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Superconductor Science and Technology
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Superconductor Science and Technology

0953-2048

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0953-2048

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 167 28 37 11
Engineering and Technology 304 29 127 25
Materials Science 331 106 195 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 214
Documents by Best Scientists*: 425
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 124
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.095
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Superconductor Science and Technology?

The journal facilitates discussions on Superconductivity, Condensed matter physics, Magnetic field, Composite material and Analytical chemistry. The journal is focused mainly on Superconductivity, particularly High-temperature superconductivity. The journal explores issues in Condensed matter physics which can be linked to other research areas like Field (physics), Vortex and Magnetization.

It explores research in Magnet and overlapping concepts in Electromagnetic coil to expand the discourse in Magnetic field. The study on Composite material presented in it intersects with the topics under Critical current. Analytical chemistry research featured in Superconductor Science and Technology incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Annealing (metallurgy) and Phase (matter).

While Superconductor Science and Technology focused on Thin film, it was also able to explore topics like Substrate (electronics) and Epitaxy. The work tackled in the journal goes beyond the discipline of Electrical resistivity and conductivity as it also encompasses Transition temperature. Superconductor Science and Technology focuses on Josephson effect research which is adjacent to topics in Optoelectronics.

  • Superconductivity (54.24%)
  • Condensed matter physics (43.89%)
  • Magnetic field (19.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Review of the superconducting properties of MgB2 (930 citations)
  • Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications (709 citations)
  • Melt-processed light rare earth element - Ba - Cu - O (506 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Superconductor Science and Technology:

The journal papers primarily tackle Superconductivity, Condensed matter physics, Magnetic field, Composite material and Electrical conductor. The Superconductivity research tackled in the most cited papers is interrelated with Analytical chemistry which concerns subjects like Phase (matter). The published papers focus on Condensed matter physics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Field (physics), Magnetization and Anisotropy.

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 Superconductor Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Masato Murakami (126 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pavol Kováč (126 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Shi Xue Dou (125 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David A. Cardwell (109 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Satoshi Awaji (102 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less 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 Superconductor Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (316 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (257 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 12 less than at the previous edition,
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences (201 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Institute for Materials Science (175 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tohoku University (171 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 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, 58.11% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 38.74% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.81% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.12% of all publications and 33.33% 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

  • Superconductors for fusion: A roadmap

    Neil Mitchell;Jinxing Zheng;Christian Vorpahl;Valentina Corato

    (2021)
    177 Citations
  • The T-A formulation: an efficient approach to model the macroscopic electromagnetic behaviour of HTS coated conductor applications

    (2022)
    122 Citations
  • Analyses of the plastic deformation of coated conductors deconstructed from ultra-high field test coils

    Xinbo Hu;Michael Small;Kwanglok Kim;Kwangmin Kim

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • A temperature-dependent multilayer model for direct current carrying HTS coated-conductors under perpendicular AC magnetic fields

    Jun Ma;Jun Ma;Jianzhao Geng;Wan Kan Chan;Justin Schwartz;Justin Schwartz

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • Review of the AC loss computation for HTS using H formulation

    Boyang Shen;Francesco Grilli;Tim Coombs

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Advanced electromagnetic modeling of large-scale high-temperature superconductor systems based on H and T-A formulations

    Edgar Berrospe-Juarez;Frederic Trillaud;Víctor M R Zermeño;Francesco Grilli

    (2021)
    76 Citations
  • Fully superconducting machine for electric aircraft propulsion: study of AC loss for HTS stator

    Fangjing Weng;Min Zhang;Tian Lan;Yawei Wang

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • The High Luminosity LHC interaction region magnets towards series production

    E. Todesco;H. Bajas;M. Bajko;A. Ballarino

    (2021)
    65 Citations
  • A new benchmark problem for electromagnetic modelling of superconductors: the high-T c superconducting dynamo

    Mark Ainslie;Francesco Grilli;Loïc Quéval;Enric Pardo

    (2020)
    62 Citations

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