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Molecular Plant
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Molecular Plant

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Molecular Biology 14 47 84 42
Plant Science and Agronomy 35 85 88 37
Biology and Biochemistry 37 196 258 64

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 491
Documents by Best Scientists*: 518
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 27
SCIMAGO H-index: 178
SCIMAGO SJR: 5.519
Impact Factor: 24.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Molecular Plant?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Cell biology, Arabidopsis, Biochemistry, Gene and Genetics. The Cell biology works featured in it incorporate elements from Receptor, Transcription factor and Auxin. The research on Arabidopsis tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Arabidopsis thaliana, Abscisic acid, Botany and Phosphorylation.

Chloroplast, Biosynthesis and Cell wall studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Biochemistry presented. Presentations on Gene include those discussing Gene expression and Transcriptome. The journal concentrated on Genetics research, specifically Genome, Regulation of gene expression and Epigenetics.

The journal focuses on Genome research which is adjacent to topics in Computational biology.

  • Cell biology (34.11%)
  • Arabidopsis (30.52%)
  • Biochemistry (22.31%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data. (999 citations)
  • A Robust CRISPR/Cas9 System for Convenient, High-Efficiency Multiplex Genome Editing in Monocot and Dicot Plants (886 citations)
  • Growth-defense tradeoffs in plants: a balancing act to optimize fitness. (691 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Molecular Plant:

The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Biochemistry, Arabidopsis, Cell biology, Genetics and Gene. The published articles with studies in Arabidopsis featured incorporate elements of Arabidopsis thaliana, Transcriptome, Transcription factor and Botany. While work presented in the published articles provide substantial information on Cell biology, it also covers topics in Plant defense against herbivory and Brassinosteroid.

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 primarily focuses on research topics in Cell biology, Gene, Arabidopsis, Computational biology and Mutant. The concepts on Cell biology presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Chromatin, Transcription factor and Transcription (biology). The journal explores the study of Gene to improve our understanding of the broader topic of Genetics.

Arabidopsis research presented falls under the umbrella topic of Biochemistry. Topics in Computational biology were tackled in line with various other fields like Genome editing, CRISPR and MEDLINE. The journal connects research in Mutant with the related topic of Mutation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Single-nucleus RNA and ATAC sequencing reveals the impact of chromatin accessibility on gene expression in Arabidopsis roots at the single-cell level. (25 citations)
  • Transcriptional landscape of rice roots at the single-cell resolution (23 citations)
  • Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis in Plants: Advances and Challenges (22 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 Plant (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Alisdair R. Fernie (31 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jian-Kang Zhu (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jiayang Li (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Sheng Luan (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Qian Qian (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 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 Molecular Plant (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (364 papers) published 38 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Huazhong Agricultural University (116 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (91 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Minnesota (71 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (63 papers) published 4 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, 10.53% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 42.16% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.24% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.75% of all publications and 31.86% 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

  • Crop Phenomics and High-Throughput Phenotyping: Past Decades, Current Challenges, and Future Perspectives.

    Wanneng Yang;Hui Feng;Xuehai Zhang;Jian Zhang

    (2020)
    613 Citations
  • Molecular Regulation of Plant Responses to Environmental Temperatures

    Yanglin Ding;Yiting Shi;Shuhua Yang

    (2020)
    531 Citations
  • WheatOmics: A platform combining multiple omics data to accelerate functional genomics studies in wheat.

    Shengwei Ma;Shengwei Ma;Meng Wang;Jianhui Wu;Weilong Guo

    (2021)
    459 Citations
  • The Reference Genome of Tea Plant and Resequencing of 81 Diverse Accessions Provide Insights into Its Genome Evolution and Adaptation.

    Enhua Xia;Wei Tong;Yan Hou;Yanlin An

    (2020)
    429 Citations
  • Smart breeding driven by big data, artificial intelligence and integrated genomic-enviromic prediction.

    Unknown

    (2022)
    333 Citations
  • Two gap-free reference genomes and a global view of the centromere architecture in rice.

    Jia-Ming Song;Jia-Ming Song;Wen-Zhao Xie;Shuo Wang;Yi-Xiong Guo

    (2021)
    284 Citations
  • Zinc in plants: integrating homeostasis and biofortification.

    (2021)
    240 Citations
  • Toxic metals and metalloids: Uptake, transport, detoxification, phytoremediation, and crop improvement for safer food

    Fang-Jie Zhao;Zhong Tang;Jia-Jun Song;Xin-Yuan Huang

    (2021)
    215 Citations
  • Single-nucleus RNA and ATAC sequencing reveals the impact of chromatin accessibility on gene expression in Arabidopsis roots at the single-cell level.

    Andrew Farmer;Sandra Thibivilliers;Kook Hui Ryu;John Schiefelbein

    (2021)
    203 Citations

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