American Journal of Physics

15.2k papers and 508.6k indexed citations i.

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The 15.2k papers published in American Journal of Physics in the last decades have received a total of 508.6k indexed citations. Papers published in American Journal of Physics usually cover Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (4.9k papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.2k papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.8k papers) specifically the topics of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies (3.0k papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (1.2k papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (1.1k papers). The most active scholars publishing in American Journal of Physics are Donald A. McQuarrie, C. Kittel, Heng Fan, John Wheeler, Benoît B. Mandelbrot, A. Abragam, L. C. Hebel, Lov K. Grover, Isaac L. Chuang and Michael A. Nielsen.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in American Journal of Physics

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in American Journal of Physics. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in American Journal of Physics.

Countries where authors publish in American Journal of Physics

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in American Journal of Physics. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in American Journal of Physics with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites American Journal of Physics more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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