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Communications in Theoretical Physics

0253-6102

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0253-6102

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 284 7 11 4
Engineering and Technology 653 33 47 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 123
Documents by Best Scientists*: 149
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 67
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.488
Impact Factor: 2.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Communications in Theoretical Physics?

Communications in Theoretical Physics aims to foster the development of research in Quantum mechanics, Mathematical physics, Condensed matter physics, Atomic physics and Classical mechanics. The research on Quantum mechanics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of State (functional analysis) and Quantum electrodynamics. The studies in Mathematical physics featured incorporate elements of Soliton and Symmetry (physics).

Electron and Magnetic field are some topics wherein Condensed matter physics research discussed in Communications in Theoretical Physics have an impact.

  • Quantum mechanics (22.02%)
  • Mathematical physics (16.07%)
  • Condensed matter physics (12.78%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Financial Rogue Waves (241 citations)
  • Collective Perspective on Advances in Dyson—Schwinger Equation QCD (213 citations)
  • (G'/G)-Expansion Method for Solving Fractional Partial Differential Equations in the Theory of Mathematical Physics (183 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Communications in Theoretical Physics:

The published papers explore disciplines such as Mathematical physics, Quantum mechanics, Classical mechanics, Mathematical analysis and Applied mathematics. One-dimensional space is a focus of the presented Mathematical physics works in the journal publications and they dives deep in One-dimensional space. While Quantum mechanics is the focus of the journal publications, it also provides insights into the studies of State (functional analysis) and Topology.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Communications in Theoretical Physics primarily tackles Mathematical physics, Quantum mechanics, Quantum, Mechanics and Condensed matter physics. The work on Mathematical physics tackled in Communications in Theoretical Physics brings together disciplines like Soliton and Conservation law. Issues in Soliton were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Classical mechanics and One-dimensional space.

In particular, the Quantum mechanics works presented emphasize discussions on Quantum entanglement. Nanofluid and Flow (mathematics) are some of the study areas of Mechanics discussed.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The vacancy defects and oxygen atoms occupation effects on mechanical and electronic properties of Mo5Si3 silicides (23 citations)
  • A pedagogical review on solvable irrelevant deformations of 2D quantum field theory (16 citations)
  • Heat transfer analysis of MHD rotating flow of Fe3O4 nanoparticles through a stretchable surface (14 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 Communications in Theoretical Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Fan Hong-Yi (164 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chen Tian-Lun (58 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zhu Shi-Qun (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Liu Shi-Kuo (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ruan Tu-Nan (40 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 Communications in Theoretical Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (750 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Academia Sinica (629 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Science and Technology of China (337 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Peking University (330 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (281 papers) absent at the last 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, 70.10% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.11% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.75% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.67% of all publications and 52.46% 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

  • The fractional features of a harmonic oscillator with position-dependent mass

    Dumitru Baleanu;Amin Jajarmi;Samaneh Sadat Sajjadi;Jihad H Asad

    (2020)
    136 Citations
  • Analytical and numerical study of chirped optical solitons in a spatially inhomogeneous polynomial law fiber with parity-time symmetry potential

    (2022)
    85 Citations
  • Multi-functional metasurface: ultra-wideband/multi-band absorption switching by adjusting guided-mode resonance and local surface plasmon resonance effects

    (2024)
    70 Citations
  • Impact of melting heat transfer in the time-dependent squeezing nanofluid flow containing carbon nanotubes in a Darcy-Forchheimer porous media with Cattaneo-Christov heat flux

    Muhammad Ramzan;Muhammad Ramzan;Nomana Abid;Dianchen Lu;Iskander Tlili

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Impact of Joule heating and multiple slips on a Maxwell nanofluid flow past a slendering surface

    Shafiq Ahmad;Muhammmad Naveed Khan;Sohail Nadeem;Aysha Rehman

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Thermo-bioconvection transport of nanofluid over an inclined stretching cylinder with Cattaneo–Christov double-diffusion

    Hassan Waqas;Umair Manzoor;Taseer Muhammad;Taseer Muhammad;Sajjad Hussain

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Diverse acoustic wave propagation to confirmable time–space fractional KP equation arising in dusty plasma

    Aly R Seadawy;Muhammad Younis;Muhammad Z Baber;Syed T R Rizvi

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • A novel multi-stable sinusoidal chaotic map with spectacular behaviors

    (2023)
    21 Citations
  • Variable viscosity effects on the flow of MHD hybrid nanofluid containing dust particles over a needle with Hall current—a Xue model exploration

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Soliton and other solutions to the (1 + 2)-dimensional chiral nonlinear Schrödinger equation

    K Hosseini;M Mirzazadeh

    (2020)
    17 Citations

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