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EMBO Reports
H-index 60

EMBO Reports

1469-221X

Published by: Wiley

https://www.embopress.org/journal/14693178

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Molecular Biology 22 206 231 37
Biology and Biochemistry 63 627 532 51

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1315
Documents by Best Scientists*: 945
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 42
SCIMAGO H-index: 219
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.756
Impact Factor: 6.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at EMBO Reports?

EMBO Reports covers a variety of subjects, including Cell biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Molecular biology and Gene. The Cell biology works featured in EMBO Reports incorporate elements from Ubiquitin and Transcription factor. The majority of Ubiquitin studies presented zero in on Ubiquitin ligase.

Chromatin and RNA are all aspects of Genetics discussed in the journal.

  • Cell biology (35.24%)
  • Genetics (13.79%)
  • Biochemistry (9.62%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The gut flora as a forgotten organ (1758 citations)
  • Mediators of endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis. (1733 citations)
  • A reciprocal repression between ZEB1 and members of the miR-200 family promotes EMT and invasion in cancer cells (1402 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at EMBO Reports:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Cell biology, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Genetics and Signal transduction. The journal publications explore issues in Cell biology which can be linked to other research areas like Receptor and Transcription factor. The most cited papers explore topics in Molecular biology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Messenger RNA, DNA damage and DNA repair.

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

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Cell biology, Transcription factor, Kinase, Gene and Cancer research. It holds forums on Cell biology that merges themes from other disciplines such as Chromatin, Ubiquitin and Cell growth. The study of Histone and how it intertwines with concepts under Epigenetics were explored in the presented Chromatin research.

Ubiquitin ligase is part of Ubiquitin studies tackled in the journal. While Transcription factor is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Signal transduction and Transcription (biology). In the journal, researchers investigate the Gene study as part of research in the field of Genetics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • In-depth and 3-dimensional exploration of the budding yeast phosphoproteome (18 citations)
  • The FUS gene is dual-coding with both proteins contributing to FUS-mediated toxicity. (9 citations)
  • The eco-friendly burger (8 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 EMBO Reports (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Philip Hunter (187 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Frank Gannon (89 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Holger Breithaupt (56 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Howard Wolinsky (53 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Howy Jacobs (49 papers) published 2 papers 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 EMBO Reports (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (197 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (175 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (93 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (92 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • French Institute of Health and Medical Research (90 papers) published 3 papers 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, 8.05% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.15% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.04% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.52% of all publications and 53.28% 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

  • Mitochondrial DNA in inflammation and immunity

    Joel S. Riley;Stephen W.G. Tait

    (2020)
    572 Citations
  • AI revolutions in biology: The joys and perils of AlphaFold.

    Anastassis Perrakis;Titia K Sixma

    (2021)
    158 Citations
  • The evolving landscape around genome editing in agriculture: Many countries have exempted or move to exempt forms of genome editing from GMO regulation of crop plants.

    Sarah M Schmidt;Melinda Belisle;Wolf B Frommer

    (2020)
    152 Citations
  • ADAM10 and ADAM17 promote SARS‐CoV‐2 cell entry and spike protein‐mediated lung cell fusion

    (2022)
    147 Citations
  • <scp>PINK</scp> 1 phosphorylates Drp1 <sup>S616</sup> to regulate mitophagy‐independent mitochondrial dynamics

    (2020)
    144 Citations
  • Cristae undergo continuous cycles of membrane remodelling in a MICOS-dependent manner.

    Arun Kumar Kondadi;Ruchika Anand;Sebastian Hänsch;Jennifer Urbach

    (2020)
    144 Citations
  • In-depth and 3-dimensional exploration of the budding yeast phosphoproteome

    Michael C Lanz;Kumar Yugandhar;Shagun Gupta;Ethan J Sanford

    (2021)
    134 Citations
  • ER‐phagy: selective autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum

    (2022)
    133 Citations
  • NBR1-mediated p62-liquid droplets enhance the Keap1-Nrf2 system.

    Pablo Sánchez‐Martín;Yu‐shin Sou;Shun Kageyama;Masato Koike

    (2020)
    127 Citations
  • Ageing, metabolism and the intestine

    Maja C Funk;Jun Zhou;Michael Boutros

    (2020)
    111 Citations

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