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Food and Energy Security
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Food and Energy Security

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 411 20 23 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 219
Documents by Best Scientists*: 192
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 16
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.107
Impact Factor: 4.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Food and Energy Security?

Food and Energy Security investigates areas of study like Agronomy, Food security, Agriculture, Climate change and Agroforestry. As a part of Food and Energy Security, discussions in Agronomy involve topics like Crop, Grain yield, Cultivar, Irrigation and Water-use efficiency. In addition to Food security research, it aims to explore topics under Economic growth, Livelihood, Yield (finance), Natural resource economics and Sustainability.

Production (economics), Food processing and Agricultural economics are some topics wherein Agriculture research discussed in it have an impact.

  • Agronomy (31.14%)
  • Food security (21.61%)
  • Agriculture (16.12%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Pesticides, environment, and food safety (432 citations)
  • The contribution of wheat to human diet and health (339 citations)
  • Climate change and eastern Africa: a review of impact on major crops (194 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Food and Energy Security:

Agronomy, Agriculture, Food security, Irrigation and Agroforestry are the main subjects of interest in the most cited publications. The most cited articles explore topics in Agronomy which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Global warming, Climate change and Staple food. The published papers tackle studies in Food processing and the interrelated subject of Food safety, Crop protection, Pesticide residue, Organic farming and Agrochemical to gain insights into Agriculture.

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Food and Energy Security mainly cover the fields of Food security, Agronomy, Climate change, Horticulture and Agriculture. The concepts on Food security presented in Food and Energy Security can also apply to other research fields, including Zea mays, Toxicology, Post-harvest losses (grains) and Integrated pest management. Research in Canopy and the interrelating topic of Yield gap were among the subjects of interest in the Agronomy studies discussed in Food and Energy Security.

While work presented in Food and Energy Security provided substantial information on Climate change, it also covered topics in Rice grain, Growing season, Natural resource economics, Agricultural policy and Malnutrition. The journal facilitates discussions on Horticulture that incorporate concepts from other fields like Crayfish and Nutrient. The research on Agriculture featured in Food and Energy Security combines topics in other fields like Food processing and Agricultural economics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Impacts of land use, population, and climate change on global food security (7 citations)
  • Increasing the impact of science and technology to provide more people with healthier and safer food (5 citations)
  • Transient daily heat stress during the early reproductive phase disrupts pod and seed development in Brassica napus L. (5 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 Food and Energy Security (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jianhua Zhang (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Martin A. J. Parry (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael W. Humphreys (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jianchang Yang (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhiqin Wang (5 papers) published 2 papers 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 Food and Energy Security (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rothamsted Research (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • China Agricultural University (14 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lancaster University (12 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Yangzhou University (11 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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, 2.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 43.28% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.93% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.43% of all publications and 28.36% 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

  • Effect of straw returning on soil organic carbon in rice–wheat rotation system: A review

    Zhaoqiang Jin;Zhaoqiang Jin;Tariq Shah;Li Zhang;Hongyan Liu

    (2020)
    296 Citations
  • Rice and food security: Climate change implications and the future prospects for nutritional security

    Unknown

    (2022)
    209 Citations
  • Contribution of total dry matter and harvest index to maize grain yield—A multisource data analysis

    Wanmao Liu;Peng Hou;Guangzhou Liu;Yunshan Yang

    (2020)
    93 Citations
  • Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects

    Unknown

    (2022)
    84 Citations
  • Underutilized African indigenous fruit trees and food–nutrition security: Opportunities, challenges, and prospects

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • Increasing the impact of science and technology to provide more people with healthier and safer food

    Perla N. Chávez‐Dulanto;Arnauld A. A. Thiry;Patricia Glorio‐Paulet;Oliver Vögler

    (2021)
    64 Citations
  • Genetic factors increasing barley grain yields under soil waterlogging

    Ke Liu;Ke Liu;Matthew Tom Harrison;Ahmed Ibrahim;S. M. Nuruzzaman Manik

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Light use efficiency of lettuce cultivation in vertical farms compared with greenhouse and field

    (2022)
    54 Citations

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