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Communications Physics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 46 204 263 32

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 756
Documents by Best Scientists*: 691
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 22
SCIMAGO H-index: 61
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.776
Impact Factor: 5.8

Top Publications

  • Why reducing the cosmic sound horizon can not fully resolve the Hubble tension

    Karsten Jedamzik;Levon Pogosian;Gong-Bo Zhao

    (2021)
    191 Citations
  • Relaxion stars and their detection via atomic physics

    Abhishek Banerjee;Dmitry Budker;Dmitry Budker;Joshua Eby;Hyungjin Kim

    (2020)
    175 Citations
  • Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

    (2023)
    88 Citations
  • Unidirectional amplification with acoustic non-Hermitian space−time varying metamaterial

    (2020)
    81 Citations
  • Topological order from measurements and feed-forward on a trapped ion quantum computer

    (2024)
    76 Citations
  • Emergence of active turbulence in microswimmer suspensions due to active hydrodynamic stress and volume exclusion

    (2022)
    74 Citations
  • Megahertz single-particle imaging at the European XFEL

    Egor Sobolev;Sergei Zolotarev;Klaus Giewekemeyer;Johan Bielecki

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • Skyrmionic spin structures in layered Fe5GeTe2 up to room temperature

    (2022)
    64 Citations
  • High efficiency ultrafast water-window harmonic generation for single-shot soft X-ray spectroscopy

    Yuxi Fu;Kotaro Nishimura;Renzhi Shao;Akira Suda

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • A no-go theorem for the persistent reality of Wigner’s friend’s perception

    Philippe Allard Guérin;Philippe Allard Guérin;Philippe Allard Guérin;Veronika Baumann;Veronika Baumann;Flavio Del Santo;Flavio Del Santo;Časlav Brukner;Časlav Brukner

    (2021)
    59 Citations

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