Ecography

Top Research Topics at Ecography?

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Ecology, Habitat, Species richness, Biological dispersal and Range (biology). In the Ecology research discussed, Abundance (ecology), Biodiversity, Species diversity, Spatial ecology and Predation are all tackled. While work presented in Ecography provided substantial information on Habitat, it also covered topics in Climate change and Vegetation.

It focuses on Species richness research which is adjacent to topics in Plant community. It focused on Range (biology) research but expanded to cover Species distribution.

• Ecology (99.26%)
• Habitat (21.75%)
• Species richness (16.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data (5944 citations)
• Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance (3981 citations)
• Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation (3902 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecography:

The published articles primarily tackle Ecology, Species richness, Habitat, Biological dispersal and Species diversity. In the Ecology research discussed in the most cited papers, Biodiversity, Range (biology), Abundance (ecology), Spatial ecology and Species distribution are all tackled. The journal articles facilitate discussions on Habitat that incorporate concepts from other fields like Spatial heterogeneity and Predation.

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

• Ecology
• Genus
• Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of Ecography is to combine knowledge in the areas of Ecology, Species richness, Biodiversity, Climate change and Biological dispersal. Topics like Range (biology), Species distribution, Abundance (ecology), Biogeography and Spatial ecology are tackled as part of the discussions on Ecology. Species richness research featured in Ecography incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Habitat destruction, Habitat, Trophic level and Extinction.

Ecography connects the study in Biodiversity with the closely related area of Species diversity. Most of the Climate change studies addressed also intersect with Niche.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• sampbias, a method for quantifying geographic sampling biases in species distribution data (18 citations)
• Testing Bergmann’s rule in marine copepods (12 citations)
• A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes (8 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 Ecography (based on the number of publications) are:

• Wilfried Thuiller (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Jens-Christian Svenning (32 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
• Antoine Guisan (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Miguel B. Araújo (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Carsten Rahbek (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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 Ecography (based on the number of publications) are:

• Spanish National Research Council (102 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (100 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (89 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Helsinki (75 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Lund University (75 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, 1.24% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.72% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.27% of all publications and 41.51% 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.