Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Top Research Topics at Materials and Manufacturing Processes?

The journal primarily tackles Metallurgy, Composite material, Microstructure, Machining and Alloy. The study on Metallurgy presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Scanning electron microscope. The journal tackles issues in Composite material, particularly in the topics of Composite number, Ceramic, Sintering, Coating and Porosity.

The works on Microstructure deal in particular with Indentation hardness. Studies on Machining discussed in Materials and Manufacturing Processes link to the field of Surface roughness. The Welding research dealing mostly with Heat-affected zone is the focus of it.

• Metallurgy (40.84%)
• Composite material (33.21%)
• Microstructure (14.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Effect of Layer Orientation on Mechanical Properties of Rapid Prototyped Samples (309 citations)
• Use of the Taguchi Method and Grey Relational Analysis to Optimize Turning Operations with Multiple Performance Characteristics (243 citations)
• New materials by mechanical alloying techniques (231 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Materials and Manufacturing Processes:

The most cited papers investigate areas of study like Metallurgy, Composite material, Machining, Surface roughness and Surface finish. The Metallurgy study tackled in the published papers is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Scanning electron microscope. While Composite material is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Structural engineering and Drilling.

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

• Composite material
• Mechanical engineering
• Quantum mechanics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Composite material, Metallurgy, Machining, Mechanical engineering and Surface finish. The work tackled in Materials and Manufacturing Processes goes beyond the discipline of Composite material as it also encompasses Laser. The work on Metallurgy addressed in it expands to the thematically related Scientific method.

The work on Machining tackled in it brings together disciplines like Taguchi methods, Surface roughness and Abrasive. Most of the Surface finish studies addressed also intersect with Machinability. Research on Alloy addressed in Materials and Manufacturing Processes frequently intersections with the field of Aluminium.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Microwave hybrid heating based optimized joining of SS304/SS316 (17 citations)
• Advanced robotics and additive manufacturing of composites: towards a new era in Industry 4.0 (9 citations)
• Techniques to weld similar and dissimilar materials by ATIG welding - an overview (9 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Materials and Manufacturing Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

• Wayne Reitz (80 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Tirumalai S. Srivatsan (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Zhaowei Zhong (34 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Nirupam Chakraborti (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jim Intrater (27 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Materials and Manufacturing Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (94 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
• Anna University (90 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
• Nanyang Technological University (80 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (71 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (53 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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, 8.10% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.58% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.62% of all publications and 60.10% 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.