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Limnologica
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Limnologica

0075-9511

Published by: Elsevier

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/limnologica

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 298 55 53 12
Environmental Sciences 565 16 14 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 82
Documents by Best Scientists*: 74
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 59
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.548
Impact Factor: 2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Limnologica?

Limnologica mainly deals with areas of study such as Ecology, Hydrology, Habitat, Eutrophication and Phytoplankton. Species richness, Benthic zone, Trophic level, Zooplankton and Macrophyte are some of the study areas of Ecology discussed. Limnologica explores research in Species richness and the adjacent study of Abundance (ecology).

The study on Benthic zone presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Invertebrate. While the journal focused on Macrophyte, it was also able to explore topics like Vegetation and Aquatic plant. Issues in Hydrology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Sediment and Nutrient.

The Sediment study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Environmental chemistry. Habitat and Fishery are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal. It facilitates discussions on Phytoplankton that incorporate concepts from other fields like Biomass (ecology), Oceanography and Plankton.

  • Ecology (48.79%)
  • Hydrology (25.26%)
  • Habitat (13.67%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index Flanders (MMIF) for biological assessment of rivers and lakes in Flanders (Belgium) (194 citations)
  • Restoration of submerged vegetation in shallow eutrophic lakes : a guideline and state of the art in Germany (191 citations)
  • Ecological classification of macrophytes and phytobenthos for rivers in Germany according to the water framework directive (127 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Limnologica:

The journal articles mostly deal with topics like Ecology, Hydrology, Phytoplankton, Eutrophication and Benthic zone. The most cited papers tackle studies in Fishery and the interrelated subject of Biomanipulation to gain insights into Ecology. The study of Hydrology in the published papers encompasses disciplines such as Land use, as well as fields such as Environmental resource management, all of which overlap with one another.

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

  • Ecology
  • Genus
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Ecology, Species richness, Habitat, Macrophyte and Water quality are the subjects of interest in the journal. Benthic zone, Biomass (ecology), Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Taxon studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Ecology presented. Limnologica focuses on Species richness but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Abundance (ecology), Invertebrate, Fish species, Channel (geography) and Common species.

Habitat research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Preference and Stage (hydrology). Some problems in Macrophyte that were presented in Limnologica overlapped with concepts under Aquatic plant, Algae, Photosynthetic bacteria, Hydrology (agriculture) and Eutrophication. Limnologica holds forums on Water quality that merges themes from other disciplines such as Phytoplankton and Water resources.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Sampling Efforts for Estimating Fish Species Richness in Western USA River Sites. (4 citations)
  • Land-use influence on the functional organization of Afrotropical macroinvertebrate assemblages (3 citations)
  • Microcystis, Raphidiopsis raciborskii and Dolichospermum smithii, toxin producing and non-toxigenic cyanobacteria in Yezin Dam, Myanmar (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 Limnologica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Peter Goethals (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rainer Koschel (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arnulf Melzer (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jürgen Benndorf (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hans Jürgen Hahn (9 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 Limnologica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leibniz Association (43 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (41 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • National Scientific and Technical Research Council (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Dresden University of Technology (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ghent University (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 4.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.56% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 20.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 24.44% of all publications and 40.00% 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

  • Spatiotemporal variation of streambed quality and fine sediment deposition in five freshwater pearl mussel streams, in relation to extreme drought, strong rain and snow melt

    Rebecca Hoess;Juergen Geist

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Towards a synthesis of the biodiversity of freshwater Protozoa, Rotifera, Cladocera, and Copepoda in Brazil

    (2022)
    23 Citations
  • The effect of varied dam release mechanisms and storage volume on downstream river thermal regimes

    Laura E. Michie;James N. Hitchcock;Jason D. Thiem;Craig A. Boys

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Sampling Efforts for Estimating Fish Species Richness in Western USA River Sites.

    Robert M. Hughes;Alan T. Herlihy;David V. Peck

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Riparian land use and stream habitat regulate water quality

    José Pedro Macedo Vale Ramião;Fernanda Cássio;Cláudia Pascoal

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • A new index of a water temperature equivalent for summer respiration conditions of benthic invertebrates in rivers as a bio-indicator of global climate change

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • Seasonal variation in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and water quality in an Afrotropical river catchment, northeastern Tanzania

    Grite Nelson Mwaijengo;Grite Nelson Mwaijengo;Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Trevor Dube;Karoli Nicholas Njau

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Predicting the ecological status of rivers and streams under different climatic and socioeconomic scenarios using Bayesian Belief Networks

    Eugenio Molina-Navarro;Eugenio Molina-Navarro;Pedro Segurado;Paulo Branco;Carina Almeida

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Spatiotemporal patterns of carbon sequestration in a large shallow lake, Chaohu Lake: Evidence from multiple-core records

    Kangkang Sun;Xu Chen;Xuhui Dong;Xiangdong Yang

    (2020)
    18 Citations

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