Ranking & Metrics
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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.
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Top authors and change 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.
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Top affiliations and change over time
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
