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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 79 217 323 23

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 670
Documents by Best Scientists*: 825
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 29
SCIMAGO H-index: 187
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.451
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment?

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment mainly tackles studies in Optics, Detector, Nuclear physics, Atomic physics and Beam (structure). Many of the studies tackled connect Optics with a similar field of study like Electron. The journal tackles studies in Optoelectronics and the interrelated subject of Irradiation to gain insights into Detector.

In addition to Nuclear physics research, the journal aims to explore topics under Spectrometer, Monte Carlo method and Particle physics. Atomic physics research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Ion and Range (particle radiation). Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment features studies on Beam (structure), including topics such as Linear particle accelerator.

The research on Scintillator featured in it combines topics in other fields like Scintillation and Photomultiplier. Semiconductor detector and Measuring instrument are some topics wherein Particle detector research discussed in it have an impact. Neutron detection, Neutron temperature, Neutron source and Neutron scattering are all aspects of Neutron discussed in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment.

  • Optics (38.25%)
  • Detector (30.81%)
  • Nuclear physics (21.23%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Geant4—a simulation toolkit (15189 citations)
  • ROOT — An object oriented data analysis framework (3467 citations)
  • The EvtGen particle decay simulation package (1766 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment:

Optics, Detector, Nuclear physics, Optoelectronics and Atomic physics are the main subjects of interest in the journal papers. The most cited papers address concerns in Detector which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Image resolution, Pixel and Silicon. In addition to Nuclear physics research, the journal publications aim to explore topics under Spectrometer and Particle physics.

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 Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Mara Bruzzi (130 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Amos Breskin (128 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Maurizio Boscardin (123 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Valerio Re (123 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • P. Weilhammer (119 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 Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • CERN (3083 papers) published 54 papers at the last edition, 39 less than at the previous edition,
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (1137 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • KEK (1075 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 22 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1051 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (997 papers) published 23 papers at the last edition, 4 less than 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, 11.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.39% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.31% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.60% of all publications and 46.70% 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

  • The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

    D. S. Akerib;C. W. Akerlof;D. Yu Akimov;A. Alquahtani

    (2020)
    163 Citations
  • The CLAS12 Spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory

    V.D. Burkert;L. Elouadrhiri;K.P. Adhikari;S. Adhikari

    (2020)
    130 Citations
  • First gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande

    (2021)
    127 Citations
  • The GlueX beamline and detector

    S. Adhikari;C. S. Akondi;H. Al Ghoul;A. Ali

    (2021)
    67 Citations
  • The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in México: The primary detector

    (2023)
    54 Citations
  • Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector

    A. Abusleme;T. Adam;S. Ahmad;S. Aiello

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • The STAR Event Plane Detector

    Joseph Adams;Annika Ewigleben;Sierra Garrett;Wanbing He

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • Evaluation of gadolinium’s action on water Cherenkov detector systems with EGADS

    Ll Marti;M. Ikeda;Y. Kato;Y. Kishimoto

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • First demonstration of in-beam performance of bent Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors

    (2021)
    40 Citations
  • The tracking detector of the FASER experiment

    (2021)
    34 Citations

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