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Physics Reports

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 44 63 52 33

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 193
Documents by Best Scientists*: 130
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 328
SCIMAGO SJR: 5.735
Impact Factor: 29.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Physics Reports?

Physics Reports was organized to reinforce research efforts on Particle physics, Quantum mechanics, Nuclear physics, Theoretical physics and Atomic physics. The in-depth study on Particle physics also explores topics in the intersecting field of Bibliography. It is focused mainly on Quantum mechanics, particularly Quantum.

Nucleon and Large Hadron Collider are among the concentrations of Nuclear physics that garnered much attention in Physics Reports. While Atomic physics is the focus of Physics Reports, it also provided insights into the studies of Ion, Electron and Excitation.

  • Particle physics (16.70%)
  • Quantum mechanics (14.68%)
  • Nuclear physics (12.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Community detection in graphs (8329 citations)
  • Complex networks: Structure and dynamics (8100 citations)
  • The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach (5930 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Physics Reports:

The most cited papers primarily tackle Particle physics, Quantum mechanics, Theoretical physics, Statistical physics and Classical mechanics. The published papers feature Particle physics research that overlaps with concepts in Nuclear physics. Cosmology, Gravitation, Quantum field theory and Gauge theory are some topics wherein Theoretical physics research discussed in the journal papers has an impact.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Photon

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Theoretical physics, Statistical physics, Field (physics), Quantum and Particle physics. Topics in Theoretical physics explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Spintronics, Effective field theory, Quantum gravity, Quantum field theory and Skyrmion. The Statistical physics works featured in Physics Reports incorporate elements from Probability and statistics, Network theory, Scientific progress, Global warming and Earth system science.

The close relationship between Phase transition and Engineering physics, Electron, Ultrashort pulse, Light field and Magnetic moment is one of the points of interest dissected in Field (physics) research. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Quantum, it also covered topics in Generalization, Information system and Estimator. Some problems in Particle physics that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Frontier and Focus (optics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The nonperturbative functional renormalization group and its applications (71 citations)
  • Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review. (54 citations)
  • Beyond skyrmions: Review and perspectives of alternative magnetic quasiparticles (52 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 Physics Reports (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Benjamin W. Lee (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ernest S. Abers (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gerald E. Brown (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ricardo A. Broglia (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Franco Nori (10 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 Reports (based on the number of publications) are:

  • CERN (153 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (121 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (92 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (72 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (53 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 2021 edition, 3.77% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.61% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.92% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.61% of all publications and 56.86% 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

  • The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model

    T. Aoyama;N. Asmussen;M. Benayoun;Johan Bijnens

    (2020)
    1271 Citations
  • Two-dimensional MXenes: From morphological to optical, electric, and magnetic properties and applications

    Xiantao Jiang;Artem V. Kuklin;Alexander Baev;Yanqi Ge

    (2020)
    862 Citations
  • The Variational Quantum Eigensolver: A review of methods and best practices

    (2021)
    669 Citations
  • A perspective on conventional high-temperature superconductors at high pressure: Methods and materials

    José A. Flores-Livas;Lilia Boeri;Antonio Sanna;Gianni Profeta

    (2020)
    433 Citations
  • Cavity magnonics

    (2021)
    391 Citations
  • The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the international space station: Part II - Results from the first seven years

    M. Aguilar;L. Ali Cavasonza;G. Ambrosi;L. Arruda

    (2021)
    352 Citations
  • Dark Matter through the Higgs portal

    Giorgio Arcadi;Abdelhak Djouadi;Martti Raidal

    (2020)
    257 Citations
  • The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, experiments, and physics potential

    (2021)
    225 Citations
  • Chimeras

    (2020)
    224 Citations
  • The $XYZ$ states: experimental and theoretical status and perspectives

    Nora Brambilla;Nora Brambilla;Simon Eidelman;Simon Eidelman;Simon Eidelman;Christoph Hanhart;Alexey Nefediev;Alexey Nefediev;Alexey Nefediev

    (2020)
    209 Citations

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