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Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Published by: American Physical Society

https://journals.aps.org/prab/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 160 29 55 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 92
Documents by Best Scientists*: 114
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 40
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.62
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Physical review accelerators and beams?

Physical review accelerators and beams explores disciplines such as Beam (structure), Optics, Electron, Laser and Atomic physics. Large Hadron Collider, Nuclear physics and Computational physics are some topics wherein Beam (structure) research discussed in it have an impact. The work on Large Hadron Collider presented in it focuses on Luminosity (scattering theory) in particular.

It concentrates on Nuclear physics topics that focus on Proton and Collider. It connects the study in Optics with the closely related area of Cathode ray. The studies in Laser featured incorporate elements of Acceleration, Plasma and Pulse (physics).

Plasma acceleration is part of Plasma studies tackled in the journal. Topics in Atomic physics explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Ion, Energy (signal processing) and Particle accelerator. Physical review accelerators and beams connects research in Synchrotron radiation with the related topic of Storage ring.

  • Beam (structure) (36.79%)
  • Optics (34.40%)
  • Electron (19.88%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Short electron bunch generation using single-cycle ultrafast electron guns (58 citations)
  • Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space (54 citations)
  • Optimizing density down-ramp injection for beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators (46 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Physical review accelerators and beams:

The most cited articles investigate areas of study like Optics, Electron, Laser, Beam (structure) and Atomic physics. Aside from discussions in Optics, the published papers also deal with the subject of Cathode ray which intersects with Femtosecond disciplines. The studies on Beam (structure) discussed at the published articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Laser beam quality and Nuclear 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 Physical review accelerators and beams (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rogelio Tomás (26 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Sami Tantawi (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Gennady Stupakov (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Mauro Migliorati (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Carl Schroeder (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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 Physical review accelerators and beams (based on the number of publications) are:

  • CERN (206 papers) published 26 papers at the last edition, 31 less than at the previous edition,
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (125 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (68 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (61 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Fermilab (51 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 12.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 56.67% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.00% of all publications and 12.00% 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

  • Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab

    T Albahri;A Anastasi;K Badgley;S Baeßler

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Scaling laws for the depolarization time of relativistic particle beams in strong fields

    Johannes Thomas;Anna Hützen;Anna Hützen;Andreas Lehrach;Andreas Lehrach;Alexander Pukhov

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Acceleration of high charge ion beams with achromatic divergence by petawatt laser pulses

    S. Steinke;J. H. Bin;J. Park;Q. Ji

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Design of the third-generation lead-based neutron spallation target for the neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • High-quality positron acceleration in beam-driven plasma accelerators

    S. Diederichs;S. Diederichs;C. Benedetti;E. Esarey;J. Osterhoff

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Design development and implementation of an irradiation station at the neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • Demonstration of tailored energy deposition in a laser proton accelerator

    J. G. Zhu;M. J. Wu;K. Zhu;Y. X. Geng

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Emittance preservation through density ramp matching sections in a plasma wakefield accelerator

    Yujian Zhao;Weiming An;Weiming An;Xinlu Xu;Xinlu Xu;Fei Li

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser

    A. Ghaith;M.-E. Couprie;D. Oumbarek-Espinos;I.A. Andriyash

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • Operating modes of dual-grating dielectric laser accelerators

    Dylan S. Black;Zhexin Zhao;Kenneth J. Leedle;Yu Miao

    (2020)
    14 Citations

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