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Pachyderm
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Pachyderm

1026-2881

Published by: International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission

https://pachydermjournal.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 771 11 17 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 13
Documents by Best Scientists*: 19
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 16
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.223
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Pachyderm?

Pachyderm focuses on Wildlife, Environmental protection, Ecology, Agroforestry and National park. Pachyderm features works in Wildlife, more specifically Wildlife management and Poaching, and explores their relation to disciplines like West africa and East africa. It holds forums on Wildlife management that merges themes from other disciplines such as Animal population density and Environmental resource management.

The research on Environmental protection tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Wildlife conservation, Ivory trade, Socioeconomics and Nature Conservation. The Ecology study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Fishery. The journal focuses on Agroforestry but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Project Elephant and Crop.

The research on National park featured in Pachyderm combines topics in other fields like Forestry and African elephant. While the journal primarily focused on Central africa, it also opened dialogues on the discipline of Elephant meat.

  • Wildlife (35.26%)
  • Environmental protection (26.89%)
  • Ecology (23.11%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Options for the control of elephants in conflict with people (67 citations)
  • The ecological role of elephants in Africa (65 citations)
  • Lessons from 15 years of human elephant conflict mitigation: management considerations involving biological, physical and governance issues in Africa. (62 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Pachyderm:

The published papers focus largely on the fields of Wildlife, Agroforestry, Ecology, Project Elephant and Environmental protection. The journal papers explore Wildlife concepts, specifically Wildlife management but expand to research in East africa. The works on Agroforestry tackled in the published articles bring together disciplines like Poaching, Habitat and Crop.

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

  • Ecology
  • China
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Forestry, Rhinoceros, Humanities, Ethnology and Poaching are tackled in the journal. In it, National park, Population density, Intraspecific competition and Ivory trade are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Forestry research. The concepts on National park presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Livelihood, Kenya, Gens, Census and Black rhinoceros.

The research on Rhinoceros featured in it combines topics in other fields like Aesthetics, Plough, Animal science and Free ranging. The research on Humanities tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Ivory and African elephant. Population estimate, World heritage, Socioeconomics and Couloir are some topics wherein Poaching research discussed in the journal have an impact.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • System for Elephant Ear-pattern Knowledge (SEEK) to identify individual African elephants (3 citations)
  • Does dehorning lead to a change in inter-calf intervals in free-ranging white rhinoceros? (3 citations)
  • Evaluating uncertainty in estimates of large rhinoceros populations (1 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 Pachyderm (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Esmond Martin (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Felix Patton (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Lucy Vigne (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kees Rookmaaker (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Emmanuel Danquah (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 Pachyderm (based on the number of publications) are:

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kenya Wildlife Service (5 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Liège (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Save the Elephants (4 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Zoological Society of London (3 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 2020 edition, 33.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 35.71% of all publications and 14.29% 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

  • Systematic review of the success and unintended consequences of management interventions on African elephants

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • More than just mud: the importance of wallows to Javan rhino ecology and behaviour

    Steven G. Wilson;Georgina Hockings;Jo-Anne M. Deretic;Salit Kark

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Anti-poaching strategies employed by private rhino owners in South Africa

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Outcome of an elephant translocation from Isiolo to Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Rhino Resource Center: accessing and utilizing a unique digital database

    (2022)
    1 Citations
  • African Elephant Specialist Group Chair report/Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes de l’Eléphant d’Afrique

    (2023)
    0 Citations
  • African Rhino Specialist Group Chair report/Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes du Rhinocéros d'Afrique

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • African Elephant Specialist Group Chair report/ Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes de l’Eléphant d’Afrique

    (2022)
    0 Citations
  • African Elephant Specialist Group report /Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes de l'Eléphant d’Afrique

    Ben Okita-Ouma;Rob Slotow

    (2020)
    0 Citations
  • African Elephant Specialist Group Chair report Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes de l’Eléphant d’Afrique

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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