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Ecological Monographs
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Ecological Monographs

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 87 345 173 30

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 408
Documents by Best Scientists*: 185
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index: 179
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.383
Impact Factor: 7.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ecological Monographs?

Ecological Monographs primarily tackles Ecology, Habitat, Predation, Ecosystem and Vegetation. Ecology studies presented include Species richness, Biomass (ecology), Abundance (ecology), Competition (biology) and Ecology (disciplines). The Species richness study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Species diversity.

The journal connects the study in Competition (biology) with the closely related area of Interspecific competition. The work on Predation addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Foraging.

  • Ecology (97.88%)
  • Habitat (10.21%)
  • Predation (9.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An Ordination of the Upland Forest Communities of Southern Wisconsin (7513 citations)
  • Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments (6835 citations)
  • SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH (6070 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecological Monographs:

The published papers investigate areas of study like Ecology, Predation, Ecosystem, Habitat and Biomass (ecology). The most cited publications feature Ecology research that overlaps with concepts in Biological dispersal. The works on Biomass (ecology) tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Productivity (ecology), Primary production and Growing season.

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 journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Habitat. Ecological Monographs primarily discusses Ecology topics, particularly Predation, Spatial ecology, Trophic level, Phenotypic plasticity and Competition (biology). Some problems in Climate change that were presented in Ecological Monographs overlapped with concepts under Ordination, Contingency and Florida scrub.

PEST analysis, Annual plant, Abiotic component and Soil functions are some topics wherein Biodiversity research discussed in Ecological Monographs have an impact. The journal explores topics in Ecosystem which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Bayesian hierarchical modeling and Edaphic. The studies in Habitat featured incorporate elements of Source–sink dynamics and Density dependent.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps (8 citations)
  • Trade-offs affect the adaptive value of plasticity: stronger cannibal-induced defenses incur greater costs in toad larvae (7 citations)
  • Wing transparency in butterflies and moths: structural diversity, optical properties, and ecological relevance (5 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 Ecological Monographs (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bruce A. Menge (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Peter B. Reich (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Ernest Weaver (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James S. Clark (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Monica G. Turner (9 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 Ecological Monographs (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (42 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Duke University (29 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Oregon State University (29 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (29 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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, 1.85% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 28.30% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.98% of all publications and 26.42% 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

  • Predictive performance of presence-only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code

    Roozbeh Valavi;Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita;José J. Lahoz-Monfort;Jane Elith

    (2021)
    713 Citations
  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

    Unknown

    (2022)
    588 Citations
  • Glacial Ecosystems

    Unknown

    (2021)
    308 Citations
  • Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients

    J. Boone Kauffman;Maria Fernanda Adame;Virni Budi Arifanti;Lisa M. Schile‐Beers

    (2020)
    305 Citations
  • Cross validation for model selection: a review with examples from ecology

    (2022)
    146 Citations
  • Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps

    Yohann Chauvier;Wilfried Thuiller;Philipp Brun;Sébastien Lavergne

    (2021)
    119 Citations
  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long‐Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change

    Adrien C. Finzi;Marc‐André Giasson;Audrey A. Barker Plotkin;John D. Aber

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • From competition to facilitation and mutualism: a general theory of the niche

    Thomas Koffel;Tanguy Daufresne;Christopher A. Klausmeier

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Overfishing and the ecological impacts of extirpating large parrotfish from Caribbean coral reefs

    Andrew A. Shantz;Andrew A. Shantz;Mark C. Ladd;Deron E. Burkepile

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • Functional diversity of leaf litter mixtures slows decomposition of labile but not recalcitrant carbon over two years

    Jake J. Grossman;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Sarah E. Hobbie

    (2020)
    66 Citations

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