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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

1918-3178

Published by: Queen's University

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/about

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 782 8 5 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 9
Documents by Best Scientists*: 6
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 0.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Ideas in Ecology and Evolution?

The journal explores disciplines such as Ecology, Ecology (disciplines), Evolutionary biology, Publishing and Evolutionary ecology. The Ecology study featured in the journal draws parallels with the field of Ecological speciation. The journal focuses on Ecology (disciplines) but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Environmental ethics, Impact factor and Data science.

Ideas in Ecology and Evolution investigates Environmental ethics research which frequently intersects with Creativity. The journal aims to bridge the gap between the study of Data science and Context (language use). The journal aims to form a more comprehensive understanding of the field by integrating disciplines like Evolutionary biology and Aposematism.

Publishing research featured in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Scientific communication, Engineering ethics and Citation.

  • Ecology (23.91%)
  • Ecology (disciplines) (15.94%)
  • Evolutionary biology (11.59%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication (94 citations)
  • Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data (66 citations)
  • Do 'Faculty of 1000' (F1000) ratings of ecological publications serve as reasonable predictors of their future impact? (33 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Ideas in Ecology and Evolution:

The most cited papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Ecology (disciplines), Ecology, Epistemology, Citation and Data science. The journal articles focus on Ecology (disciplines) but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Tragedy (event), Resource (biology) and Sustainability. The studies on Data science discussed at the published papers can also contribute to research in the domains of License and Reuse.

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 Ideas in Ecology and Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Lonnie W. Aarssen (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christopher J. Lortie (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Root Gorelick (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Steven J. Cooke (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael R. Donaldson (4 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 Ideas in Ecology and Evolution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Carleton University (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Queen's University (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • York University (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Utah State University (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (4 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% 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 100.00% 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

  • Teaching Post-Secondary Students in Ecology and Evolution: Strategies for Early-Career Researchers

    Graham Raby;Jacqueline M. Chapman;Robert de Bruijn;Erika J. Eliason

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • The third dimension: How fire-related research can advance ecology and evolutionary biology

    Byron Lamont;Tianhua He

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Beyond individual, population, and community: Considering information, cell number, and energy flux as fundamental dimensions of life across scales

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • The Little Prince is an ecologist

    Christopher J. Lortie

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Screen adaptation theory for humans

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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