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The Lancet Microbe
H-index 68

The Lancet Microbe

2666-5247

Published by: Open Access Text

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/home

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 15 386 337 60
Medicine 180 314 265 56

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 892
Documents by Best Scientists*: 504
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 40
SCIMAGO H-index: 53
SCIMAGO SJR: 5.262
Impact Factor: 20.4

Top Publications

  • Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions.

    Alex W H Chin;Julie T S Chu;Mahen R A Perera;Kenrie P Y Hui

    (2020)
    2223 Citations
  • Comparative tropism, replication kinetics, and cell damage profiling of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV with implications for clinical manifestations, transmissibility, and laboratory studies of COVID-19: an observational study.

    Hin Chu;Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan;Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan;Terrence Tsz-Tai Yuen;Huiping Shuai

    (2020)
    967 Citations
  • The emergence of COVID-19 associated mucormycosis: a review of cases from 18 countries

    (2022)
    553 Citations
  • Histopathological findings and viral tropism in UK patients with severe fatal COVID-19: a post-mortem study.

    Brian Hanley;Kikkeri N Naresh;Candice Roufosse;Andrew G Nicholson

    (2020)
    548 Citations
  • Viral presence and immunopathology in patients with lethal COVID-19: a prospective autopsy cohort study.

    Bernadette Schurink;Eva Roos;Teodora Radonic;Ellis Barbe

    (2020)
    527 Citations
  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study.

    Kore Schlottau;Melanie Rissmann;Annika Graaf;Jacob Schön

    (2020)
    488 Citations

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