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International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization
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International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization

1939-2699

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcop20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 865 26 47 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 71
Documents by Best Scientists*: 96
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 38
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.456
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization?

International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization focuses largely on the fields of Coal, Waste management, Metallurgy, Chemical engineering and Mineralogy. The main emphasis of the journal is the subject of Coal, focusing on Clean coal. The journal focuses on Waste management but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Separator (oil production), Slurry and Dewatering.

Most of the Slurry studies addressed also intersect with Rheology. The Metallurgy study tackling the subject of Coke is the focus of the journal. Specifically, studies on Coke strength after reaction are prevalent in the Coke works discussed.

  • Coal (75.65%)
  • Waste management (31.85%)
  • Metallurgy (15.16%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Development of Air Dense Medium Fluidized Bed Technology For Dry Beneficiation of Coal – A Review (98 citations)
  • A Review of the Occurrence and Promising Recovery Methods of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal By-Products (88 citations)
  • Performance Optimization of the FGX Dry Separator for Cleaning High-Sulfur Coal (67 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization:

The most cited articles mostly deal with topics like Coal, Waste management, Separator (oil production), Fluidized bed and Beneficiation. The published papers are focused mainly on Coal, particularly Coal mining. The published papers explore topics in Waste management which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Tailings, Water content and Kerosene.

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

  • Coal
  • Organic chemistry
  • Composite material

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Coal, Waste management, Metallurgy, Chemical engineering and Pulp and paper industry. Beneficiation, Mineralogy and Process engineering are some topics wherein Coal research discussed in International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization have an impact. Waste management research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Slurry, Combustion and Separation process.

In the journal, Contact angle and Particle size are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Metallurgy research. The Chemical engineering research presented in it explores the relationship between Rheology and the closely related topic of Coal water. The studies on Pulp and paper industry discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Box–Behnken design and Diesel fuel.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Fragmentation of a Turkish Low Rank Coal During Fixed-bed Evaporative Drying Process (11 citations)
  • Microwave-assisted rapid upgrading of Indian high ash coal and its blending with untreated coal to improve the slurryability and rheological characteristics of blended slurry (9 citations)
  • Research on methods to differentiate coal and gangue using image processing and a support vector machine (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 International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Guangyuan Xie (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yaoli Peng (16 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Pratik Swarup Dash (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Zhenfu Luo (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Yuemin Zhao (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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 International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization (based on the number of publications) are:

  • China University of Mining and Technology (161 papers) published 30 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (32 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tata Steel (29 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad (21 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Kentucky (21 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, 7.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 49.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.96% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.48% of all publications and 20.00% 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

  • Collecting behaviors of high internal phase (HIP) emulsion in flotation of ultrafine high-ash content coal slime

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Application of screening using a flip-flow screen and shallow groove dense-medium separation in a steam coal preparation plant

    Zengqiang Chen;Long Huang;Haishen Jiang;Yuemin Zhao

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Comparative study of conventional cell and cyclonic microbubble flotation column for upgrading a difficult-to-float Chinese coking coal using statistical evaluation

    Xiangning Bu;Tuantuan Zhang;Yuran Chen;Guangyuan Xie

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Optimizing the mechanical properties of coal-fines briquettes produced with steam-exploded sugarcane bagasse as a binder

    (2023)
    15 Citations
  • Kinematic characteristics of banana screen surface and operational parameter optimization for coal classification

    Long Huang;Miao Pan;Haishen Jiang;Liang Dong

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Effect of scrubbing medium’s particle size distribution and scrubbing time on scrubbing flotation performance and entrainment of microcrystalline graphite

    Xuexia Wang;Xiangning Bu;Muidh Alheshibri;Muhammad Bilal

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Kinematics and mechanism of rigid-flex elastic screening for moist coal under disequilibrium excitation

    Haishen Jiang;Shijie Yu;Long Huang;Yuemin Zhao

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • A Comparative Study on Lignite Coal Drying by Different Methods

    Moshfiqur Rahman;Vinoj Kurian;Deepak Pudasainee;Rajender Gupta

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Morphological characterization of crushed coal gangue by micro X-ray computed tomography scanning

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Optimization of the disequilibrium excitation rigid-flex elastic screening process and its application for coal beneficiation

    Haishen Jiang;Pengfei Wen;Zhenfu Luo;Chenlong Duan

    (2020)
    9 Citations

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