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Acta Scientiarum - Biological Sciences
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Acta Scientiarum - Biological Sciences

1679-9283

Published by: Universidade Estadual de Maringa

https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 682 8 9 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 18
Documents by Best Scientists*: 17
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 28
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.164
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Ecology, Botany, Zoology, Animal science and Species richness. Abundance (ecology), Floodplain, Macrophyte, Parana river and Habitat are some of the facets of Ecology tackled in Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences features Botany research that overlaps with concepts in Horticulture.

The study on Zoology presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Larva.

  • Ecology (29.69%)
  • Botany (14.05%)
  • Zoology (12.06%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Plasticidade trófica em peixes de água doce (190 citations)
  • Relação peso-comprimento e fator de condição para Cichla cf. ocellaris e Cichla monoculus (Perciformes, Cichlidae) no reservatório de Volta Grande, rio Grande - MG/SP - DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v25i1.2119 (56 citations)
  • Determinação de um método para cálculo do Fator de Condição Alométrico de peixes (55 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences:

The most cited articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Ecology, Botany, Zoology, Animal science and Floodplain. The research on Zoology presented in the most cited papers often intersects with areas of study such as

  • Larva together with Human fertilization,
  • Geophagus which connect with Omnivore.. The most cited articles address concerns in Animal science which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Hemoglobin, Anatomy, Nile tilapia, Fishery and Characidae.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Genus

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mostly deals with topics like Horticulture, Botany, Zoology, Ecology and Forestry. Vegetative reproduction and Bixa are all disciplines of Horticulture that connect with topics in Coffee rust and Colletotrichum sp.. The featured Botany research zeroes in on concepts in Phenology, Pachystachys lutea and Plant growth but also tackles themes under Cyperus difformis and Chemical composition.

The Zoology works featured in it incorporate elements from Pearl cichlid, Amazonian and Astyanax lacustris, Characidae. The research on Ecology discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Drainage basin. While Forestry is the focus of Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, it also provided insights into the studies of Protected area and Opiliones.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Semideciduous seasonal forest opiliofauna (Arachnida, Opiliones), State of Paraná, Brazil (1 citations)
  • Diel variation of aquatic insect drift in streams of Southern Brazil (0 citations)
  • Limonoid detection and profile in callus culture of sweet orange (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ricardo Massato Takemoto (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carmino Hayashi (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Norma Maria Barros Benevides (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Liliana Rodrigues (24 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • UEM Group (287 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sao Paulo State University (158 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universidade Estadual de Maringá (134 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Federal University of Ceará (36 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Man-made soil drainage alters the vegetation structure and woody species distribution in campo de murundus

    Frederico Augusto Guimarães Guilherme;Hortência Soardi Maricato;Beatriz Schwantes Marimon;Firmino Cardoso Pereira

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Aftershocks of the Samarco disaster: diminished growth and increased metal content of Raphanus sativus cultivated in soil with mining tailings

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Effects of microbial conditioning and temperature on the leaf-litter shredding activity of Phylloicus sp.

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • A checklist of aquatic macrophytes of the Guaraguaçu river basin reveals a target for conservation in the Atlantic rainforest

    Eliélton da Silva Araújo;Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule;Andre Andrian Padial

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Occurrence of Arcellidae (Amorphea, Arcellinida) in a coastal stream in the State of Rio de Janeiro

    Viviane Bernardes dos Santos Miranda;Tatiane Mantovano;Yemna Gomes da Silva;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Post-larval Colossoma macropomum (Characiformes, Serrasalmidae) show better performance in excavated than concrete tanks under different feeding strategies

    Julliana de Castro Lima;Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha;Tatiane Mantovano;Natanael José da Silva

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • The influence of black spot disease on the relative condition factor of Astyanax paranae Eigenmann, 1914 (Characiformes: Characidae) in Brazilian subtropical streams

    Germano Henrique Costa Barrilli;Evelise Nunes Fragoso de Moura;Odete Rocha;José Roberto Verani

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Non-volant mammals of the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil

    Raone Beltrão-Mendes;Mônica Alves Cunha;Caroline Silva;Paulo Cezar Reys Bastos

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • The Cichlidae fish Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy &amp; Gaimard, 1824) has suitability as a sentinel species for changes caused by xenobiotics?

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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