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Journal of Mathematical Physics
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Journal of Mathematical Physics

0022-2488

Published by: American Institute of Physics

https://aip.scitation.org/journal/jmp

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 65 184 296 20
Physics 207 17 21 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 234
Documents by Best Scientists*: 353
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 15
SCIMAGO H-index: 127
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.647
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Mathematical Physics?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Mathematical analysis, Mathematical physics, Pure mathematics, Classical mechanics and Quantum mechanics. The journal connects research in Mathematical analysis with the related topic of Nonlinear system. The Mathematical physics study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics).

Pure mathematics research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Discrete mathematics and Algebra. The journal features studies on Classical mechanics, including topics such as General relativity. The majority of Quantum mechanics studies in it are focused on the subject of Quantum.

  • Mathematical analysis (32.07%)
  • Mathematical physics (25.83%)
  • Pure mathematics (18.82%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The world as a hologram (3238 citations)
  • Time‐Dependent Statistics of the Ising Model (2623 citations)
  • Completely Positive Dynamical Semigroups of N Level Systems (2502 citations)

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

The published articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Mathematical analysis, Mathematical physics, Pure mathematics, Classical mechanics and Quantum mechanics. The journal publications dive deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Mathematical analysis and Nonlinear system. The most cited articles focus on Mathematical physics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics) and Eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

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 discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Mathematical physics, Pure mathematics, Mathematical analysis, Nonlinear system and Quantum. While Mathematical physics is the focus of Journal of Mathematical Physics, it also provided insights into the studies of Space (mathematics), Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Limit (mathematics) and Schrödinger equation. The studies on Pure mathematics discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Structure (category theory), Simple (abstract algebra) and Polynomial.

The journal explores issues in Mathematical analysis which can be linked to other research areas like Compressibility and Boundary (topology). The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Nonlinear system, apply to Applied mathematics as well.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • On the modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the heat-bath dynamics for 1D systems (11 citations)
  • Dirac Hamiltonian in a supersymmetric framework (7 citations)
  • A thermal form factor series for the longitudinal two-point function of the Heisenberg–Ising chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime (7 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 Mathematical Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Pavel Winternitz (90 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ezra T. Newman (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • J. Van der Jeugt (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Willard Miller (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carl M. Bender (38 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 Mathematical Physics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (149 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico (66 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (47 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Université de Montréal (43 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Vienna (40 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, 11.41% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.16% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.17% of all publications and 73.67% 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

  • A modified Villain formulation of fractons and other exotic theories

    Pranay Gorantla;Ho Tat Lam;Nathan Seiberg;Shu-Heng Shao

    (2021)
    85 Citations
  • Resonant collisions between lumps and periodic solitons in the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili I equation

    (2022)
    73 Citations
  • Some mathematics for quasi-symmetry

    Joshua W. Burby;Nikos Kallinikos;Robert S. MacKay

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Generating random quantum channels

    Ryszard Kukulski;Ion Nechita;Łukasz Pawela;Zbigniew Puchała;Zbigniew Puchała

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • The ∂̄-dressing method and soliton solutions for the three-component coupled Hirota equations

    Zi-Yi Wang;Shou-Fu Tian;Jia Cheng

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • On the modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the heat-bath dynamics for 1D systems

    Ivan Bardet;Ángela Capel;Ángela Capel;Angelo Lucia;Angelo Lucia;David Pérez-García;David Pérez-García

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Symmetry and equivalence in teleparallel gravity

    A. A. Coley;R. J. van den Hoogen;D. D. McNutt

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • The elliptic Ginibre ensemble: A unifying approach to local and global statistics for higher dimensions

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Hydrodynamic equations for the Ablowitz–Ladik discretization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

    (2021)
    28 Citations

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