Journal of Biogeography
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Research trends in biogeography
Richard J. Ladle, Ana C. M. Malhado, Ricardo A. Correia, Jhonatan Guedes dos Santos
and Ana M. C. Santos
Appendix S1 List of the 100 scientific journals that have published the most
biogeography-themed articles (1995–2014).
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
Journal Title
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Journal of Biogeography
Zootaxa
Molecular Ecology
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
PLoS ONE
American Journal of Botany
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Hydrobiologia
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Evolution
Taxon
Systematic Botany
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Diversity and Distributions
Biodiversity and Conservation
Ecology
Journal of Mammalogy
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Journal of Natural History
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Plant Systematics and Evolution
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Systematic Biology
BMC Evolutionary Biology
Ecography
Biological Conservation
Zoologica Scripta
Zookeys
International Journal of Plant Sciences
Journal of Phycology
ISME journal
Conservation Biology
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
The American Naturalist
Systematic Entomology
The Auk
Articles
955
950
538
337
278
275
227
202
185
174
170
168
162
151
133
129
126
122
119
118
118
117
117
112
106
104
98
77
74
73
70
70
68
65
64
64
62
62
%
5.86
5.83
3.30
2.07
1.71
1.69
1.39
1.24
1.14
1.07
1.04
1.03
0.99
0.93
0.82
0.79
0.77
0.75
0.73
0.72
0.72
0.72
0.72
0.69
0.65
0.64
0.60
0.47
0.45
0.45
0.43
0.43
0.42
0.40
0.39
0.39
0.38
0.38
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39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
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62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
Polar Biology
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Invertebrate Systematics
Mycologia
Ecology Letters
Annals of Botany
Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Zoological Science
Deep-Sea Research
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Marine Biology
Cladistics
Systematics and Biodiversity
Marine Micropaleontology
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Revista de Biologia Tropical
Organisms Diversity & Evolution
Phytotaxa
Oecologia
Oikos
Scientia Marina
Journal of Parasitology
Phycologia
New Zealand Journal of Botany
Environmental Microbiology
Nature
Australian Systematic Botany
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Copeia
Nova Hedwigia
Herpetologica
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
European Journal of Phycology
Acta Oecologica
Geobios
Contributions to Zoology
Ecology and Evolution
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
Ecological Applications
New Phytologist
Journal of Arachnology
Journal of Paleontology
Mycotaxon
Palaeontology
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Biology Letters
Journal of Experimental Biology
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Freshwater Biology
Journal of Zoology
62
61
61
61
58
58
57
56
56
55
51
51
51
51
50
47
47
46
46
46
45
45
44
44
43
43
42
42
42
41
40
40
39
38
37
36
36
36
36
35
35
35
35
35
35
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
0.38
0.37
0.37
0.37
0.36
0.36
0.35
0.34
0.34
0.34
0.31
0.31
0.31
0.31
0.31
0.29
0.29
0.28
0.28
0.28
0.28
0.28
0.27
0.27
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.26
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.24
0.23
0.23
0.22
0.22
0.22
0.22
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
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94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Journal of Crustacean Biology
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie
Naturwissenschaften
Cretaceous Research
Amphibia-Reptilia
Heredity
Alcheringa
32
32
32
32
32
31
31
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.19
0.19
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Appendix S2 Relative frequencies (% of articles that use the specified keyword) and
ranks of the 26 most used keywords for the time periods 1995–2004 and 2005–2014.
Note, the keywords “biogeography” and “patterns” were removed from the analysis.
Keyword
Evolution
Diversity
Historical biogeography
Phylogeny
Biodiversity
Diversification
Mitochondrial DNA
Conservation
Dispersal
Sequences
Molecular phylogeny
Phylogenetic relationships
Phylogeography
Climate change
Genus
Ecology
Systematics
Speciation
Species richness
DNA
Populations
Communities
History
Birds
Origin
Extinction
1995–2004
% [rank]
16.64 [1]
6.71 [2]
2.93[12]
4.50 [6]
2.67[15]
1.36[49]
5.30 [4]
4.10 [8]
3.37[11]
5.44 [3]
1.01[76]
2.33[19]
1.89[28]
0.41[209]
2.10[21]
2.81[13]
4.96 [5]
3.90 [9]
1.87[29]
3.57[10]
4.43 [7]
2.24[20]
2.77[14]
2.51[18]
2.54[17]
2.56[16]
2005–2014
% [rank]
16.10 [1]
10.16 [2]
6.69 [3]
6.45 [4]
5.99 [5]
4.70 [6]
4.57 [7]
4.50 [8]
4.41 [9]
4.28 [10]
3.96 [11]
3.89 [12]
3.67[13]
3.65[14]
3.60[15]
3.59 [16]
3.39 [17]
3.27[18]
3.23[19]
3.10 [20]
3.01 [23]
2.70[24]
2.40 [25]
2.04[31]
1.92 [35]
1.45 [49]
Change
in rank
↔0
↔0
↑9
↑2
↑ 10
↑ 43
↓3
↔0
↑2
↓7
↑ 65
↑7
↑ 15
↑ 195
↑6
↓3
↓ 12
↓9
↑ 10
↓ 10
↓ 16
↓4
↓ 11
↓ 13
↓ 18
↓ 33
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Appendix S3 Difference in rank of the 20 most represented countries in our
biogeography database (1995–2014) and global publication output as measured by the
SciMago SJR country index (1996–2013) (SCImago, 2015). A positive difference
signifies that the country is ranked higher for biogeography research than research in
general.
Reference
SCImago (2015) SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Available at:
http://www.scimagojr.com (accessed 16 March 2015).
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