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Mobile DNA
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Mobile DNA

1759-8753

Published by: Springer

https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 68 30 32 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 72
Documents by Best Scientists*: 61
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 48
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.479
Impact Factor: 3.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Mobile Dna?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Genetics, Genome, Transposable element, Retrotransposon and Gene. It concentrated on Genetics research, specifically Human genetics, Developmental biology, DNA, Human genome and RNA. Studies on Human genetics discussed in the journal link to the field of Computational biology.

The Computational biology works featured in it incorporate elements from DNA sequencing and Genomics. The journal explores issues in Genome which can be linked to other research areas like Evolutionary biology and Phylogenetic tree. Mobile Dna focused on Evolutionary biology research but expanded to cover Lineage (evolution).

Research on Transposable element addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Inverted repeat. The subject of Somatic cell, which is connected to the field of Germline, serves as the foundation of the Retrotransposon research featured in it. Endogenous retrovirus and Regulation of gene expression studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Gene presented.

  • Genetics (64.39%)
  • Genome (51.63%)
  • Transposable element (43.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Repbase Update, a database of repetitive elements in eukaryotic genomes (1317 citations)
  • Bacterial insertion sequences. (418 citations)
  • Roles for retrotransposon insertions in human disease (328 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Mobile Dna:

The journal papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Genetics, Genome, Retrotransposon, Transposable element and Human genetics. The works on Genome tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Evolutionary biology and Chromatin. While Transposable element is the focus of the journal articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Insertional mutagenesis, Computational biology, Germline and Genomics.

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

  • Gene
  • DNA
  • Genome

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Mobile Dna covers a variety of subjects, including Genome, Genetics, Transposable element, Retrotransposon and Human genetics. Mobile Dna connects research in Genome with the related topic of Evolutionary biology. Issues in Transposable element were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like DNA and Gene regulatory network.

In addition to Retrotransposon research, the journal aims to explore topics under RNA, Transcription (biology), CTCF and Genetic variation. The research on Human genetics featured in Mobile Dna combines topics in other fields like Human genome, Downregulation and upregulation, Genomics, Multiple sclerosis and Computational biology. Topics in Computational biology explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Developmental biology, Subfamily and CRISPR.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Dfam community resource of transposable element families, sequence models, and genome annotations (30 citations)
  • Transposable element subfamily annotation has a reproducibility problem (7 citations)
  • Transposable element-derived sequences in vertebrate development. (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 Mobile Dna (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jef D. Boeke (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Mark A. Batzer (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zoltán Ivics (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Cédric Feschotte (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kathleen H. Burns (8 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 Mobile Dna (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • New York University (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Utah (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tulane University (12 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.39% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 34.78% of all publications and 39.13% 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

  • Twenty years of transposable element analysis in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

    Hadi Quesneville

    (2020)
    88 Citations
  • The IS6 family, a clinically important group of insertion sequences including IS26.

    Alessandro Varani;Susu He;Patricia Siguier;Karen Ross

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • Transposable element-derived sequences in vertebrate development.

    Ema Etchegaray;Magali Naville;Jean-Nicolas Volff;Zofia Haftek-Terreau

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • LINE-1 ORF2p expression is nearly imperceptible in human cancers.

    Daniel Ardeljan;Xuya Wang;Mehrnoosh Oghbaie;Martin S. Taylor;Martin S. Taylor

    (2020)
    53 Citations
  • The UCSC repeat browser allows discovery and visualization of evolutionary conflict across repeat families

    Jason D. Fernandes;Armando Zamudio-Hurtado;Armando Zamudio-Hurtado;Hiram Clawson;W. James Kent

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Identification of RAG-like transposons in protostomes suggests their ancient bilaterian origin.

    Eliza C. Martin;Célia Vicari;Louis Tsakou-Ngouafo;Pierre Pontarotti;Pierre Pontarotti

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • RIP-seq reveals LINE-1 ORF1p association with p-body enriched mRNAs.

    Erica M. Briggs;Wilson McKerrow;Paolo Mita;Jef D. Boeke

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Whole-genome analysis reveals the contribution of non-coding de novo transposon insertions to autism spectrum disorder.

    Rebeca Borges-Monroy;Rebeca Borges-Monroy;Rebeca Borges-Monroy;Chong Chu;Caroline Dias;Jaejoon Choi;Jaejoon Choi;Jaejoon Choi

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Genomic properties of variably methylated retrotransposons in mouse.

    Jessica L. Elmer;Amir D. Hay;Noah J. Kessler;Tessa M. Bertozzi

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Identification and characterisation of endogenous Avian Leukosis Virus subgroup E (ALVE) insertions in chicken whole genome sequencing data.

    Andrew S. Mason;Andrew S. Mason;Ashlee R. Lund;Paul M. Hocking;Janet E. Fulton

    (2020)
    19 Citations

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