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Microbiology (United Kingdom)
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Microbiology (United Kingdom)

1350-0872

Published by: Microbiology Society

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 105 103 115 20
Biology and Biochemistry 362 96 111 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 269
Documents by Best Scientists*: 283
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 12
SCIMAGO H-index: 208
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.953
Impact Factor: 3.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Microbiology?

Microbiology investigates areas of study like Biochemistry, Microbiology, Bacteria, Gene and Mutant. Biochemistry, which encompasses Enzyme, Escherichia coli, Yeast, Amino acid and Metabolism, is the main subject of it. The Yeast study tackling the subject of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the focus of the journal.

It focuses on Microbiology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Plasmid, Virology, Strain (chemistry) and Virulence. The journal connects the study in Bacteria with the closely related area of Botany. The study of Gene, which falls within the realm of Genetics, was the main focus of the presentations.

Genome is a major topic of Genetics research presented in it. Many of the studies tackled connect Molecular biology with a similar field of study like DNA.

  • Biochemistry (37.58%)
  • Microbiology (33.04%)
  • Bacteria (16.83%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Generic assignments, strain histories, and properties of pure cultures of cyanobacteria (6041 citations)
  • The Aerobic Pseudomonads a Taxonomic Study (2565 citations)
  • R factor transfer in Rhizobium leguminosarum. (1887 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Microbiology:

The most cited articles mainly tackle studies in Biochemistry, Microbiology, Bacteria, Genetics and Gene. The most cited publications explore issues in Microbiology which can be linked to other research areas like Plasmid, Biofilm, Mutant, Strain (chemistry) and Virulence. The journal papers explore research in Bacteria and the adjacent study of Botany.

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

  • Enzyme
  • Bacteria
  • Gene

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Microbiology, Bacteria, Gene, Biochemistry and Biofilm are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. Microbiology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Phenotype, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Virulence. The work on Bacteria tackled in Microbiology brings together disciplines like Environmental chemistry, Food science and Strain (chemistry).

The study of Cell biology and how it intertwines with concepts under DNA were explored in the presented Gene research. It encompasses presentations on Biochemistry, specifically Escherichia coli, Enzyme, Polysaccharide and Transporter. The study on Genetics featured in the journal expounds on the topic of Plasmid in particular.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Improved growth and morphological plasticity of Haloferax volcanii. (14 citations)
  • A palette of fluorophores that are differentially accumulated by wild-type and mutant strains of Escherichia coli: surrogate ligands for profiling bacterial membrane transporters (9 citations)
  • Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. (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 Microbiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • N. V. Pimenov (117 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Galina I. El-Registan (102 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • N. E. Suzina (83 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yu. A. Trotsenko (78 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tatyana P. Tourova (74 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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 Microbiology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Russian Academy of Sciences (1769 papers) published 38 papers at the last edition, 22 less than at the previous edition,
  • Moscow State University (505 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (198 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Pasteur Institute (170 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sheffield (133 papers) published 2 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, 5.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.25% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.62% of all publications and 50.62% 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

  • Microbe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat

    Stephen P Diggle;Marvin Whiteley

    (2020)
    435 Citations
  • Microbe Profile: Bacillus subtilis: model organism for cellular development, and industrial workhorse.

    Jeffery Errington;Lizah T van der Aart

    (2020)
    122 Citations
  • Bacterial protein secretion systems: Game of types.

    (2022)
    50 Citations
  • The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of natural transformation in biofilms.

    Laura M Nolan;Laura M Nolan;Lynne Turnbull;Marilyn Katrib;Sarah R Osvath

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • Facultative methanotrophs - diversity, genetics, molecular ecology and biotechnological potential: a mini-review.

    Muhammad Farhan Ul Haque;Hui-Juan Xu;Hui-Juan Xu;J. Colin Murrell;Andrew Crombie

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • How bacteria utilize sialic acid during interactions with the host: snip, snatch, dispatch, match and attach

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Bacteriophage infection of Escherichia coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing

    Pappu K Mandal;Giulia Ballerin;Laura M Nolan;Nicola K Petty

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Novel intermicrobial molecular interaction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quinolone Signal (PQS) modulates Aspergillus fumigatus response to iron.

    Hasan Nazik;Gabriele Sass;Shajia R Ansari;Reyhan Ertekin

    (2020)
    36 Citations

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