Contents of Physics Related E-Print Archives

Abstract

The frontiers of physics related e-print archives (1994-2002) at http://www.arxiv.org/archives/physics web service are explored from 7770 submissions. No. of e-prints in the six research disciplines besides physics (5390) were: Condensed matter(754), Quantum physics(279), Astrophysics(222), Chemical physics(129), High energy physics Phenomenology(118), and High energy physics-Theory(100)). By keyword contents following major sub-fields have high frequency: Atomic physics(1258), General physics(1121), Chemical physics(892), Accelerator physics(769), Optics(686), Biological physics(674), and Computational physics(607). Interdomainary co-word cluster analysis revealed higher e-print contents for: Classical physics-General physics(108), Quantum physics-Optics(53), and High energy physics (Phenomenology)Atomic physics(49). Prominent contributors were B. G. Sidharth (India), V. V. Flambaum (Australia), Antonina N. Fedorova (Russia), and Michael G. Zeitlin (Russia).