Plant Ecology and Diversity

Top Research Topics at Plant Ecology & Diversity?

Ecology, Botany, Species richness, Plant community and Vegetation are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. Ecosystem, Climate change, Habitat, Species diversity and Range (biology) are all aspects of Ecology research featured in the journal. The study on Climate change featured in it expounds on the topic of Global warming in particular.

The work on Botany tackled in Plant Ecology & Diversity brings together disciplines like Agronomy and Horticulture. Agronomy research is the primary subject tackled in Plant Ecology & Diversity with a focus on Seedling. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Species richness, it also covered topics in Abundance (ecology) and Biodiversity.

• Ecology (67.61%)
• Botany (16.55%)
• Species richness (15.67%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe (267 citations)
• Living in a high CO2 world: impacts of global climate change on marine phytoplankton (137 citations)
• Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (101 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Plant Ecology & Diversity:

The journal articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Ecology, Plant community, Amazon rainforest, Species richness and Vegetation. The published papers focus on different Ecology studies like Climate change, Ecosystem, Arctic, Primary production and Ecotone. The published papers explore research in Alpine plant and overlapping concepts in Altitude to expand the discourse in Species richness.

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 topics of Ecology, Agronomy, Elevation, Physical geography and Holocene are the focal point of discussions in Plant Ecology & Diversity. The journal aims to bridge the gap between the study of Ecology and disciplines such as Relevance (information retrieval) and Community development. In it, Global warming, Photosynthesis, Water scarcity and Water content are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Agronomy research.

The research on Elevation tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Plant growth, Climate change, Water-use efficiency, Juniperus tibetica and Nutrient content.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Minimum temperature drives community leaf trait variation in secondary montane forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the tropical Andes (1 citations)
• Holocene expansion of the Caledonian pinewoods: spatial and temporal patterns at regional and landscape scales (0 citations)
• The relevance of the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Anthropocene (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Plant Ecology & Diversity (based on the number of publications) are:

• Yadvinder Malhi (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Christopher E. Doughty (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Oliver L. Phillips (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Daniel B. Metcalfe (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Carlos A. Quesada (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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Plant Ecology & Diversity (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Edinburgh (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Spanish National Research Council (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
• National Institute of Amazonian Research (14 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 42.86% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.29% of all publications and 42.86% 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.