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Journal of Molecular Evolution
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Journal of Molecular Evolution

0022-2844

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/239

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 105 20 29 9
Ecology and Evolution 567 11 11 6
Biology and Biochemistry 644 21 28 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 69
Documents by Best Scientists*: 82
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 140
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.818
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Molecular Evolution?

The discussions in Journal of Molecular Evolution mainly cover the fields of Genetics, Gene, Phylogenetic tree, Phylogenetics and Molecular evolution. Discussions in it are anchored in the subject of Genetics and the similar topic of Evolutionary biology. The journal focuses on Evolutionary biology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Ecology and Botany.

Journal of Molecular Evolution concentrated on Gene research, specifically Intron, Gene family, Codon usage bias, Nonsynonymous substitution and Coding region. Codon usage bias research is concerned with Synonymous substitution in particular. The study on Phylogenetic tree presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Ribosomal RNA.

The presented Phylogenetics research focuses mostly on Peptide sequence and, on occasion, topics in Amino acid. It explores research in Molecular evolution and the adjacent study of Homology (biology). It connects research in Genome with the related topic of DNA.

  • Genetics (64.49%)
  • Gene (34.27%)
  • Phylogenetic tree (20.04%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. (22386 citations)
  • Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach (11389 citations)
  • Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA. (7100 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Molecular Evolution:

The journal articles mostly deal with topics like Genetics, Gene, Phylogenetic tree, Phylogenetics and Molecular evolution. The Genetics research tackled in the most cited papers is interrelated with Evolutionary biology which concerns subjects like Molecular clock. The most cited articles focus on Phylogenetics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Zoology, Botany and Sequence alignment.

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

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • DNA

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal investigates studies in Evolutionary biology, Molecular evolution, Gene, Genome and Phylogenetic tree. Journal of Molecular Evolution holds forums on Evolutionary biology that merges themes from other disciplines such as RNA, Selection (genetic algorithm), Gene duplication, Phylogenetics and Adaptation. The research on Gene tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Olfaction, Olfactory bulb and Enzyme.

The field of Genetics is the anchor for the Genome studies presented in the journal. The research topics discussed in Journal of Molecular Evolution include Genetics as well as Repertoire. In addition to Phylogenetic tree research, the journal aims to explore topics under Statistical hypothesis testing, Metric (mathematics), Cumulative distribution function and Genomics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Cofactors are Remnants of Life's Origin and Early Evolution (11 citations)
  • Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction: From Chemical Paleogenetics to Maximum Likelihood Algorithms and Beyond (7 citations)
  • Water and Life: The Medium is the Message. (7 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 Molecular Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leslie E. Orgel (58 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Thomas H. Jukes (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wen-Hsiung Li (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Masami Hasegawa (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Allan C. Wilson (31 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 Molecular Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Berkeley (115 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (108 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Tokyo (100 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies (75 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (73 papers) published 1 paper 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, 1.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.27% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.27% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.73% of all publications and 72.73% 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

  • A Continuum of Evolving De Novo Genes Drives Protein-Coding Novelty in Drosophila

    Brennen Heames;Jonathan Schmitz;Erich Bornberg-Bauer

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • Water and Life: The Medium is the Message.

    Moran Frenkel-Pinter;Vahab Rajaei;Jennifer B. Glass;Nicholas V. Hud

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Extreme Sensitivity of Fitness to Environmental Conditions: Lessons from #1BigBatch

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Adaptation and Exaptation: From Small Molecules to Feathers

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Evolution of DNA Methylation Across Ecdysozoa

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Revisiting the Design of the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli

    (2023)
    24 Citations
  • Domain Evolution of Vertebrate Blood Coagulation Cascade Proteins

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • Evolution of the Standard Genetic Code

    Michael Yarus

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Fit-Seq2.0: An Improved Software for High-Throughput Fitness Measurements Using Pooled Competition Assays

    (2023)
    24 Citations
  • Crick Wobble and Superwobble in Standard Genetic Code Evolution.

    Michael Yarus

    (2021)
    17 Citations

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