How Integrated are Theoretical and Applied Physics?
Physics and Society
2019-02-26 v1
Abstract
How well integrated are more theoretically and application oriented works in Physics currently? This interesting question, which has several relevant implications, has been approached mostly in a more subjective way. Recent concepts and methods from network science are used in the current work in order to develop a more principled, quantitative and objective approach to gauging the integration and centrality of more theoretical/applied journals within the APS journals database, represented as a directed and undirected citation network. The results suggest a surprising level of integration between more theoretically and application oriented journals, which are also characterized by remarkably similar centralities in the network.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1712.07507,
title = {How Integrated are Theoretical and Applied Physics?},
author = {Henrique F. de Arruda and Cesar H. Comin and Luciano da F. Costa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07507},
year = {2019}
}