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Field Crops Research
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Field Crops Research

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 13 458 763 49

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 656
Documents by Best Scientists*: 875
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 30
SCIMAGO H-index: 202
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.666
Impact Factor: 6.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Field Crops Research?

Field Crops Research investigates areas of study like Agronomy, Cultivar, Crop, Sowing and Crop yield. The journal holds forums on Agronomy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Soil water and Nitrogen. It explores issues in Cultivar which can be linked to other research areas like Panicle, Canopy and Dry matter.

The journal addresses concerns in Crop which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Biomass (ecology), Intercropping, Phenology and Growing season. Field Crops Research focuses on Crop yield research which is adjacent to topics in Tillage. It centers on topics in Irrigation, with a focus on Water-use efficiency.

The work on Fertilizer addressed in Field Crops Research expands to the thematically related Nutrient. The work tackled in the journal goes beyond the discipline of Horticulture as it also encompasses Botany.

  • Agronomy (77.92%)
  • Cultivar (24.00%)
  • Crop (22.02%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view (1000 citations)
  • Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: An integrated view from breeding to genomics (958 citations)
  • Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review (804 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Field Crops Research:

The most cited publications cover a variety of subjects, including Agronomy, Cultivar, Crop, Crop yield and Sowing. Agronomy study tackled in the most cited articles is connected to the field of Soil water. The featured Crop studies in the journal papers mainly concentrate on Canopy but also cover areas of interest in Interception.

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Agronomy, Crop, Sowing, Yield (wine) and Crop yield. Issues in Agronomy were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Soil water and Nutrient. While Crop is the key highlight in it, it also covered some subjects on Nitrogen and Yield (chemistry) and Grain yield.

Sowing research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Cover crop, Intercropping, Irrigation and Water content. Field Crops Research focuses on Crop yield but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Agriculture, Mulch and Yield (finance). The overlapping concepts between Canopy and Leaf area index and Photosynthesis are the key highlights of Cultivar study.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Sensitivity of the DSSAT model in simulating maize yield and soil carbon dynamics in arid Mediterranean climate: Effect of soil, genotype and crop management (12 citations)
  • The FLORSYS crop-weed canopy model, a tool to investigate and promote agroecological weed management (7 citations)
  • Wheat straw mulching with nitrification inhibitor application improves grain yield and economic benefit while mitigating gaseous emissions from a dryland maize field in northwest China (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 Field Crops Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Victor O. Sadras (89 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Shu Fukai (78 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gustavo A. Slafer (65 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shaobing Peng (51 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Thomas R. Sinclair (48 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 Field Crops Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (434 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • International Rice Research Institute (390 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (225 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (199 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (196 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 5.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 34.19% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.95% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.38% of all publications and 29.49% 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

  • Biological nitrogen fixation and prospects for ecological intensification in cereal-based cropping systems

    Unknown

    (2022)
    286 Citations
  • Intercropping maize and soybean increases efficiency of land and fertilizer nitrogen use; A meta-analysis

    Zhan Xu;Zhan Xu;Chunjie Li;Chunjie Li;Chaochun Zhang;Chaochun Zhang;Yang Yu

    (2020)
    269 Citations
  • Does crop rotation yield more in China? A meta-analysis

    Jie Zhao;Jie Zhao;Yadong Yang;Kai Zhang;Jaehak Jeong

    (2020)
    235 Citations
  • Meta-analysis of green manure effects on soil properties and crop yield in northern China

    Dengke Ma;Dengke Ma;Lina Yin;Lina Yin;Wenliang Ju;Xiankun Li

    (2021)
    196 Citations
  • Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars.

    A.S. Nehe;S. Misra;E.H. Murchie;K. Chinnathambi

    (2020)
    132 Citations
  • Can deep fertilizer application enhance maize productivity by delaying leaf senescence and decreasing nitrate residue levels?

    Unknown

    (2022)
    113 Citations
  • Progress in research on site-specific nutrient management for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

    Unknown

    (2022)
    112 Citations
  • Yield, dry matter distribution and photosynthetic characteristics of rice under elevated CO2 and increased temperature conditions

    Weilu Wang;Weilu Wang;Chuang Cai;Jiang He;Junfei Gu

    (2020)
    109 Citations
  • Does straw return increase crop yield in the wheat-maize cropping system in China? A meta-analysis

    (2022)
    97 Citations
  • Ensemble modelling of carbon fluxes in grasslands and croplands

    Renáta Sándor;Fiona Ehrhardt;Peter Grace;Sylvie Recous

    (2020)
    79 Citations

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