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Published by: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | 139 | 54 | 113 | 18 |
| Engineering and Technology | 788 | 15 | 39 | 11 |
The journal facilitates discussions on Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Aerospace engineering, Structural engineering and Angle of attack. The Mechanics study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Classical mechanics. The research on Aerodynamics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Computational fluid dynamics, Control theory, Wind tunnel and Wing.
Journal of Aircraft emphasizes research on Control theory, which includes concerns such as Nonlinear system. The presentations discussing Aerospace engineering offer insights in topics such as Airplane, Supersonic speed, Mach number and Propulsion. The subject of Aeroelasticity, which is connected to the field of Flutter, serves as the foundation of the Structural engineering research featured in Journal of Aircraft.
Some problems in Angle of attack that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Geometry and Simulation. Airfoil research presented in Journal of Aircraft encompasses a variety of subjects, including NACA airfoil, Reynolds number, Flow separation and Stall (fluid mechanics). The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Lift coefficient and Lift (force).
The journal publications are organized to address concerns in the fields of Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Structural engineering, Airfoil and Aerospace engineering. The studies tackled in the journal articles, which mainly focus on Mechanics, apply to Classical mechanics as well. The published articles facilitate discussions on Aerodynamics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Computational fluid dynamics, Control theory, Drag and Wing.
The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations, Aerospace engineering and Lift coefficient. The journal focuses on Mechanics research which is adjacent to topics in Rotor (electric). Angle of attack is the primary subject of Aerodynamics works presented in it.
The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Direct numerical simulation, Computer simulation, Wing and Aerodynamic shape optimization. It is concerned with the study of Wing and Structural engineering in general. The journal explores issues in Lift coefficient which can be linked to other research areas like Lift-to-drag ratio, Vortex and Drag coefficient.
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 Journal of Aircraft (based on the number of publications) are:
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 Journal of Aircraft (based on the number of publications) are:
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.
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, 9.27% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.36% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.76% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.01% of all publications and 40.88% were from other institutions.
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.
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.
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:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
Shamsheer S. Chauhan;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
(2020)Alessandro Sgueglia;Peter Schmollgruber;Nathalie Bartoli;Emmanuel Benard
(2020)Shamsheer S. Chauhan;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
(2021)Timothy R. Brooks;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins;Graeme J. Kennedy
(2020)Justin S. Gray;Charles A. Mader;Gaetan K. W. Kenway;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
(2020)Marco Mangano;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
(2021)A. Castrichini;T. Wilson;F. Saltari;F. Mastroddi
(2020)Ronald C M Cheung;Djamel Rezgui;Jonathan E Cooper;Thomas Wilson
(2020)Fintan Healy;Ronald C M Cheung;Theodore Neofet;Mark H Lowenberg
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