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mSphere
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mSphere

Published by: American Society for Microbiology

https://journals.asm.org/journal/msphere

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 41 451 528 39
Biology and Biochemistry 161 311 308 32

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1190
Documents by Best Scientists*: 927
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 44
SCIMAGO H-index: 77
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.237
Impact Factor: 3.1

Top Publications

  • Rampant C→U Hypermutation in the Genomes of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses: Causes and Consequences for Their Short- and Long-Term Evolutionary Trajectories.

    P. Simmonds

    (2020)
    291 Citations
  • COVID-19: Knowns, Unknowns, and Questions.

    Stuart Weston;Matthew B. Frieman

    (2020)
    178 Citations
  • Distinct Fecal and Plasma Metabolites in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Their Modulation after Microbiota Transfer Therapy.

    Dae Wook Kang;James B. Adams;Troy Vargason;Marina Santiago

    (2020)
    137 Citations
  • Amplicon Sequence Variants Artificially Split Bacterial Genomes into Separate Clusters.

    Patrick D. Schloss

    (2021)
    120 Citations
  • New Insights and Enhanced Human Norovirus Cultivation in Human Intestinal Enteroids.

    Khalil Ettayebi;Victoria R. Tenge;Nicolas W. Cortes-Penfield;Sue E. Crawford

    (2021)
    106 Citations
  • Candida auris Forms High-Burden Biofilms in Skin Niche Conditions and on Porcine Skin

    Mark V. Horton;Chad J. Johnson;John F. Kernien;Tarika D. Patel

    (2020)
    105 Citations
  • Discovery of Bat Coronaviruses through Surveillance and Probe Capture-Based Next-Generation Sequencing.

    Bei Li;Hao Rui Si;Yan Zhu;Xing Lou Yang

    (2020)
    105 Citations
  • The Association between Insertion Sequences and Antibiotic Resistance Genes.

    Mohammad Razavi;Erik Kristiansson;Erik Kristiansson;Carl-Fredrik Flach;D. G. Joakim Larsson

    (2020)
    93 Citations
  • Bacterial and Eukaryotic Small-Subunit Amplicon Data Do Not Provide a Quantitative Picture of Microbial Communities, but They Are Reliable in the Context of Ecological Interpretations.

    Kasia Piwosz;Tanja Shabarova;Jakob Pernthaler;Thomas Posch

    (2020)
    92 Citations

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