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Physics Letters A
H-index 38

Physics Letters A

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 92 23 57 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 333
Documents by Best Scientists*: 469
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 194
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.455
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Physics Letters?

Physics Letters generally zeroes in on subjects such as Atomic physics, Nuclear physics, Condensed matter physics, Scattering and Particle physics. Physics Letters emphasizes research on Atomic physics, which includes concerns such as Nuclear reaction. Physics Letters focuses on Nuclear reaction research which is adjacent to topics in Alpha particle.

Physics Letters concentrated on Nuclear physics research, specifically Pion, Meson, Nucleon, Angular distribution and Deuterium. Magnetic field and Cryogenics are some topics wherein Condensed matter physics research discussed in Physics Letters have an impact. It primarily discusses Scattering topics, particularly Elastic scattering, Inelastic scattering, Scattering length, Mott scattering and Scattering theory.

  • Atomic physics (35.51%)
  • Nuclear physics (22.57%)
  • Condensed matter physics (20.45%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling (2474 citations)
  • Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields (1924 citations)
  • A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons (1644 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Physics Letters:

The most cited articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Atomic physics, Condensed matter physics, Nuclear physics, Scattering and Pion. Nuclear reaction is a focus of the presented Atomic physics works in the journal papers and they dives deep in Nuclear reaction. The studies on Condensed matter physics discussed at the most cited publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Magnetic field and Cryogenics.

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 Physics Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • G. Busch (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • O. Vogt (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • D. R. O. Morrison (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • W.F. Druyvesteyn (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • G.R. Satchler (11 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 Physics Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • CERN (177 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Argonne National Laboratory (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (61 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (57 papers) absent at the last 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 2019 edition, 50.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 100.00% 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

  • Optical solitons in fiber Bragg gratings with cubic–quartic dispersive reflectivity by enhanced Kudryashov's approach

    Ahmed H. Arnous;Qin Zhou;Anjan Biswas;Padmaja Guggilla

    (2022)
    52 Citations
  • Solitons in magneto–optic waveguides with quadratic–cubic nonlinearity

    Elsayed M.E. Zayed;Reham M.A. Shohib;Mahmoud M. El–Horbaty;Anjan Biswas

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Quasi-monochromatic dynamics of optical solitons having quadratic-cubic nonlinearity

    Anjan Biswas

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Structural, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties of inverse-Heusler alloys Cr2CoZ (Z = Al, In): A first-principles investigation

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Optical soliton perturbation with Kudryashov's equation by semi-inverse variational principle

    Anjan Biswas;Anjan Biswas;Mir Asma;Padmaja Guggilla;Lipika Mullick

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • Optical solitons with Chen-Lee-Liu equation by Lie symmetry

    Anupma Bansal;Anjan Biswas;Qin Zhou;Saima Arshed

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • Stationary optical solitons with Sasa–Satsuma equation having nonlinear chromatic dispersion

    Abdullahi Rashid Adem;Basetsana Pauline Ntsime;Anjan Biswas;Anjan Biswas;Mir Asma

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • New findings for the old problem: Exact solutions for domain walls in coupled real Ginzburg-Landau equations

    Boris A. Malomed;Boris A. Malomed

    (2022)
    37 Citations
  • Optical solitons for Radhakrishnan–Kundu–Lakshmanan equation with full nonlinearity

    Saima Arshed;Anjan Biswas;Padmaja Guggilla;Ali Saleh Alshomrani

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Bifurcation analysis and optical solitons for the concatenation model

    (2023)
    34 Citations

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