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Community Ecology
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Community Ecology

1585-8553

Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt.

https://www.springer.com/journal/42974

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 434 45 45 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 54
Documents by Best Scientists*: 52
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 39
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.468
Impact Factor: 2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Community Ecology?

The topics of Animal ecology, Ecology, Biodiversity, Species richness and Plant ecology are the focal point of discussions in the journal. It facilitates discussions on Animal ecology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Grassland, Agronomy, Statistics, Vegetation and Ecosystem. The Vegetation study featured in Community Ecology draws parallels with the field of Physical geography.

Community Ecology facilitated presentations on Ecology research, particularly Habitat, Species diversity, Abundance (ecology), Plant community and Competition (biology). The concepts on Biodiversity presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Dominance (ecology), Agroforestry and Generalist and specialist species. The research on Species richness featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Community and Community structure.

The study of Botany serves as the foundation of the Plant ecology research discussed in the journal.

  • Animal ecology (89.97%)
  • Ecology (76.85%)
  • Biodiversity (46.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Imperfect detection and its consequences for monitoring for conservation (213 citations)
  • Overview : introductions, extinctions, exterminations and invasions (139 citations)
  • Vegetation dynamics on mosaics of Camposand Araucaria forest between 1974 and 1999 in Southern Brazil (120 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Community Ecology:

The most cited papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Animal ecology, Biodiversity, Species richness and Habitat. The most cited papers address concerns in Animal ecology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Ecological succession, Sampling (statistics), Statistics, Grassland and Physical geography. While the journal articles mainly focused on Biodiversity studies, they also tackled the scientific discipline of interrelated fields such as

  • Agroforestry and related Ecosystem,
  • Introduced species that intertwine with fields like Invasive species..

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

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Habitat

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal explores disciplines such as Animal ecology, Ecology, Biodiversity, Species richness and Plant ecology. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Animal ecology, it also covered topics in Community structure, Ecosystem, Beta diversity, Benthic zone and Frugivore. Community Ecology discusses concepts in Habitat, Community, Species diversity and Abundance (ecology) under Ecology and how they intertwine with disciplines like Pollinator.

It addresses concerns in Biodiversity which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Sampling (statistics), Information theory, Key (cryptography), Coding (social sciences) and Data science. The journal explores topics in Species richness which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Beech, Grassland, Vegetation and Zooplankton. The research on Plant ecology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Plant community, Myrtaceae, Litter and Understory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Unique habitat and macroinvertebrate assemblage structures in spring-fed stream: a comparison among clastic lowland tributaries and mainstreams in northern Japan (2 citations)
  • Longitudinal trends of the small mammal community of the Apostle Islands archipelago (2 citations)
  • Measuring diversity from space: a global view of the free and open source rasterdiv R package under a coding perspective (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 Community Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Carlo Ricotta (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Michael Bodley Dale (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Giovanni Bacaro (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • János Podani (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ferenc Jordán (14 papers) published 1 paper 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 Community Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eötvös Loránd University (57 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sapienza University of Rome (29 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Szent István University (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (19 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, 13.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.69% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 7.69% of all publications and 80.77% 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

  • Community-level variation in plant functional traits and ecological strategies shapes habitat structure along succession gradients in alpine environment

    Magda Zanzottera;Magda Zanzottera;Michele Dalle Fratte;Marco Caccianiga;Simon Pierce

    (2020)
    48 Citations
  • Paul A. Keddy and Daniel C. Laughlin: A Framework for Community Ecology. Species Pools, Filters and Traits

    (2022)
    23 Citations
  • Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset

    (2022)
    23 Citations
  • Measuring diversity from space: a global view of the free and open source rasterdiv R package under a coding perspective

    Elisa Thouverai;Matteo Marcantonio;Matteo Marcantonio;Giovanni Bacaro;Daniele Da Re

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Complementarity between mist-netting and low-cost acoustic recorders to sample bats in Amazonian rainforests and savannahs

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • Role of irrigation canal morphology in driving riparian flora in over-exploited catchments

    Irene Montanari;Fabrizio Buldrini;Rossano Bolpagni;Rossano Bolpagni;Alex Laini

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Multi-taxon patterns from high Andean peatlands: assessing climatic and landscape variables

    Andrea E. Izquierdo;Julieta Carilla;Carolina Nieto;Oriana Osinaga Acosta

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Helminth metacommunity of small mammals in a Brazilian reserve: the contribution of environmental variables, host attributes and spatial variables in parasite species abundance

    T. S. Cardoso;T. S. Cardoso;S. F. Costa-Neto;C. Braga;M. Weksler

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Light intensity and seed density differentially affect the establishment, survival, and biomass of an exotic invader and three species of native competitors

    Diana Pik;Jacob E. Lucero;Jacob E. Lucero;Christopher J. Lortie;Jenna Braun

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Revealing hidden drivers of macrofungal species richness by analyzing fungal guilds in temperate forests, West Hungary

    Gergely Kutszegi;Irén Siller;Bálint Dima;Zsolt Merényi

    (2021)
    8 Citations

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