell biology.

Research in Genome tackled falls within the umbrella of Genetics. Gene and Viral evolution are Genetics topics of special interest in it. Immunity, Innate immune system, Acquired immune system, Vaccination and T cell are among the areas of Immunology tackled.

  • Virology (53.01%)
  • Virus (34.57%)
  • Immunology (24.38%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Interferon-stimulated genes and their antiviral effector functions. (803 citations)
  • Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery. (411 citations)
  • SARS coronavirus pathogenesis: host innate immune responses and viral antagonism of interferon. (278 citations)

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

The most cited publications primarily tackle Virology, Virus, Immunology, Genetics and Cell biology. The published articles with studies in Virology featured incorporate elements of Innate immune system and Antibody. The most cited publications focus on Virus but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Pathogenesis which is concerned with Carcinogenesis.

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

  • Virus
  • Gene
  • DNA

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Virus, Virology, Computational biology, Immune system and Genome. The study of Virus encompasses disciplines such as Disease, as well as fields such as Pathogen, all of which overlap with one another. It focuses on Virology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Antibody, Glycoprotein and Pandemic.

It covers Immune system research under the subject of Immunology. The presented research on Immunology deals specifically with Cell but it also addresses topics in Intracellular. While Genome is the key highlight in Current Opinion in Virology, it also covered some subjects on RNA and Cell biology, Plant virus and Flavivirus.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Coronavirus entry: how we arrived at SARS-CoV-2. (16 citations)
  • Future considerations for the mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine platform. (11 citations)
  • Structure and function of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase. (11 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 Virology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Richard K. Plemper (8 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Rik L. de Swart (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Marilyn J. Roossinck (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alexander Ploss (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eugene V. Koonin (6 papers) published 2 papers 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 Opinion in Virology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Institutes of Health (49 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Pasteur Institute (26 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (26 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Scripps Research Institute (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (21 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, 1.02% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.49% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.28% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.53% of all publications and 56.70% 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

  • Recent advances in antiviral drug development towards dengue virus

    Berit Troost;Jolanda M Smit

    (2020)
    132 Citations
  • Combating vaccine hesitancy and other 21st century social determinants in the global fight against measles.

    Peter J Hotez;Tasmiah Nuzhath;Brian Colwell

    (2020)
    84 Citations
  • Current challenges to virus discovery by meta-transcriptomics.

    Joanna Ca Cobbin;Justine Charon;Erin Harvey;Edward C Holmes

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease

    Eugene V Koonin;Valerian V Dolja;Mart Krupovic

    (2021)
    70 Citations
  • Dengue vaccine development by the year 2020: challenges and prospects.

    Annelies Wilder-Smith

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Animal models for SARS-CoV-2.

    Chung-Young Lee;Anice C Lowen

    (2021)
    60 Citations
  • Viral Z-RNA triggers ZBP1-dependent cell death.

    Siddharth Balachandran;Edward S Mocarski

    (2021)
    56 Citations

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