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Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
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Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

1674-7348

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11433

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 64 110 148 26
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 250 16 23 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 387
Documents by Best Scientists*: 442
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 75
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.28
Impact Factor: 7.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Science China-physics Mechanics & Astronomy?

The journal investigates studies in Condensed matter physics, Mechanics, Optics, Astrophysics and Classical mechanics. It features studies on Condensed matter physics, including topics such as Superconductivity. Mechanics research is concerned with Turbulence in particular.

Research on Optics addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Optoelectronics. Many of the studies tackled connect Astrophysics with a similar field of study like Astronomy.

  • Condensed matter physics (10.78%)
  • Mechanics (9.99%)
  • Optics (9.13%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Principles of electromagnetic waves in metasurfaces (289 citations)
  • Introduction to holographic superconductor models (188 citations)
  • Simple geometrical explanation of Gurtin-Murdoch model of surface elasticity with clarification of its related versions (185 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Science China-physics Mechanics & Astronomy:

The aim of the journal articles is to expand the discussion of research in Astrophysics, Quantum mechanics, Mechanics, Classical mechanics and Qubit. Astronomy and Cosmic microwave background are some topics wherein Astrophysics research discussed in the most cited papers has an impact. The research on Cosmic microwave background featured in the most cited articles combines topics in other fields like Dark energy, Hubble's law and Planck.

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 Science China-physics Mechanics & Astronomy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gui-Lu Long (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Xin Zhang (26 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Guozhen Yang (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kun Zhao (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kuijuan Jin (23 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 Science China-physics Mechanics & Astronomy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (1085 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tsinghua University (310 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peking University (234 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Science and Technology of China (152 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nanjing University (140 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 2022 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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

  • Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope ( Insight -HXMT) Satellite

    Shuang-Nan Zhang;TiPei Li;TiPei Li;FangJun Lu;LiMing Song

    (2020)
    255 Citations
  • The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Science and design

    Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz;Rafael Alves Batista;Rafael Alves Batista;Aswathi Balagopal;Julien Bolmont

    (2020)
    225 Citations
  • The Low Energy X-ray telescope (LE) onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

    Yong Chen;WeiWei Cui;Wei Li;Juan Wang

    (2020)
    198 Citations
  • Nodeless superconductivity in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5

    Weiyin Duan;Zhiyong Nie;Shuaishuai Luo;Fanghang Yu

    (2021)
    154 Citations
  • Nodeless superconductivity in the kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$

    Weiyin Duan;Zhiyong Nie;Shuaishuai Luo;Fanghang Yu

    (2021)
    150 Citations
  • The Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

    (2020)
    131 Citations
  • Probing new physics in dimension-8 neutral gauge couplings at e+e− colliders

    John Ellis;Hong Jian He;Hong Jian He;Hong Jian He;Rui Qing Xiao

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • The Gravitational-wave physics II: Progress

    Ligong Bian;Rong-Gen Cai;Shuo Cao;Zhoujian Cao

    (2021)
    77 Citations
  • Orbital ordering and fluctuations in a kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

    (2021)
    72 Citations
  • Quasi-topological electromagnetism: Dark energy, dyonic black holes, stable photon spheres and hidden electromagnetic duality

    Hai-Shan Liu;Hai-Shan Liu;Zhan-Feng Mai;Yue-Zhou Li;H. Lu

    (2020)
    60 Citations

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