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Scientia Horticulturae

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 15 423 724 48

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 763
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1046
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 20
SCIMAGO H-index: 155
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.899
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Scientia Horticulturae?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Horticulture, Botany, Cultivar, Agronomy and Shoot. Rootstock, Fruit tree, Ripening, Postharvest and Yield (wine) are Horticulture topics of special interest in the journal. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Fruit tree but it intersects with the subject of Rosaceae.

It links adjacent topics like Postharvest with Food science. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Botany, it also covered topics in Micropropagation, Murashige and Skoog medium, Explant culture and Genetic diversity. The work on Genetic diversity addressed in it expands to the thematically related Germplasm.

Discussions in Scientia Horticulturae are anchored in the subject of Agronomy and the similar topic of Nutrient.

  • Horticulture (59.19%)
  • Botany (36.85%)
  • Cultivar (22.86%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Book reviewMethods of soil analysis. Part 2 — Microbiological and biochemical properties: R.W. Weaver, Scott Angle, Peter Bottomley, David Bezdicek, Scott Smith, Ali Tabatabai and Art Wollum (editors), Soil Science Society of America, number 5 in the Soil Science Society of America Book Series, 1994, hardcover, 1121 pp., US$ 65, ISBN 0-89118-810-X (1213 citations)
  • Salinity–mineral nutrient relations in horticultural crops (1122 citations)
  • Plant biostimulants: Definition, concept, main categories and regulation (643 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Scientia Horticulturae:

The journal publications cover a variety of subjects, including Horticulture, Botany, Cultivar, Agronomy and Shoot. While Horticulture is the focus of the most cited articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Nutrient and Irrigation. The Botany research tackled in the journal publications is interrelated with Food science which concerns subjects like Antioxidant and Biochemistry.

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Horticulture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Scientia Horticulturae primarily focuses on research topics in Horticulture, Food science, Cultivar, Postharvest and Biochemistry. In addition to Horticulture research, Scientia Horticulturae aims to explore topics under Nutrient and Sucrose. The concepts on Nutrient presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Fertilizer, Agronomy and Growing season.

The journal focuses on Food science but also tackles concerns of closely connected disciplines like

  • Antioxidant that connect with fields like Chlorogenic acid and Enzyme assay,
  • Vitamin C most often made with reference to Polyphenol.. Topics in Cultivar were tackled in line with various other fields like Vegetative reproduction and Yield (wine). It addresses concerns in Shoot which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Explant culture and Rootstock.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Melatonin is a potential target for improving horticultural crop resistance to abiotic stress (1 citations)
  • Biosynthesis Regulation of Folates and Phenols in Plants (1 citations)
  • Effects of procyanidin treatment on the ripening and softening of banana fruit during storage (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 Scientia Horticulturae (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Abraham H. Halevy (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Youssef Rouphael (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ali Khadivi (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Manuel Agustí (29 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 Scientia Horticulturae (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Spanish National Research Council (266 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 11 less than at the previous edition,
  • United States Department of Agriculture (188 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center (175 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (173 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing Agricultural University (172 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 15 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 2022 edition, 26.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 26.03% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.59% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.70% of all publications and 50.68% 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

  • Water loss of fresh fruit: Influencing pre-harvest, harvest and postharvest factors

    Robert Lufu;Alemayehu Ambaw;Umezuruike Linus Opara

    (2020)
    324 Citations
  • Melatonin alleviates iron stress by improving iron homeostasis, antioxidant defense and secondary metabolism in cucumber

    Golam Jalal Ahammed;Meijuan Wu;Yaqi Wang;Yaru Yan

    (2020)
    236 Citations
  • Recent developments on postharvest application of edible coatings on stone fruit: A review

    Shannon Claudia Riva;Umezuruike Obia Opara;Olaniyi Amos Fawole;Olaniyi Amos Fawole

    (2020)
    211 Citations
  • Optimal light intensity for sustainable water and energy use in indoor cultivation of lettuce and basil under red and blue LEDs

    Giuseppina Pennisi;Giuseppina Pennisi;Giuseppina Pennisi;Alessandro Pistillo;Francesco Orsini;Antonio Cellini

    (2020)
    189 Citations
  • Selenium application in two methods promotes drought tolerance in Solanum lycopersicum plant by inducing the antioxidant defense system

    Mostafa M. Rady;Hussein E.E. Belal;Farouk M. Gadallah;Wael M. Semida

    (2020)
    186 Citations
  • Promotion of lettuce growth under an increasing daily light integral depends on the combination of the photosynthetic photon flux density and photoperiod

    Nathan Kelly;Daegeun Choe;Qingwu Meng;Erik S. Runkle

    (2020)
    161 Citations
  • Exogenously applied proline enhances growth and productivity of drought stressed onion by improving photosynthetic efficiency, water use efficiency and up-regulating osmoprotectants

    Wael M. Semida;Abdelsattar Abdelkhalik;Mohamed O.A. Rady;Refat A. Marey

    (2020)
    137 Citations
  • Streptomyces alleviate drought stress in tomato plants and modulate the expression of transcription factors ERF1 and WRKY70 genes

    Sakineh Abbasi;Akram Sadeghi;Naser Safaie

    (2020)
    135 Citations
  • Effects of integrated use of residual sulfur-enhanced biochar with effective microorganisms on soil properties, plant growth and short-term productivity of Capsicum annuum under salt stress

    Taia A. Abd El-Mageed;Mostafa M. Rady;Ragab S. Taha;Sayed Abd El Azeam

    (2020)
    119 Citations
  • Mycorrhizas enhance drought tolerance of trifoliate orange by enhancing activities and gene expression of antioxidant enzymes

    Jia-Dong He;Jia-Dong He;Ying-Ning Zou;Ying-Ning Zou;Qiang-Sheng Wu;Qiang-Sheng Wu;Qiang-Sheng Wu;Kamil Kuča

    (2020)
    118 Citations

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