Azorean Biodiversity Group (cE3c) Report for the Year of 2018

In 2018, the main achievements of the 29 integrated members with Ph.D. of ABG-cE3c included 243 publications, 51 of which in International Indexed Journals with Impact Factor. The mean Impact Factor in 2018 in SCI Journals was 2.61 (max = 7.27; Land Degradation & Development); 26 publications are included in the first quartile (53% of the SCI publications). Our 26 external collaborators published an additional 14 SCI publications with our affiliation.

Forty-three projects run in 2018, 20 received international funding, five were funded by National funds from FCT, nine by regional funds from DRCT and nine were funded by other Agencies. These 43 projects (some of them finishing in 2018) brought about 489,908.49 Euros to the research group members in 2018. In addition, in 2018 we secured a total of  337,627.76 Euros with Ph.D. Post Doc and other types of grants.