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Physical Review Research
H-index 65

Physical Review Research

2643-1564

Published by: American Physical Society...

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 19 447 1143 57

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1454
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2240
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 49
SCIMAGO H-index: 83
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.593
Impact Factor: 4.2

Top Publications

  • Quantum equation of motion for computing molecular excitation energies on a noisy quantum processor

    Pauline J. Ollitrault;Pauline J. Ollitrault;Abhinav Kandala;Chun-Fu Chen;Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos

    (2020)
    355 Citations
  • Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation

    Hualong Bao;Luana Olivieri;Maxwell Rowley;Sai T. Chu

    (2020)
    340 Citations
  • Cosmic microwave background bounds on primordial black holes including dark matter halo accretion

    Pasquale D. Serpico;Vivian Poulin;Derek Inman;Kazunori Kohri

    (2020)
    227 Citations
  • Fractional Chern insulator states in twisted bilayer graphene: An analytical approach

    Patrick J. Ledwith;Grigory Tarnopolsky;Eslam Khalaf;Ashvin Vishwanath

    (2020)
    221 Citations
  • Physical mechanisms for zero-bias conductance peaks in Majorana nanowires

    Haining Pan;S. Das Sarma

    (2020)
    217 Citations
  • Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions

    Xiao Chen;Xiao Chen;Yaodong Li;Matthew P. A. Fisher;Andrew Lucas

    (2020)
    155 Citations
  • Gravitational waveform accuracy requirements for future ground-based detectors

    Michael Pürrer;Carl-Johan Haster

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Algebraic higher symmetry and categorical symmetry: A holographic and entanglement view of symmetry

    Liang Kong;Tian Lan;Xiao-Gang Wen;Zhi-Hao Zhang;Zhi-Hao Zhang

    (2020)
    145 Citations
  • Nematic topological semimetal and insulator in magic-angle bilayer graphene at charge neutrality

    Shang Liu;Eslam Khalaf;Jong Yeon Lee;Ashvin Vishwanath

    (2021)
    144 Citations
  • Chern bands of twisted bilayer graphene: Fractional Chern insulators and spin phase transition

    Cécile Repellin;Cécile Repellin;T. Senthil

    (2020)
    144 Citations

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