Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Top Research Topics at Brain Behavior and Evolution?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Anatomy, Neuroscience, Zoology, Evolutionary biology and Cerebrum. The Anatomy works featured in Brain Behavior and Evolution incorporate elements from Cerebellum, Thalamus, Nucleus, Retina and Spinal cord. The Retina study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Retinal.

Presentations on Neuroscience include those discussing Central nervous system, Sensory system, Forebrain, Cortex (anatomy) and Midbrain. Zoology research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Ecology and Brain size. The journal investigates Brain size research which frequently intersects with Allometry.

• Anatomy (40.34%)
• Neuroscience (37.15%)
• Zoology (11.17%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Early lesions of superior colliculus: factors affecting the formation of abnormal retinal projections. (521 citations)
• An autoradiographic analysis of the efferent connections from premotor and adjacent prefrontal regions (areas 6 and 9) in macaca fascicularis. (515 citations)
• Fractured somatotopy in granule cell tactile areas of rat cerebellar hemispheres revealed by micromapping. (477 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Brain Behavior and Evolution:

The journal papers mainly tackle studies in Neuroscience, Anatomy, Zoology, Brain size and Evolutionary biology. The published papers focus on Anatomy but also tackle concerns of closely connected disciplines like

• Ganglion most often made with reference to Retina,
• Diencephalon most often made with reference to Thalamus.. The journal papers facilitate discussions on Zoology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Ecology and Phylogenetics.

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

• Internal medicine
• Ecology
• Neuroscience

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Evolutionary biology, Vertebrate, Forebrain, Lamprey and Brain size. While the primary focus in Brain Behavior and Evolution is Evolutionary biology, it also dissects topics surrounding Primate and Equivalence (measure theory), Mammal, Cognition and Encephalization quotient as a whole. While Vertebrate is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Cerebellum, Biological neural network, Neuroscience and Granule cell.

Concepts in Cerebrum, as well as related topics in Cajal–Retzius cell, Cerebral cortex, Progenitor, Amygdala and Scyliorhinus canicula, are covered in the Forebrain research presented in Brain Behavior and Evolution. The featured Lamprey studies mainly concentrate on Sensory system but also cover areas of interest in Olfaction, Phylogenetic tree, Neocortex, Dorsum and Basal ganglia. Some problems in Brain size that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Nucleus, Neuron, Anatomy and Vocal learning.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient: A New Brain Size Measure for Comparative Primate Cognition. (2 citations)
• Evolving Views on the Pallium. (0 citations)
• Exceptionally Steep Brain-Body Evolutionary Allometry Underlies the Unique Encephalization of Osteoglossiformes. (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Brain Behavior and Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

• Shaun P. Collin (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
• R. Glenn Northcutt (39 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Andrew N. Iwaniuk (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Andrew H. Bass (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jon H. Kaas (35 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Brain Behavior and Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of California, San Diego (41 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Cornell University (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Texas at Austin (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Western Australia (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Queensland (29 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.14% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.43% of all publications and 57.14% 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.

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