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Journal of Computational Physics
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Journal of Computational Physics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 4 188 566 46

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 635
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1266
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 36
SCIMAGO H-index: 306
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.685
Impact Factor: 3.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Computational Physics?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Mathematical analysis, Applied mathematics, Discretization, Mechanics and Classical mechanics. The research on Mathematical analysis tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Finite element method and Nonlinear system. The majority of Finite element method studies in the journal are focused on the subject of Mixed finite element method.

Applied mathematics research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Polygon mesh, Finite volume method, Solver, Mathematical optimization and Discontinuous Galerkin method. The work on Mathematical optimization addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Algorithm. Issues in Discretization were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Navier–Stokes equations and Finite difference.

It investigates Mechanics research which frequently intersects with Geometry. The journal connects the study in Boundary value problem with the closely related area of Boundary (topology). Discussions in Journal of Computational Physics are anchored in the subject of Partial differential equation and the similar topic of Differential equation.

  • Mathematical analysis (40.68%)
  • Applied mathematics (21.19%)
  • Discretization (15.60%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Fast parallel algorithms for short-range molecular dynamics (26155 citations)
  • Numerical Integration of the Cartesian Equations of Motion of a System with Constraints: Molecular Dynamics of n-Alkanes (15534 citations)
  • Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations (11475 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Computational Physics:

The most cited articles focus largely on the fields of Mathematical analysis, Applied mathematics, Classical mechanics, Mechanics and Discretization. The published articles explore topics in Mathematical analysis which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Finite element method and Nonlinear system. While Applied mathematics is the key highlight in the published papers, thet also covered some subjects on Mathematical optimization and Algorithm.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Electron

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Applied mathematics, Mechanics, Mathematical analysis, Discretization and Finite volume method. The concepts on Applied mathematics presented in Journal of Computational Physics can also apply to other research fields, including Energy (signal processing), Automatic differentiation, Order of accuracy, Nonlinear system and Discontinuous Galerkin method. Concepts in Numerical analysis, as well as related topics in Stochastic matrix, Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and Quadratic equation, are covered in the Mechanics research presented in the journal.

The studies on Mathematical analysis discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Field (physics), Immersed boundary method and Point (geometry). It explores issues in Discretization which can be linked to other research areas like Work (thermodynamics), Gravitational singularity, Preconditioner, Boundary (topology) and Couette flow. The featured Finite volume method studies mainly concentrate on Turbulence but also cover areas of interest in Invariant (physics) and Tensor.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Immersed boundary method for high-order flux reconstruction based on volume penalization (2 citations)
  • Computational geometric methods for preferential clustering of particle suspensions (1 citations)
  • Handling Neumann and Robin boundary conditions in a fictitious domain volume penalization framework (1 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 Journal of Computational Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chi-Wang Shu (101 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • George Em Karniadakis (99 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kun Xu (64 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Jan Nordström (63 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Mikhail Shashkov (58 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 Journal of Computational Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (516 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (357 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (289 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Brown University (285 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (253 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 2022 edition, 6.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.87% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.87% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.74% of all publications and 56.52% 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

  • Adaptive activation functions accelerate convergence in deep and physics-informed neural networks

    Ameya D. Jagtap;Kenji Kawaguchi;George Em Karniadakis;George Em Karniadakis

    (2020)
    652 Citations
  • A composite neural network that learns from multi-fidelity data: Application to function approximation and inverse PDE problems

    Xuhui Meng;George Em Karniadakis;George Em Karniadakis

    (2020)
    465 Citations
  • What is the fractional Laplacian? A comparative review with new results

    Anna Lischke;Guofei Pang;Mamikon A. Gulian;Fangying Song

    (2020)
    433 Citations
  • Weak adversarial networks for high-dimensional partial differential equations

    Yaohua Zang;Gang Bao;Xiaojing Ye;Haomin Zhou

    (2020)
    366 Citations
  • Physics-informed neural networks for inverse problems in supersonic flows

    Unknown

    (2022)
    360 Citations
  • Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Machine Learning: Methods, Metrics, and Comparisons

    (2022)
    276 Citations
  • Parallel physics-informed neural networks via domain decomposition

    Khemraj Shukla;Ameya D. Jagtap;George Em Karniadakis

    (2021)
    237 Citations
  • Physics-informed machine learning for reduced-order modeling of nonlinear problems

    Wenqian Chen;Wenqian Chen;Qian Wang;Jan S. Hesthaven;Chuhua Zhang

    (2021)
    214 Citations
  • Data-Driven POD-Galerkin Reduced Order Model for Turbulent Flows

    Saddam Hijazi;Giovanni Stabile;Andrea Mola;Gianluigi Rozza

    (2020)
    209 Citations
  • DeepM&Mnet: Inferring the electroconvection multiphysics fields based on operator approximation by neural networks

    Shengze Cai;Zhicheng Wang;Lu Lu;Tamer A. Zaki

    (2021)
    194 Citations

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