Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Top Research Topics at Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Ecology, Zoology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics and Anatomy. Discussions in Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences are anchored in the subject of Ecology and the similar topic of Biological dispersal. In the Zoology research discussed, Sexual selection and Mating are all tackled.

Gene is the primary subject of Genetics works presented in Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

• Ecology (27.19%)
• Zoology (11.66%)
• Evolutionary biology (8.27%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Biological identifications through DNA barcodes (7988 citations)
• The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme (5618 citations)
• Theory of Edge Detection (5527 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences:

The published articles cover a variety of subjects, including Ecology, Zoology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics and Sexual selection. The Ecology study tackled in the most cited papers is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Biological dispersal. Most of the works presented in the journal articles deal with Zoology but they intersect with the subject of Offspring.

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

• Ecology
• Internal medicine
• Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Ecology, Evolutionary biology, Zoology, Biodiversity and Predation. Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences connects research in Ecology with the related topic of Extinction. The research on Evolutionary biology featured in Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences combines topics in other fields like Adaptation, Clade and Selection (genetic algorithm).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean. (14 citations)
• Elevated temperature increases genome-wide selection on de novo mutations (13 citations)
• Poorly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes are widely shared across skink radiation. (13 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 Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

• Archibald Vivian Hill (75 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ricardo Miledi (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Nils Chr. Stenseth (63 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (54 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Anders Pape Møller (48 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 Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Oxford (898 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• University of Cambridge (879 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 12 less than at the previous edition,
• University College London (609 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
• Max Planck Society (423 papers) published 25 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Imperial College London (382 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 5 less 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, 2.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.81% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 18.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.57% of all publications and 44.51% 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.