American Society for Microbiology Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher American Society for Microbiology including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

American Society for Microbiology has published 323290 documents so far, receiving a total of 11544258 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.26% and 1.04% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. American Society for Microbiology has a score of 35.71 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by American Society for Microbiology. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, Report, Monograph, and Book Set a with the total document number of 314071, 8644, 134, 116, 311, 9, 3, and 2 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 97.15%, 2.67%, 0.04%, 0.04%, 0.10%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in American Society for Microbiology so far, respectively. American Society for Microbiology has been an active publisher from 1916-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of American Society for Microbiology over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of American Society for Microbiology documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. American Society for Microbiology has the highest annual number of publications in 2014, with 12762 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 289717 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 1.67.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of American Society for Microbiology are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets.

The number of published documents by American Society for Microbiology are 314071, 8644, 311, 134, 9, 3, and 2 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.34%, 0.05%, 0.04%, 0.01%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.56% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets of American Society for Microbiology are 11513727, 24231, 6042, 179, 11, 29, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.09%, 0.15%, 0.08%, 0.12%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets by American Society for Microbiology are 574, 51, 40, 7, 2, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 793, 98, 253, 760, and 4, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets by American Society for Microbiology are 43, 10, 10, 3, 2, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 20, 29, 60, and 3, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets by American Society for Microbiology are 36.660, 2.803, 19.428, 1.336, 1.222, 9.667, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 8.593, 0.070, 1.416, 9.566, and 0.177, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets by American Society for Microbiology are 8076, 4677, 20, 11, 3, 0, and 2, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets are 2014, 2014, 2016, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets published in American Society for Microbiology are 289412, 15552, 260, 13, 6, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets are 2010, 2014, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets published in American Society for Microbiology are 41.03, 4.44, 16.73, 2.60, 3.00, 0.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, Reports, Monographs, and Book Sets are 2010, 2017, 2011, 2011, 2017, 0, and 2020, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher American Society for Microbiology.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by American Society for Microbiology, are 574, 226, and 112, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by American Society for Microbiology are 43, 24, and 16, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by American Society for Microbiology, are 209489, 135080, 69088, 23871, 3571, 788, 171, 21, 6, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the American Society for Microbiology top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by American Society for Microbiology is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of American Society for Microbiology based on the number of published documents are Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Virology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, and Journal of Clinical Microbiology. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 54014, 48871, 34950, 33074, and 31930, respectively. These numbers are equal to 16.708%, 15.117%, 10.811%, 10.230%, and 9.877% of the total documents published by American Society for Microbiology so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of American Society for Microbiology are Journal of Virology, Journal of Bacteriology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Infection and Immunity. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 48871, 54014, 34950, 31500, and 33074, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.423%, 0.468%, 0.303%, 0.273%, and 0.286% of the total citations received by American Society for Microbiology publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of American Society for Microbiology are Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Microbiological Reviews, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 215.870, 158.473, 119.710, 51.063, and 49.552, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in American Society for Microbiology. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Society for Microbiology are content type, escherichia coli, in vitro, genome sequence, amino acid, wild type, gene expression, human immunodeficiency virus, virus type, and saccharomyces cerevisiae, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 25016, 24648, 21989, 8818, 8617, 8544, 8166, 7786, 7067, and 6850, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Society for Microbiology are escherichia coli, in vitro, content type, human immunodeficiency virus, gene expression, amino acid, virus type, wild type, immunodeficiency virus, and saccharomyces cerevisiae, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 24648, 21989, 25016, 7786, 8166, 8617, 7067, 8544, 6747, and 6850, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Society for Microbiology are 16s rrna, gel electrophoresis, transcription factors, human immunodeficiency virus type, cell cycle, growth factor, protein kinase, transcription factor, hepatitis c virus, and human immunodeficiency virus, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 93.829, 61.780, 61.521, 59.749, 59.082, 58.891, 58.502, 55.928, 55.685, and 55.682, respectively.