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SN Applied Sciencesopen access

Country

Switzerland

Universities and research institutions in Switzerland
Media Ranking in Switzerland

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Springer Nature

H-Index

59

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

25233971

Coverage

2019-2023

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Scope

SN Applied Sciences is a fully open access (OA) journal. All content published in the journal is published under an open access license, and freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse. SN Applied Sciences is in the top 25% of qualifying journals for editorial excellence Journal authors have the chance to tell us about their publishing experience throughout the year with the journal author satisfaction survey. The survey results reflect how highly authors rate their experience publishing with SN Applied Sciences. SN Applied Sciences is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal for the disciplines of Applied Life Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Materials Science and Physics. It fosters sound scientific discovery to solve practical problems. The journal encourages quality, scientifically valid, original articles which present a good understanding of scientific knowledge, experiments and theories, methods and techniques, as well as interdisciplinary linkages. It welcomes research articles, review papers, case studies, and short communications. All papers are evaluated on the basis of scientific content. Submissions are first screened for research and publication ethics prior to peer review. In addition to direct submissions, SN Applied Sciences also considers papers that have been referred from Springer Nature’s prestigious journal portfolio. SN Applied Sciences offers Topical Collections designed to consolidate publications of a specific research topic. Articles can be either released as direct papers or within a Topical Collection. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)2023Q2
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)2023Q2
Engineering (miscellaneous)2021Q2
Engineering (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Engineering (miscellaneous)2023Q2
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2023Q2
Materials Science (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Materials Science (miscellaneous)2022Q3
Materials Science (miscellaneous)2023Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)2023Q2
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20210.342
20220.424
20230.491
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
20191730
20202145
2021875
2022328
2023378
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20201.572
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20212.110
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20222.968
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20233.480
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.572
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20212.110
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20222.968
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20233.378
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20201.572
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20212.110
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20222.862
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20233.440
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20190
Self Cites2020306
Self Cites2021141
Self Cites202242
Self Cites202339
Total Cites20190
Total Cites20202719
Total Cites20218177
Total Cites202214100
Total Cites202311310
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20190
External Cites per document20201.395
External Cites per document20212.074
External Cites per document20222.960
External Cites per document20233.366
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20201.572
Cites per document20212.110
Cites per document20222.968
Cites per document20233.378
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201919.08
202019.67
202120.57
202219.21
202325.66
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20223
Non-citable documents20234
Citable documents20190
Citable documents20201730
Citable documents20213875
Citable documents20224747
Citable documents20233344
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20190
Uncited documents2020672
Uncited documents20211314
Uncited documents20221273
Uncited documents2023856
Cited documents20190
Cited documents20201058
Cited documents20212561
Cited documents20223477
Cited documents20232492
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201927.32
202028.88
202123.21
202227.16
202325.68
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton201923
Overton202023
Overton202113
Overton20224
Overton20231
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG2019487
SDG2020654
SDG2021297
SDG2022101
SDG2023137
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