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Molecular Immunology
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Molecular Immunology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Immunology 113 113 115 15
Molecular Biology 163 9 12 4
Biology and Biochemistry 386 105 121 16
Medicine 1915 67 70 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 355
Documents by Best Scientists*: 327
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 154
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.894
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Molecular Immunology?

The journal explores disciplines such as Molecular biology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Antibody and Cell biology. Molecular biology research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Epitope, Antigen, Peptide sequence, Gene and Monoclonal antibody. It centers on topics in Antigen, with a focus on Major histocompatibility complex.

It explores studies in Gene as part of the wider topic of Genetics. Immune system, Complement system, Complement (complexity), Inflammation and Innate immune system are all areas of Immunology tackled in Molecular Immunology. Complement system, which encompasses Classical complement pathway and Alternative complement pathway, is the main subject of Molecular Immunology.

As a part of the journal, discussions in Biochemistry involve topics like Peptide, Amino acid and Binding site. It focuses on Antibody as well as the interrelated topic of Virology. The work on Cell biology tackled in Molecular Immunology brings together disciplines like Receptor and T cell.

  • Molecular biology (30.65%)
  • Immunology (21.87%)
  • Biochemistry (18.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Innate immunity: an overview. (917 citations)
  • Anatomy of the antibody molecule (892 citations)
  • The −308 tumor necrosis factor-α promoter polymorphism effects transcription (791 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Molecular Immunology:

The journal papers focus largely on the fields of Molecular biology, Immunology, Antibody, Biochemistry and Cell biology. In addition to Molecular biology research, the published papers aim to explore topics under Complementary DNA, Peptide sequence, Gene, Epitope and Monoclonal antibody. The published articles facilitate discussions on Cell biology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Receptor and T cell.

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

  • Gene
  • Internal medicine
  • Enzyme

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Cell biology, Immune system, Cancer research, Inflammation and Immunology are the focal point of discussions in Molecular Immunology. While work presented in Molecular Immunology provided substantial information on Cell biology, it also covered topics in Receptor, Innate immune system and Apoptosis. Innate immune system research presented in Molecular Immunology encompasses a variety of subjects, including In vitro and Gene.

While it focused on Immune system, it was also able to explore topics like Antigen, Microbiology, Proinflammatory cytokine, Antibody and Computational biology. It focuses on Antigen but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as T cell, T-cell receptor and Molecular biology. Molecular Immunology links adjacent topics like Immunology with Disease.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Protective effect of ginsenoside Rg1 on LPS-induced apoptosis of lung epithelial cells. (12 citations)
  • Curcumin and inflammatory bowel diseases: From in vitro studies to clinical trials. (8 citations)
  • Eva1a inhibits NLRP3 activation to reduce liver ischemia-reperfusion injury via inducing autophagy in kupffer cells. (6 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 Molecular Immunology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Anna M. Blom (115 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter F. Zipfel (112 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tom Eirik Mollnes (105 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Garred (104 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John D. Lambris (94 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 Molecular Immunology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Institutes of Health (270 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • French Institute of Health and Medical Research (235 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (169 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Lund University (152 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pasteur Institute (152 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 3.96% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 1.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.12% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.74% of all publications and 87.64% 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

  • DNA damage-triggered activation of cGAS-STING pathway induces apoptosis in human keratinocyte HaCaT cells.

    Can Li;Weiwei Liu;Fang Wang;Toshihiko Hayashi

    (2021)
    62 Citations
  • Curcumin and inflammatory bowel diseases: From in vitro studies to clinical trials.

    Farzaneh Fallahi;Sarina Borran;Milad Ashrafizadeh;Ali Zarrabi

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • The unconventional role of HLA-E: The road less traveled.

    Emma J. Grant;Andrea T. Nguyen;Christian A. Lobos;Christopher Szeto

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • The roles of ERAP1 and ERAP2 in autoimmunity and cancer immunity: New insights and perspective.

    Farhad Babaie;Ramin Hosseinzadeh;Mehrdad Ebrazeh;Narges Seyfizadeh

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Up-regulation of PTEN via LPS/AP-1/NF-κB pathway inhibits trophoblast invasion contributing to preeclampsia.

    Pingping Xue;Wenqiang Fan;Zhenyu Diao;Yujing Li

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Reduction and exhausted features of T lymphocytes under serological changes, and prognostic factors in COVID-19 progression.

    Ata Mahmoodpoor;Maryam Hosseini;Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar;Sarvin Sanaie

    (2021)
    41 Citations
  • Cross-reactivity of mouse IgG subclasses to human Fc gamma receptors: Antibody deglycosylation only eliminates IgG2b binding

    A. Robin Temming;Arthur E.H. Bentlage;Steven W. de Taeye;Gerlof P. Bosman

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Imbalance in pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines milieu in B cells of children with autism

    (2021)
    35 Citations

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