The ISME Journal

3.9k papers and 335.9k indexed citations i.

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The 3.9k papers published in The ISME Journal in the last decades have received a total of 335.9k indexed citations. Papers published in The ISME Journal usually cover Ecology (2.3k papers), Molecular Biology (1.8k papers) and Oceanography (532 papers) specifically the topics of Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (1.9k papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (696 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (494 papers). The most active scholars publishing in The ISME Journal are Rob Knight, Noah Fierer, Christian L. Lauber, J. Gregory Caporaso, Catherine Lozupone, Allan Konopka, Jack A. Gilbert, Emilio O. Casamayor, Tong Zhang and Philip Hugenholtz.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in The ISME Journal

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The ISME Journal. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The ISME Journal.

Countries where authors publish in The ISME Journal

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The ISME Journal. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The ISME Journal with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The ISME Journal more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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