Nature Genetics

Top Research Topics at Nature Genetics?

Nature Genetics is mainly concerned with subjects like Genetics, Gene, Mutation, Cell biology and Computational biology. It concentrated on Genetics research, specifically Genome-wide association study, Genome, Locus (genetics), Allele and Gene mapping. The journal facilitates discussions on Genome-wide association study that incorporate concepts from other fields like Case-control study and Genetic association.

The journal aims to address concerns in Genome, specifically in the areas of Human genome and Genomics. The research on Gene discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Molecular biology. Many of the studies tackled connect Mutation with a similar field of study like Cancer research.

It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Cancer research and Cancer. Cell biology study tackled is connected to the field of Chromatin.

• Genetics (54.09%)
• Gene (22.33%)
• Mutation (9.90%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium. (27395 citations)
• A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data (7856 citations)
• Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies (7628 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Nature Genetics:

The most cited articles primarily focus on research topics in Genetics, Gene, Endocrinology, Genome-wide association study and Mutation. Topics like Genome, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Allele and Genetic association are tackled as part of the discussions on Genetics in the most cited publications. The journal publications investigate Gene research which frequently intersects with Molecular biology.

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

• Gene
• Mutation
• Cancer

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Nature Genetics primarily tackles Computational biology, Genome-wide association study, Genome, Gene and Cell biology. Nature Genetics addresses concerns in the field of Computational biology by exploring it in line with topics in Transcriptome which intersect with DNA methylation subjects. Genome-wide association study research discussed in it aim to provide more information in the subject of Genetics.

Phenotype and Allele studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Genetics presented. Topics in Genome were tackled in line with various other fields like Evolutionary biology, Function (biology), Domestication and Sequence assembly. The Cell biology works featured in Nature Genetics incorporate elements from Chromatin, Histone H3, Transcription (biology), SWI/SNF and Regulation of gene expression.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Base-resolution models of transcription-factor binding reveal soft motif syntax. (56 citations)
• ArchR is a scalable software package for integrative single-cell chromatin accessibility analysis. (51 citations)
• Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank (48 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Nature Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

• Kari Stefansson (177 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
• Unnur Thorsteinsdottir (122 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
• André G. Uitterlinden (108 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
• Mark J. Daly (99 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition,
• Gonçalo R. Abecasis (95 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Nature Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

• Harvard University (1058 papers) published 40 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• National Institutes of Health (838 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• University of Cambridge (524 papers) published 26 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Washington (404 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
• University of California, San Francisco (403 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 4 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, 9.71% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 49.46% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.29% of all publications and 24.73% 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.