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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjsa21/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 208 18 40 11
Ecology and Evolution 534 25 24 6
Environmental Sciences 675 10 9 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 66
Documents by Best Scientists*: 82
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 62
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.683
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Agroecology, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Sustainability and Food systems. It facilitates discussions on Agroecology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Economic growth, Food sovereignty, Food security, Sustainable agriculture and Peasant. In addition to Agriculture research, the journal aims to explore topics under Environmental planning, Agricultural economics, Environmental resource management and Agricultural science.

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems holds forums on Agroforestry that merges themes from other disciplines such as Agroecosystem, Biodiversity, Crop, Climate change and Livestock.

  • Agroecology (35.43%)
  • Agriculture (31.72%)
  • Agroforestry (25.60%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution (240 citations)
  • Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives (185 citations)
  • Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach (183 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems:

The main points discussed in the most cited articles deal with Agroecology, Agriculture, Sustainability, Food systems and Environmental resource management. In addition to Agroecology research, the most cited publications aim to explore topics under Economic growth, Agricultural economics, Food sovereignty, Agrarian society and Social movement. The most cited articles with studies in Agriculture featured incorporate elements of Agroforestry and Climate change.

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Agroecology, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Food systems and Sustainable agriculture. Agroecology research featured in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Agricultural economics, Environmental planning, Power (social and political), Sustainability and Politics. Agriculture research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Agricultural science, Natural resource economics and Sustainable development.

The journal addresses concerns in Natural resource economics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Food sovereignty, Conservation agriculture and Livelihood. Topics in Agroforestry were tackled in line with various other fields like Perennial plant, Biodiversity, Land use, Crop and Livestock. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems connects the study in Food systems with the closely related area of Urbanization.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Women, agroecology and the state: New perspectives on scaling-up agroecology based on a field research in Chile (4 citations)
  • Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers (4 citations)
  • Pathways of action followed by Flemish beef farmers – an integrative view on agroecology as a practice (4 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 Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Steve Gliessman (79 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Charles Francis (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bruce G. Ferguson (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Peter Rosset (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • V. Ernesto Méndez (10 papers) published 1 paper 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 Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Vermont (15 papers) published 3 papers 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, 13.64% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.42% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.26% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.74% of all publications and 56.58% 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

  • The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

    (2024)
    63 Citations
  • Comprehensive impacts of diversified cropping on soil health and sustainability

    (2022)
    48 Citations
  • Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for agroecology and systems thinking in a post-COVID-19 future

    Ali Loker;Charles Francis

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science

    Charles Francis

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Smallholder participation and procedural compliance with sustainable cocoa certification programs

    Ebenezer Offei Ansah;Michael D. Kaplowitz;Frank Lupi;John Kerr

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Integrated policy analysis to identify transformation paths to more sustainable legume-based food and feed value-chains in Europe

    Bálint Balázs;Eszter Kelemen;Tiziana Centofanti;Marta W. Vasconcelos

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers

    Ane Kirstine Aare;Jonas Egmose;Søren Lund;Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Barriers to and opportunities for the uptake of soil carbon management practices in European sustainable agricultural production

    Jane Mills;Julie Ingram;Camilla Dibari;Paolo Merante

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Smallholders’ awareness of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability in Western Kenya

    Ylva Nyberg;Mattias Jonsson;Emmeline Laszlo Ambjörnsson;Johanna Wetterlind

    (2020)
    23 Citations

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