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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science

1546-2366

Published by: University of California

https://escholarship.org/uc/jmie_sfews

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 612 11 10 5
Environmental Sciences 694 16 20 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 40
Documents by Best Scientists*: 34
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 27
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.412
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science?

San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science tackles a plethora of topics, such as Estuary, Ecology, Hydrology, Fishery and San Joaquin. While Estuary is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Abundance (ecology), Bay, Smelt and Wetland. It facilitates discussions on Bay that incorporate concepts from other fields like Drainage basin and Sediment.

Research on Ecology presented in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science focuses, in particular, on Habitat, Marsh, Salt marsh, Restoration ecology and Riparian zone. The journal addresses concerns in Habitat which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Floodplain, Wildlife, Ecosystem, Vegetation and Introduced species. While Restoration ecology is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Environmental resource management and Water supply.

San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science holds forums on Hydrology that merges themes from other disciplines such as Salinity and Levee. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science deals with Fishery in conjunction with Chinook wind and similar fields in Juvenile. Interdisciplinary research on topics like San Joaquin and River delta are the foci of it.

  • Estuary (31.58%)
  • Ecology (28.65%)
  • Hydrology (28.07%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Critical Assessment of the Delta Smelt Population in the San Francisco Estuary, California (161 citations)
  • Open Water Processes of the San Francisco Estuary: From Physical Forcing to Biological Responses (145 citations)
  • From Climate-change Spaghetti to Climate-change Distributions for 21st-Century California (131 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science:

The journal papers primarily tackle Estuary, Ecology, San Joaquin, Hydrology and Fishery. Issues in Estuary were discussed in the journal publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Bay, Spawn (biology), Salt marsh and Wetland. Chinook wind, Juvenile, Predation and Hypomesus transpacificus, Smelt are some topics wherein Fishery research discussed in the most cited articles has an impact.

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

  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Wetland

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Fishery, Smelt, Estuary, Hypomesus transpacificus and San Joaquin. Fishery research in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science involves the investigation of Sampling (statistics) studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Abundance (ecology), Population size, Fishing, Environmental monitoring and Current (stream). While work presented in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science provided substantial information on Smelt, it also covered topics in Hydrology, Water quality and Streamflow.

The research on Estuary featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Habitat, Electrofishing, Ecosystem and Zooplankton. In addition to Hypomesus transpacificus research, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science aims to explore topics under Replicate, Stratified sampling and Occupancy. While it focused on San Joaquin, it was also able to explore topics like Juvenile, Oncorhynchus, Chinook wind and Population status.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Re-Examining Factors That Affect Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) Entrainment at the State Water Project and Central Valley Project in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (1 citations)
  • Statistical Evaluation of Behavior and Population Dynamics Models Predicting Movement and Proportional Entrainment Loss of Adult Delta Smelt in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (1 citations)
  • Food for Thought: Connecting Zooplankton Science to Management in the San Francisco Estuary (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 San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ted Sommer (24 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Peter B. Moyle (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jay R. Lund (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Samuel N. Luoma (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael D. Dettinger (14 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 San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Davis (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service (12 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • California Department of Fish and Wildlife (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • California Department of Water Resources (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 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, 63.64% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 100.00% 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 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

  • Comparing and Integrating Fish Surveys in the San Francisco Estuary: Why Diverse Long-Term Monitoring Programs are Important

    Dylan K. Stompe;Peter B. Moyle;Avery Kruger;John R. Durand

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Use Care When Interpreting Correlations: The Ammonium Example in the San Francisco Estuary

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Ecological Effects of Climate-Driven Salinity Variation in the San Francisco Estuary: Can We Anticipate and Manage the Coming Changes?

    Cameron Ghalambor;Edwin Grosholtz

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Invasive Aquatic Vegetation in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh: The History and Science of Control Efforts and Recommendations for the Path Forward

    (2023)
    14 Citations
  • Status, Trends, and Drivers of Harmful Algal Blooms Along the Freshwater-to-Marine Gradient in the San Francisco Bay–Delta System

    (2023)
    14 Citations
  • Disease in central valley salmon: Status and lessons from other systems

    Brendan M. Lehman;Rachel C. Johnson;Mark Adkison;Oliver T. Burgess

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Drought and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 2012–2016: Environmental Review and Lessons

    John Durand;Fabian Bombardelli;William Fleenor;Yumiko Henneberry

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Wetland availability and salinity concentrations for breeding waterfowl in Suisun Marsh, California

    Carley Rose Schacter;Sarah H. Peterson;Mark P. Herzog;C. Alex Hartman

    (2021)
    6 Citations

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