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Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
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Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 151 8 8 4
Chemistry 914 10 9 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 91
Documents by Best Scientists*: 115
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 129
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.668
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Mutation Research?

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Molecular biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, DNA and Mutant. The journal explores issues in Molecular biology which can be linked to other research areas like Cell culture, Mutation, Mutagenesis, DNA damage and DNA repair. It is mostly focused on DNA damage, specifically Comet assay.

Nucleotide excision repair is a focus of the DNA repair works in Mutation Research. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Genetics, apply to Andrology as well. The presentations discussing Biochemistry offer insights in topics such as Carcinogen, Mutagen, Escherichia coli, Enzyme and Microsome.

Studies on Carcinogen discussed in Mutation Research link to the field of Toxicology.

  • Molecular biology (36.42%)
  • Genetics (31.25%)
  • Biochemistry (21.86%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test (6835 citations)
  • REVISED METHODS FOR THE SALMONELLA MUTAGENICITY TEST (6648 citations)
  • The micronucleus test. (2106 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Mutation Research:

The published articles aim to foster the development of research in Genetics, Molecular biology, Biochemistry, DNA damage and DNA. While the journal papers focused on Molecular biology, they were also able to explore topics like Cell culture, Chinese hamster, Mutant, Micronucleus test and Chromosome. The journal papers focus on DNA damage but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Oxidative stress, DNA repair and Cell biology.

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 journal investigates areas of study like DNA, DNA damage, Gene, Molecular biology and DNA repair. The concepts on DNA presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Genome and Cell biology. The DNA damage study featured falls within the larger field of Biochemistry.

The discussions emphasized the topic of Gene in an attempt to further explore the field of Genetics. The journal explores research in Point mutation and overlapping concepts in Intron, Sequence analysis, Exon, Gene conversion and Ames test to expand the discourse in Molecular biology. The DNA repair works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Cell culture, Cancer research, Radiosensitivity and Genome instability.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The FHA domain of PNKP is essential for its recruitment to DNA damage sites and maintenance of genome stability (2 citations)
  • Enhanced characterization of the thyA system for mutational analysis in Escherichia coli: Defining mutationally "hot" regions of the gene. (1 citations)
  • DNA damage-signaling, homologous recombination and genetic mutation induced by 5-azacytidine and DNA-protein crosslinks in Escherichia coli. (1 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 Mutation Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Adayapalam T. Natarajan (110 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lynnette R. Ferguson (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Herbert S. Rosenkranz (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ekkehart W. Vogel (55 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Diana Anderson (54 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 Mutation Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leiden University (395 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (294 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (249 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Research Triangle Park (128 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (111 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, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.65% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.65% of all publications and 64.71% 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

  • Micronuclei and disease - Report of HUMN project workshop at Rennes 2019 EEMGS conference.

    Michael Fenech;Nina Holland;Micheline Kirsch-Volders;Lisbeth E. Knudsen

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots cause genotoxicity and oxidative stress in Allium cepa plants.

    Ritesh Banerjee;Priya Goswami;Manoswini Chakrabarti;Debolina Chakraborty

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • TiO2 genotoxicity: An update of the results published over the last six years.

    Marie Carriere;Marie-Edith Arnal;Thierry Douki

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Serum albumin adducts, DNA adducts and micronuclei frequency measured in benzo[a]pyrene-exposed mice for estimation of genotoxic potency.

    Hitesh V. Motwani;Emelie Westberg;Christian Lindh;Lilianne Abramsson-Zetterberg

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Enhanced DNA adduct formation by benzo[a]pyrene in human liver cells lacking cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase

    Lindsay Reed;Ian W.H. Jarvis;David H. Phillips;Volker M. Arlt

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Guidance for publishing comet assay results

    Gunnar Brunborg;Andrew Collins

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Toxicity screening of air extracts representing different source sectors in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas: In vitro oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory response, and toxicogenomic analysis

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Toxicity screening of air extracts representing different source sectors in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas: In vitro oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory response, and toxicogenomic analysis.

    S. Halappanavar;D. Wu;A. Boyadzhiev;A. Solorio-Rodriguez

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Effects of sulforaphane on the oxidative response, apoptosis, and the transcriptional profile of human stomach mucosa cells in vitro.

    Patrick Wellington da Silva dos Santos;Ana Rita Thomazela Machado;Rone Aparecido De Grandis;Diego Luis Ribeiro

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Genotoxicity assessment of root extracts of Paeonia lactiflora Pall.

    (2022)
    7 Citations

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