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Geoscience Letters
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Geoscience Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 265 45 46 14
Environmental Sciences 488 30 31 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 82
Documents by Best Scientists*: 80
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.99
Impact Factor: 4.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Geoscience Letters?

Geoscience Letters focuses on Climatology, Seismology, Biogeosciences, Planetary science and Oceanography. Precipitation, Climate model and Atmospheric sciences are some topics wherein Climatology research discussed in the journal have an impact. Research on Climate model presented in it concerns the broader topic of Climate change.

Fault (geology), Induced seismicity, Tectonics, Seismic hazard and Subduction are all aspects of Seismology discussed in it. The study on Induced seismicity featured in Geoscience Letters expounds on the topic of Focal mechanism in particular. It focuses on Planetary science as well as the interrelated topic of Geophysics.

The journal holds forums on Geophysics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Solar wind and Substorm. The journal investigates Substorm research which frequently intersects with Ionosphere.

  • Climatology (21.61%)
  • Seismology (21.11%)
  • Biogeosciences (17.59%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • History and Development of Coronal Mass Ejections as a Key Player in Solar Terrestrial Relationship (79 citations)
  • Geomagnetic storms: historical perspective to modern view (62 citations)
  • A trio-interaction theory for Madden–Julian oscillation (53 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Geoscience Letters:

The published articles primarily tackle Climatology, Seismology, Oceanography, Geophysics and Global warming. The most cited articles explore research in Atmospheric sciences and overlapping concepts in Nitrogen dioxide and Air quality index to expand the discourse in Climatology. Aside from discussions in Geophysics, the journal papers also deal with the subject of Gravity wave which intersects with Atmosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere disciplines.

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

  • Astronomy
  • Oceanography
  • Meteorology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of Geoscience Letters are Climatology, Biogeosciences, Seismology, Water resource management and Sea surface temperature. It explores research in Boreal and overlapping concepts in Ekman transport to expand the discourse in Climatology. Seismic moment, Tectonics, Fault (geology) and Large earthquakes studies in the realm of Seismology interact with fields like Statistical inference.

The research on Fault (geology) tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Point cloud and Satellite. In it, Estuary, Climate change and Groundwater are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Water resource management research. Sea surface temperature research presented in Geoscience Letters encompasses a variety of subjects, including Precipitation and Oceanic basin.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Arsenic in the Pearl River Delta and its related waterbody, South China: occurrence and sources, a review (3 citations)
  • On the geophysical processes impacting palaeo-sea-level observations (3 citations)
  • Upper ocean response to tropical cyclones: a review (3 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 Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kenji Satake (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Andri Dian Nugraha (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Sri Widiyantoro (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Xuerui Wu (4 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yusuke Yokoyama (4 papers) published 1 paper 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 Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (18 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tokyo (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bandung Institute of Technology (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Central University (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nagoya University (7 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, 3.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 45.16% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.68% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.35% of all publications and 25.81% 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

  • Two-year consecutive concurrences of positive Indian Ocean Dipole and Central Pacific El Niño preconditioned the 2019/2020 Australian “black summer” bushfires

    (2020)
    97 Citations
  • Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami, January 2022: globally the most significant opportunity to observe an explosive and tsunamigenic submarine eruption since AD 1883 Krakatau

    (2022)
    89 Citations
  • Truths of the Riverscape: Moving beyond command-and-control to geomorphologically informed nature-based river management

    (2022)
    59 Citations
  • Complex tsunami hazards in eastern Indonesia from seismic and non-seismic sources: Deterministic modelling based on historical and modern data

    Ignatius R. Pranantyo;Mohammad Heidarzadeh;Phil R. Cummins

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • On the geophysical processes impacting palaeo-sea-level observations

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Anthony Purcell

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • Evaluation of the landslide susceptibility and its spatial difference in the whole Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region by five learning algorithms

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Hematite (α-Fe2O3) quantification in sedimentary magnetism: limitations of existing proxies and ways forward

    Andrew P. Roberts;Xiang Zhao;David Heslop;Alexandra Abrajevitch;Alexandra Abrajevitch

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Strategies for smarter catchment hydrology models: incorporating scaling and better process representation

    Roy C. Sidle;Roy C. Sidle;Roy C. Sidle

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • Extreme IOD induced tropical Indian Ocean warming in 2020

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Earthquake monitoring of the Baribis Fault near Jakarta, Indonesia, using borehole seismometers

    (2021)
    26 Citations

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