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Frontiers in Physiology
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Frontiers in Physiology

1664-042X

Published by: Frontiers Media S.A.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 241 760 986 49

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 2558
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2839
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 56
SCIMAGO H-index: 175
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.023
Impact Factor: 3.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Frontiers in Physiology?

The journal explores disciplines such as Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Cell biology, Cardiology and Neuroscience. The journal focuses on different Internal medicine studies like Blood pressure, Skeletal muscle, Heart rate, Heart failure and Oxidative stress. Frontiers in Physiology links adjacent topics like Endocrinology with Inflammation.

Cell biology research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Mitochondrion. The study on Cardiology presented in it intersects with the topics under Heart rate variability.

  • Internal medicine (29.27%)
  • Endocrinology (15.98%)
  • Cell biology (13.81%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Superspace Or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry (1125 citations)
  • Theory of superconductivity (756 citations)
  • Autonomic markers of emotional processing: skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally charged images. (703 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Frontiers in Physiology:

The most cited articles explore disciplines such as Internal medicine, Cell biology, Endocrinology, Bioinformatics and Pathology. The published articles connects the study in Internal medicine with the closely related areas of Cardiology. The works on Cell biology tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like Cell, Biochemistry and Immunology.

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 Frontiers in Physiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Pantelis T. Nikolaidis (45 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 10 more than at the previous edition,
  • Beat Knechtle (45 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition,
  • Thomas Rosemann (37 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition,
  • Urs Granacher (36 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Hans-Christer Holmberg (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than 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 Frontiers in Physiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of São Paulo (172 papers) published 41 papers at the last edition, 16 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Zurich (162 papers) published 23 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • French Institute of Health and Medical Research (146 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (110 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (92 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 more than 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, 5.43% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 8.99% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.39% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.35% of all publications and 70.28% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Lifestyle, Oxidative Stress, and Antioxidants: Back and Forth in the Pathophysiology of Chronic Diseases.

    Mehdi Sharifi-Rad;Nanjangud V. Anil Kumar;Paolo Zucca;Elena Maria Varoni

    (2020)
    1422 Citations
  • Structure, Function, and Regulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier Tight Junction in Central Nervous System Disorders.

    Jeffrey J. Lochhead;Junzhi Yang;Patrick T. Ronaldson;Thomas P. Davis

    (2020)
    297 Citations
  • Myosteatosis in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Function Deficit: An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the National Institute on Aging

    Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo;Odessa Addison;Odessa Addison;Iva Miljkovic;Bret H. Goodpaster

    (2020)
    285 Citations
  • Recent Advances in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

    Gabriel Salinas Cisneros;Gabriel Salinas Cisneros;Swee L. Thein

    (2020)
    147 Citations
  • Pathogenesis of Multiple Organ Injury in COVID-19 and Potential Therapeutic Strategies

    Miquéias Lopes-Pacheco;Pedro Leme Silva;Fernanda Ferreira Cruz;Denise Battaglini

    (2021)
    136 Citations
  • Extracellular Vesicles and Exosomes: Insights From Exercise Science.

    Joshua P. Nederveen;Geoffrey Warnier;Alessia Di Carlo;Mats I. Nilsson

    (2021)
    126 Citations
  • Vascular Stiffness in Aging and Disease

    (2021)
    122 Citations
  • Regulation of Angiotensin- Converting Enzyme 2 in Obesity: Implications for COVID-19

    Saba Al Heialy;Saba Al Heialy;Mahmood Yaseen Hachim;Abiola Senok;Mellissa Gaudet

    (2020)
    120 Citations
  • How Do Red Blood Cells Die

    Perumal Thiagarajan;Charles J Parker;Josef T Prchal

    (2021)
    106 Citations
  • Mobility in Older Community-Dwelling Persons: A Narrative Review.

    Ellen Freiberger;Cornel Christian Sieber;Robert Kob

    (2020)
    93 Citations

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