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Ichnos
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Ichnos

1042-0940

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gich20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 398 28 45 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 31
Documents by Best Scientists*: 47
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 45
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.451
Impact Factor: 2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces?

Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces generally zeroes in on subjects such as Paleontology, Trace fossil, Cretaceous, Ichnology and Ichnotaxon. Trackway, Structural basin, Ichnofacies, Burrow and Tetrapod (structure) are all areas of Paleontology tackled in the journal. It addresses concerns in Trackway which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Manus and Footprint.

The studies in Trace fossil featured incorporate elements of Ecology, Paleoecology, Sediment and Planolites, Facies. Cretaceous research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Ornithopod.

  • Paleontology (76.48%)
  • Trace fossil (34.68%)
  • Cretaceous (18.01%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance of the lacustrine Mermia ichnofacies: An archetypical subaqueous nonmarine trace fossil assemblage (185 citations)
  • A comparison of crayfish burrow morphologies: Triassic and Holocene fossil, paleo‐ and neo‐ichnological evidence, and the identification of their burrowing signatures (173 citations)
  • Commentary: The ichnotaxa Palaeophycus and Planolites: Historical perspectives and recommendations (155 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces:

The journal articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Paleontology, Trace fossil, Ichnotaxon, Cretaceous and Trackway. The published papers with studies in Trace fossil featured incorporate elements of Helminthopsis, Ichnofacies, Burrow, Nest and Paleoecology. While Cretaceous is the focus of the published articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Tyrannosaurus and Fluvial.

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

  • Paleontology
  • Ecology
  • Genus

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces is mainly concerned with subjects like Paleontology, Trace fossil, Ichnology, Archaeology and Taphonomy. The research on Paleontology discussed in Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces draws on the closely related field of Bioerosion. While work presented in Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces provided substantial information on Trace fossil, it also covered topics in Context (language use), Mammal, Group (stratigraphy), Morphology (biology) and Sedimentary depositional environment.

Topics in Ichnology explored in Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces were investigated in conjunction with research in Storm, Database, Database design and Colonization. Topics in Archaeology were tackled in line with various other fields like Chirotherium, The Renaissance, Gastrochaenolites and Ammonite. While Taphonomy is the focus of Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces, it also provided insights into the studies of Wight, Limpet, Emys and Paleogene.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Trace fossils, depositional context, and paleogeography of the upper Tal Group (upper lower Cambrian), Lesser Himalaya, India: a Gondwanan succession with no affinities to the Avalonia microcontinent – discussion of paper by Singh et al. (2019) (2 citations)
  • The earliest occurrence of the ichnogenus Psilonichnus: a new record from the Mississippian of the West of Ireland (1 citations)
  • The shell-armoured trace fossil Ereipichnus pickerillensis from the Pliocene Moruga Formation, Trinidad: morphology and palaeoenvironment (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 Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Martin G. Lockley (88 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • S. George Pemberton (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephen K. Donovan (33 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Spencer G. Lucas (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alfred Uchman (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than 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 Ichnos-an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Colorado Denver (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Alberta (47 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • American Museum of Natural History (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jagiellonian University (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Korea National University of Education (19 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, 12.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 27.27% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 18.18% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.73% of all publications and 31.82% 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

  • Tooth marks, gnaw marks, claw-marks, bite marks, scratch marks, etc: terminology in ichnology

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast

    (2023)
    16 Citations
  • Hyena hegemony: biogeography and taphonomy of Pleistocene vertebrate coprolites with description of a new mammoth coprolite ichnotaxon

    Adrian P. Hunt;Spencer G. Lucas

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • The “Plastotype Problem” in Ichnological Taxonomy

    Spencer G. Lucas;Jerald D. Harris

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Image processing techniques to improve characterization of composite ichnofabrics

    F. J. Rodríguez-Tovar;O. Miguez-Salas;J. Dorador

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Tracking the last elephants in Europe during the Würm Pleniglacial: the importance of the Late Pleistocene aeolianite record in SW Iberia

    Carlos Neto de Carvalho;Silvério Figueiredo;Fernando Muniz;João Belo

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • First Record of Graphoglyptids in Cyprus: Indicative Presence of Turbidite Deposits at the Pakhna Formation

    Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar;Olmo Miguez-Salas;Francisco J. Hernández-Molina;Heiko Hüneke

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • An insect boring in an Early Cretaceous wood from Bornholm, Denmark

    Radek Mikulás;Jesper Milàn;Jorge Fernando Genise;Markus Bertling

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • The armored burrow Nummipera eocenica from the upper Eocene San Jacinto Formation, Colombia: morphology and paleoenvironmental implications

    Gabriel Mendoza-Rodríguez;Luis A. Buatois;Daniel Rincón-Martínez;M. Gabriela Mángano

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Ichnologic note: in defence of Thatchtelithichnus Zonneveld, Bartels, Gunnell and McHugh, 2015

    John-Paul Zonneveld;William S. Bartels

    (2020)
    7 Citations

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