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Geoscience Frontiers
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Geoscience Frontiers

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 15 371 438 50

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 521
Documents by Best Scientists*: 546
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 22
SCIMAGO H-index: 100
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.111
Impact Factor: 8.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Geoscience frontiers?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Geochemistry, Paleontology, Zircon, Tectonics and Subduction. The study on Geochemistry presented in Geoscience frontiers intersects with the topics under Craton. Craton study tackled is connected to the field of Petrology.

In the Paleontology research discussed, Cretaceous, Structural basin, Sedimentary rock, Rift and Paleozoic are all tackled. Geoscience frontiers holds forums on Zircon that merges themes from other disciplines such as Partial melting, Crust, Archean, Provenance and Terrane. It emphasizes research on Tectonics, which includes concerns such as Plate tectonics.

While work presented in Geoscience frontiers provided substantial information on Subduction, it also covered topics in Ophiolite and Basalt. The Metamorphism works featured in it incorporate elements from Metamorphic rock and Granulite. The journal focuses on Mantle (geology) research which is adjacent to topics in Lithosphere.

  • Geochemistry (42.05%)
  • Paleontology (15.75%)
  • Zircon (14.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology (495 citations)
  • Machine learning in geosciences and remote sensing (403 citations)
  • Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic (329 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Geoscience frontiers:

The journal publications are organized to address concerns in the fields of Geochemistry, Paleontology, Craton, Subduction and Tectonics. Metamorphism, Zircon, Mantle (geology), Crust and Metamorphic rock are some of the study areas of Geochemistry discussed in the journal publications. Issues in Subduction were discussed in the published papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Ophiolite, Geophysics and Archean.

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

  • Statistics
  • Ecology
  • Sedimentary rock

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Geoscience frontiers mostly deals with topics like Geochemistry, Zircon, Artificial intelligence, Olivine and Machine learning. While Geochemistry is the focus of Geoscience frontiers, it also provided insights into the studies of Ophiolite, Island arc and Oceanic crust. It deals with Ophiolite in conjunction with Mafic and similar fields in Subduction.

The journal focuses on Zircon but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Felsic, Metamorphism, Gabbro, Anorthosite and Archean. It addresses concerns in Artificial intelligence which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Data science, Logging and Data analysis. Convolutional neural network are all disciplines of Machine learning that connect with topics in Quality (business).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Similarity quantification of soil parametric data and sites using confidence ellipses (2 citations)
  • Mass balance and morphological evolution of the Dokriani Glacier, central Himalaya, India during 1999–2014 (1 citations)
  • Terrestrial records of the early Albian Ocean Anoxic Event: Evidence from the Fuxin lacustrine basin, NE China (1 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 Geoscience frontiers (based on the number of publications) are:

  • M. Santosh (70 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shigenori Maruyama (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Marcos L.S. Oliveira (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christopher Spencer (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luis F.O. Silva (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 Geoscience frontiers (based on the number of publications) are:

  • China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (195 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 17 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (108 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 39 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Adelaide (64 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Curtin University (43 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peking University (35 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 2022 edition, 4.76% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.00% of all publications and 35.00% 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

  • Arsenic contamination of groundwater: A global synopsis with focus on the Indian Peninsula

    E. Shaji;M. Santosh;M. Santosh;K.V. Sarath;Pranav Prakash

    (2021)
    941 Citations
  • Prediction of undrained shear strength using extreme gradient boosting and random forest based on Bayesian optimization

    Wengang Zhang;Chongzhi Wu;Haiyi Zhong;Yongqin Li

    (2021)
    815 Citations
  • State-of-the-art review of soft computing applications in underground excavations

    Wengang Zhang;Runhong Zhang;Chongzhi Wu;Anthony Teck Chee Goh

    (2020)
    500 Citations
  • Landslide susceptibility mapping using hybrid random forest with GeoDetector and RFE for factor optimization

    Xinzhi Zhou;Haijia Wen;Yalan Zhang;Jiahui Xu

    (2021)
    376 Citations
  • Evaluation of deep learning algorithms for national scale landslide susceptibility mapping of Iran

    Phuong Thao Thi Ngo;Mahdi Panahi;Khabat Khosravi;Omid Ghorbanzadeh

    (2021)
    368 Citations
  • Landslide identification using machine learning

    Haojie Wang;Li Min Zhang;Kesheng Yin;Hongyu Luo

    (2021)
    320 Citations
  • Predicting TBM penetration rate in hard rock condition: A comparative study among six XGB-based metaheuristic techniques

    Jian Zhou;Yingui Qiu;Danial Jahed Armaghani;Wengang Zhang

    (2021)
    253 Citations
  • Maximum depositional age estimation revisited

    Pieter Vermeesch

    (2021)
    242 Citations
  • Effects of particle size on crushing and deformation behaviors of rockfill materials

    Yang Xiao;Minqiang Meng;Ali Daouadji;Qingsheng Chen

    (2020)
    194 Citations
  • Integrated model for earthquake risk assessment using neural network and analytic hierarchy process: Aceh province, Indonesia

    Ratiranjan Jena;Biswajeet Pradhan;Biswajeet Pradhan;Ghassan Beydoun;Nizamuddin

    (2020)
    184 Citations

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