Ecological Complexity

Top Research Topics at Ecological Complexity?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Ecology, Ecosystem, Environmental resource management, Predation and Statistical physics. It addresses concerns in Ecology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Biological dispersal and Extinction. Topics in Environmental resource management were tackled in line with various other fields like Sustainability and Ecosystem services.

Research on Predation presented in it focuses, in particular, on Predator and Functional response.

• Ecology (48.10%)
• Ecosystem (12.11%)
• Environmental resource management (9.46%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making (2110 citations)
• Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China (433 citations)
• Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery (324 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecological Complexity:

The journal articles mostly deal with topics like Ecology, Environmental resource management, Ecosystem, Ecosystem services and Vegetation. The works on Environmental resource management tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Biodiversity, Conceptual framework, Land use, Natural resource management and Sustainability. Aside from investigating topics in Ecosystem valuation and Total economic value under Ecosystem services, the journal articles also explore concepts in Valuation (finance).

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

• Ecology
• Statistics
• Ecosystem

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Ecological Complexity aims to foster the development of research in Ecology, Predator, Ecosystem, Allee effect and Predation. Ecology research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Intelligent control, Robustness (computer science) and Observer (quantum physics). Topics in Predator explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Extinction, Uniqueness, Corvus splendens, Nest and Applied mathematics.

Ecological Complexity addresses concerns in the field of Ecosystem by exploring it in line with topics in Trophic level which intersect with Intraguild predation subjects. The research on Predation tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Point (geometry), Interior equilibrium and Diversity (business). The concepts on Emergy presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Environmental resource management and Ecosystem services.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Environmental regulation and CO2 emissions: Based on strategic interaction of environmental governance (13 citations)
• Dynamics of a stochastic predator-prey model with habitat complexity and prey aggregation (8 citations)
• Fractional Optimal Control Dynamics of Coronavirus Model with Mittag–Leffler Law (7 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 Ecological Complexity (based on the number of publications) are:

• Bai-Lian Li (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Rusong Wang (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ezio Venturino (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Sergei Petrovskii (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Bob W. Kooi (10 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 Ecological Complexity (based on the number of publications) are:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences (48 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• University of California, Riverside (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (18 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Wageningen University and Research Centre (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Spanish National Research Council (18 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, 6.38% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.64% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 4.55% of all publications and 75.00% 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.