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Blumea
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Blumea

0006-5196

Published by: National Herbarium Nederland

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 715 13 11 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 22
Documents by Best Scientists*: 18
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 32
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.348
Impact Factor: 0.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Blumea?

The concepts of Botany, Genus, Taxonomy (biology), Ecology and Zoology are tackled in Blumea. Studies on Botany discussed in it link to the field of Key (lock). It focuses on Genus but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Type (biology), Subspecies and Rubiaceae.

The study on Taxonomy (biology) presented in Blumea intersects with the topics under Geographic distribution. Habitat and Flora are all areas of Ecology tackled in it.

  • Botany (68.81%)
  • Genus (28.39%)
  • Taxonomy (biology) (21.44%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Southeast Asia’s changing palaeogeography (268 citations)
  • A generic monograph of the Meliaceae (202 citations)
  • The land-bridge theory in botany with particular reference to tropical plants (118 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Blumea:

Botany, Genus, Ecology, Zoology and Taxonomy (biology) are the main subjects of interest in the journal articles. While the most cited papers focused on Botany, they were also able to explore topics like Anatomy and Key (lock). While Genus is the focus of the published papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Pollen, Herbarium and Monophyly.

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

  • Botany
  • Genus
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Blumea primarily tackles Botany, Agroforestry, Hanguana, Curcuma and Zingiberaceae. The in-depth study on Botany also explores topics in the intersecting field of Subspecies.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Two new species of Hanguana (Hanguanaceae) from Kalimantan, Indonesia (1 citations)
  • New combinations and names for some Philippine vascular plants (1 citations)
  • Four new Curcuma species (Zingiberaceae) from Thailand (1 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 Blumea (based on the number of publications) are:

  • P.C. van Welzen (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • W.J.J.O. de Wilde (51 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • C.G.G.J. van Steenis (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • W.A. van Heel (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • P. van Royen (20 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 Blumea (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leiden University (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Utrecht University (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Royal Botanic Gardens (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Naturalis (4 papers) published 1 paper 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, 90.91% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 100.00% 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 0.00% 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

  • A systematic revision of the vulnerable mangrove genus Pelliciera (Tetrameristaceae) in equatorial America

    N.C. Duke

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • The Zierikzee Herbarium: contents and origins of an enigmatic 18th century herbarium

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • New combinations and names for some Philippine vascular plants

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Two new magnoliid (Annonaceae, Lauraceae) tree species from Manabí, western Ecuador

    (2022)
    3 Citations
  • Maesa brevipedicellata (Primulaceae), a new species from Papua New Guinea

    P. Sumanon;W.L. Eiserhardt;H. Balslev;T.M.A. Utteridge

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Phylogenetic analysis of the Calamus javensis complex (Arecaceae: Calamoideae) in Malesia

    M. Atria;M. Eurlings;W.J. Baker;J. Dransfield

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Four flowering plant species described from Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) are based on specimens collected in Guangxi, China

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Molecular phylogeny of Boesenbergia (Zingiberaceae) reveals shared characters and infrageneric division

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • In memoriam Willem F. Prud’homme van Reine (3 April 1941 – 21 March 2020)

    Pieter Baas;Stefano Draisma;Jeanine Olsen;Wytze Stam

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • The book herbaria of Jacob Breyne (1637–1697) in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands)

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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