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California Agriculture
H-index 9

California Agriculture

0008-0845

Published by: University of California

http://calag.ucanr.edu/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 380 13 12 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 50
Documents by Best Scientists*: 39
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 34
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.304
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Berkeley Scientific Journal?

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Law, Ecology, Neuroscience, Electrical engineering and Art history.

  • Law (8.68%)
  • Ecology (5.88%)
  • Neuroscience (5.60%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Effects of Cortisol on Physical and Psychological Aspects of the Body and Effective Ways by Which One Can Reduce Stress (7 citations)
  • The Use of Color in Marketing: Colors and their Physiological and Psychological Implications (6 citations)
  • Distance Education Versus The Traditional Classroom (5 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Berkeley Scientific Journal:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Traditional classroom, Distance education, Mathematics education, Species richness and Herbarium. The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Species richness that incorporate concepts from other fields like Biodiversity, Spatial analysis and Phylogenetic diversity, Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic tree. The Herbarium research discussed in the published articles is included in the broader subject of Ecology.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Engineering ethics, Deep dive, Aesthetics, Beauty and Environmental design. It explores research in Environmental design and the adjacent study of Architectural engineering.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Avians to Airplanes: Biomimicry in Flight and Wing Design (0 citations)
  • The Evolution of Beauty (0 citations)
  • Environmental Design: Solar Envelopes and Workplace Evaluation (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 Berkeley Scientific Journal (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kapil Gururangan (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Elettra Preosti (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jingyan Wang (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Prashant Bhat (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Melanie Russo (11 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

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Publication chance based on affiliation

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Returning Authors Index

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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

  • Agricultural managed aquifer recharge — water quality factors to consider

    Hannah Waterhouse;Sandra Bachand;Daniel Mountjoy;Joseph Choperena

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Impacts of winter cover cropping on soil moisture and evapotranspiration in California's specialty crop fields may be minimal during winter months

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • Biological and chemical pruning wound protectants reduce infection of grapevine trunk disease pathogens

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • No-tillage sorghum and garbanzo yields match or exceed standard tillage yields

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • Monterey pine forest made a remarkable recovery from pitch canker

    Thomas R. Gordon;Gregory J. Reynolds;Sharon C. Kirkpatrick;Andrew J. Storer

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • No-tillage, surface residue retention, and cover crops improved San Joaquin Valley soil health in the long term

    (2024)
    3 Citations
  • Impacts of winter cover cropping on soil moisture and evapotranspiration in California's specialty crop fields may be minimal during winter months

    (2022)
    3 Citations
  • Cover crop and mulch practices reduce agricultural pollutant loads in stormwater runoff from plastic tunnels

    Oleg Daugovish;Ben Faber;Etaferahu Takele;Jamie Whiteford

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Brown spot in table grape Redglobe controlled in study with sulfur dioxide and temperature treatments

    Cassandra A. Young;Robin A. Choudhury;Carlos H. Crisosto;W. Douglas Gubler

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Long-term reduced tillage and winter cover crops can improve soil quality without depleting moisture

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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