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Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials
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Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials

1099-6362

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jsm

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 90 55 89 24
Engineering and Technology 401 26 42 20
Materials Science 402 35 63 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 113
Documents by Best Scientists*: 160
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 58
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.988
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials?

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Composite material, Structural engineering, Composite number, Sandwich-structured composite and Core (optical fiber). Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials encompasses presentations on Composite material, specifically Core (manufacturing), Compression (physics), Bending, Honeycomb structure and Honeycomb. Many of the studies tackled connect Honeycomb structure with a similar field of study like Honeycomb (geometry).

It explores research in Structural engineering and the adjacent study of Vibration. While Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials focused on Vibration, it was also able to explore topics like Boundary value problem and Functionally graded material. In addition to Composite number research, it aims to explore topics under Energy absorption, Epoxy, Carbon nanotube and Nonlinear system.

Studies on Sandwich-structured composite discussed in it link to the field of Sandwich panel. It focused on Core (optical fiber) research but expanded to cover Viscoelasticity.

  • Composite material (69.45%)
  • Structural engineering (47.76%)
  • Composite number (25.05%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An efficient and simple refined theory for buckling and free vibration of exponentially graded sandwich plates under various boundary conditions (283 citations)
  • A new higher-order shear and normal deformation theory for the static and free vibration analysis of sandwich plates with functionally graded isotropic face sheets: (127 citations)
  • A new four-variable refined plate theory for thermal buckling analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates: (122 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials:

The most cited publications mainly tackle studies in Structural engineering, Composite material, Sandwich-structured composite, Vibration and Core (optical fiber). The published articles with studies in Structural engineering featured incorporate elements of Shear (geology) and Nonlinear system. The Sandwich-structured composite research presented in the most cited publications focuses mostly on Sandwich panel and, on occasion, topics in Impulse (physics) and Energy absorption.

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 Sandwich Structures and Materials (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leif A. Carlsson (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Ole Thybo Thomsen (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christian Berggreen (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yeoshua Frostig (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wesley J. Cantwell (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 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 Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Kashan (30 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Royal Institute of Technology (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Florida Atlantic University (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Aalborg University (19 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, 4.64% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 9.03% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 18.06% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.61% of all publications and 49.31% 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

  • Optimization of dynamic buckling for sandwich nanocomposite plates with sensor and actuator layer based on sinusoidal-visco-piezoelasticity theories using Grey Wolf algorithm:

    Reza Kolahchi;Behrooz Keshtegar;Mohammad Hosein Fakhar

    (2020)
    109 Citations
  • Prediction of acoustic wave transmission features of the multilayered plate constructions: A review:

    Zarastvand;M Ghassabi;R Talebitooti

    (2021)
    104 Citations
  • Multi-objective optimization approach on diffuse sound transmission through poroelastic composite sandwich structure:

    Roohollah Talebitooti;Mohamadreza Zarastvand;Hamed Darvishgohari

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Nonlocal strain gradient theory for the magneto-electro-elastic vibration response of a porous FG-core sandwich nanoplate with piezomagnetic face sheets resting on an elastic foundation:

    M Arefi;M Kiani;MH Zamani

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • On vibration of functionally graded sandwich nanoplates in the thermal environment

    Ahmed Amine Daikh;Ahmed Drai;Ismail Bensaid;Mohammed Sid Ahmed Houari

    (2021)
    64 Citations
  • Free and forced vibration analysis of laminated functionally graded CNT-reinforced composite cylindrical panels:

    Ali Ghorbanpour Arani;Farhad Kiani;Hassan Afshari

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • Free vibration and sound insulation of functionally graded honeycomb sandwich plates

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Free vibration analysis of micro plate reinforced with functionally graded graphene nanoplatelets based on modified strain-gradient formulation:

    Elyas Mohammad-Rezaei Bidgoli;Mohammad Arefi

    (2021)
    57 Citations
  • Full-scale finite element modeling and nonlinear bending analysis of sandwich plates with functionally graded auxetic 3D lattice core:

    Chong Li;Hui-Shen Shen;Hai Wang

    (2021)
    55 Citations

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