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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 14 476 306 54
Environmental Sciences 163 80 73 28

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 610
Documents by Best Scientists*: 332
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 27
SCIMAGO H-index: 209
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.513
Impact Factor: 7.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment?

Ecology, Environmental resource management, Ecosystem, Ecology (disciplines) and Biodiversity are among the topics commonly tackled in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment concentrated on Ecology research, specifically Climate change, Habitat and Invasive species. While Environmental resource management is the focus of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, it also provided insights into the studies of Natural resource economics and Ecosystem services.

It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Biodiversity and Agroforestry.

  • Ecology (26.07%)
  • Environmental resource management (16.15%)
  • Ecosystem (9.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales (1591 citations)
  • A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2 (1512 citations)
  • Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver (1379 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment:

The journal articles explore disciplines such as Ecology, Environmental resource management, Ecosystem, Biodiversity and Ecology (disciplines). While the primary focus in the journal publications is Environmental resource management, they also dissect topics surrounding Ecosystem services and Deforestation as a whole. The most cited papers address concerns in the field of Biodiversity by exploring it in line with topics in Agroforestry which intersect with Forest ecology subjects.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment explores disciplines such as Ecology, Environmental resource management, Ecology (disciplines), Zoology and Agroforestry. In the journal, Natural (archaeology) and Vertebrate are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Ecology research. The journal facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Scale (ratio) and Ecosystem services.

The study on Ecology (disciplines) presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Environmental ethics. The Agroforestry works featured in it incorporate elements from Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate change and Invasive species. Ecosystem research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Global warming and Habitat.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control (11 citations)
  • Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales (10 citations)
  • Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application (10 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 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Adrian Burton (126 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Katherine Ellison (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Douglass F. Rohrman (61 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Claire Miller (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Claudia Orellana (31 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 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Geological Survey (91 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (76 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (71 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • United States Forest Service (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michigan State University (65 papers) published 6 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, 17.89% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.81% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.83% of all publications and 49.50% 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

  • Wildfires and global change

    Juli G Pausas;Jon E Keeley;Jon E Keeley

    (2021)
    499 Citations
  • Complex responses of global insect pests to climate warming

    Philipp Lehmann;Philipp Lehmann;Philipp Lehmann;Tea Ammunét;Madeleine Barton;Andrea Battisti

    (2020)
    433 Citations
  • Importance of Indigenous peoples' lands for the conservation of intact forest landscapes

    Julia E Fa;Julia E Fa;James Em Watson;James Em Watson;Ian Leiper;Peter Potapov

    (2020)
    333 Citations
  • Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Cameron W Barrows;Aaron R Ramirez;Jennifer M Cartwright

    (2020)
    293 Citations
  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

    Unknown

    (2022)
    285 Citations
  • COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the urgent need for urban greenspaces

    Fritz Kleinschroth;Ingo Kowarik

    (2020)
    212 Citations
  • From eDNA to citizen science: emerging tools for the early detection of invasive species

    Eric R. Larson;Brittney M. Graham;Rafael Achury;Jaime J. Coon

    (2020)
    180 Citations

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