For the curious ones, below is the result of an automated analysis of Nature Precedings articles in the ‘mol. cell. biology’ category. The script code can be found here.

ROUGH ANALYSIS OF ‘Nature Precedings’ ARTICLES IN CATEGORY ‘molecular-cell-biology’ AS ON March 15, 2008, 10:30 pm EST

ARTICLES

• All: 69
• Manuscripts: 51
• Other (posters/presentations): 18

DAYS

• Total: 272
• Avg. (all): 3.9
• Avg. (manuscript): 5.3
• Avg. (other): 15.1
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (all): 2.8 (0-11)
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (manuscript): 2.9 (0-11)
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (other): 2.4 (0-6)

AUTHORS

• Total: 242
• Avg. (range) (all): 4.6 (1-15)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 4.7 (1-15)
• Avg. (range) (other): 4.2 (1-14)

• With >1 article (all): Alessandra Pani, 3; Sandra Dessi, 2; Claudia Abete, 3; Claudia Mulas, 3; Claudia Norfo, 3; Marirosa Putzolu, 3; Alessandra Mocali, 2; Paolo La Colla, 3; Francesco Paoletti, 2; Jawed Iqbal, 2; Najmul Islam, 3; Irfan Ahmad Ansari, 2; Ravi Iyengar, 3; Sergio Laconi, 2; Jayapal J. Manikandan, 5; Alirio Jose Melendez, 2; Peter Natesan Pushparaj, 3; Alirio Jose A. J. Melendez, 2; Marie Loh, 2; Adrian Mondry, 2; Avi Ma’ayan, 2; James C. Paulson, 2;

AFFILIATIONS

• Total: 118
• Avg. (range) (all): 1.9 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 2 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (other): 1.7 (1-5)
• Avg. no. of authors (all): 2.1

• With >1 article (all): Shizuoka University, Faculty of Science, 2; University of Florence, Experimental Pathology and Oncology, 2; Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, J. N. Medical College, A.M.U., Aligarh 202002, U.P., India, 3; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2; Columbia University, 2; Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, 5; Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 2; Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2; The Scripps Research Instiute, 3;

TAGS

• Total: 248
• Avg. (range) (all): 4.1 (1-7)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 4.1 (1-7)
• Avg. (range) (other): 4.1 (1-7)

• With >1 article (all): Alzheimer, 2; DNA damage, 2; p18, 2; monocytes, 2; apoptosis, 2; This document has not been tagged., 3; translation initiation, 2; siRNA, 2; HIV, 2; mitochondria, 2; Signal transduction, 2; BioPax, 2; metabolism, 2; pathway, 2; HIV-1, 2; gene expression, 4; transcription, 4; type-I Allergy, 2; mast cells, 2; gene expression profile, 2; oligonucleotide microarray, 2; microarray, 3; cancer, 2; cytoskeleton, 2; systems biology, 2; graph theory, 2; glycomics, 3; CFG, 2;

SUBJECTS

• Total: 12
• Avg. (range) (all): 2.4 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 2.3 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.9 (1-4)

• Other than mol. cell bio. with >10 articles: Bioinformatics, 24; Immunology, 12; Cancer, 10; Biotechnology, 13;

SIZE (MB)

• Avg. (range) (all): 1.8 (0.021-15.8)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 1.9 (0.035-15.8)
• Avg. (range) (other): 1.6 (0.021-13.7)

VOTES

• Avg. (range) (all): 2.8 (0-11)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 2.9 (0-11)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.4 (0-6)

COMMENTS

• Avg. (range) (all): 0.3 (0-6)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 0.3 (0-6)
• Avg. (range) (other): 0.2 (0-2)

OTHER Nature Precedings VERSIONS

• Avg. (range) (all): 0.1 (0-1)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 0.1 (0-1)
• Avg. (range) (other): 0.1 (0-1)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (all): 2.5 (1-168)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (manuscript): 3.3 (1-168)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (other): 0.1 (1-1)

NON-Nature Precedings VERSIONS

• Fraction (all): 0.1
• Fraction (manuscript): 0.1
• Fraction (other): 0.1