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Australasian Plant Disease Notes
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Australasian Plant Disease Notes

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 304 17 29 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 24
Documents by Best Scientists*: 35
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 22
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.224
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Australasian Plant Disease Notes?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Botany, Horticulture, Pathogenicity, Fungus and Entomology. The Botany works featured in Australasian Plant Disease Notes incorporate elements from Inoculation and Host (biology). Australasian Plant Disease Notes holds forums on Horticulture that merges themes from other disciplines such as Pathogen and Spots.

Australasian Plant Disease Notes discusses concepts in Fungal morphology under Pathogenicity and how they intertwine with disciplines like Veterinary medicine. The Fungus study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Internal transcribed spacer. Internal transcribed spacer and Ribosomal DNA are closely related fields of research discussed in Australasian Plant Disease Notes.

The Entomology study featured in it draws connections with the study of Ecology (disciplines).

  • Botany (69.72%)
  • Horticulture (29.30%)
  • Pathogenicity (15.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • First report of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae causing kiwifruit bacterial canker in New Zealand. (126 citations)
  • Current status of bacterial canker spread on kiwifruit in Italy (81 citations)
  • The first report of transmission of a phytoplasma associated with sesame phyllody by Orosius albicinctus in Iran (33 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Australasian Plant Disease Notes:

The most cited articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Botany, Horticulture, Mycology, Virus and Veterinary medicine. The journal papers facilitate discussions in Carica as part of the larger field of Botany, however, they also tackle fields such as Fish <Actinopterygii>. The published papers cover research in Horticulture, particularly Corynespora cassiicola and Fusarium circinatum and how it is related with concepts in Northern italy and Disease severity.

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

  • Botany
  • Horticulture
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of Australasian Plant Disease Notes are Horticulture, Botany, Internal transcribed spacer, Inoculation and Entomology. It explores topics in Horticulture which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Pathogenicity, Phytoplasma, Sequence analysis and Fungus. The work on Botany tackled in it brings together disciplines like Pcr assay, Intergenic region and Ribosomal DNA.

Some problems in Internal transcribed spacer that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Erysiphe quercicola and Root rot. Australasian Plant Disease Notes explores research in Inoculation alongside concepts in Phylogenetic tree and other areas of study in Blight and Sophora tonkinensis. The featured Entomology studies mainly concentrate on Pathogen but also cover areas of interest in Vigna, Rhizoctonia solani, Nucleic acid sequence, Spore and Downy mildew.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Molecular characterization of a 'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris'-related strain (16SrI-B / cpn60UT I-IB) affecting daisies (Argyranthemum spp.) in Mexico (7 citations)
  • First report of leaf spot caused by Colletotrichum siamense on Sophora tonkinensis (1 citations)
  • First report of Phyllosticta spp. associated with banana freckle disease in southern Lao PDR (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 Australasian Plant Disease Notes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • S. Chandra (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • S. V. Ngachan (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pankaj Baiswar (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roger G. Shivas (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Olinto Liparini Pereira (21 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 Australasian Plant Disease Notes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Universidade Federal de Viçosa (57 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (29 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Indian Council of Agricultural Research (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sydney (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (19 papers) published 2 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, 10.34% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 34.62% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 7.69% of all publications and 53.85% 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

  • Colletotrichum karstii causes anthracnose on the orchid Cattleya walkeriana in Brazil

    André Luís Silva;Sara Salcedo-Sarmiento;Paloma Stefany Correa Mansur;Robert Weingart Barreto

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • First report of Pythium schmitthenneri on olive trees and in Morocco

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • Fungal diseases of non-conventional food plants: first report of Stagonosporopsis caricae causing leaf spots on Vasconcellea monoica

    Marina Faria Bracale;Thaisa Ferreira Nóbrega;Robert Weingart Barreto

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Colletotrichum siamense causing anthracnose-twister disease of onion (Allium cepa) in Sri Lanka

    Indunil S. Herath;Dhanushka Udayanga;Shaneya Miriyagalla;Lisa A. Castlebury

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Boeremia exigua causing leaf spots on sweet potato in Brazil

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Molecular detection and characterization of a 16SrII-D phytoplasma associated with streak yellows of date palm in Oman

    Chamran Hemmati;Ali M. Al-Subhi;Mohammed T. Al-Housni;Abdullah M. Al-Sadi

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Alternaria dauci causes leaf spots and leaf blight of coriander (Coriandrum sativum) in Brazil

    Paloma S. Mansur;André L. Silva;Sara S. Salcedo;Robert W. Barreto

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • First report of the presence of Verticillium dahliae VCG6 in Australia

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Wheat dwarf India Virus and associated betasatellite infecting wheat in Pakistan

    Jitendra Kumar;Javed Ahmad;Muhammad Imtiaz;Shahryar F. Kianian

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Alternaria brassicae causes leaf spots on Eruca sativa in Brazil

    Nivia Maria Pereira da Silva;Nivia Maria Pereira da Silva;Carlos Eduardo Aucique-Perez;André Luis Silva;Robert W. Barreto

    (2020)
    3 Citations

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