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Bragantia
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Bragantia

0006-8705

Published by: SciELO

https://www.scielo.br/j/brag/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 274 21 26 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 30
Documents by Best Scientists*: 33
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.367
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Bragantia?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Horticulture, Agronomy, Botany, Cultivar and Sowing. It links adjacent topics like Horticulture with Mineralogy. Some problems in Agronomy that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Soil water, Phosphorus and Nitrogen.

The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Phosphorus and Potassium. The journal centers on topics in Botany, with a focus on Coffea arabica.

  • Horticulture (27.93%)
  • Agronomy (19.73%)
  • Botany (19.31%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Classificação climática de Köppen e de Thornthwaite e sua aplicabilidade na determinação de zonas agroclimáticas para o estado de são Paulo (197 citations)
  • Surtos populacionais de Bemisia tabaci no estado de São Paulo (152 citations)
  • Definição e esquematização das fases fenológicas do cafeeiro arábica nas condições tropicais do Brasil (138 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Bragantia:

The published papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Horticulture, Botany, Agronomy, Cultivar and Crop. The journal publications center on topics in Horticulture, with a focus on Randomized block design. The Agronomy study tackled in the journal publications is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Nutrient.

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Horticulture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Horticulture, Agronomy, Cultivar, Sowing and Crop. Horticulture research discussed connects with the study of Heritability. While it focused on Agronomy, it was also able to explore topics like Biochar and Husk.

While Cultivar is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Subtropics, Gossypium hirsutum, Boll weevil, Carbamate and Postharvest. The concepts on Sowing presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Irrigation, Multivariate analysis, Canonical correspondence analysis, Yield (wine) and Genetic divergence. In Bragantia, Agriculture, Ecological succession, Primary metabolite, Carbon and Secondary metabolism are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Crop research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Productivity, bromatological composition and economic benefits of using irrigation in the forage cactus under regulated deficit irrigation in a semiarid environment (3 citations)
  • Sugarcane regrowth is dependent on root system size: an approach using young plants grown in nutrient solution (1 citations)
  • Exogenous arginine modulates leaf antioxidant enzymes and hydrogen peroxide content in tomato plants under transient heat stresses (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 Bragantia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Toshio Igue (137 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Camargo (133 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hipólito Assunção Antonio Mascarenhas (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • João Carlos Felício (75 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rúter Hiroce (69 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 Bragantia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sao Paulo State University (304 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (295 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of São Paulo (202 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • IAC (173 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universidade Federal de Viçosa (144 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 more 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 2021 edition, 3.92% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 65.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.16% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.16% of all publications and 18.37% 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

  • Salt stress alleviation by seed priming with silicon in lettuce seedlings: an approach based on enhancing antioxidant responses

    Rita de Cássia Alves;Mayara Cristina Malvas Nicolau;Mirela Vantini Checchio;Gilmar da Silveira Sousa Junior

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Seed priming with seaweed extract mitigate heat stress in spinach: effect on germination, seedling growth and antioxidant capacity

    Antônio Pereira dos Anjos Neto;Gustavo Roberto Fonseca Oliveira;Simone da Costa Mello;Marcio Souza da Silva

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Adaptability and stability analysis of new popcorn simple hybrids evaluated using additive main effects and multiplicative interaction Bayesian approaches

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • Silicon nutrition counteracts salt-induced damage associated with changes in biochemical responses in apple

    Servet Aras;Hakan Keles;Ahmet Esitken

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Exogenous arginine modulates leaf antioxidant enzymes and hydrogen peroxide content in tomato plants under transient heat stresses

    Vivyan Justi Conceição;Simone Costa Mello;Marcia Eugenia Amaral Carvalho;Salete Aparecida Gaziola

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Sugarcane regrowth is dependent on root system size: an approach using young plants grown in nutrient solution

    Maria Dolores Pissolato;Larissa Prado da Cruz;Neidiquele Maria Silveira;Eduardo Caruso Machado

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria effect on maize growth and microbial biomass in a chromium-contaminated soil

    Raquel Sobral Silva;Jadson Emanuel Lopes Antunes;João Pedro Alves de Aquino;Ricardo Silva de Sousa

    (2021)
    8 Citations
  • Improving seed germination and seedling growth of guava under heat and osmotic stresses by chemical and hormonal seed treatments

    Marjan Sadat Hosseini;Seyed Morteza Zahedi;Narjes Fahadi Hoveizeh;Li Li

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity in six Brazilian oxisols under cropland and native vegetation

    Wanderley José de Melo;Gabriel Mauricio Peruca de Melo;Valeria Peruca de Melo;Ademir Sérgio Ferreira Araujo

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • Non-destructive models for estimating leaf area of guava cultivars

    (2022)
    5 Citations

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