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Ecology and Evolution
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Ecology and Evolution

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 31 2345 2669 46
Environmental Sciences 174 179 224 26

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 3110
Documents by Best Scientists*: 3167
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 69
SCIMAGO H-index: 109
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.858
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ecology and Evolution?

Ecology and Evolution aims to foster the development of research in Ecology, Zoology, Habitat, Evolutionary biology and Range (biology). Research on Ecology addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Biological dispersal. Studies on Biological dispersal discussed in Ecology and Evolution link to the field of Genetic structure.

The concepts on Evolutionary biology presented in Ecology and Evolution can also apply to other research fields, including Genetic diversity and Phylogenetic tree. Ecology and Evolution links adjacent topics like Genetic diversity with Genetic variation. While it focused on Species richness, it was also able to explore topics like Abundance (ecology) and Species diversity.

Discussions in Ecology and Evolution are anchored in the subject of Predation and the similar topic of Foraging.

  • Ecology (50.85%)
  • Zoology (15.92%)
  • Habitat (13.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories (456 citations)
  • Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability. (315 citations)
  • Meta-analysis reveals complex marine biological responses to the interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming. (285 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecology and Evolution:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Biodiversity, Habitat, Zoology and Climate change. Ecology study tackled in the journal publications is connected to the field of Biological dispersal. Climate change research is the primary subject tackled in the journal articles with a focus in Global warming.

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

  • Ecology
  • Genus
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Ecology, Zoology, Habitat, Evolutionary biology and Range (biology) are among the topics commonly tackled in Ecology and Evolution. Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Species richness, Abundance (ecology) and Climate change are some of the facets of Ecology tackled in it. It addresses concerns in Zoology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Host (biology) and Predation.

The Predation study tackling the subject of Predator is the focus of the journal. It features Evolutionary biology research that overlaps with concepts in Phylogenetic tree.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so (16 citations)
  • Geographic range estimates and environmental requirements for the harpy eagle derived from spatial models of current and past distribution. (7 citations)
  • Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near-independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea. (6 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 Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Helge Bruelheide (19 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Anders Pape Møller (18 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Richard Shine (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • David W. Macdonald (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Michael L. Berumen (13 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.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Ecology and Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (388 papers) published 58 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (172 papers) published 27 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (166 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 9 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (148 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • American Museum of Natural History (140 papers) published 25 papers at the last edition, 4 more than 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, 2.32% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.21% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.49% of all publications and 61.02% 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

  • SDMtune: An R package to tune and evaluate species distribution models

    Sergio Vignali;Arnaud Gian Barras;Raphaël Arlettaz;Veronika Braunisch;Veronika Braunisch

    (2020)
    235 Citations
  • Ignoring non-English-language studies may bias ecological meta-analyses.

    Ko Konno;Munemitsu Akasaka;Chieko Koshida;Naoki Katayama

    (2020)
    220 Citations
  • Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards

    Julija Fediajevaite;Victoria Priestley;Richard Arnold;Vincent Savolainen

    (2021)
    138 Citations
  • Species‐level image classification with convolutional neural network enables insect identification from habitus images

    Oskar L. P. Hansen;Oskar L. P. Hansen;Jens‐Christian Svenning;Kent Olsen;Steen Dupont

    (2020)
    117 Citations
  • Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross-continental similarities in biodiversity change

    Fiona Burns;Mark A. Eaton;Ian J. Burfield;Alena Klvaňová

    (2021)
    116 Citations
  • A practical introduction to sequentially Markovian coalescent methods for estimating demographic history from genomic data.

    Niklas Mather;Samuel M. Traves;Simon Y. W. Ho

    (2020)
    98 Citations
  • Plant functional traits differ in adaptability and are predicted to be differentially affected by climate change.

    Collin W Ahrens;Margaret E Andrew;Richard A Mazanec;Katinka X Ruthrof

    (2020)
    95 Citations
  • Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology.

    Roxanne S. Beltran;Erin Marnocha;Alexandra Race;Donald A. Croll

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • An elusive endosymbiont: Does Wolbachia occur naturally in Aedes aegypti?

    Perran A. Ross;Ashley G. Callahan;Qiong Yang;Moshe Jasper

    (2020)
    85 Citations

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