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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

1364-5021

Published by: The Royal Society

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspa

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 51 96 131 23
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 92 110 155 23
Physics 151 30 44 13
Engineering and Technology 274 94 162 26

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 481
Documents by Best Scientists*: 557
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 32
SCIMAGO H-index: 162
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.777
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences?

The foci of Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences are Mathematical analysis, Mechanics, Classical mechanics, Atomic physics and Pure mathematics. The journal facilitates discussions on Mathematical analysis that incorporate concepts from other fields like Geometry and Nonlinear system. In it, Ion, Spectral line and Electron are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Atomic physics research.

  • Mathematical analysis (17.46%)
  • Mechanics (10.25%)
  • Classical mechanics (9.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis (14668 citations)
  • The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion, and Related Problems (9992 citations)
  • A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics (6779 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences:

The published articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Mathematical analysis, Classical mechanics, Mechanics, Atomic physics and Condensed matter physics. The journal publications connects the study in Mathematical analysis with the closely related areas of Nonlinear system. The studies on Atomic physics discussed at the most cited publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Ion and Electron.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Composite material
  • Organic chemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Mathematical analysis, Pure mathematics, Mechanics, Nonlinear system and Applied mathematics. Mathematical analysis research is concerned with Bounded function in particular. Topics in Pure mathematics were tackled in line with various other fields like Class (set theory) and Type (model theory).

The Mechanics works, particularly on Instability are tackled in Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evolution of spray and aerosol from respiratory releases: theoretical estimates for insight on viral transmission (22 citations)
  • Observation and modelling of solar jets (16 citations)
  • Invariant Gibbs dynamics for the dynamical sine-Gordon model (14 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 Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (93 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lord Rayleigh (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (79 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frank Philip Bowden (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde (65 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 Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Cambridge (1703 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Imperial College London (1091 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Oxford (1055 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (494 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Manchester (402 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 5 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, 26.60% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.48% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.62% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.96% of all publications and 65.94% 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

  • Environmental sustainability of biofuels: a review

    Harish K. Jeswani;Andrew Chilvers;Adisa Azapagic

    (2020)
    575 Citations
  • Locally adaptive activation functions with slope recovery for deep and physics-informed neural networks.

    Ameya D Jagtap;Kenji Kawaguchi;George Em Karniadakis;George Em Karniadakis

    (2020)
    268 Citations
  • SINDy-PI: a robust algorithm for parallel implicit sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics.

    Kadierdan Kaheman;J. Nathan Kutz;Steven L. Brunton

    (2020)
    231 Citations
  • Applications of variable-order fractional operators: a review

    Sansit Patnaik;John P Hollkamp;Fabio Semperlotti

    (2020)
    209 Citations
  • Shallow neural networks for fluid flow reconstruction with limited sensors.

    N. Benjamin Erichson;Lionel Mathelin;Zhewei Yao;Steven L. Brunton

    (2020)
    192 Citations
  • Review of smoothed particle hydrodynamics: towards converged Lagrangian flow modelling.

    Steven J Lind;Benedict D Rogers;Peter K Stansby

    (2020)
    173 Citations
  • Epidemics on multilayer simplicial complexes

    (2022)
    146 Citations
  • Matrix models and deformations of JT gravity.

    Edward Witten

    (2020)
    125 Citations

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