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Journal of Crop Improvement
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Journal of Crop Improvement

1542-7528

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wcim20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 203 29 50 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 46
Documents by Best Scientists*: 63
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 50
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.394
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Crop Improvement?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Agronomy, Crop, Cultivar, Horticulture and Botany. The journal holds forums on Agronomy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Soil water and Genotype. It focuses on Crop as well as the interrelated topic of Agriculture.

The in-depth study on Agriculture also explores topics in the intersecting field of Agricultural economics. Germination and Seedling are all topics related to Horticulture research discussed.

  • Agronomy (54.27%)
  • Crop (13.99%)
  • Cultivar (13.73%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Tailoring conservation agriculture to the needs of small farmers in developing countries: an analysis of issues (173 citations)
  • Climate Change Impacts on Plant Pathogens and Plant Diseases (140 citations)
  • Integrated seed sector development in Africa: a conceptual framework for creating coherence between practices, programs, and policies (139 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Crop Improvement:

The most cited articles primarily tackle Agronomy, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Crop and Cultivar. The most cited publications link adjacent topics like Agronomy with Nutrient. While the journal articles focused on Agriculture, they were also able to explore topics like Natural resource economics and Climate change.

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

  • Botany
  • Agriculture
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Crop Improvement focuses on Agronomy, Horticulture, Zea mays, Crop and Genotype. The Agronomy works featured in it incorporate elements from Genetic variability and Soil drying. The close relationship between Transpiration and Crop yield is one of the points of interest dissected in Soil drying research.

Journal of Crop Improvement explores issues in Crop which can be linked to other research areas like Sesamum and Selection (genetic algorithm). Topics in Selection (genetic algorithm) were tackled in line with various other fields like Biotechnology and Saccharum. Some problems in Genotype that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Phenotype and Genetic diversity.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Potential and challenges of organic agriculture in Bangladesh: a review (8 citations)
  • Fall armyworm invasion in Africa: implications for maize production and breeding (4 citations)
  • Cross-pollination effects on morphological, molecular, and biochemical diversity of a selected cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume) seedling population (4 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 Crop Improvement (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Manjit S. Kang (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pengyin Chen (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Thomas R. Sinclair (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Hussein Shimelis (13 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Rattan Lal (11 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 Journal of Crop Improvement (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Agricultural Research Service (53 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Punjab Agricultural University (45 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Texas A&M University (31 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Department of Agriculture (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (27 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more 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, 4.11% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 38.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.71% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 24.29% of all publications and 31.43% 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

  • Potential and challenges of organic agriculture in Bangladesh: a review

    Zannatul Ferdous;Farhad Zulfiqar;Avishek Datta;Ahmed Khairul Hasan

    (2021)
    90 Citations
  • Fall armyworm invasion in Africa: implications for maize production and breeding

    Chapwa Kasoma;Hussein Shimelis;Mark D. Laing

    (2021)
    75 Citations
  • Neglected, underutilized, and future smart crop species in Nepal

    Bal Krishna Joshi;Renuka Shrestha;Devendra Gauchan;Anil Shrestha

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Genetic diversity and population structure of bread wheat genotypes determined via phenotypic and SSR marker analyses under drought-stress conditions

    Yared Belete;Hussein Shimelis;Mark Laing;Isack Mathew

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Farmers’ perceptions, production constraints and variety preferences of rice in Tanzania

    William Titus Suvi;Hussein Shimelis;Mark Laing

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Predicting heterosis in grain sorghum hybrids using sequence-based genetic similarity estimates

    Daniel Crozier;Leo Hoffmann;Patricia E. Klein;Robert R. Klein

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Chitosan mitigates the adverse effects and improves photosynthetic activity in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings under drought condition

    Namphueng Moolphuerk;Tracy Lawson;Wattana Pattanagul

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Phenotypic characterization of maize landraces from Sahel and Coastal West Africa reveals marked diversity and potential for genetic improvement

    Charles Nelimor;Charles Nelimor;Baffour Badu-Apraku;Simon P. A. Nguetta;Antonia Y. Tetteh

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Striga resistance and compatibility of maize genotypes to a biocontrol agent, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.strigea

    Admire I. T. Shayanowako;Hussein Shimelis;Mark D. Laing;Learnmore Mwadzingeni

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • Competitive ability of weedy rice: toward breeding weed-suppressive rice cultivars

    Swati Shrestha;Gourav Sharma;Nilda Roma Burgos;Te-Ming Tseng

    (2020)
    14 Citations

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