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Physical Review C
H-index 41

Physical Review C

2469-9985

Published by: American Physical Society

https://journals.aps.org/prc/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 33 351 572 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 572
Documents by Best Scientists*: 794
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 91
SCIMAGO H-index: 245
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.096
Impact Factor: 3.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Physical Review C?

Physical Review C mainly tackles studies in Atomic physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear reaction, Nucleon and Particle physics. The journal explores issues in Atomic physics which can be linked to other research areas like Neutron, Scattering, Excitation and Energy (signal processing). Scattering research is the primary subject tackled in the journal with a focus on Elastic scattering.

Nuclear physics studies presented include Pion, Proton, Nuclear matter, Isotope and Fission. The research on Nuclear reaction featured in Physical Review C combines topics in other fields like Angular momentum, Inelastic scattering, Charged particle, Spectral line and Born approximation. Some problems in Nucleon that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Quantum electrodynamics, Hadron and Isospin.

Quantum electrodynamics research discussed connects with the study of Quantum mechanics. Baryon and Elementary particle are some topics wherein Hadron research discussed in it have an impact. Meson, Quark, Quantum chromodynamics, Quark–gluon plasma and Nuclear theory are all areas of Particle physics tackled in the journal.

  • Atomic physics (49.14%)
  • Nuclear physics (35.36%)
  • Nuclear reaction (20.85%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Precision Measurement of Half-Lives and Specific Activities of U 235 and U 238 (2129 citations)
  • Accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking (2046 citations)
  • Equation of state of nucleon matter and neutron star structure (1702 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Physical Review C:

The journal papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Nuclear physics, Atomic physics, Particle physics, Nucleon and Neutron. The published articles address concerns in Nuclear physics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Elliptic flow. The majority of Atomic physics studies presented in the most cited publications zero in on Nuclear reaction.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Atomic physics, Neutron, Nuclear physics, Energy (signal processing) and Proton. In the journal, State (functional analysis) and Excitation are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Atomic physics research. The research on Neutron tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Quadrupole, Isotope and Pairing.

The work on Nuclear physics addressed in it expands to the thematically related Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Issues in Energy (signal processing) were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Spectral line, Production (computer science) and Mathematical physics. Research on Nucleon presented in the journal concerns the broader topic of Particle physics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • GW190814 as a massive rapidly rotating neutron star with exotic degrees of freedom (54 citations)
  • Confirming the Existence of the strong CP Problem in Lattice QCD with the Gradient Flow (33 citations)
  • Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter (32 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 Physical Review C (based on the number of publications) are:

  • M. P. Carpenter (400 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • R. V. F. Janssens (396 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • H. T. Fortune (339 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • A. O. Macchiavelli (305 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • B. A. Brown (289 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 4 more than 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 C (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michigan State University (1597 papers) published 42 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Argonne National Laboratory (1365 papers) published 26 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (1303 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1018 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 12 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (909 papers) published 25 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 14.73% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.13% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.55% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.18% of all publications and 41.13% 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

  • Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter

    D. Everett;W. Ke;J. F. Paquet;G. Vujanovic

    (2021)
    268 Citations
  • Search for the chiral magnetic effect with isobar collisions at sNN=200 GeV by the STAR Collaboration at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

    (2022)
    223 Citations
  • Production of charged pions, kaons, and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb and inelastic pp collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

    S. Acharya;D. Adamova;S. P. Adhya;A. Adler

    (2020)
    216 Citations
  • Determining the jet transport coefficient q ̂ from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation

    S. Cao;Y. Chen;J. Coleman;J. Mulligan

    (2021)
    121 Citations
  • Global Λ -hyperon polarization in Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV

    (2021)
    109 Citations
  • Cumulants and correlation functions of net-proton, proton, and antiproton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

    M. S. Abdallah;J. Adam;L. Adamczyk;J. R. Adams

    (2021)
    108 Citations
  • Direct astrophysical tests of chiral effective field theory at supranuclear densities

    Reed Essick;Ingo Tews;Philippe Landry;Sanjay Reddy

    (2020)
    97 Citations
  • Bayesian calibration of a hybrid nuclear collision model using p − Pb and Pb-Pb data at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    J. Scott Moreland;Jonah E. Bernhard;Steffen A. Bass

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • Detailed examination of astrophysical constraints on the symmetry energy and the neutron skin of Pb208 with minimal modeling assumptions

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • Dynamically generated momentum space shell structure of quarkyonic matter via an excluded volume model

    Kie Sang Jeong;Kie Sang Jeong;Larry McLerran;Srimoyee Sen

    (2020)
    90 Citations

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