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Progress in Physical Geography
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Progress in Physical Geography

0309-1333

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ppg

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 199 50 53 19
Environmental Sciences 338 48 60 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 134
Documents by Best Scientists*: 126
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 124
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.942
Impact Factor: 3.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Progress in Physical Geography?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Environmental ethics, Archaeology, Hydrology, Ecology and Climate change. Issues in Environmental ethics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Anthropology and Humanities. The majority of Hydrology studies in Progress in Physical Geography are focused on the subject of Erosion.

The works on Ecology deal in particular with Ecology (disciplines). Climate change study tackled is connected to the field of Climatology.

  • Environmental ethics (14.36%)
  • Archaeology (9.05%)
  • Hydrology (8.72%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Downscaling general circulation model output: a review of methods and limitations (1114 citations)
  • Plant invasions : merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility (840 citations)
  • LiDAR remote sensing of forest structure (791 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Progress in Physical Geography:

The most cited articles focus on Hydrology, Ecology, Remote sensing, Climate change and Geomorphology. While the most cited papers focused on Hydrology, they were also able to explore topics like Sediment and Land use. The journal publications explore issues in Climate change which can be linked to other research areas like Climatology, Environmental resource management and Water resources.

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

  • Ecology
  • Law
  • Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Progress in Physical Geography facilitates discussions on Physical geography, Remote sensing (archaeology), Vegetation, Hydrology and Environmental resource management. Topics in Physical geography were tackled in line with various other fields like Paleoecology, Archipelago, Spatial distribution and Human settlement. The Remote sensing (archaeology) works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Terrain and Martian, Planetary exploration, Astrobiology, Mars Exploration Program.

Progress in Physical Geography holds forums on Vegetation that merges themes from other disciplines such as Habitat, Ecosystem services, Stemflow, Intensity (heat transfer) and Urbanization. The Hydrology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Fauna. The studies in Environmental resource management featured incorporate elements of Support vector machine, Key (cryptography), Feature selection and K nearest neighbour.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Current trends and future directions in quantitative geodiversity assessment (3 citations)
  • Predicting river channel pattern based on stream power, bed material and bank strength: (3 citations)
  • Low-cost electronic sensors for environmental research: Pitfalls and opportunities: (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 Progress in Physical Geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Heather Viles (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • J.G. Lockwood (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Andrew Goudie (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tim Burt (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Martin Kent (17 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 Progress in Physical Geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Oxford (80 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Cambridge (58 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Birmingham (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Leeds (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sheffield (40 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, 9.09% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% 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 20.00% of all publications and 80.00% 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

  • Linking spatial differentiation with sustainability management: Academic contributions and research directions of physical geography in China:

    Jian Peng;Yi’na Hu;Jianquan Dong;Qi Mao

    (2020)
    148 Citations
  • Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China:

    Sijing Qiu;Jian Peng;Jianquan Dong;Xiaoyu Wang

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing.

    J.F. Arthur;C.R. Stokes;S.S.R. Jamieson;J.R. Carr

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Low-cost electronic sensors for environmental research: pitfalls and opportunities

    Kristofer Chan;Daniel N Schillereff;Andreas Cw Baas;Michael A Chadwick

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • Sediment yield over glacial cycles: A conceptual model:

    Gilles Antoniazza;Stuart N Lane

    (2021)
    55 Citations
  • Controls on dune scarping controls

    Samuel G Davidson;Patrick A Hesp;Graziela Miot da Silva

    (2020)
    53 Citations
  • Global assessment of wind erosion based on a spatially distributed RWEQ model

    Guocheng Yang;Ranhao Sun;Yongcai Jing;Muqi Xiong

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Mainstreaming natural flood management: A proposed research framework derived from a critical evaluation of current knowledge

    Nicola Ellis;Karen Anderson;Richard Brazier

    (2021)
    45 Citations

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