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Phytocoenologia
H-index 5

Phytocoenologia

0340-269X

Published by: Schweizerbart Science Publishers

https://www.schweizerbart.de/journals/phyto/about

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 403 7 8 4
Ecology and Evolution 646 15 12 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 23
Documents by Best Scientists*: 18
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 42
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.216
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Phytocoenologia?

Phytocoenologia mostly deals with topics like Ecology, Forestry, Plant community, Physical geography and Vegetation. The journal covers various topics on Ecology such as Habitat, Phytosociology, Species richness, Floristics and Grassland. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Plant community as it also encompasses Agroforestry.

  • Ecology (40.35%)
  • Forestry (16.65%)
  • Plant community (15.22%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A review on habitats, plant traits and vegetation of ephemeral wetlands - a global perspective. (178 citations)
  • Equilibrium modeling of alpine plant distribution: how far can we go? (140 citations)
  • Ellenberg numbers revisited (112 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Phytocoenologia:

The journal papers mostly deal with topics like Ecology, Plant community, Forestry, Physical geography and Vegetation. The Forestry research presented in the journal papers focuses mostly on Agroforestry and, on occasion, topics in China. The most cited papers explore research in Vegetation alongside concepts in Wetland and other areas of study in Floodplain.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Ecosystem

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly tackles studies in Plant community, Ecology, Physical geography, Agroforestry and Shrubland. Topics in Plant community were tackled in line with various other fields like Elevational Diversity Gradient, Tribute and Ethnology. Attendees of the journal participated in discussions that delve into both Ecology and Gymnosporia.

The studies in Physical geography featured incorporate elements of Elevation, Family Poaceae and Altitude. Phytocoenologia addresses concerns in Agroforestry which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Scale (ratio), Biodiversity, Monoculture, Weed and Arable land. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Shrubland, it also covered topics in Range (biology), Flora, Terminalia, Dodonaea viscosa and Endemism.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Tall herb-rich steppe in the peri-Carpathian region of Ukraine and Romania (1 citations)
  • Phytosociological study of arable weed communities across small scale ag-ricultural landscape in Swaziland (0 citations)
  • The long-term effects of monoculture maize cultivation on plant diversity (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 Phytocoenologia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Erwin Bergmeier (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolfgang Willner (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ulrich Deil (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fred J.A. Daniëls (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Antoine M. Cleef (12 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 Phytocoenologia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sapienza University of Rome (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Masaryk University (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Göttingen (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of the Basque Country (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Hamburg (3 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, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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

  • Vegetation patterns of a rapidly drying up salt lake ecosystem: Lake Urmia, NW Iran

    Atefeh Ghorbanalizadeh;Hossein Akhani;Erwin Bergmeier

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • European Weed Vegetation Database - a gap-focused vegetation-plot database

    Filip Küzmič;Urban Šilc;Zdeňka Lososová;Ladislav Mucina

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • New insights on plant communities and flora of the southern paramos of the Iberian Range (Spain)

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • High altitude semi-deserts and desert steppes in the eastern Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mountains (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan)

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • Vegetation diversity in East African wetlands: Cocktail algorithms supported by a vegetation-plot database

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Syntaxonomy and ecology of mesophilous scrub vegetation in Tajikistan (Middle Asia)

    (2022)
    4 Citations

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