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Industrial Crops and Products
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Industrial Crops and Products

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 31 246 408 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1515
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2185
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 24
SCIMAGO H-index: 186
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.974
Impact Factor: 6.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Industrial Crops and Products?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Botany, Food science, Horticulture, Chromatography and Agronomy. The Botany works, particularly on Essential oil are tackled in Industrial Crops and Products. The work on Food science tackled in Industrial Crops and Products brings together disciplines like Antimicrobial and Biochemistry, Polyphenol, Antioxidant.

The Antioxidant study tackling the subject of DPPH is the focus of the journal. Cultivar and Shoot are all subfields of Horticulture research that were featured in Industrial Crops and Products. The study on Chromatography featured in it expounds on the topic of Extraction (chemistry) in particular.

The Extraction (chemistry) works featured in Industrial Crops and Products incorporate elements from Yield (chemistry), Response surface methodology and Solvent. The studies in Agronomy featured incorporate elements of Biomass and Bioenergy. Most of the Biomass studies addressed also intersect with Pulp and paper industry.

  • Botany (17.28%)
  • Food science (15.72%)
  • Horticulture (14.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Zein: the industrial protein from corn (919 citations)
  • Review of current and future softwood kraft lignin process chemistry (807 citations)
  • Extraction, preparation and characterization of cellulose fibres and nanocrystals from rice husk (704 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Industrial Crops and Products:

The most cited publications cover a variety of subjects, including Botany, Food science, Organic chemistry, Lignin and Horticulture. Essential oil is a major topic of Botany research in the published papers. While the most cited publications focused on Lignin, they were also able to explore topics like Cellulose and Pulp and paper industry.

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Organic chemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly tackles studies in Food science, Lignin, Chemical engineering, Horticulture and Cellulose. Food science study tackled is connected to the field of Antioxidant. It explores topics in Lignin which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Hydrolysis, Enzymatic hydrolysis, Pulp and paper industry and Nuclear chemistry.

The journal links adjacent topics like Pulp and paper industry with Biomass. Concepts in Ultimate tensile strength, as well as related topics in Fiber, are covered in the Chemical engineering research presented in Industrial Crops and Products. The Horticulture study featured in it draws connections with the study of Essential oil.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Lignin-based electrodes for energy storage application (26 citations)
  • Circular bioeconomy and integrated biorefinery in the production of xylooligosaccharides from lignocellulosic biomass: A review (23 citations)
  • Enzymatic engineering of nanometric cellulose for sustainable polypropylene nanocomposites (14 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 Industrial Crops and Products (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Run-Cang Sun (69 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Antonio Pizzi (65 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira (63 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Gokhan Zengin (50 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 14 less than at the previous edition,
  • Terry A. Isbell (47 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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 Industrial Crops and Products (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Agricultural Research Service (229 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (147 papers) published 33 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (146 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of São Paulo (146 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • United States Department of Agriculture (143 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous 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, 9.32% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.99% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.93% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.86% of all publications and 59.22% 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

  • Circular bioeconomy and integrated biorefinery in the production of xylooligosaccharides from lignocellulosic biomass: A review

    Unknown

    (2021)
    226 Citations
  • Technical lignin and its potential modification routes: A mini-review

    Armin Eraghi Kazzaz;Pedram Fatehi

    (2020)
    215 Citations
  • Lignin extraction and upgrading using deep eutectic solvents

    Zhu Chen;Arthur Ragauskas;Arthur Ragauskas;Caixia Wan

    (2020)
    208 Citations
  • Synergistic association of endophytic fungi enhances Glycine max L. resilience to combined abiotic stresses: Heavy metals, high temperature and drought stress

    Saqib Bilal;Raheem Shahzad;Muhammad Imran;Rahmatullah Jan

    (2020)
    191 Citations
  • Biochar filled high-density polyethylene composites with excellent properties: Towards maximizing the utilization of agricultural wastes

    Qingfa Zhang;Qingfa Zhang;Donghong Zhang;Hang Xu;Wenyu Lu

    (2020)
    169 Citations
  • Improving efficacy of Cr (VI) adsorption process on sustainable adsorbent derived from waste biomass (sugarcane bagasse) with help of ant colony optimization

    Rama Rao Karri;J.N. Sahu;J.N. Sahu;B.C. Meikap

    (2020)
    158 Citations
  • Effects of the advanced organosolv pretreatment strategies on structural properties of woody biomass

    Xianzhi Meng;Samarthya Bhagia;Yunxuan Wang;Yang Zhou

    (2020)
    153 Citations
  • Characterization of rice straw from major cultivars for best alternative industrial uses to cutoff the menace of straw burning

    P. Bhattacharyya;D Bhaduri;T. Adak;S. Munda

    (2020)
    148 Citations
  • Analysis of polyphenols in apple pomace: A comparative study of different extraction and hydrolysis procedures

    Wu Li;Ruili Yang;Ruili Yang;Danyang Ying;Jiawen Yu

    (2020)
    138 Citations
  • Effect of different biomass species and pyrolysis temperatures on heavy metal adsorption, stability and economy of biochar

    (2022)
    124 Citations

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