2022 Electrochemistry Publication Status, Most Downloaded Papers, and Most Cited Papers

Jan. 16, 2022
Kenji Kano
Editor-in-Chief, Electrochemistry
The Electrochemical Society of Japan

We are pleased to inform you of the publication status of Electrochemistry for the fiscal year 2022, as well as the top papers in terms of the number of downloads and citations.

1. Status of Publication in 2021

• Number of submissions
  135, of which 88 have been published or accepted, 43 rejected or withdrawn, 6 under review.

• Number of publications
  108 (Vol. 90, No. 1-12)

• Acceptance rate
  63.7% (excluding undecided cases)

• Number of citations
  1,373 times, of which 250 times for papers published in 2020-2021 (212 papers)
  (Provisional JIF: 1.179)
• Average time from submission to publication: 34.3 days

• Number of downloads of papers published on J-STAGE
  866,948 times (Vol.67-90, including early release)
  113,437 times (since Vol. 86)

2. Most downloaded papers
Based on the access information of J-STAGE provided by JST, the number of downloads of all the articles published in Electrochemistry (including early release papers) since Vol. 67 (1999) was counted every two months and annually.

• Bimonthly Most Downloaded Papers
  In principle, original papers are included. Award-winning papers such as the Takei Award are excluded.
  Certificates will be issued to the top three papers every two months.
  Papers that have been ranked in the top three once will be excluded from the list.

• Annually Most Downloaded Papers
  In principle, original papers (including papers commemorating awards) are included in the list.
  The top 10 papers for which a certificate is issued will be included.

3. Most cited papers
The top 10 papers in the number of citations in 2022 and the top papers in the number of citations in each year consecutively are tabulated based on the access information of J-STAGE provided by JST among all the articles published in Electrochemistry (including early release papers) since Vol. 67 (1999). The number of citations in 2022 was calculated based on the access information received from J-STAGE. The papers that have been ranked in the top 10 of the citation count since last year are excluded from the list and added to the list of the most cited papers. Please refer to the following link for the results.

• Annually Most Cited Papers
  The top 10 most cited papers (including review papers and synthesis papers) in 2022 according to the access statistics of J-STAGE provided by JST. If a paper is ranked in the top 10 once and occupies the top 10 consecutively, it is excluded from the list and shifted to the list of the most cited papers in the next section.

• Continuously Highly Cited Papers
  Continuously highly cited papers are those papers that have been cited the most in each year. In the first issue (2020), all papers that have been cited in the top positions for five or more consecutive years since the publication of Electrochemistry (1999) will be included.

Certificates will be sent to the authors of the papers listed above in PDF format. 

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued cooperation and support for the management of the Electrochemical Society of Japan. We look forward to your contributions and use of the journal Electrochemistry.