Emerging Microbes and Infections

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Emerging Microbes & Infections Metrics:

*most recent metrics (2023)

Impact Factor: 8.4
Impact Factor Best Quartile: Q1
5 year IF: 8.3
CiteScore (Scopus): 26.2

CiteScore Best Quartile: Q1
SNIP: 1.653
SJR: 2.316

Emerging Microbes & Infections Ranking:

*2023 ranking among journals under the same specialty

By JCR

Infectious Diseases ranking: 8/132
Microbiology ranking: 14/161
Immunology ranking: 16/181

By Scopus

Parasitology ranking: 2 / 66
Drug Discovery ranking: 3 / 156
Epidemiology ranking: 3 / 115
Virology ranking: 5 / 75
Microbiology ranking: 6 / 163
Infectious Diseases ranking: 8 / 304
Immunology ranking: 14 / 217

EMI BEST PAPER AWARDS

2023 AWARDS

To be updated..

2022 AWARDS

First Place Award

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows less efficient replication and fusion activity when compared with Delta variant in TMPRSS2-expressed cells
Hanjun Zhao, Lu Lu, Zheng Peng, Lin-Lei Chen, Xinjin Meng, Chuyuan Zhang, Jonathan Daniel Ip, Wan-Mui Chan, Allen Wing-Ho Chu, Kwok-Hung Chan, Dong-Yan Jin, Honglin Chen, Kwok-Yung Yuen & Kelvin Kai-Wang To
EMI comments: This report reveals the cellular mechanism why Omicron variants are less pathogenic than early SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Second Place Award

Omicron variant showed lower neutralizing sensitivity than other SARS-CoV-2 variants to immune sera elicited by vaccines after boost
Jingwen Ai, Haocheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ke Lin, Yanliang Zhang, Jing Wu, Yanming Wan, Yanfang Huang, Jieyu Song, Zhangfan Fu, Hongyu Wang, Jingxin Guo, Ning Jiang, Mingxiang Fan, Yang Zhou, Yuanhan Zhao, Qiran Zhang, Qiang Liu, Jing Lv, Peiyao Li, Chao Qiu & Wenhong Zhang
EMI comments: This study showed that Omicron variants are less sensitive to neutralization even after boost vaccination.

Third Place Award – A

Monkeypox virus emerges from the shadow of its more infamous cousin: family biology matters
Yan Xiang & Addison White
EMI comments: A timely and comprehensive virological review on Monkeypox

Third Place Award – B

A monoclonal antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants, SARS-CoV, and other sarbecoviruses
Pengfei Wang, Ryan G. Casner, Manoj S. Nair, Jian Yu, Yicheng Guo, Maple Wang, Jasper F.-W. Chan, Gabriele Cerutti, Sho Iketani, Lihong Liu, Zizhang Sheng, Zhiwei Chen, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Peter D. Kwong, Yaoxing Huang, Lawrence Shapiro & David D. Ho
EMI comments: Report of a novel mAb across SARS 1, SARS 2 and other sarbecoviruses.

2021 AWARDS

First Place Award

Heterologous prime-boost: breaking the protective immune response bottleneck of COVID-19 vaccine candidates
Qian He, Qunying Mao, Chaoqiang An, Jialu Zhang, Fan Gao, Lianlian Bian, Changgui Li, Zhenglun Liang, Miao Xu & Junzhi Wang
EMI comments: This is the most read EMI in 2021 due to its finding that heterologous prime-boost is a high effective approach to enhance the protective immune responses against SARS-CoV-2. This finding has been supported by many subsequent reports using the same approach in humans or using different specific COVID-19 vaccines.

Second Place Award

Emergence and spread of novel H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza in 2020
Nicola S. Lewis, Ashley C. Banyard, Elliot Whittard, Talgat Karibayev, Thamer Al Kafagi, Ilya Chvala, Alex Byrne, Saduakassova Meruyert (Akberovna), Jacqueline King, Timm Harder, Christian Grund, Steve Essen, Scott M. Reid, Adam Brouwer, Nikolay G. Zinyakov, Azimkhan Tegzhanov, Victor Irza, Anne Pohlmann, Martin Beer, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Sultanov Akhmetzhan (Akievich) & Ian H. Brown
EMI comments: The rapid and wide spread of H5 influenza viruses is a major concern of emerging infections. This report analyzed the highly pathogenic strain H5Nx clade 2.3.4.4. Heterogeneity in Eurasian of this avian influenza threatens poultry production, food security and veterinary public health.

Third Place Award – A

Genotype I African swine fever viruses emerged in domestic pigs in China and caused chronic infection
Encheng Sun, Lianyu Huang, Xianfeng Zhang, Jiwen Zhang, Dongdong Shen, Zhenjiang Zhang, Zilong Wang, Hong Huo, Wenqing Wang, Haoyue Huangfu, Wan Wang, Fang Li, Renqiang Liu, Jianhong Sun, Zhijun Tian, Wei Xia, Yuntao Guan, Xijun He, Yuanmao Zhu, Dongming Zhao & Zhigao Bu
EMI comments: The authors reported identification of Genotype I African Swine Fever Viruses (ASFV) in China while Genotype II ASFV with high virulence has been prevalent in China since 2018. This finding raised serious challenges for the control and prevention of AFSV in China and beyond.

Third Place Award – B

Trained immunity contributes to the prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, a novel role of autophagy
Jie Zhou, Jingzhu Lv, Chelsea Carlson, Hui Liu, Hongtao Wang, Tao Xu, Fengjiao Wu, Chuanwang Song, Xiaojing Wang, Ting Wang & Zhongqing Qian
EMI comments: This review summarized general characteristics of enhanced innate immunity (under the name o trained immunity) in controlling TB and roles of autophagy in this process.

2020 AWARDS

First Place Award

Genomic characterization of the 2019 novel human-pathogenic coronavirus isolated from a patient with atypical pneumonia after visiting Wuhan
Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Kin-Hang Kok, Zheng Zhu, Hin Chu, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Shuofeng Yuan & Kwok-Yung Yuen
EMI comments: This is one of the first COVID-19 reports in the world with well described SARS-CoV-2 viral gene structure.

Second Place Award

Molecular and serological investigation of 2019-nCoV infected patients: Implication of multiple shedding routes
Wei Zhang, Rong-Hui Du, Bei Li, Xiao-Shuang Zheng, Xing-Lou Yang, Ben Hu, Yan-Yi Wang, Geng-Fu Xiao, Bing Yan, Zheng-Li Shi & Peng Zhou
EMI comments: This is the first report from Wuhan to show the SARS-CoV-2 specific IgM and IgG responses in patients’ sera and the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in GI track.

Third Place Awards- A

Hypothesis for potential pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection–a review of immune changes in patients with viral pneumonia
Ling Lin, Lianfeng Lu, Wei Cao & Taisheng Li
EMI comments: This is a report from frontline physicians working in Wuhan observing COVID-19 caused vasculitis and treatment with low molecular weight heparin (LVWH).

Third Place Awards- B

No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2
Shan-Lu Liu, Linda J. Saif, Susan R. Weiss & Lishan Su
EMI comments: This paper provided scientific analysis to reject the theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory engineered virus.

2019 AWARDS

First Place Award

Replication and virulence in pigs of the first African swine fever virus isolated in China.
Authors: Dongming Zhao, Renqiang Liu, Xianfeng Zhang, Fang Li, Jingfei Wang, Jiwen Zhang, Xing Liu, Lulu Wang, Jiaoer Zhang, Xinzhou Wu, Yuntao Guan, Weiye Chen, Xijun Wang, Xijun He & Zhigao Bu
EMI comments: A timely report with thorough molecular virology work to isolate the pathogen which caused the outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus in China

Second Place Award

Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) mediates Zika virus entry, replication, and egress from host cells.
Sujit Pujhari, Marco Brustolin, Vanessa M. Macias, Ruth H. Nissly, Masashi Nomura, Suresh V. Kuchipudi & Jason L. Rasgon
EMI comments: A key report to identify Hsp70 as a major player in Zika virus infection

Third Place Awards – A

CRISPR-based rapid and ultra-sensitive diagnostic test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Jing-Wen Ai, Xian Zhou, Teng Xu, Minling Yang, Yuanyuan Chen, Gui-Qing He, Ningp Pan, Yuwei Cai, Yongjun Li, Xiaorui Wang, Hang Su, Ting Wang, Weiqi Zeng & Wen-Hong Zhang
EMI comments: A highly novel and potentially useful approach to diagnose TB infection

Third Place Awards – B

A specific class of infectious agents isolated from bovine serum and dairy products and peritumoral colon cancer tissue.
Ethel-Michele de Villiers, Karin Gunst, Deblina Chakraborty, Claudia Ernst, Timo Bund & Harald zur Hausen
EMI comments: A novel report with out-of-box thinking and potential major health impact.

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