Ethology

Top Research Topics at Ethology?

Ethology focuses on Ecology, Zoology, Predation, Demography and Communication. It investigates Ecology research which frequently intersects with Aggression. Ethology focused on Aggression research conducted under the discipline of Developmental psychology.

The study on Zoology presented in Ethology intersects with the topics under Agonistic behaviour. It is mostly focused on Predation, specifically Predator. The research on Demography discussed in Ethology draws on the closely related field of Offspring.

It features studies on Communication, including topics such as Animal communication.

• Ecology (37.38%)
• Zoology (29.52%)
• Predation (13.27%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• On aims and methods of Ethology (2678 citations)
• Die angeborenen Formen möglicher Erfahrung. (726 citations)
• The Role of Auditory Feedback in the Control of Vocalization in the White‐Crowned Sparrow1 (720 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ethology:

The published papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Ecology, Zoology, Communication, Predation and Demography. The published articles facilitate discussions on Zoology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Agonistic behaviour and Aggression. The journal publications explore research in Demography alongside concepts in Developmental psychology and other areas of study in Social psychology.

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

• Ecology
• Zoology
• Internal medicine

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Zoology, Sexual selection, Mate choice, Predation and Ecology. The overlapping concepts between Brood parasite and Nest are the key highlights of Zoology study. Sexual selection study tackled is connected to the field of Courtship.

Predator is a primary topic of Predation research in it. While Predator is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Demography and Vigilance (behavioural ecology). Presentations on Ecology include those discussing Cooperative breeding and Sociality.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• The Evolution of Social Behaviour (10 citations)
• Analysis of central place foraging behaviour of wolves using hidden Markov models (5 citations)
• Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers (4 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 Ethology (based on the number of publications) are:

• Wolfgang Wickler (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Daniel T. Blumstein (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
• William E. Cooper (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Uta Seibt (26 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 Ethology (based on the number of publications) are:

• Max Planck Society (345 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• Spanish National Research Council (83 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of California, Davis (72 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• University of Münster (69 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Cornell University (65 papers) published 1 paper 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, 2.48% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.95% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.17% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.41% of all publications and 58.47% 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.