IOP Publishing Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher IOP Publishing 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.

IOP Publishing has published 1057243 documents so far, receiving a total of 9420987 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.86% and 0.85% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. IOP Publishing has a score of 8.91 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by IOP Publishing. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, and Monograph a with the total document number of 1050662, 5266, 3, 619, 160, and 533 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 99.38%, 0.50%, 0.00%, 0.06%, 0.02%, and 0.05% of the total documents published in IOP Publishing so far, respectively. IOP Publishing has been an active publisher from 1874-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of IOP Publishing 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 IOP Publishing documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. IOP Publishing has the highest annual number of publications in 2020, with 99746 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 362783 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.20.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of IOP Publishing are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets.

The number of published documents by IOP Publishing are 1050662, 5266, 533, 160, and 3 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.15%, 0.03%, 0.09%, 0.02%, and 0.00% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets of IOP Publishing are 9419856, 188, 940, 1, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.89%, 0.00%, 0.02%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets by IOP Publishing are 553, 4, 13, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 760, 793, and 98, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets by IOP Publishing are 46, 3, 5, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 60, and 20, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets by IOP Publishing are 8.966, 0.036, 1.764, 0.006, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 9.566, 8.593, and 0.070, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets by IOP Publishing are 98122, 1330, 140, 43, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets are 2020, 2019, 2019, 2020, and 2014, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets published in IOP Publishing are 362783, 49, 193, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets are 2010, 2016, 2015, 2019, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets published in IOP Publishing are 13.78, 0.08, 12.50, 0.09, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, and Datasets are 2010, 2013, 2013, 2019, 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 IOP Publishing.

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 IOP Publishing, are 553, 252, and 138, 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 IOP Publishing are 46, 25, and 19, 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 IOP Publishing, are 224065, 90719, 35163, 11130, 2215, 652, 164, 29, 7, and 1, 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 IOP Publishing 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 IOP Publishing 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 IOP Publishing based on the number of published documents are Journal of Physics Conference Series, IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, and Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 161577, 93347, 84182, 79765, and 37441, respectively. These numbers are equal to 15.283%, 8.829%, 7.962%, 7.545%, and 3.541% of the total documents published by IOP Publishing so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of IOP Publishing are Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, Nanotechnology, and EPL (Europhysics Letters). The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 79765, 37441, 31323, 20899, and 20832, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.847%, 0.397%, 0.332%, 0.222%, and 0.221% of the total citations received by IOP Publishing publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of IOP Publishing are Reports on Progress in Physics, Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B, Proceedings of the Physical Society Section A, Biofabrication, and Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 113.700, 27.200, 27.389, 26.171, and 24.073, 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 IOP Publishing. 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 IOP Publishing are x ray, thin films, two dimensional, magnetic field, thin film, case study, three dimensional, peer review, low temperature, and optical properties, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 11288, 7469, 6580, 6223, 5293, 4317, 4274, 4139, 4070, and 3791, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher IOP Publishing are x ray, thin films, two dimensional, monte carlo, thin film, three dimensional, magnetic field, cross sections, optical properties, and carbon nanotubes, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 11288, 7469, 6580, 3782, 5293, 4274, 6223, 2857, 3791, and 2889, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher IOP Publishing are phase transitions, carbon nanotube, atmospheric pressure, dark matter, electronic structure, black holes, cross sections, electron impact, carbon nanotubes, and light emitting diodes, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 19.797, 18.738, 18.622, 18.271, 17.916, 17.326, 16.538, 16.328, 16.156, and 16.061, respectively.