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Annalen der Physik

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 157 36 55 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 165
Documents by Best Scientists*: 207
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 78
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.563
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Annalen der Physik?

The journal explores disciplines such as Quantum mechanics, Condensed matter physics, Mathematical physics, Atomic physics and Classical mechanics.

  • Quantum mechanics (2.80%)
  • Condensed matter physics (2.56%)
  • Mathematical physics (2.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen (8266 citations)
  • Zwischenmolekulare Energiewanderung und Fluoreszenz (6274 citations)
  • Berechnung verschiedener physikalischer Konstanten von heterogenen Substanzen. I. Dielektrizitätskonstanten und Leitfähigkeiten der Mischkörper aus isotropen Substanzen (6161 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Annalen der Physik:

The published articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Classical mechanics, Quantum mechanics, Mathematical physics, Condensed matter physics and Theoretical physics.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Optics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in Annalen der Physik are Optics, Condensed matter physics, Quantum mechanics, Optoelectronics and Quantum. The journal encompasses presentations on Condensed matter physics, specifically Quantum phase transition, Superconductivity, Phonon and Spin-½. Quantum entanglement and Qubit are Quantum mechanics topics of special interest in Annalen der Physik.

The journal primarily discusses Optoelectronics topics, particularly Plasmon and Terahertz radiation. It investigates Terahertz radiation research which frequently intersects with Polarization (waves). Annalen der Physik focuses on Quantum research which is adjacent to topics in Coherence (statistics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Free‐Electron Qubits (10 citations)
  • Bath-Induced Collective Phenomena on Superconducting Qubits: Synchronization, Subradiance, and Entanglement Generation (6 citations)
  • Enhancement of Radiative and Nonradiative Emission in Random Lasing Plasmonic Nanofibers (6 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 Annalen der Physik (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Heinrich Rose (106 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Albert Einstein (92 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gustav Rose (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Th. Scheerer (55 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eduard Riecke (49 papers) absent at the last 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 Annalen der Physik (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leipzig University (182 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Heidelberg University (177 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (171 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Jena (147 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (126 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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, 8.03% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 3.97% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 1.59% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.05% of all publications and 75.40% 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

  • Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory

    (2021)
    60 Citations
  • Atomic Physics Studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN

    Dmitry Budker;Dmitry Budker;José R. Crespo López‐Urrutia;Andrei Derevianko;Victor V. Flambaum;Victor V. Flambaum;Victor V. Flambaum

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Hydrostatic and Uniaxial Pressure Tuning of Iron‐Based Superconductors: Insights into Superconductivity, Magnetism, Nematicity, and Collapsed Tetragonal Transitions

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Seeing the Unseen: Experimental Observation of Magnetic Anapole State Inside a High‐Index Dielectric Particle

    Polina Kapitanova;Esmaeel Zanganeh;Nikita Pavlov;Mingzhao Song

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Illuminating the Electronic Properties of WS2 Polytypism with Electron Microscopy

    Sabrya E. van Heijst;Masaki Mukai;Eiji Okunishi;Hiroki Hashiguchi

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • The COLTRIMS Reaction Microscope—The Spyhole into the Ultrafast Entangled Dynamics of Atomic and Molecular Systems

    Horst Schmidt-Böcking;Joachim Ullrich;Reinhard Dörner;Charles Lewis Cocke

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • A Reputation Game Simulation: Emergent Social Phenomena from Information Theory

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Dynamically Induced Excitonic Instability in Pumped Dirac Materials

    Anna Pertsova;Alexander V. Balatsky

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Progress in Spinconversion and its Connection with Band Crossing

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • Non‐Hermitian Hartman Effect

    (2022)
    13 Citations

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