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Ecoscience
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Ecoscience

1195-6860

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/teco20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 528 28 25 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 41
Documents by Best Scientists*: 32
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 79
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.499
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ecoscience?

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Botany, Habitat, Species richness and Taiga. Research on Ecology presented in Ecoscience focuses, in particular, on Predation, Abundance (ecology), Vegetation, Herbivore and Range (biology). Ecoscience focuses on Botany but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Agronomy and Horticulture.

  • Ecology (69.14%)
  • Botany (15.40%)
  • Habitat (12.71%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The scent of death: Chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals (1196 citations)
  • Chemical alarm signalling in aquatic predator-prey systems: A review and prospectus (922 citations)
  • Canonical community ordination. Part I: Basic theory and linear methods (549 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ecoscience:

The journal articles focus on Ecology, Botany, Habitat, Species richness and Peat. The most cited papers aim to address concerns in Ecology, specifically in the areas of Predation, Abundance (ecology), Taiga, Herbivore and Ecosystem. The most cited publications explore issues in Habitat which can be linked to other research areas like Vegetation and Selection (genetic algorithm).

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Genus

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Ecology, Physical geography, Habitat, Climate change and Subarctic climate. The journal primarily discusses Ecology topics, particularly Species richness, Species distribution, Abundance (ecology), Lichen and Taiga. The journal explores issues in Physical geography which can be linked to other research areas like Snow, Urbanization and Vegetation.

The research on Habitat tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Fragmentation (computing), Monarch butterfly and Asclepias syriaca. The studies in Climate change featured incorporate elements of Snowpack, Permafrost, Transect and Vegetation cover. Topics in Subarctic climate explored in Ecoscience were investigated in conjunction with research in Macrofossil, Dendrochronology, Chronology and Black spruce.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • New northern snowpack classification linked to vegetation cover on a latitudinal mega-transect across northeastern Canada (3 citations)
  • A 2233-year tree-ring chronology of subarctic black spruce (Picea mariana): growth forms response to long-term climate change (1 citations)
  • Natural recovery of vegetation on reclamation stockpiles after 26 to 34 years (1 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 Ecoscience (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Yves Bergeron (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jean-Pierre Ouellet (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Serge Payette (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Roger W. Ruess (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Claude Lavoie (12 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.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Ecoscience (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Laval University (98 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 13 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Alberta (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Université du Québec à Montréal (29 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (27 papers) published 1 paper 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, 5.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 45.95% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.81% of all publications and 35.14% 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

  • Drivers of Extreme Wildfire Years in the 1965–2019 Fire Regime of the Tłchǫ First Nation Territory, Canada

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Taxonomic Estimates of Climbing Plants in India: How Many Species are Out There?

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Current climate and latitude shape the structure of bat-fruit interaction networks throughout the Neotropical region

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Natural recovery of vegetation on reclamation stockpiles after 26 to 34 years

    Brenda E Shaughnessy;Amalesh Dhar;M. Anne Naeth

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • A 2233-year tree-ring chronology of subarctic black spruce (Picea mariana): growth forms response to long-term climate change

    Ann Delwaide;Hugo Asselin;Dominique Arseneault;Claude Lavoie

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Elevated Concentrations of CO2 and Nitrogen Alter DOC Release and Soil Phenolic Content in Wetland Microcosms

    Chaeho Byun;Seon Young Kim;Hojeong Kang

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • The Great Whale River ecosystem: ecology of a subarctic river and its receiving waters in coastal Hudson Bay, Canada

    Christian Nozais;Warwick F. Vincent;Claude Belzile;Michel Gosselin

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Early Ecosystem Establishment Using Forest Floor and Peat Cover Soils in Oil Sands Reclamation

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • How will snow retention and shading from Arctic shrub expansion affect caribou food resources

    Evelyne Lemay;Steeve D. Côté;Jean-Pierre Tremblay

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Vascular plant communities in the polar desert of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada): Establishment of a baseline reference for the 21st century

    Émilie Desjardins;Sandra Lai;Serge Payette;François Vézina

    (2021)
    4 Citations

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