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Journal of Natural History
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Journal of Natural History

0022-2933

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tnah20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Animal Science and Veterinary 190 21 30 5
Ecology and Evolution 290 84 98 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 114
Documents by Best Scientists*: 131
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 56
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.339
Impact Factor: 0.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Natural History?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Zoology, Ecology, Annals, Genus and Botany. Taxonomy (biology) and Hymenoptera are among the areas of Zoology tackled. Crustacean, Fauna and Habitat are all aspects of Ecology research featured in the journal.

The Annals study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Natural history.

  • Zoology (28.28%)
  • Ecology (19.63%)
  • Annals (13.61%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The detection of differences among assemblages of marine benthic species based on an assessment of dominance and diversity (478 citations)
  • Flower-visiting by hymenopteran parasitoids (423 citations)
  • On the Monkeys of the Amazon (299 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Natural History:

The published articles investigate studies in Ecology, Zoology, Taxonomy (biology), Annals and Genus. The studies on Zoology discussed at the journal publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Phylogenetics, Subfamily and Anatomy. The published papers investigate Annals research which frequently intersects with Natural history.

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

  • Ecology
  • Zoology
  • Genus

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Journal of Natural History mainly cover the fields of Zoology, Ecology, Genus, Taxonomy (biology) and China. Zoology research featured in Journal of Natural History incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Fauna and Species complex. Studies on Ecology discussed in the journal link to the field of Diversity (politics).

Some problems in Genus that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Hemiptera and Old World. Discussions in Journal of Natural History are anchored in the subject of Hemiptera and the similar topic of Heteroptera. The majority of Taxonomy (biology) studies are focused on the issues of Subgenus.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Natural history of Hylodes perere Silva & Benmaman, 2008 (Anura, Hylodidae) in the Serra Negra da Mantiqueira, Atlantic Forest of Brazil: microhabitat, sexual dimorphism, diet and distribution (1 citations)
  • Behavioral repertoire of a population of wild Chilean Flamingos Phoenicopterus chilensis in southern Brazil (0 citations)
  • The puzzling, rarely encountered European lacewings Chrysoperla ankylopteryformis and C. renoni (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): one species or two? (0 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 Natural History (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Oldfield Thomas (642 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Edward Gray (304 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • George Albert Boulenger (290 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Theodore D. A. Cockerell (210 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arthur G. Butler (192 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 Natural History (based on the number of publications) are:

  • British Museum (841 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Natural History Museum (248 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 11 less than at the previous edition,
  • American Museum of Natural History (121 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of São Paulo (85 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Colorado Boulder (74 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, 9.78% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.89% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.46% of all publications and 57.83% 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

  • New species of Orasema (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) from Central and South America

    John M. Heraty;Austin J. Baker

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Morphological and molecular separation between Macrocamptoptera grangeri Soyka and M. metotarsa (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

    Serguei V. Triapitsyn;Chrysalyn Dominguez;John T. Huber;George Japoshvili

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • First record of the genus Setelacher Bouček (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Eulophinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of a new species

    Alex Gumovsky;Tetyana Bazhenova;Simon van Noort

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • First record of the genus Tanaostigma (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Tanaostigmatidae) from the Afrotropical region with description of three new species

    Simon van Noort;Robert S. Copeland

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • First record of the freshwater crab genus Esanthelphusa Naiyanetr, 1994 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Myanmar, with the description of a new species from the Kayin State

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus)

    Loïs Rancilhac;Teddy Bruy;Mark D. Scherz;Elvis Almeida Pereira

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • First described fossil representatives of the parasitoid wasp taxa Asaphesinae n. n. and Eunotinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae sensu lato) from Eocene Baltic amber

    Roger A. Burks;John M. Heraty

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • A new species of the enigmatic Australian endemic family Trachypetidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): Cercobarcon lasallei sp.n.

    Andrew D. Austin;Andrew D. Austin;Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries;Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • A new species of Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from northern Vietnam with comments on the biogeography of the genus

    Tan Van Nguyen;Tang Van Duong;Kien Trung Luu;Nikolay A. Poyarkov

    (2020)
    20 Citations

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