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Physics-Uspekhi
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Physics-Uspekhi

1063-7869

Published by: Russian Academy of Sciences

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 274 18 23 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 39
Documents by Best Scientists*: 43
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 94
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.544
Impact Factor: 3.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Physics-Uspekhi?

Physics-Uspekhi focuses largely on the fields of Condensed matter physics, Atomic physics, Optics, Quantum mechanics and Electron. Superconductivity is a primary topic of Condensed matter physics research in Physics-Uspekhi.

  • Condensed matter physics (10.08%)
  • Atomic physics (6.72%)
  • Optics (5.17%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Electrodynamics of Substances with Simultaneously Negative Values of ∊ and μ (8978 citations)
  • Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires (2717 citations)
  • DOUBLE-TIME GREEN FUNCTIONS IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS (1461 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Physics-Uspekhi:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Condensed matter physics, Atomic physics, Classical mechanics, Electron and Quantum mechanics. The published papers focus on Condensed matter physics research which is adjacent to topics in Magnetic field. Issues in Atomic physics were discussed in the journal papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Chemical physics, Plasma, Ion, Ionization and Radiation.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Optics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Physics-Uspekhi investigates areas of study like Optics, Condensed matter physics, Superconductivity, Quantum and Particle physics. The featured Optics works encompass concepts such as X-ray and Radiation and examines them in conjunction with Near earth space. In particular, the Condensed matter physics works presented emphasize discussions on Spin-½.

The Quantum study featured falls within the larger field of Quantum mechanics. Specifically, studies on Neutrino are prevalent in the Particle physics works discussed.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Pedagogical introduction to the Sachdev—Ye—Kitaev model and two-dimensional dilaton gravity (15 citations)
  • Theory of optically detected spin noise in nanosystems (7 citations)
  • Undulator and free-electron laser radiation with field harmonics and off-axis effects taken into account analytically (6 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-Uspekhi (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Vitalii L Ginzburg (224 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Aleksandr F. Andreev (108 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ya. B. Zel'dovich (91 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gennadii A Mesyats (80 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 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 Physics-Uspekhi (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Russian Academy of Sciences (1252 papers) published 55 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Moscow State University (246 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Kurchatov Institute (116 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (78 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (60 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 17.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 80.43% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.26% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 5.43% of all publications and 10.87% 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

  • Resonant scattering of electromagnetic waves by small metal particles

    Mikhail I. Tribelsky;Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Photon entanglement for life-science imaging: rethinking the limits of the possible

    Aleksei M. Zheltikov;Aleksei M. Zheltikov;Marlan O. Scully

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Metalenses for subwavelength imaging

    Kseniya V. Baryshnikova;Sergei S. Kharintsev;Pavel A. Belov;Nikita A. Ustimenko

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Novel magnetic stoichiometric superconductor compound EuRbFe 4 As 4

    Timur Kim;Kirill S. Pervakov;Vladimir A. Vlasenko;Andrei V. Sadakov

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • East meets West again now to Tackle the Global Energy Crises

    Toshiki Tajima;A. Necas;T. Massard;S. Gales

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Detonation wave of condensation

    Alexander Viktorovich Eremin;Vladimir E. Fortov

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Use of powerful shock and detonation waves to study extreme states of matter

    Lev Vladimirovich Al’tshuler;R.I. Il’kaev;Vladimir E. Fortov

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Evgenii Mikhailovich Churazov (on his 60th birthday)

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Experiments with nonlinear topological edge states in static and dynamically modulated Sumdash;Schrieffer—Heeger waveguide array

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (on his 90th birthday)

    (2021)
    0 Citations

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