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Biotechnology, Agronomy and Society and Environment
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Biotechnology, Agronomy and Society and Environment

1370-6233

Published by: Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 548 3 4 2
Ecology and Evolution 730 8 11 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 17
Documents by Best Scientists*: 19
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.21
Impact Factor: 0.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Forestry, Humanities, Molecular biology, Botany and Ecology.

  • Forestry (22.02%)
  • Humanities (10.39%)
  • Molecular biology (7.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Optimization of a reliable, fast, cheap and sensitive silver staining method to detect SSR markers in polyacrylamide gels. (240 citations)
  • Beneficial effect of the rhizosphere microbial community for plant growth and health (206 citations)
  • Different methods for spatial interpolation of rainfall data for operational hydrology and hydrological modeling at watershed scale: a review (144 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement:

The journal papers investigate studies in Forestry, Botany, Molecular biology, Ecology and Humanities. The most cited papers explore issues in Forestry which can be linked to other research areas like Natural enemies and Greenhouse gas. While Molecular biology is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Genetics, Gene, Endocrinology and Internal medicine.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Forestry, Humanities, Capital market, Portfolio and Antioxidant capacity. The studies in Forestry featured incorporate elements of Sitophilus, Pericopsis elata, Sowing, Ananas and Curculionidae. It tackles research works in Humanities as well as Heat treated.

The journal facilitates discussions on Capital market that incorporate concepts from other fields like Maximization and Volatility (finance), Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, Capital asset pricing model, Econometrics. Portfolio research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Stock exchange, Information technology, Green computing and Sustainable development.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Entandrophragma: taxonomy and ecology of a genus of African tree species with economic importance. A review (2 citations)
  • Perceptions ethnoculturelles des services écosystémiques rendus par les agroforêts à base de cacaoyer au Togo (0 citations)
  • Integrated pest management options for the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda in West Africa: Challenges and opportunities. A review (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 Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Philippe Thonart (54 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jean-Pierre Baudoin (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eric Haubruge (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frédéric Francis (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gilles Colinet (29 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 Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Liège (357 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (226 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of São Paulo (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (16 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, 72.41% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 75.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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

  • Entandrophragma: taxonomy and ecology of a genus of African tree species with economic importance. A review

    Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu;Franck S. Monthe;Nils Bourland;Olivier J. Hardy

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • Stocks de carbone des systèmes agroforestiers de la zone soudano-sahélienne du Cameroun, Afrique centrale

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Assessing the dominant height of oriental beech (Fagus orientalis L.) in relation to edaphic and physiographic variables in the Hyrcanian Forests of Iran

    Seyed Jalil Alavi;Kourosh Ahmadi;Carsten F. Dormann;Josep M. Serra-Diaz

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Influence of spacing and seed trees on the growth of Pericopsis elata saplings during the first twenty months of a planting trial

    Crispin Ilunga-Mulala;Hulda Hatakiwe;Hans Beeckman;Olivier J. Hardy

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Autumn sowing and first-year mowing enhance flowering species abundance and diversity in wildflower strips

    Julien Piqueray;Valentin Gilliaux;Bernard Bodson;Grégory Mahy

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Gabon’s green gold: a bibliographical review of thirty years of research on okoumé (Aucoumea klaineana Pierre)

    (2022)
    3 Citations
  • Faidherbia albida trees form a natural buffer against millet water stress in agroforestry parklands in Senegal

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Les Dialium de la région guinéo-congolaise (synthèse bibliographique)

    Gael Bibang Bengono;Alain Souza;Félicien Tosso;Robin Doucet

    (2021)
    1 Citations

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