AIP Publishing Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher AIP 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.

AIP Publishing has published 846143 documents so far, receiving a total of 16364733 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.69% and 1.48% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. AIP Publishing has a score of 19.34 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by AIP Publishing. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Proceedings Article, Dataset, and Monograph a with the total document number of 637788, 790, 201246, 6241, and 78 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 75.38%, 0.09%, 23.78%, 0.74%, and 0.01% of the total documents published in AIP Publishing so far, respectively. AIP Publishing has been an active publisher from 1930-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of AIP 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 AIP Publishing documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. AIP Publishing has the highest annual number of publications in 2018, with 28102 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 391973 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.42.

Document Types

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

The number of published documents by AIP Publishing are 637788, 201246, 6241, 790, and 78 for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.70%, 2.85%, 0.29%, 0.01%, and 0.01% of the whole published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs of AIP Publishing are 16167784, 196826, 123, 0, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.53%, 1.10%, 0.08%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs by AIP Publishing are 783, 67, 4, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 615, 98, 588, and 760, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs by AIP Publishing are 62, 13, 3, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 50, 20, 48, and 60, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs by AIP Publishing are 25.350, 0.978, 0.020, 0.000, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 2.540, 0.070, 1.016, and 9.566, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs by AIP Publishing are 19854, 13112, 590, 273, and 15, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs are 2014, 2019, 2014, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs published in AIP Publishing are 380976, 11330, 53, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs are 2010, 2017, 2010, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs published in AIP Publishing are 23.09, 1.21, 0.22, 0.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, Chapters, and Monographs are 2010, 2016, 2010, 2020, and 2020, 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 AIP 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 AIP Publishing, are 783, 211, and 95, 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 AIP Publishing are 62, 25, and 15, 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 AIP Publishing, are 322311, 164596, 74084, 26256, 5487, 1667, 530, 115, 47, and 9, 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 AIP 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 AIP 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 AIP Publishing based on the number of published documents are Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Physics Today. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 144077, 140804, 128907, 53190, and 52496, respectively. These numbers are equal to 17.028%, 16.641%, 15.235%, 6.286%, and 6.204% of the total documents published by AIP Publishing so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of AIP Publishing are The Journal of Chemical Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Journal of Mathematical Physics. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 140804, 128907, 144077, 53190, and 24657, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.860%, 0.788%, 0.880%, 0.325%, and 0.151% of the total citations received by AIP Publishing publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of AIP Publishing are Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Applied Physics Letters, and Applied Physics Reviews. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 115.291, 39.393, 38.571, 33.896, and 29.861, 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 AIP 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 AIP Publishing are x ray, thin films, thin film, two dimensional, magnetic field, magnetic properties, molecular dynamics, molecular beam, low temperature, and monte carlo, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 14025, 13293, 6872, 6319, 5666, 5128, 4986, 4531, 4474, and 4057, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher AIP Publishing are thin films, density functional, x ray, molecular dynamics, thin film, light emitting, molecular beam, ab initio, solar cells, and two dimensional, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 13293, 3247, 14025, 4986, 6872, 3967, 4531, 3633, 4000, and 6319, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher AIP Publishing are density functional, self consistent, light emitting diodes, light emitting, band gap, time dependent, density functional theory, ab initio, functional theory, and molecular dynamics, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 82.798, 67.522, 46.844, 46.813, 42.478, 41.546, 40.879, 40.644, 40.461, and 40.306, respectively.