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Journal of Agricultural Meteorology
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Journal of Agricultural Meteorology

0021-8588

Published by: Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/agrmet/list/-char/ja

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 323 7 11 6
Environmental Sciences 654 13 17 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 27
Documents by Best Scientists*: 30
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 27
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.41
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Agricultural Meteorology?

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology mainly deals with areas of study such as Agronomy, Hydrology, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology and Climatology. Rice plant and Crop are some of the study areas of Agronomy discussed. Topics in Hydrology explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Paddy field and Transpiration.

The journal focuses on Atmospheric sciences as well as the interrelated topic of Canopy. Meteorology research is concerned with Wind speed in particular. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology connects the study in Climatology with the closely related area of Climate change.

It features Water content research that overlaps with concepts in Soil science.

  • Agronomy (17.74%)
  • Hydrology (17.27%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (14.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A heat balance method for measuring water flux in the stem of intact plants (395 citations)
  • Fundamental Studies on Environments in Plant Tissue Culture Vessels (174 citations)
  • Agroclimatic Evaluation of Net Primary Productivity of Natural Vegetations (137 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Agricultural Meteorology:

The most cited articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Agronomy, Atmospheric sciences, Botany, Climatology and Transpiration. The works on Atmospheric sciences tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Canopy and Meteorology, Relative humidity. The journal publications with studies in Transpiration featured incorporate elements of Hydrology, Mechanics and Water vapor.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Atmospheric sciences, Climate change, Agronomy, Photosynthesis and Eddy covariance. In it, East Asia, Forest ecology, Co2 flux, Ecosystem and Taiga are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Atmospheric sciences research. Issues in Climate change were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Irrigation, Yield (finance), Trend analysis, Adaptation and Agricultural engineering.

Among the topics covered in it are Agronomy and Field survey. The journal facilitates discussions on Photosynthesis that incorporate concepts from other fields like Greenhouse, Horticulture, Ventilation (architecture), Sasa and Liquid crystal tunable filter. While Eddy covariance is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Remote sensing (archaeology), Evapotranspiration, Spring (hydrology) and Young forest.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Review: Exchanges of volatile organic compounds between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere (4 citations)
  • Progress in water and energy flux studies in Asia: A review focused on eddy covariance measurements (3 citations)
  • Recent advances in the understanding of ecosystem processes at eddy covariance CO2 flux sites in East Asian forest ecosystems: a review (2 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 Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Taichi Maki (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kenji Omasa (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tadashi Takakura (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Seiji Hayakawa (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yoshinobu Harazono (38 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 Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Tokyo (171 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Hokkaido University (120 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kyushu University (107 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chiba University (97 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tottori University (68 papers) published 2 papers 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, 11.54% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 60.87% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.04% of all publications and 17.39% 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

  • Revision of estimates of climate change impacts on rice yield and quality in Japan by considering the combined effects of temperature and CO2 concentration

    Yasushi Ishigooka;Toshihiro Hasegawa;Tsuneo Kuwagata;Motoki Nishimori

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Impact assessment of climate change on the major rice cultivar Ciherang in Indonesia

    Yoshiyuki Kinose;Yuji Masutomi;Fumitaka Shiotsu;Keiichi Hayashi

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Quantifying bubbling emission (ebullition) of methane from a rice paddy using high-time-resolution concentration data obtained during a closed-chamber measurement

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Inter-annual variation of soil respiration and its spatial heterogeneity in a cool-temperate young larch plantation in northern Japan

    Lifei Sun;Kentaro Takagi;Munemasa Teramoto;Shintaro Hayakashi

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Evaluation of the most appropriate spatial resolution of input data for assessing the impact of climate change on rice productivity in Japan

    Yasushi Ishigooka;Toshihiro Hasegawa;Tsuneo Kuwagata;Motoki Nishimori

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Review: Exchanges of O3, NO, and NO2 between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere

    (2023)
    9 Citations
  • Cooling effect of an urban park by enhanced heat transport efficiency

    Masahito Ueyama;Tomoya Ando

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Canopy fluxes of monoterpene, isoprene and isoprene oxidation products in a pine-oak forest

    Tomoki Mochizuki;Satoru Takanashi;Ryuichi Wada;Yuzo Miyazaki

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Increasing measurement throughput of methane emission from rice paddies with a modified closed-chamber method

    Takeshi Tokida

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Recent advances in the understanding of ecosystem processes at eddy covariance CO2 flux sites in East Asian forest ecosystems: a review

    Shih-Chieh Chang;Taku M. Saitoh;Hideaki Shibata;Satoshi N. Suzuki

    (2021)
    7 Citations

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