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Immunity and Ageing
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Immunity and Ageing

1742-4933

Published by: Springer

https://immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Immunology 88 63 79 19
Medicine 1063 78 89 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 219
Documents by Best Scientists*: 170
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.76
Impact Factor: 5.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Immunity & Ageing?

Immunity & Ageing explores disciplines such as Immunology, Antibody, Immune system, Clinical nutrition and Immunosenescence. Immunity & Ageing facilitates discussions on Immunology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Disease and Ageing. It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Disease and Bioinformatics.

In addition to Antibody research, the journal aims to explore topics under Virus, Vaccination, Virology and Cytokine. Some problems in Immune system that were presented in Immunity & Ageing overlapped with concepts under Receptor and Antigen. In it, Epidemiology, Cohort, Public health and Physiology are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Clinical nutrition research.

The featured Public health studies mainly concentrate on Gerontology but also cover areas of interest in Geriatrics gerontology. Internal medicine research presented in Immunity & Ageing encompasses a variety of subjects, including Gastroenterology and Endocrinology. T cell and Cytotoxic T cell are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

  • Immunology (60.33%)
  • Antibody (39.19%)
  • Immune system (37.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Innate immunity and inflammation in ageing: a key for understanding age-related diseases. (369 citations)
  • Osteoporosis, inflammation and ageing (243 citations)
  • Multiparameter flow cytometric analysis of CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets in young and old people (231 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Immunity & Ageing:

Immunology, Immune system, Antibody, Immunosenescence and T cell are the main subjects of interest in the published articles. The journal publications investigate Immunology research which frequently intersects with Ageing. While Antibody is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Congenital cytomegalovirus infection and Internal medicine, First line.

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Gene
  • Immune system

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in Immunity & Ageing are Immune system, Immunology, Antibody, Clinical nutrition and Public health. The research on Immune system featured in Immunity & Ageing combines topics in other fields like Macrophage and Monocyte. Immunity & Ageing addresses concerns in Immunology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Peripheral blood mononuclear cell and Cell type.

The research on Antibody tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of T cell, CD8, Bone marrow and Spleen. Topics in Clinical nutrition explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, ARDS, Disease and Ileum. Topics in Public health were tackled in line with various other fields like Geriatrics gerontology, Pandemic, Gerontology and Vaccination.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Obesity and COVID-19: what makes obese host so vulnerable? (24 citations)
  • Gut microbiota as the key controllers of “healthy” aging of elderly people (23 citations)
  • Does reactivation of cytomegalovirus contribute to severe COVID-19 disease? (5 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 Immunity & Ageing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Graham Pawelec (31 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Calogero Caruso (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Federico Licastro (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Annibale Alessandro Puca (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sonya Vasto (11 papers) absent 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 Immunity & Ageing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Palermo (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Tübingen (32 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Milan (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Bologna (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Salerno (13 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, 8.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 30.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.12% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.15% of all publications and 42.42% 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

  • The immune response to influenza in older humans: beyond immune senescence.

    Janet E. McElhaney;Chris P. Verschoor;Melissa K. Andrew;Laura Haynes

    (2020)
    123 Citations
  • The lethal sex gap: COVID-19

    Eladio J Márquez;Jennifer J Trowbridge;George A Kuchel;Jacques Banchereau

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • A public health perspective of aging: do hyper-inflammatory syndromes such as COVID-19, SARS, ARDS, cytokine storm syndrome, and post-ICU syndrome accelerate short- and long-term inflammaging?

    Arsun Bektas;Shepherd H. Schurman;Claudio Franceschi;Luigi Ferrucci

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Aging induces B cell defects and decreased antibody responses to influenza infection and vaccination.

    Daniela Frasca;Bonnie B. Blomberg

    (2020)
    84 Citations
  • Aging and chronic inflammation: highlights from a multidisciplinary workshop

    (2023)
    82 Citations
  • Can an effective sars-cov-2 vaccine be developed for the older population?

    Graham Pawelec;Graham Pawelec;Nan-ping Weng

    (2020)
    63 Citations
  • Differential immunogenicity of BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 vaccines after extended-interval homologous dual vaccination in older people.

    Helen Parry;Rachel Bruton;Christine Stephens;Kevin Brown

    (2021)
    63 Citations

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