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European Physical Journal: Special Topics
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European Physical Journal: Special Topics

1951-6355

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11734

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 147 44 50 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 291
Documents by Best Scientists*: 407
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 21
SCIMAGO H-index: 96
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.447
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at European Physical Journal-special Topics?

European Physical Journal-special Topics investigates studies in Statistical physics, Optics, Mechanics, Condensed matter physics and Nanotechnology. The work on Statistical physics addressed in European Physical Journal-special Topics expands to the thematically related Chaotic. The majority of Optics studies are focused on the issues of Laser.

  • Statistical physics (13.90%)
  • Optics (7.94%)
  • Mechanics (7.37%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Smart cities of the future (1039 citations)
  • Active Brownian Particles. From Individual to Collective Stochastic Dynamics (659 citations)
  • The map equation (511 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at European Physical Journal-special Topics:

The journal articles primarily tackle Statistical physics, Nanotechnology, Optics, Classical mechanics and Quantum mechanics. The published articles explore research in Attractor and overlapping concepts in Chaotic to expand the discourse in Statistical physics. The most cited papers feature Nanotechnology research that overlaps with concepts in Chemical physics.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Statistical physics, Chaotic, Mechanics, Attractor and Topology are tackled in the journal. The research on Statistical physics featured in it combines topics in other fields like Quantum and Work (thermodynamics). Topics like Nanofluid, Flow (mathematics), Thermophoresis and Non-Newtonian fluid are tackled as part of the discussions on Mechanics.

The journal focuses on Nanofluid research as part of the broader topic of Heat transfer. While Attractor is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Bifurcation and Lyapunov exponent. Research in Lyapunov exponent tackled falls within the umbrella of Nonlinear system.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Non-Newtonian hybrid nanofluid flow over vertically upward/downward moving rotating disk in a Darcy–Forchheimer porous medium (13 citations)
  • Multi-particle systems on the lattice and chiral extrapolations: a brief review (10 citations)
  • Buoyancy effect on magnetohydrodynamic radiative flow of Casson fluid with Brownian moment and thermophoresis (8 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 European Physical Journal-special Topics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jürgen Kurths (26 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition,
  • Dirk Helbing (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sajad Jafari (19 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Andreas Mandelis (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karthikeyan Rajagopal (17 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous 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 European Physical Journal-special Topics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (135 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (128 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (70 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition,
  • Humboldt University of Berlin (66 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 18 more than at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (61 papers) published 19 papers 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, 4.25% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.36% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.17% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.19% of all publications and 69.28% 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

  • Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment

    H. Abramowicz;U. Acosta;U. Acosta;M. Altarelli;R. Aßmann

    (2021)
    155 Citations
  • The NEUT neutrino interaction simulation program library

    (2021)
    109 Citations
  • EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report

    R. W. Assmann;M. K. Weikum;T. Akhter;D. Alesini

    (2020)
    97 Citations
  • Reflections upon the emergence of hadronic mass

    Craig D. Roberts;Sebastian M. Schmidt;Sebastian M. Schmidt

    (2020)
    60 Citations
  • The European Spallation Source neutrino super-beam conceptual design report

    (2022)
    35 Citations
  • Impact of an AMOC weakening on the stability of the southern Amazon rainforest

    Catrin Ciemer;Catrin Ciemer;Ricarda Winkelmann;Ricarda Winkelmann;Jürgen Kurths;Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Conformal and uniformizing maps in Borel analysis

    Ovidiu Costin;Gerald V. Dunne

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Anticipation-induced social tipping: can the environment be stabilised by social dynamics?

    Paul Manuel Müller;Paul Manuel Müller;Paul Manuel Müller;Jobst Heitzig;Jürgen Kurths;Jürgen Kurths;Kathy Lüdge

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Discovery of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strangeness Diaries

    Johann Rafelski;Johann Rafelski

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Acoustic Emissions in Compression of Building Materials: Q-Statistics Enables the Anticipation of the Breakdown Point

    Annalisa Greco;Constantino Tsallis;Constantino Tsallis;Andrea Rapisarda;Alessandro Pluchino

    (2020)
    21 Citations

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