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Ecology and Civil Engineering
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Ecology and Civil Engineering

1344-3755

Published by: Ecology and Civil Engineering Society

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ece

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 794 6 12 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 9
Documents by Best Scientists*: 16
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 10
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.127
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ecology and Civil Engineering?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Ecology, Fishery, Hydrology, Habitat and Environmental resource management. Riparian zone is a focus of the Ecology works in it. Floodplain is part of Hydrology studies tackled in Ecology and Civil Engineering.

  • Ecology (23.30%)
  • Fishery (22.77%)
  • Hydrology (15.97%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Applying public health lessons to protect river health (31 citations)
  • Settlement and upstream migration of the Japanese mitten crab Eriocheir japonica (de Haan) (24 citations)
  • 指標・危急生物としてのイシガイ目二枚貝: 生息環境の劣化プロセスと再生へのアプローチ (24 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecology and Civil Engineering:

The most cited publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Benthic zone, Fishery, Riparian zone and Alien. The published papers explore issues in Ecology which can be linked to other research areas like Ecological study, Metapopulation and Botany. The journal articles hold forums on Fishery that merge themes from other disciplines such as Settlement (structural) and Habitat.

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

  • Ecology
  • Habitat
  • Wetland

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Fishery, Remote sensing, Vegetation (pathology), Ecology and Image processing. The presented studies in Benthic algae fall within the purview of Fishery but it also intertwines with topics in Suburban area. The work on Remote sensing tackled in Ecology and Civil Engineering brings together disciplines like Mire and Video camera.

Ecology and Civil Engineering facilitated discussions that integrated Vegetation (pathology) with the fields of Environmental resource management, Road construction, Adaptive management, Survey methodology and Omnidirectional antenna. Ecology research featured in Ecology and Civil Engineering incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Shore and Alien. The concepts on Computer vision presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Artificial neural network and Robot, Visual navigation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Assessment of mangrove forest degradation by comparing multiple rivers. (1 citations)
  • Conservation of frog habitats for land consolidation projects in paddy field areas (0 citations)
  • Fish breeding and conservation in traditional and land consolidated paddy water areas (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 Ecology and Civil Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Yuichi Kayaba (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Futoshi Nakamura (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yukihiro Shimatani (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shigeya Nagayama (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hiroyuki Yamada (10 papers) published 3 papers 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 Ecology and Civil Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hokkaido University (20 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kyoto University (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tokyo (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kyushu University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tokushima (10 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, 6.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 59.26% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.93% of all publications and 11.11% 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

  • Decadal changes in river geomorphology, and its effect on chum salmon spawning habitat, Toyohira River, Japan.

    Nozomi Aruga;Kentaro Morita;Makoto Aruga;Kazutoshi Ueda

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Relative importance of marine and terrestrial organic matter in the trophic base of sandy beach communities revealed by a triple stable isotope approach.

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Temporal and spatial variations of stranded debris on the sandy beaches of Sendai South Bay revealed by a monitoring method with an UAV.

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Assessment on ecosystem services from Lake Kasumigaura using Best–Worst Scaling.

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Valuing ecosystem services from Lake Kasumigaura using a discrete choice experiment.

    Satoshi Kouhuku;Takahiro Kubo;Tatsumi Kitamura;Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • 環境 DNA 分析によるゲンジボタル幼虫の検出と定量可能性

    Ryo Watanabe;Kohei Nakao;Yumiko Hiraishi;Kenji Tsuri

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • The influences of snowmelt runoff from snow disposal sites on stream water quality, benthic macroinvertebrates and algae in Sapporo.

    Keita Kawajiri;Masanao Sueyoshi;Nobuo Ishiyama;Tamihisa Ohta

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • Assessing and valuing ecosystem services of Lake Kasumigaura using multiple evaluation methods: introduction to feature.

    Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki;Tatsumi Kitamura;Koji Nishi;Shun-ichi Matsumoto

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • 霞ヶ浦生態系サービスの経済評価の意義,課題,そして活用

    Hiroya Yamano;Takahiro Kubo;Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • 2019 年台風 19 号(令和元年東日本台風)災害を踏まえた治水・環境への提言

    Futoshi Nakamura;Yukihiro Shimatani;Kazuaki Ohtsuki;Hideaki Sekine

    (2021)
    0 Citations

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