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Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
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Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 294 69 56 12
Environmental Sciences 326 89 78 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 292
Documents by Best Scientists*: 195
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 92
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.724
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Limnology and Oceanography-methods?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Environmental chemistry, Seawater, Analytical chemistry, Oceanography and Hydrology. The Environmental chemistry works, particularly on Dissolved organic carbon are tackled in Limnology and Oceanography-methods. Limnology and Oceanography-methods explores research in Seawater and the adjacent study of Chromatography.

The journal covers various topics on Chromatography such as Detection limit and Extraction (chemistry). The in-depth study on Analytical chemistry also explores topics in the intersecting field of Fluorescence. The majority of Oceanography studies are focused on the issues of Benthic zone.

In addition to Hydrology research, it aims to explore topics under Sampling (statistics), Soil science and Sediment. Most of the works presented in Limnology and Oceanography-methods deals with Sediment but it intersects with the subject of Mineralogy.

  • Environmental chemistry (20.40%)
  • Seawater (16.62%)
  • Analytical chemistry (14.86%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Characterizing dissolved organic matter fluorescence with parallel factor analysis: a tutorial (1471 citations)
  • A simple and efficient method for the solid‐phase extraction of dissolved organic matter (SPE‐DOM) from seawater (844 citations)
  • Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean revisited (513 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Limnology and Oceanography-methods:

The published papers cover a variety of subjects, including Analytical chemistry, Environmental chemistry, Seawater, Chromatography and Hydrology. The works on Analytical chemistry tackled in the published articles bring together disciplines like In situ, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Fluorescence, Dissolved organic carbon and Calibration. Seawater research presented in the journal publications falls under the umbrella topic of Oceanography.

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

  • Ecology
  • Oxygen
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental chemistry, Seawater, Aquatic ecosystem, Oceanography and Analytical chemistry. The majority of Environmental chemistry studies presented zero in on Dissolved organic carbon. While the journal focused on Seawater, it was also able to explore topics like Chromatography, Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and Mathematical optimization.

The journal holds forums on Chromatography that merges themes from other disciplines such as Mc icp ms and Phosphate. It facilitates discussions on Aquatic ecosystem that incorporate concepts from other fields like Microplastics, Fluorescence and Abundance (ecology). The work on Analytical chemistry tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Glacial period, Potentiometric titration, Reproducibility, Ionization chamber and In situ calibration.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Automated plankton classification from holographic imagery with deep convolutional neural networks (8 citations)
  • Autonomous in situ calibration of ion‐sensitive field effect transistor pH sensors (5 citations)
  • Simultaneous recording of filtration and respiration in marine organisms in response to short-term environmental variability (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 Limnology and Oceanography-methods (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ronnie N. Glud (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Berg (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Emmanuel Boss (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ingo Klimant (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Aron Stubbins (7 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 Limnology and Oceanography-methods (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (46 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Florida State University (24 papers) published 2 papers 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.34% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.56% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.73% of all publications and 42.37% 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

  • An International Laboratory Comparison of Dissolved Organic Matter Composition by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Are We Getting the Same Answer?

    Jeffrey A. Hawkes;Juliana D'Andrilli;Jeffrey N. Agar;Mark P. Barrow

    (2020)
    182 Citations
  • The Underwater Vision Profiler 6: an imaging sensor of particle size spectra and plankton, for autonomous and cabled platforms

    Unknown

    (2021)
    139 Citations
  • A critical review of the 15 N 2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems

    Angelicque E. White;Julie Granger;Corday Selden;Mary R. Gradoville

    (2020)
    103 Citations
  • New and updated global empirical seawater property estimation routines

    Brendan R. Carter;Brendan R. Carter;Henry C. Bittig;Andrea J. Fassbender;Jonathan D. Sharp;Jonathan D. Sharp

    (2021)
    62 Citations
  • Evaluation of diagnostic pigments to estimate phytoplankton size classes

    Alison P. Chase;Sasha J. Kramer;Nils Haëntjens;Emmanuel S. Boss

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Evaluating CO2 calculation error from organic alkalinity and pH measurement error in low ionic strength freshwaters

    Shaoda Liu;David E. Butman;Peter A. Raymond

    (2020)
    40 Citations

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