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Journal of Computational Biology
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Journal of Computational Biology

1066-5277

Published by: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 358 68 108 16
Biology and Biochemistry 729 18 27 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 136
Documents by Best Scientists*: 172
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 106
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.627
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Computational Biology?

Journal of Computational Biology explores disciplines such as Computational biology, Algorithm, Genetics, Artificial intelligence and Combinatorics. Computational biology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Genome, Gene and DNA sequencing. Gene expression is a major topic of Gene research.

The Algorithm works featured in Journal of Computational Biology incorporate elements from Sequence, Theoretical computer science and Set (abstract data type). Topics in Artificial intelligence explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Machine learning, Data mining and Pattern recognition. The research on Combinatorics discussed in Journal of Computational Biology draws on the closely related field of Discrete mathematics.

  • Computational biology (20.19%)
  • Algorithm (16.32%)
  • Genetics (13.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing (12033 citations)
  • A greedy algorithm for aligning DNA sequences. (3615 citations)
  • Using Bayesian networks to analyze expression data (2985 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Computational Biology:

The most cited publications focus on Algorithm, Genetics, Artificial intelligence, Computational biology and Data mining. The journal publications hold forums on Algorithm that merge themes from other disciplines such as Sequence, Theoretical computer science and Sequence assembly. Machine learning and Pattern recognition are some topics wherein Artificial intelligence research discussed in the published papers has an impact.

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

  • Gene
  • DNA
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Computational biology, Artificial intelligence, Gene, Genome and Internal medicine. The research on Computational biology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Genome-wide association study, Identification (biology), Cluster analysis, Genomics and microRNA. The research on Artificial intelligence featured in Journal of Computational Biology combines topics in other fields like Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

The field of Genetics is the anchor for the Gene studies presented in the journal. The work on Genome tackled in it brings together disciplines like Set (abstract data type) and Inference. Internal medicine research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Endocrinology and Oncology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Integrated Bioinformatics Approaches. (5 citations)
  • Polynomial-Time Statistical Estimation of Species Trees Under Gene Duplication and Loss (5 citations)
  • Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on Functional Brain Networks with Deep Learning. (4 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 Journal of Computational Biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ron Shamir (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roded Sharan (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael S. Waterman (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vineet Bafna (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Sankoff (17 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 Journal of Computational Biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tel Aviv University (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Southern California (42 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Carnegie Mellon University (39 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, San Diego (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (35 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, 2.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.77% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.57% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.38% of all publications and 71.28% 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

  • Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on Functional Brain Networks with Deep Learning.

    Wutao Yin;Sakib Mostafa;Fang-Xiang Wu

    (2021)
    83 Citations
  • Feature Selection by Hybrid Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm for COVID-19 Classification

    Unknown

    (2022)
    81 Citations
  • MONI: A Pangenomic Index for Finding Maximal Exact Matches

    (2022)
    73 Citations
  • Efficient Construction of a Complete Index for Pan-Genomics Read Alignment.

    Alan Kuhnle;Alan Kuhnle;Taher Mun;Christina Boucher;Travis Gagie;Travis Gagie

    (2020)
    63 Citations
  • Pfeature: A Tool for Computing Wide Range of Protein Features and Building Prediction Models

    (2022)
    55 Citations
  • On the Complexity of Sequence-to-Graph Alignment

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • GRNUlar: A Deep Learning Framework for Recovering Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Networks

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • Re-evaluating Deep Neural Networks for Phylogeny Estimation: The Issue of Taxon Sampling

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • kmer2vec: A Novel Method for Comparing DNA Sequences by word2vec Embedding

    (2022)
    26 Citations
  • All-Atom Knowledge-Based Potential for RNA Structure Discrimination Based on the Distance-Scaled Finite Ideal-Gas Reference State.

    Tongchuan Zhang;Guodong Hu;Yuedong Yang;Jihua Wang

    (2020)
    22 Citations

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