| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science | 24 | 1274 | 2657 | 105 |
The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Composite material, Metallurgy, Microstructure, Crystallography and Condensed matter physics. Deformation (engineering), Plasticity, Ultimate tensile strength, Stress (mechanics) and Slip (materials science) are all areas of Composite material tackled in it. Acta Materialia focused on Metallurgy research but expanded to cover Thermodynamics.
Issues in Microstructure were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Analytical chemistry, Annealing (metallurgy), Phase (matter) and Intermetallic. Crystallography research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Electron diffraction, Transmission electron microscopy and Nucleation. The study on Condensed matter physics presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Anisotropy.
The journal explores research in Austenite alongside concepts in Martensite and other areas of study in Shape-memory alloy. Topics in Grain boundary were tackled in line with various other fields like Nanocrystalline material, Grain growth and Crystallite. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Alloy as it also encompasses Precipitation (chemistry).
The journal articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Metallurgy, Composite material, Microstructure, Crystallography and Grain boundary. The published papers connects the study in Metallurgy with the closely related areas of Nucleation. Electron diffraction and Condensed matter physics are some topics wherein Crystallography research discussed in the most cited articles has an impact.
Acta Materialia generally zeroes in on subjects such as Composite material, Microstructure, Phase (matter), Alloy and Grain boundary. It focuses on different Composite material studies like Deformation (engineering), Dislocation, Ultimate tensile strength, Plasticity and Slip (materials science). It holds forums on Microstructure that merges themes from other disciplines such as Annealing (metallurgy), Grain size and Nucleation.
Some problems in Phase (matter) that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Phase transition and Thermodynamics. The Alloy works featured in Acta Materialia incorporate elements from Ductility and Precipitation (chemistry). Topics in Grain boundary explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Chemical physics and Crystallite.
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 Acta Materialia (based on the number of publications) are:
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 Acta Materialia (based on the number of publications) are:
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.
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, 4.55% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.41% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.77% of all publications and 44.71% were from other institutions.
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.
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.
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:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
E.P. George;E.P. George;W.A. Curtin;C.C. Tasan
(2020)Ruidi Li;Minbo Wang;Zhiming Li;Zhiming Li;Peng Cao;Peng Cao
(2020)Yuanbo T. Tang;Chinnapat Panwisawas;Joseph N. Ghoussoub;Yilun Gong
(2021)Qiyang Tan;Jingqi Zhang;Qiang Sun;Zhiqi Fan
(2020)Francesco Maresca;William A. Curtin
(2020)Hucheng Pan;Rui Kang;Jingren Li;Hongbo Xie
(2020)Yan Zhang;Cheng Wen;Changxin Wang;Stoichko Antonov
(2020)Ozkan Gokcekaya;Takuya Ishimoto;Shinya Hibino;Shinya Hibino;Jumpei Yasutomi
(2021)Rongpei Shi;Saad A. Khairallah;Tien T. Roehling;Tae Wook Heo
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