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Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters
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Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 258 30 38 10
Engineering and Technology 661 27 35 13
Materials Science 728 10 10 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 72
Documents by Best Scientists*: 83
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 38
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.598
Impact Factor: 3.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters?

The journal investigates studies in Mechanics, Structural engineering, Composite material, Mathematical analysis and Classical mechanics. It facilitated presentations on Mechanics research, particularly Turbulence, Reynolds number, Vortex, Flow (psychology) and Instability. More specifically, the research on Structural engineering in it is related to Finite element method.

Stress (mechanics) is a primary topic of Composite material research in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.

  • Mechanics (30.26%)
  • Structural engineering (12.50%)
  • Composite material (9.74%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Elastic properties of chiral, anti-chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs: A simple energy-based approach (112 citations)
  • Current trends and future directions in turbulent thermal convection (104 citations)
  • Elastic metamaterials with local resonances: an overview (69 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters:

The most cited articles explore disciplines such as Mechanics, Structural engineering, Nanotechnology, Reynolds number and Composite material. While Mechanics is the focus of the most cited articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Particle, Viscoelasticity and Classical mechanics. The works on Structural engineering tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Vibration, Rotation around a fixed axis and Nonlinear system.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Composite material
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters tackles a plethora of topics, such as Mechanics, Turbulence, Turbine, Work (thermodynamics) and Applied mathematics. While Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters focused on Mechanics, it was also able to explore topics like Particle and Deformation (mechanics). It explores topics in Turbulence which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Drag, Isotropy and Boundary layer.

Boundary layer research in it involves the investigation of Scaling studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Mathematical analysis. Marine engineering, Wake and Rotor (electric) are some topics wherein Turbine research discussed in the journal have an impact. Topics in Work (thermodynamics) were tackled in line with various other fields like Immersed boundary method, Stress (mechanics), State variable, Statistical physics and Curvilinear coordinates.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Research on refined reconstruction method of airfoil pressure based on compressed sensing (3 citations)
  • Physics-informed deep learning for digital materials (3 citations)
  • Why neural networks apply to scientific computing (2 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 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tian Jian Lu (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Youhe Zhou (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Aditya Rio Prabowo (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Huimin Xie (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chenguang Huang (6 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 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (67 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (44 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zhejiang University (32 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Science and Technology of China (29 papers) published 2 papers 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 2021 edition, 11.54% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 54.35% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.87% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.39% of all publications and 17.39% 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

  • Hydrothermal analysis of Hybrid nanofluid flow on a vertical plate by considering slip condition

    (2022)
    96 Citations
  • Investigation of nanofluid flow in a vertical channel considering polynomial boundary conditions by Akbari-Ganji's method

    (2022)
    75 Citations
  • Hydrothermal analysis of non-Newtonian fluid flow (blood) through the circular tube under prescribed non-uniform wall heat flux

    (2022)
    69 Citations
  • Metal foam and fin implementation into a triple concentric tube heat exchanger over melting evolution

    (2022)
    62 Citations
  • Numerical investigations to design a novel model based on the fifth order system of Emden–Fowler equations

    Zulqurnain Sabir;Mehmet Giyas Sakar;Manshuk Yeskindirova;Onur Saldir

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Switchable dry adhesive based on shape memory polymer with hemispherical indenters for transfer printing

    Hongyu Luo;Chenglong Li;Chuanqian Shi;Shuang Nie

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Spatial artificial neural network model for subgrid-scale stress and heat flux of compressible turbulence

    Chenyue Xie;Chenyue Xie;Jianchun Wang;Hui Li;Minping Wan

    (2020)
    29 Citations

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