| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | 231 | 25 | 33 | 12 |
| Physics | 300 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Wave Motion mostly deals with topics like Mathematical analysis, Classical mechanics, Mechanics, Wave propagation and Optics. Topics in Mathematical analysis explored in Wave Motion were investigated in conjunction with research in Geometry, Scattering and Nonlinear system. The study on Geometry presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Diffraction.
The concepts on Classical mechanics presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Amplitude, Dispersion (water waves), Surface wave, Isotropy and Anisotropy. It is mostly focused on Surface wave, specifically Rayleigh wave. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Mechanics, apply to Acoustic wave as well.
Wave propagation research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Dispersion relation and Plane wave. The works on Optics deal in particular with Reflection (physics). It is focused mainly on Longitudinal wave, particularly Mechanical wave.
The published articles primarily tackle Mathematical analysis, Classical mechanics, Optics, Wave propagation and Geometry. Issues in Mathematical analysis were discussed in the most cited articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Korteweg–de Vries equation and Nonlinear system. In addition to Wave propagation research, the journal articles aim to explore topics under Dispersion relation and Mechanics.
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 Wave Motion (based on the number of publications) are:
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 Wave Motion (based on the number of publications) are:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
Zhenkun Guo;Zhenkun Guo;Zhenkun Guo;Guobiao Hu;Vladislav Sorokin;Lihua Tang
(2021)Ping Chen;Yi-Ze Wang;Yue-Sheng Wang;Yue-Sheng Wang
(2020)Adriano T. Fabro;Danilo Beli;Danilo Beli;Neil S. Ferguson;José Roberto F. Arruda
(2021)Ugo Andral;Bertrand Kibler;John M. Dudley;Christophe Finot
(2020)Muamer Kadic;Muamer Kadic;Martin Wegener;André Nicolet;Frédéric Zolla
(2020)Weibin Li;Zifeng Lan;Ning Hu;Mingxi Deng
(2021)René Pernas-Salomón;Michael R. Haberman;Andrew N. Norris;Gal Shmuel
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