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Nature Reviews Immunology
Biology and life sciences
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 18th highest h-index and the 9th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 535 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 14% |
| Germany | 8% |
| Canada | 7% |
| Australia | 6% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 60% |
| Reviews | 36% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| T-cell and B-cell Immunology | 16% |
| Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers | 6% |
| Immunotherapy and Immune Responses | 4% |
| Immune cells in cancer | 3% |
| interferon and immune responses | 3% |
| Gut microbiota and health | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Short-chain fatty acids: linking diet, the microbiome and immunity (2024, 1 553 citations)
- Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology (2023, 612 citations)
- Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease (2024, 574 citations)
- Targeting IL-6 trans-signalling: past, present and future prospects (2023, 518 citations)
- The immunology of long COVID (2023, 408 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1474-1733):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Immunity
- The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Nature Reviews Cancer
- Cell
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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