World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
STAR Protocols
H-index 28

STAR Protocols

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Neuroscience 193 153 154 15
Biology and Biochemistry 272 496 545 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1398
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1313
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 46
SCIMAGO H-index: 25
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.925
Impact Factor: 1.3

Top Publications

  • Isolation of Microglia from Mouse or Human Tissue.

    Evan A. Bordt;Carina L. Block;Tiziana Petrozziello;Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • In vitro induction of trained immunity in adherent human monocytes.

    Jorge Domínguez-Andrés;Jorge Domínguez-Andrés;Rob J.W. Arts;Rob J.W. Arts;Siroon Bekkering;Siroon Bekkering;Harsh Bahrar;Harsh Bahrar

    (2021)
    61 Citations
  • Isolation and culturing of primary mouse astrocytes for the analysis of focal adhesion dynamics

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Protocol for characterizing strigolactones released by plant roots

    (2022)
    44 Citations
  • A protocol for full-rotation soft X-ray tomography of single cells

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Protocol for the separation of extracellular vesicles by ultracentrifugation from in vitro cell culture models.

    Peter Chhoy;Caitlin W Brown;John J Amante;Arthur M Mercurio

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Polar metabolomics in human muscle biopsies using a liquid-liquid extraction and full-scan LC-MS

    (2022)
    38 Citations
  • Massive expansion and cryopreservation of functional human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

    Renee G.C. Maas;Soah Lee;Magdalena Harakalova;Christian J.B. Snijders Blok

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • Speech-to-Speech Synchronization protocol to classify human participants as high or low auditory-motor synchronizers

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles produced by cell lines

    Fangyu Wang;Richard A. Cerione;Marc A. Antonyak

    (2021)
    36 Citations

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