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Psychiatric Genetics
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Psychiatric Genetics

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Published by: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 143 14 15 4
Medicine 3040 26 23 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 62
Documents by Best Scientists*: 50
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.468
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Psychiatric Genetics?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Genetics, Gene, Allele, Internal medicine and Psychiatry. Discussions in Psychiatric Genetics are anchored in the subject of Genetics and the similar topic of Schizophrenia. The journal focused on Schizophrenia research but expanded to cover Bipolar disorder.

Psychiatric Genetics focuses on Gene but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Disease and Association (psychology). In addition to Allele research, the journal aims to explore topics under Serotonin transporter and Locus (genetics). It facilitates discussions on Internal medicine that incorporate concepts from other fields like Endocrinology and Oncology.

Psychiatric Genetics connects research in Psychiatry with the related topic of Clinical psychology. Psychiatric Genetics links adjacent topics like Single-nucleotide polymorphism with Haplotype. The Polymorphism (computer science) study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Case-control study.

  • Genetics (47.22%)
  • Gene (24.56%)
  • Allele (20.20%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Genetic origins of anxiety in women: a role for a functional catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphism. (244 citations)
  • Meta-analysis of serotonin transporter polymorphisms and affective disorders. (237 citations)
  • Amino acid substitution in the dopamine D3 receptor as a useful polymorphism for investigating psychiatric disorders (224 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Psychiatric Genetics:

The main points discussed in the journal articles deal with Genetics, Allele, Internal medicine, Gene and Endocrinology. The Allele research tackled in the most cited publications is interrelated with Clinical psychology which concerns subjects like Psychiatry and Anxiety. Aside from discussions in Internal medicine, the most cited articles also deal with the subject of Schizophrenia which intersects with Bipolar disorder disciplines.

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

  • Gene
  • Internal medicine
  • Mutation

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Psychiatric Genetics focuses on Internal medicine, Genetics, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Gene and Schizophrenia. Psychiatric Genetics addresses concerns in Internal medicine which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Endocrinology, Oncology and Genotype. Genotype research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Methadone, Cocaine dependence, Disulfiram and Allele.

Single-nucleotide polymorphism research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Odds ratio, Regression analysis and Computational biology. Some problems in Gene that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Biobank and Depression (differential diagnoses). The work on Schizophrenia tackled in Psychiatric Genetics brings together disciplines like Epigenetics, Disease and DNA methylation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Ethnicity-dependent effects of Zinc finger 804A variant on schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2 citations)
  • Epigenetics in bipolar disorder: a critical review of the literature. (2 citations)
  • A case of White-Sutton syndrome arising from a maternally-inherited mutation in POGZ. (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 Psychiatric Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Markus M. Nöthen (47 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • David Curtis (33 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • James L. Kennedy (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John I. Nurnberger (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Marcella Rietschel (29 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 Psychiatric Genetics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Bonn (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University College London (30 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Iowa (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Pennsylvania (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (23 papers) published 1 paper 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, 9.09% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 66.67% 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

  • Understanding the clinical manifestations of 16p11.2 deletion syndrome: a series of developmental case reports in children.

    Rana Fetit;David J Price;Stephen M Lawrie;Mandy Johnstone

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Modification of the association between paroxetine serum concentration and SERT-occupancy by ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein) polymorphisms in major depressive disorder

    Mirjam Simoons;Hans Mulder;Jerôme T Y Appeldoorn;Arne J Risselada

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Genome-wide methylation analysis of early-onset schizophrenia

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Clinical features of UK Biobank subjects carrying protein-truncating variants in genes implicated in schizophrenia pathogenesis

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • Psycho-cognitive assessment and quality of life in older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-carrying the rs4713916 gene polymorphism (G/A) of gene FKBP5 and response to pulmonary rehabilitation: a proof of concept study

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Association analysis of risk genes identified by SCHEMA with schizophrenia in the Chinese Han population

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • The influence of regression models on genome-wide association studies of alcohol dependence: a comparison of binary and quantitative analyses.

    Wenqianglong Li;Johan Hilge Thygesen;Niamh Louise O'Brien;Mathis Heydtmann

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Emotional dysregulation, alexithymia and neuroticism: a systematic review on the genetic basis of a subset of psychological traits

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Stimulant intolerance in children with Angelman syndrome with hyperactivity: a case series

    (2021)
    5 Citations

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