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Frontiers of Biogeography
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Frontiers of Biogeography

Published by: University of California

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 230 103 98 15
Earth Science 528 9 9 5
Environmental Sciences 773 7 7 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 128
Documents by Best Scientists*: 109
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 19
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.893
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Frontiers of biogeography?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Ecology (disciplines) and Biological dispersal. It concentrates on Ecology topics that focus on Species richness, Habitat, Range (biology), Climate change and Taxon. The work tackled in Frontiers of biogeography goes beyond the discipline of Species richness as it also encompasses Endemism.

Topics in Climate change explored in Frontiers of biogeography were investigated in conjunction with research in Species distribution and Extinction. The journal facilitates discussions on Biogeography that incorporate concepts from other fields like Ethnology and Library science. The journal facilitated presentations on Biodiversity research, particularly Habitat destruction and Global biodiversity.

The research on Ecology (disciplines) featured in Frontiers of biogeography combines topics in other fields like Diversity (politics) and Field (geography). Frontiers of biogeography tackles research works in Biological dispersal as well as Vicariance. The Insular biogeography study featured in the journal draws parallels with the field of Archipelago.

  • Ecology (58.72%)
  • Biogeography (41.83%)
  • Biodiversity (19.63%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing (342 citations)
  • The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), up and walking (84 citations)
  • Fitting and comparing competing models of the species abundance distribution: assessment and prospect (41 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Frontiers of biogeography:

The journal publications cover a variety of subjects, including Ecology, Biodiversity, Habitat destruction, Evolutionary biology and Environmental resource management. The studies on Evolutionary biology discussed at the most cited papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Machine learning, Probabilistic logic, Statistical model, Artificial intelligence and Biogeography. The journal publications focus on Biogeography but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Inference, Genetic algorithm and Selection (genetic algorithm).

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Frontiers of biogeography is mainly concerned with subjects like Ecology, Biogeography, Habitat, Climate change and Biodiversity. Species richness, Taxon, Global biodiversity, Range (biology) and Ecological niche are among the areas of Ecology tackled. Frontiers of biogeography facilitates the exploration of Biogeography in relation to the field of Clade.

It addresses concerns in Habitat which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Abundance (ecology) and Glacial period. It holds forums on Climate change that merges themes from other disciplines such as Last Glacial Maximum, Endangered species, Species distribution and Extinction. While Biodiversity is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Endemism and Elevation, Genetic diversity and Gene flow.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Non-overlapping climatic niches and biogeographic barriers explain disjunct distributions of continental Urania moths (2 citations)
  • Legacies of an ice-age world may explain the contemporary biogeographical provinces of corals (2 citations)
  • Thresholds and the species–area relationship: a set of functions for fitting, evaluating and plotting a range of commonly used piecewise models in R (2 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 of biogeography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael N Dawson (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Joaquín Hortal (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Richard Field (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Robert J. Whittaker (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Daniel G. Gavin (12 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 of biogeography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Spanish National Research Council (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Australian National University (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Merced (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of La Laguna (2 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oregon (2 papers) absent 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, 95.56% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 50.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 50.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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

  • Macroecological links between the Linnean, Wallacean, and Darwinian shortfalls

    Unknown

    (2023)
    60 Citations
  • Globally important plant functional traits for coping with climate change

    Nicola Kühn;Carolina Tovar;Julia Carretero;Vigdis Vandvik

    (2021)
    57 Citations
  • A simulation-based method for selecting calibration areas for ecological niche models and species distribution models

    Fernando Machado-Stredel;Marlon E. Cobos;A. Townsend Peterson

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • 12,500+ and counting: biodiversity of the Brazilian Pampa

    (2023)
    48 Citations
  • Optimizing biodiversity informatics to improve information flow, data quality, and utility for science and society

    Robert P. Anderson;Miguel B. Araújo;Antoine Guisan;Jorge M. Lobo

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Land snails on islands: building a global inventory

    Konstantinos Proios;Robert A. Cameron;Kostas A. Triantis

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • The onset of grasses in the Amazon drainage basin, evidence from the fossil record

    Judith A. Kirschner;Carina Hoorn

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Operationalizing expert knowledge in species' range estimates using diverse data types

    (2022)
    25 Citations
  • The interface between macroecology and conservation: existing links and untapped opportunities

    Luca Santini;Laura H. Antao;Martin Jung;Ana Benitez-Lopez

    (2021)
    24 Citations

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