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Nature Reviews Genetics
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Nature Reviews Genetics

1471-0056

Published by: Springer

https://www.nature.com/nrg/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 4 139 128 59
Biology and Biochemistry 62 83 80 52

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 342
Documents by Best Scientists*: 261
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 32
SCIMAGO H-index: 439
SCIMAGO SJR: 16.364
Impact Factor: 52

Overview

Top Research Topics at Nature Reviews Genetics?

Nature Reviews Genetics primarily focuses on research topics in Genetics, Computational biology, Evolutionary biology, Genome and Gene. Studies on Genetics discussed in the journal link to the field of Disease. The research on Computational biology featured in it combines topics in other fields like RNA, Bioinformatics, DNA sequencing and Genomics.

Molecular evolution, Human evolutionary genetics and Genetic variation are some topics wherein Evolutionary biology research discussed in it have an impact. The main emphasis of the journal is the subject of Genome, focusing on Human genome. Many of the studies tackled connect Epigenetics with a similar field of study like DNA methylation.

The study on Regulation of gene expression presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Cell biology.

  • Genetics (35.61%)
  • Computational biology (27.21%)
  • Evolutionary biology (16.85%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics (8818 citations)
  • Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization (6233 citations)
  • Sequencing technologies-the next generation (5632 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Nature Reviews Genetics:

The journal articles explore disciplines such as Genetics, Computational biology, Genome, Evolutionary biology and Gene. The journal papers focus on Computational biology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Whole genome sequencing, Transcription (biology), Identification (biology) and Genomics. The most cited publications with studies in Evolutionary biology featured incorporate elements of Genetic variability, Molecular evolution, Quantitative trait locus, Adaptation and Genetic variation.

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

  • Gene
  • DNA
  • Genome

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of Nature Reviews Genetics is to expand the discussion of research in Computational biology, Genome, Genetics, Evolutionary biology and Gene. The research on Computational biology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Gene expression, CRISPR, Genomic organization, RNA and Chromatin. The featured RNA studies mainly concentrate on Cell but also cover areas of interest in Cell biology.

In the journal, Epigenomics, Histone and Epigenetics are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Chromatin research. Specifically, studies on Genomics are prevalent in the Genome works discussed. Nature Reviews Genetics primarily discusses Genetics topics, particularly Genetic variation, Mutation (genetic algorithm) and Somatic cell.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Deciphering cell-cell interactions and communication from gene expression. (76 citations)
  • RNA-binding proteins in human genetic disease. (44 citations)
  • The epitranscriptome beyond m6A. (44 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 Nature Reviews Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tanita Casci (259 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Darren J. Burgess (233 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Louisa Flintoft (215 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Magdalena Skipper (200 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Linda Koch (165 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 2 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 Nature Reviews Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (75 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (56 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (53 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (52 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (48 papers) published 4 papers 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, 45.52% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 36.99% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.55% of all publications and 35.62% 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

  • Abiotic stress responses in plants.

    Huiming Zhang;Jianhua Zhu;Zhizhong Gong;Zhizhong Gong;Jian-Kang Zhu

    (2021)
    1883 Citations
  • Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

    (2022)
    1065 Citations
  • The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

    Kaiming Tao;Philip L. Tzou;Janin Nouhin;Ravindra K. Gupta

    (2021)
    1052 Citations
  • Deciphering cell-cell interactions and communication from gene expression.

    Erick Armingol;Adam Officer;Olivier Harismendy;Nathan E Lewis

    (2021)
    836 Citations
  • Long-read human genome sequencing and its applications.

    Glennis A. Logsdon;Mitchell R. Vollger;Evan E. Eichler

    (2020)
    768 Citations
  • The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology

    Ruth J. F. Loos;Giles S. H. Yeo

    (2021)
    766 Citations
  • Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

    (2023)
    736 Citations
  • Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

    Sophia K Longo;Margaret G Guo;Andrew L Ji;Paul A Khavari;Paul A Khavari

    (2021)
    610 Citations

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