American Physical Society (APS) Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher American Physical Society (APS) including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

American Physical Society (APS) has published 709048 documents so far, receiving a total of 26941900 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.58% and 2.44% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. American Physical Society (APS) has a score of 38.00 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by American Physical Society (APS). In this regard, Journal Article, Proceedings Article, Dataset, and Other a with the total document number of 704855, 838, 3354, and 1 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 99.41%, 0.12%, 0.47%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in American Physical Society (APS) so far, respectively. American Physical Society (APS) has been an active publisher from 1893-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of American Physical Society (APS) over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of American Physical Society (APS) documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. American Physical Society (APS) has the highest annual number of publications in 2018, with 23556 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 713078 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 1.24.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of American Physical Society (APS) are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles.

The number of published documents by American Physical Society (APS) are 704855, 3354, and 838 for Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.77%, 0.15%, and 0.01% of the whole published Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles of American Physical Society (APS) are 26941856, 19, and 25, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.55%, 0.01%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles by American Physical Society (APS) are 1086, 2, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 98, and 615, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles by American Physical Society (APS) are 71, 2, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 20, and 50, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles by American Physical Society (APS) are 38.223, 0.006, and 0.030, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 0.070, and 2.540, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles by American Physical Society (APS) are 22652, 3195, and 125, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles are 2020, 2018, and 2015, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles published in American Physical Society (APS) are 713078, 19, and 8, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles are 2010, 2018, and 2015, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles published in American Physical Society (APS) are 36.44, 0.01, and 0.07, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Datasets, and Proceeding Articles are 2010, 2018, and 2014, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher American Physical Society (APS).

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by American Physical Society (APS), are 1086, 348, and 171, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by American Physical Society (APS) are 71, 33, and 22, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by American Physical Society (APS), are 430364, 248264, 126619, 51881, 12487, 4021, 1258, 267, 68, and 24, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the American Physical Society (APS) top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by American Physical Society (APS) is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of American Physical Society (APS) based on the number of published documents are Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review B, Physical Review A, and Physical Review. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 131566, 92656, 68050, 52304, and 49410, respectively. These numbers are equal to 18.555%, 13.068%, 9.597%, 7.377%, and 6.968% of the total documents published by American Physical Society (APS) so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of American Physical Society (APS) are Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review, Physical Review B, and Physical Review A. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 131566, 92656, 49410, 68050, and 52304, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.488%, 0.344%, 0.183%, 0.253%, and 0.194% of the total citations received by American Physical Society (APS) publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of American Physical Society (APS) are Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics Physique Fizika, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and Physical Review. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 265.112, 146.024, 67.288, 57.585, and 51.628, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in American Physical Society (APS). The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Physical Society (APS) are two dimensional, x ray, one dimensional, magnetic field, phase transition, electronic structure, cross sections, first principles, bose einstein, and three dimensional, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 12366, 8110, 6992, 6593, 4853, 4835, 4555, 4509, 3948, and 3922, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Physical Society (APS) are two dimensional, x ray, density functional, electronic structure, one dimensional, first principles, bose einstein, magnetic field, electron gas, and phase transition, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 12366, 8110, 3346, 4835, 6992, 4509, 3948, 6593, 1940, and 4853, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Physical Society (APS) are electron gas, density functional, self consistent, electronic properties, carbon nanotubes, scanning tunneling, band structure, x ray absorption, optical properties, and density functional theory, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 86.939, 84.649, 78.465, 66.570, 66.365, 60.021, 58.652, 58.383, 57.013, and 55.765, respectively.