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Subterranean Biology
H-index 6

Subterranean Biology

1768-1448

Published by: Pensoft Publishers

https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 545 18 19 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 21
Documents by Best Scientists*: 21
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 19
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.475
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Subterranean biology?

Subterranean biology mainly tackles studies in Ecology, Cave, Zoology, Genus and Fauna. Invertebrate, Crustacean, Habitat, Species richness and Isopoda studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Ecology presented. The works on Isopoda deal in particular with Cirolanidae.

It addresses concerns in Cave which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Karst, Abundance (ecology) and Guano. The journal explores issues in Fauna which can be linked to other research areas like Biodiversity and Groundwater.

  • Ecology (55.35%)
  • Cave (47.44%)
  • Zoology (19.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Towards a biologically meaningful classification of subterranean organisms: a critical analysis of the Schiner-Racovitza system from a historical perspective, difficulties of its application and implications for conservation (35 citations)
  • Troglofauna in the vadose zone: comparison of scraping and trapping results and sampling adequacy (30 citations)
  • Trophic Dynamics in a Neotropical Limestone Cave (29 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Subterranean biology:

The most cited papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Cave, Invertebrate, Biodiversity and Fauna. The most cited articles hold forums on Ecology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Environmental ethics and Perspective (graphical). The works on Cave tackled in the journal articles bring together disciplines like Guano, Detritus, Species richness, Community composition and Spatial ecology.

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

  • Ecology
  • Genus
  • IUCN Red List

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Zoology, Cave, Ecology, Genus and Fauna. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Zoology, it also covered topics in Host (biology), Sculpin and Population genetics. It aims to investigate interdisciplinary topics such as Cave and Refining (metallurgy).

It covers research in Ecology, particularly Collembola , Habitat and Trechinae and how they are related with concepts in Anillinus and Dimension (vector space). Subterranean biology focuses on Genus but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Spring (hydrology) which is concerned with Freshwater snail, Structural basin, Subterranean fauna and Drainage basin. In addition to Fauna research, Subterranean biology aims to explore topics under Hemiptera, Old World and Niphargidae.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Two new stygobiotic species of Horatia Bourguignat, 1887 (Hydrobiidae) from Croatia (3 citations)
  • Forty-year natural history study of Bahalana geracei Carpenter, 1981, an anchialine cave-dwelling isopod (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from San Salvador Island, Bahamas: reproduction, growth, longevity, and population structure (2 citations)
  • First record of a cavernicolous Kinnaridae from the Old World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Kinnaridae, Adolendini) provides testimony of an ancient fauna (1 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 Subterranean biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira (21 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Maria Elina Bichuette (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luis Espinasa (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Matthew L. Niemiller (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous 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 Subterranean biology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Illinois Natural History Survey (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Marist College (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • The Nature Conservancy (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Escuela Politécnica del Ejército (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Western Australia (2 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, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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

  • Three new subterranean species of Baezia (Curculionidae, Molytinae) for the Canary Islands

    Rafael Garcia;Carmelo Andújar;Pedro Oromí;Brent C. Emerson

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Citizen science approach reveals groundwater fauna in Switzerland and a new species of Niphargus (Amphipoda, Niphargidae)

    Roman Alther;Nicole Bongni;Špela Borko;Cene Fišer

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • The Wynberg Cave System, the most important site for cave fauna in South Africa at risk

    Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira;Gonzalo Giribet;Gerhard Du Preez;Oresti Ventouras

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • A new obligate groundwater species of Asellus (Isopoda, Asellidae) from Iran

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • A subterranean species of Exocelina diving beetle from the Malay Peninsula filling a 4,000 km distribution gap between Melanesia and southern China

    Michael Balke;Ignacio Ribera

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Let research on subterranean habitats resonate

    Stefano Mammola;Alejandro Pinel Martínez

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • First record of Pisidium subtruncatum Malm, 1855 (Bivalvia, Sphaeriidae) in an African cave

    Hanane Rassam;Soumia Moutaouakil;Hassan Benaissa;Christian Albrecht

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • The first record of a stygobiotic form of Garra rufa (Heckel, 1843), sympatric with Garra tashanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi & Eagderi, 2016 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae), in Iranian subterranean waters

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Assessment of occurrence, diversity, and biomass of macroinvertebrates in Swiss groundwater systems using citizen science data

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Don’t forget the vertical dimension: assessment of distributional dynamics of cave-dwelling invertebrates in both ground and parietal microhabitats

    Valentina Balestra;Enrico Lana;Cristina Carbone;Jo De Waele

    (2021)
    3 Citations

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