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Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
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Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 679 20 22 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 71
Documents by Best Scientists*: 77
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.459
Impact Factor: 2.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications?

The journal facilitates discussions on Optics, Optoelectronics, Photonic crystal, Photonics and Wavelength. The study on Optics presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Dielectric. Topics in Optoelectronics explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Laser and Graphene.

The research on Photonic crystal tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Condensed matter physics, Band gap and Finite-difference time-domain method. Research on Condensed matter physics addressed in Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications frequently intersections with the field of Magnetic field. Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications explores research in Photonics and the adjacent study of Nanotechnology.

Specifically, studies on Surface plasmon polariton are prevalent in the Plasmon works discussed. It investigates Metamaterial research which frequently intersects with Permittivity.

  • Optics (52.15%)
  • Optoelectronics (40.07%)
  • Photonic crystal (29.62%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Design of electromagnetic cloaks and concentrators using form-invariant coordinate transformations of Maxwell’s equations (681 citations)
  • Graphene-based nano-patch antenna for terahertz radiation (275 citations)
  • Backward-wave regime and negative refraction in chiral composites (152 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications:

The journal articles primarily tackle Optics, Photonic crystal, Optoelectronics, Resonator and Photonics. The most cited publications link adjacent topics like Optics with Silicon. In addition to Optoelectronics research, the published articles aim to explore topics under Nanoparticle and Beam (structure).

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Optics
  • Laser

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Optoelectronics, Optics, Plasmon, Photonic crystal and Polarization (waves). The studies in Optoelectronics featured incorporate elements of Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) and Graphene. The study on Optics presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Range (particle radiation).

It holds forums on Plasmon that merges themes from other disciplines such as Thin film, Resonance, Surface plasmon resonance and Ray. The study of Photonic crystal encompasses disciplines such as Resonator, as well as fields such as Nonlinear system, all of which overlap with one another. The work on Photonics tackled in it brings together disciplines like Transmittance, Heterojunction and Metamaterial.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Wide-angle perfect absorber using a 3D nanorod metasurface as a plasmonic sensor for detecting cancerous cells and its tuning with a graphene layer (13 citations)
  • 2D-Photonic crystal heterostructures for the realization of compact photonic devices (5 citations)
  • A new introduction to spatial dispersion: Reimagining the basic concepts (4 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 Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ekmel Ozbay (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Constantin Simovski (12 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Costas M. Soukoulis (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Liam O'Faolain (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Mir Mojtaba Mirsalehi (8 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 Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Russian Academy of Sciences (27 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (19 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tabriz (18 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more 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, 10.81% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 1.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 59.09% 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

  • Visible light active ZnO nanostructures prepared by simple co-precipitation method

    Puneetha J;Puneetha J;Nagaraju Kottam;Nagaraju G;Rathna A

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Augmenting Sensitivity of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensors with the Aid of Anti-reflective Coatings (ARCs)

    Chandreyee Manas Das;Chandreyee Manas Das;Qingling Ouyang;Qingling Ouyang;Lixing Kang;Lixing Kang;Yan Guo

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Growth mechanism and optical characteristics of Nd:YAG laser ablated amorphous cinnamon nanoparticles produced in ethanol: Influence of accumulative pulse irradiation time variation

    A.A. Salim;S.K. Ghoshal;H. Bakhtiar

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Tunable terahertz double plasmon induced-transparency based on monolayer patterned graphene structure

    (2023)
    11 Citations
  • An FSS-backed reflective polarization conversion meta-surface for radar stealth

    Mingbao Yan;Jiafu Wang;Weiyu Wang;Cuilian Xu

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • A six-port path-reconfigurable circulator based on Y-type plasma photonic crystal

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Tunable ultra-sensitive four-band terahertz sensors based on Dirac semimetals

    (2024)
    3 Citations
  • Nanoimprinted halide perovskite nanowires with directly-written gratings

    (2022)
    3 Citations
  • Chip-scale mid-infrared digitalized computational spectrometer powered by silicon photonics MEMS technology

    (2024)
    3 Citations
  • Green printed hybrid optical dielectric nanostructures on a mirror

    (2023)
    2 Citations

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