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Paddy and Water Environment
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Paddy and Water Environment

1611-2490

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10333

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 286 14 12 7
Environmental Sciences 681 8 11 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 32
Documents by Best Scientists*: 30
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 50
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.588
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Paddy and Water Environment?

Paddy and Water Environment is mainly concerned with subjects like Agriculture, Hydrology, Agronomy, Irrigation and Paddy field. Issues in Agriculture were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Climate change, Environmental engineering, Agricultural economics and Water resource management. The concepts on Water resource management presented in Paddy and Water Environment can also apply to other research fields, including Water supply and Water conservation, Farm water, Water resources.

Hydrogeology, Surface runoff, Water quality, Groundwater and Watershed studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Hydrology presented. Research on Hydrogeology addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Soil science. Paddy and Water Environment features Groundwater research that overlaps with concepts in Surface water.

While work presented in it provided substantial information on Agronomy, it also covered topics in Soil water and Nutrient. In Paddy and Water Environment, Water use, Water balance, Evapotranspiration and Drainage are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Irrigation research.

  • Agriculture (36.04%)
  • Hydrology (26.95%)
  • Agronomy (26.74%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Estimation of the spatial rainfall distribution using inverse distance weighting (IDW) in the middle of Taiwan (276 citations)
  • Meeting the challenges of global rice production (166 citations)
  • Heavy metal contamination of agricultural soil and countermeasures in Japan. (142 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Paddy and Water Environment:

The journal publications investigate areas of study like Agronomy, Agriculture, Irrigation, System of Rice Intensification and Paddy field. Issues in Agronomy were discussed in the journal articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Methane and Horticulture. While Agriculture is the focus of the most cited articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Productivity, Agroforestry, Agricultural economics and Water resource management.

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Paddy and Water Environment investigates areas of study like Agriculture, Agronomy, Paddy field, Irrigation and Soil water. While the journal focused on Agriculture, it was also able to explore topics like Hydrology, Water quality, Flooding (psychology), Crop and Yield (finance). It connects the study in Agronomy with the closely related area of Wet season.

While Paddy field is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Fertilizer, Soil quality, Soil organic matter, Seeding and Hydrogeology. It facilitates discussions on Irrigation that incorporate concepts from other fields like Water use, Shoot, Arsenic, Cadmium and Stage (hydrology). Soil water research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Phosphorus, Straw, Water content and Drainage.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Rice–wheat system in the northwest Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia: issues and technological interventions for increasing productivity and sustainability (9 citations)
  • Comparing tillage methods for growing lowland soybean and corn during wetter-than-normal cropping seasons (4 citations)
  • Simultaneous mitigation of arsenic and cadmium accumulation in rice ( Oryza sativa L.) seedlings by silicon oxide nanoparticles under different water management schemes (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 Paddy and Water Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kazuaki Hiramatsu (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Seong-Joon Kim (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Masayoshi Harada (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Toshihiko Kawachi (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ken Mori (10 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 Paddy and Water Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Taiwan University (52 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Tokyo (50 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kyushu University (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kyoto University (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Konkuk University (32 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, 13.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.46% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.38% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.08% of all publications and 48.08% 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

  • Rice–wheat system in the northwest Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia: issues and technological interventions for increasing productivity and sustainability

    Rajan Bhatt;Pritpal Singh;Akbar Hossain;Jagadish Timsina

    (2021)
    172 Citations
  • Community water management to intensify agricultural productivity in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh

    Sudhir Yadav;Manoranjan K. Mondal;Aaron Shew;Aaron Shew;S. V. Krishna Jagadish

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Soil microbial activity and community composition as influenced by application of pig biogas slurry in paddy field in southeast China

    Zhaoming Chen;Qiang Wang;Junwei Ma;Stephen Chapman

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Simulating nitrogen transport in paddy crop irrigated with alternate wetting and drying practice

    Shashank Shekhar;Damodhara Rao Mailapalli;Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Hydrus-1D model for simulating water flow through paddy soils under alternate wetting and drying irrigation practice

    Shashank Shekhar;Damodhara Rao Mailapalli;Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi;Bhabani Sankar Das

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Effects of biochar amendment on greenhouse gas emission in two paddy soils with different textures

    Jieyun Liu;Husen Qiu;Cong Wang;Jianlin Shen

    (2021)
    17 Citations
  • Comparing tillage methods for growing lowland soybean and corn during wetter-than-normal cropping seasons

    Rafael Ziani Goulart;José Miguel Reichert;Miriam Fernanda Rodrigues;Miguel Chaiben Neto

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • Impacts of herbicides on weeds, water productivity, and nutrient-use efficiency in dry direct-seeded rice

    Suman Sen;Ramanjit Kaur;T. K. Das;Rishi Raj

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Energy and greenhouse gas footprint analysis of conventional and reduced tillage practices in rainfed and irrigated rice–wheat systems

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • Economic assessment of water-saving irrigation management techniques and continuous flooded irrigation in different rice production systems

    Muhammad Ishfaq;Nadeem Akbar;Usman Zulfiqar;Nauman Ali

    (2021)
    13 Citations

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