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Agricultural Water Management
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Agricultural Water Management

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 7 260 605 58
Earth Science 84 88 152 30

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 776
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1194
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 16
SCIMAGO H-index: 176
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.757
Impact Factor: 6.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Agricultural Water Management?

The journal facilitates discussions on Irrigation, Agronomy, Hydrology, Soil water and Evapotranspiration. The presented research on Irrigation deals specifically with Water use but it also addresses topics in Water resources. It facilitated presentations on Agronomy research, particularly Water-use efficiency, Crop yield, Crop, Growing season and Sowing.

The Water-use efficiency study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Mulch. It concentrated on Hydrology research, specifically Drainage, Water balance, Surface runoff, Groundwater and Water table. Drainage and Environmental engineering are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

Agricultural Water Management features Soil water research that overlaps with concepts in Water content. Topics in Evapotranspiration explored in Agricultural Water Management were investigated in conjunction with research in Canopy, Lysimeter, Eddy covariance and Transpiration. The studies on Deficit irrigation discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Water conservation, Horticulture and Water resource management.

  • Irrigation (50.55%)
  • Agronomy (34.73%)
  • Hydrology (30.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Field water management to save water and increase its productivity in irrigated lowland rice (878 citations)
  • Water scarcity: Fact or fiction? (843 citations)
  • Review of measured crop water productivity values for irrigated wheat, rice, cotton and maize (686 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Agricultural Water Management:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Irrigation, Agronomy, Hydrology, Evapotranspiration and Water-use efficiency. The journal articles hold forums on Irrigation that merge themes from other disciplines such as Water use and Environmental engineering. The Hydrology research presented in the published papers focuses mostly on Soil water and, on occasion, topics in Water content.

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Agricultural Water Management is mainly concerned with subjects like Hydrology, Irrigation, Agronomy, Soil water and Growing season. Irrigation scheduling is a major topic of Irrigation research presented in the journal. While Agronomy is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on China and Water productivity, Yield (finance), Drip irrigation, Winter wheat and Forage.

The journal holds forums on Soil water that merges themes from other disciplines such as Evapotranspiration and Water-use efficiency. Water-use efficiency research featured in Agricultural Water Management incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Sowing, Soil structure, Crop yield, Mulch and Physical water scarcity. The studies in Growing season featured incorporate elements of Spatial variability, Vineyard, Vine, Physical geography and Topographic Wetness Index.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Joint analysis of drought and heat events during maize (Zea mays L.) growth periods using copula and cloud models: A case study of Songliao Plain (0 citations)
  • Photosynthetic and physiological responses to drought of Jerusalem artichoke genotypes differing in drought resistance (0 citations)
  • Effects of anecic earthworms on runoff and erosion on the slope with soil from the Loess Plateau under a rainfall simulation experiment (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 Agricultural Water Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Shaozhong Kang (73 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luis S. Pereira (73 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Taisheng Du (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fusheng Li (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yaohu Kang (37 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 Agricultural Water Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (343 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 58 less than at the previous edition,
  • China Agricultural University (287 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Agricultural Research Service (278 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 23 less than at the previous edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (273 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Northwest A&F University (221 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 71 less than at the previous 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 2022 edition, 46.15% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.14% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 7.14% of all publications and 50.00% 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

  • Water use indicators and economic analysis for on-farm irrigation decision: A case study of a super high density olive tree orchard

    J.E. Fernández;F. Alcon;A. Diaz-Espejo;V. Hernandez-Santana

    (2020)
    519 Citations
  • Coping with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues

    P.S. Minhas;Tiago B. Ramos;Alon Ben-Gal;Luis S. Pereira

    (2020)
    385 Citations
  • Similarity and difference of potential evapotranspiration and reference crop evapotranspiration – a review

    Keyu Xiang;Keyu Xiang;Yi Li;Robert Horton;Hao Feng

    (2020)
    293 Citations
  • Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China

    Yibo Ding;Xinglong Gong;Zhenxiang Xing;Huanjie Cai

    (2021)
    262 Citations
  • Alternate wetting and drying: A water-saving and ecofriendly rice production system

    Muhammad Ishfaq;Muhammad Farooq;Muhammad Farooq;Usman Zulfiqar;Saddam Hussain

    (2020)
    231 Citations
  • Soil water balance models for determining crop water and irrigation requirements and irrigation scheduling focusing on the FAO56 method and the dual Kc approach

    LS Pereira;P Paredes;Nebojsa Jovanovic

    (2020)
    231 Citations
  • Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models

    Junliang Fan;Jing Zheng;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

    (2021)
    194 Citations
  • Water utilization in intercropping: A review

    Wen Yin;Qiang Chai;Cai Zhao;Aizhong Yu

    (2020)
    190 Citations
  • Optimization of drip irrigation and fertilization regimes for high grain yield, crop water productivity and economic benefits of spring maize in Northwest China

    Haiyang Zou;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Youzhen Xiang

    (2020)
    166 Citations

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