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We thank data curators who granted access to the restricted databases listed in the Supporting Information (Supplement 4b). We are also grateful to the many colleagues who revised the taxonomic treatment of some genera and contributed unpublished distributional data, especially Pedro Jimenez--Mejias, Carmen Acedo, Santiago Martin-Bravo and Juan Devesa. This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the Bioregions 2.0 project (CGL2017--86926--P) granted to M. A.R. and J.C. M.S. I.R.G. was supported by the Garantia Juvenil program (PEJ--2018--AI/AMB--9865) and R.M.--V. by the TALENTO program (2018--T2/AMB--10332), both from the Government of the Community of Madrid.

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Atlas of the vascular flora of the Iberian Peninsula biodiversity hotspot (AFLIBER)

Publicated to:Global Ecology And Biogeography. 30 (10): 1951-1957 - 2021-10-01 30(10), DOI: 10.1111/geb.13363

Authors: Ramos-Gutierrez, Ignacio; Lima, Herlander; Pajaron, Santiago; Romero-Zarco, Carlos; Saez, Llorenc; Pataro, Luciano; Molina-Venegas, Rafael; Rodriguez, Miguel A; Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos

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Univ Alcala De Henares, Dept Life Sci, GLoCEE Global Change Ecol & Evolut Grp, Alcala De Henares, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Anim Biol Plant Biol & Ecol, Bellaterra, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Biol Bot, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Res Ctr Biodivers & Global Change CIBC UAM, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Biodiversidad, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Seville, Dept Biol Vegetal & Ecol, Seville, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Motivation We accessed published and unpublished floristic sources to compile a comprehensive species list of the Iberian-Balearic terrestrial vascular flora and generate AFLIBER, an accurate floristic database of georeferenced plant occurrence records. Main type of variable contained Species distribution data totalling 1,824,549 plant occurrence records corresponding to 6,456 species and subspecies. Spatial location and grain The western Mediterranean, including inland territories of Spain, Portugal and Andorra and the adjacent archipelagos of Berlengas, Columbretes and the Balearic Islands, covered by 6,316 UTM quadrangular grid cells of 10 km resolution. Time period All distributional trustable records were considered to create the AFLIBER database, most of them dating from the 1960s onwards. Major taxa and level of measurement Terrestrial vascular plant species and subspecies. Software format Data are supplied as comma-separated text (csv) files.

Keywords

Balearic islandsBiodiversity hotspotConservationDiversityGeographical distributionPatternsPlantsPortugalSpainVascular plants

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Global Ecology And Biogeography due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 3/50, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Geography, Physical. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.22. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.59 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 3.57 (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 9
  • Scopus: 11

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 50.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 51 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 63.9.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 60 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (RAMOS GUTIERREZ, IGNACIO) and Last Author (MORENO SAIZ, JUAN CARLOS).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been RAMOS GUTIERREZ, IGNACIO.