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Quarterly Review of Biology
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Quarterly Review of Biology

0033-5770

Published by: University of Chicago Press

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/qrb/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 320 102 116 11
Biology and Biochemistry 765 20 22 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 147
Documents by Best Scientists*: 187
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 92
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.905
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at The Quarterly Review of Biology?

Index (economics), Environmental ethics, Humanities, Ecology and Zoology are the subjects of interest in The Quarterly Review of Biology. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Environmental ethics, it also covered topics in Anthropology and Archaeology. Ecology (disciplines) is the primary subject of Ecology works presented in it.

  • Index (economics) (14.13%)
  • Environmental ethics (13.24%)
  • Humanities (7.43%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism (7830 citations)
  • The dilemma of plants: To grow or defend. (3224 citations)
  • Life-history tactics: a review of the ideas. (2978 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at The Quarterly Review of Biology:

The most cited publications aim to foster the development of research in Ecology, Zoology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics and Adaptation. The studies on Ecology discussed at the published articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Offspring and Demography. The journal publications focus on Zoology research which is adjacent to topics in Host (biology).

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

  • Ecology
  • Internal medicine
  • Gene

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in The Quarterly Review of Biology are Index (economics), Humanities, Anthropology, Ecology (disciplines) and Archaeology. Aside from Index (economics), The Quarterly Review of Biology also covered works in other subjects like Theology, Evolutionary ecology, Library science, Wildlife and Wildlife management. It connects the study in Humanities with the closely related area of Subject (documents).

The journal explores topics in Ecology (disciplines) which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Volume (compression) and Population biology. The Archaeology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Spring (hydrology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • POPULATION GENOMICS: MARINE ORGANISMS (8 citations)
  • On The Biogeography of Habitat Islands: The Importance of Matrix Effects, Noncore Species, and Source-Sink Dynamics (1 citations)
  • (Ir)rationality of animal choice? A guide to testing transitivity (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 The Quarterly Review of Biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bentley Glass (754 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jane Oppenheimer (328 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joel W. Hedgpeth (293 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Henri C. Seibert (189 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David B. Tyler (184 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 The Quarterly Review of Biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Cornell University (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sydney (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Stony Brook University (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Toronto (7 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, 97.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 50.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 50.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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

  • Niche breadth: Causes and consequences for ecology, evolution, and conservation

    Michelle E. Afkhami;Dominique Gravel;Stuart W. Livingstone;John J. Wiens

    (2020)
    298 Citations
  • Determinants and consequences of dispersal in vertebrates with complex life cycles: A review of pond-breeding amphibians

    Hugo Cayuela;Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez;Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez;Loïc Teulier;Íñigo Martínez-Solano

    (2020)
    132 Citations
  • On The Biogeography of Habitat Islands: The Importance of Matrix Effects, Noncore Species, and Source-Sink Dynamics

    (2021)
    77 Citations
  • Insect Radiations on Islands: Biogeographic Pattern and Evolutionary Process in Hawaiian Insects

    Unknown

    (2021)
    55 Citations
  • Evolution in Isolation: The Search for an Island Syndrome in Plants. By Kevin C. Burns. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $79.99. xi + 226 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-108-42201-7. 2019.

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • POPULATION GENOMICS: MARINE ORGANISMS

    Ronald S Burton

    (2021)
    40 Citations
  • :Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS

    (2022)
    39 Citations
  • Pollinators, Herbivores, and Plant Neighborhood Effects

    Nora Underwood;Peter A. Hambäck;Brian D. Inouye

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Taste and Smell: A Unifying Chemosensory Theory

    (2022)
    29 Citations
  • Knock-On Effects of Environmental Influences during Embryonic Development of Ectothermic Vertebrates

    (2022)
    28 Citations

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