| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science | 467 | 128 | 155 | 13 |
The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Metallurgy, Composite material, Microstructure, Alloy and Ultimate tensile strength. The work on Metallurgy addressed in Materials Science and Technology expands to the thematically related Phase (matter). Materials Science and Technology facilitated presentations on Composite material research, particularly Composite number, Deformation (engineering), Strain rate, Welding and Stress (mechanics).
Strain rate research is the primary subject tackled in Materials Science and Technology with a focus on Flow stress. Heat-affected zone is a focus of the presented Welding works and it dives deep in Heat-affected zone. Carbide, Annealing (metallurgy) and Scanning electron microscope are some topics wherein Microstructure research discussed in it have an impact.
Many of the studies tackled connect Alloy with a similar field of study like Precipitation (chemistry). The journal is mostly focused on Ultimate tensile strength, specifically Ductility. The Austenite study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Ferrite (iron).
The most cited articles mainly tackle studies in Metallurgy, Microstructure, Composite material, Alloy and Austenite. The most cited publications tackle issues in Metallurgy, particularly in the topics of Ultimate tensile strength, Ferrite (iron), Aluminium, Martensite and Bainite. The most cited papers explore topics in Microstructure which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Precipitation (chemistry), Nucleation, Welding, Phase (matter) and Grain size.
The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Composite material, Metallurgy, Microstructure, Alloy and Aluminium. Topics like Extrusion, Deformation (meteorology), Ultimate tensile strength, Strain rate and Compression (physics) are tackled as part of the discussions on Composite material. Materials Science and Technology holds forums on Metallurgy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Cracking and Precipitation (chemistry).
Concepts in Composite number, as well as related topics in In situ, are covered in the Microstructure research presented in Materials Science and Technology. The study on Alloy presented in Materials Science and Technology intersects with subjects under the field of Grain boundary. The journal links adjacent topics like Aluminium with Exfoliated graphite nano-platelets.
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 Materials Science and Technology (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 Materials Science and Technology (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, 2.97% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.41% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.18% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.37% of all publications and 52.04% 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.
Frank Czerwinski
(2020)Ming Liu;ChenYu Li;Lin Liu;Youjun Ye
(2020)Haoyang Yu;Jinfei Zhang;Wei Fang;Ruobin Chang
(2020)Alireza Kalhor;Alireza Kalhor;Ali Karimi Taheri;Hamed Mirzadeh;Vitoon Uthaisangsuk
(2021)Frank Czerwinski
(2021)Jing Dong;Shichao Liu;Hui Chen;Dan Li
(2020)L. Hai Tat;H. R. Bakhsheshi-Rad;E. Hamzah;M.H. Cho
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