Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Top Research Topics at Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Mechanics, Control theory, Composite material, Mathematical analysis and Structural engineering. Heat transfer, Turbulence, Laminar flow, Flow (psychology) and Flow (mathematics) are among the areas of Mechanics tackled. Nonlinear system is part of Control theory studies tackled in it.

• Mechanics (21.88%)
• Control theory (13.59%)
• Composite material (7.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Vorticity and vortex dynamics in complex turbulent flows (116 citations)
• Profit maximization in reverse logistics based on disassembly scheduling using hybrid bee colony and bat optimization (102 citations)
• ARE PARALLEL ROBOTS MORE ACCURATE THAN SERIAL ROBOTS (87 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering:

The most cited papers investigate areas of study like Mechanics, Control theory, Mechanism (engineering), Kinematics and Composite material. While Mechanics is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Cylinder, Deflection (engineering) and Differential equation. The journal papers explore Control theory concepts, specifically Nonlinear system, Parallel manipulator, Active control and Holonomic but expand to research in Orthogonal complement.

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

• Mechanical engineering
• Composite material
• Thermodynamics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering mainly deals with areas of study such as Composite material, Control theory, Mechanical engineering, Structural engineering and Vibration. Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering holds forums on Composite material that merges themes from other disciplines such as Matrix (mathematics) and Aerospace. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Control theory, it also covered topics in Dimension (vector space) and Compression (functional analysis).

It investigates Mechanical engineering research which frequently intersects with Vibration based. The Fibre-reinforced plastic and Fracture mechanics studies presented in the journal fall under the field of Structural engineering, but it also has connections to other fields such as Design stage and Fatigue crack propagation. Mechanism (engineering), Degrees of freedom and Particle swarm optimization are some topics wherein Vibration research discussed in it have an impact.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Optimization of powder metallurgy parameters of TiC- and B4C-reinforced aluminium composites by Taguchi method (29 citations)
• Analysis of a diesel engine fueled with ternary fuel blends and alumina nano-additives at various combustion chamber geometries (19 citations)
• The Effect of Drag Force on The Body Frequencies and The Power Spectrum of a Bladeless Wind Turbine (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• Jorge Angeles (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Hong-Sen Yan (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Clément Gosselin (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Leila Notash (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
• F.P.J. Rimrott (12 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 Transactions of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Waterloo (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Toronto (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
• National Cheng Kung University (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Laval University (47 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• McGill University (43 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 2021 edition, 4.55% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 4.76% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.35% of all publications and 88.89% 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.