Surface Engineering

Top Research Topics at Surface Engineering?

Surface Engineering investigates areas of study like Metallurgy, Coating, Composite material, Microstructure and Corrosion. The journal focuses on Metallurgy but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Layer (electronics), Nitriding and Scanning electron microscope. The studies on Coating discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Porosity, Substrate (electronics), Chemical engineering and Aluminium.

The work tackled in the journal goes beyond the discipline of Composite material as it also encompasses Thin film. It links adjacent topics like Thin film with Analytical chemistry. The work on Microstructure tackled in Surface Engineering brings together disciplines like Phase (matter) and Laser.

The Corrosion works featured in it incorporate elements from Dielectric spectroscopy and Electrochemistry.

• Metallurgy (52.64%)
• Coating (32.36%)
• Composite material (30.58%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Structure and Corrosion Resistance of Plasma Nitrided Stainless Steel (421 citations)
• Cold spray coating: review of material systems and future perspectives (353 citations)
• Surface Engineering of Titanium with Nitrogen (176 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Surface Engineering:

The journal publications explore disciplines such as Metallurgy, Coating, Composite material, Corrosion and Microstructure. While Metallurgy is the focus of the journal papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Layer (electronics), Nitriding and Scanning electron microscope. While the primary focus in the journal papers is Coating, they also dissect topics surrounding Composite number and Nickel as a whole.

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

• Composite material
• Organic chemistry
• Oxygen

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of Surface Engineering is to expand the discussion of research in Composite material, Coating, Metallurgy, Chemical engineering and Corrosion. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Coating, it also covered topics in Tin, Substrate (printing), Magnesium alloy and Nanocomposite. Surface Engineering deals with Metallurgy in conjunction with Nitriding and similar fields in Salt bath.

The featured Chemical engineering studies mainly concentrate on Thin film but also cover areas of interest in Doping. It explores topics in Corrosion which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Alloy, Amorphous solid and Scanning electron microscope. While it focused on Microstructure, it was also able to explore topics like Layer (electronics), Composite number, Laser and Sputter deposition.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Perspectives in corrosion-performance of Ni–Cu coatings by adding Y2O3 nanoparticles (18 citations)
• Ag-containing antibacterial self-healing micro-arc oxidation coatings on Mg–Zn–Sr alloys (7 citations)
• Enhanced corrosion resistance of plasma electrolytic oxidation coatings prepared on Mg alloy ZX using nano-Al2O3 and NaF incorporated electrolyte (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Surface Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• Thomas Bell (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Mariana Staia (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Hanshan Dong (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
• U. Kamachi Mudali (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
• R. Jayaganthan (18 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Surface Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences (57 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Birmingham (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Northwestern Polytechnical University (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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, 4.58% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.07% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.16% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.23% of all publications and 57.53% 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.