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Plant Pathology
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Plant Pathology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 66 141 219 23

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 258
Documents by Best Scientists*: 314
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 106
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.71
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Plant Pathology?

The journal explores disciplines such as Botany, Horticulture, Agronomy, Inoculation and Cultivar. It explores issues in Botany which can be linked to other research areas like Plant virus and Host (biology). Plant virus is a subfield of Virology and Virus, which is among the primary topics in Plant Pathology.

Most of the Horticulture studies addressed also intersect with Solanaceae. Crop, Poaceae and Sowing are among the concentrations of Agronomy that garnered much attention in it. Inoculation research discussed connects with the study of Microbiology.

Many of the studies tackled connect Cultivar with a similar field of study like Plant disease resistance.

  • Botany (48.38%)
  • Horticulture (25.15%)
  • Agronomy (19.89%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Fusarium ear blight (scab) in small grain cereals—a review (1452 citations)
  • GROWTH STAGES IN CEREALS ILLUSTRATION OF THE FEEKES SCALE (1158 citations)
  • Climate change, plant diseases and food security: an overview (479 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Plant Pathology:

The most cited publications primarily tackle Botany, Horticulture, Agronomy, Inoculation and Cultivar. Plant disease resistance and Solanaceae are some topics wherein Botany research discussed in the journal publications has an impact. The Horticulture study tackled in the published articles is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Plant virus.

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Horticulture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Plant Pathology investigates studies in Botany, Horticulture, Genetics, Pathogenicity and Resistance (ecology). The study on Botany presented in Plant Pathology intersects with the topics under Molecular phylogenetics. Research on Horticulture addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Spore.

The journal holds forums on Genetics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Population structure and Genetic diversity. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Genetic diversity as it also encompasses Pathogen. The work on Pathogenicity addressed in it expands to the thematically related Identification (biology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Surfactants in plant disease management: A brief review and case studies (5 citations)
  • Cytokinin induces bacterial pathogen resistance in tomato (5 citations)
  • Historical virus isolate collections: An invaluable resource connecting plant virology’s pre-sequencing and post-sequencing eras (4 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 Plant Pathology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael J. Wingfield (55 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Bruce D.L. Fitt (50 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Michael W. Shaw (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Nicholson (38 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Xiangming Xu (33 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than 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 Plant Pathology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • The Hertz Corporation (290 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Institut national de la recherche agronomique (235 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Hertfordshire (168 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Warwick (132 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Rothamsted Research (105 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than 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, 10.18% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.27% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.78% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.30% of all publications and 56.65% 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

  • Biological control of plant diseases – what has been achieved and what is the direction?

    Unknown

    (2022)
    328 Citations
  • Fungicide resistance management: Maximizing the effective life of plant protection products

    Isabel Corkley;Isabel Corkley;Isabel Corkley;Bart Fraaije;Nichola Hawkins

    (2021)
    221 Citations
  • Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate-smart farming systems for low and high input crop production

    Benjamin Richard;Aiming Qi;Bruce D. L. Fitt

    (2021)
    130 Citations
  • Wheat diseases on the prairies: a Canadian story

    Reem Aboukhaddour;Thomas Fetch;Brent D. McCallum;Michael W. Harding

    (2020)
    77 Citations
  • Global warming and increasing maize cultivation demand comprehensive efforts in disease and insect resistance breeding in north-western Europe

    Thomas Miedaner;Peter Juroszek

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Mechanisms of powdery mildew resistance of wheat – a review of molecular breeding

    Yichen Kang;Meixue Zhou;Angela Merry;Karen Barry

    (2020)
    58 Citations
  • Functional Analysis of Walnut Polyphenol Oxidase Gene (JrPPO1) in Transgenic Tobacco Plants and PPO Induction in Response to Walnut Bacterial Blight

    Fatemeh Khodadadi;Masoud Tohidfar;Kourosh Vahdati;Abhaya M. Dandekar

    (2020)
    53 Citations
  • Estimating the epidemiology of emerging Xylella fastidiosa outbreaks in olives

    Steven M White;Juan A Navas-Cortés;James M Bullock;Donato Boscia

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Surfactants in plant disease management: A brief review and case studies

    Mustafa O. Jibrin;Mustafa O. Jibrin;Qingchun Liu;Jeffrey B. Jones;Shouan Zhang

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Shoot tip cryotherapy for plant pathogen eradication

    (2022)
    36 Citations

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