OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Acta Materialia is 70. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Phase evolution in two-phase alloys during severe plastic deformation	248
Sudoku-inspired high-Shannon-entropy alloys	217
In situ observation of the cryophile migration of hydrogen bubbles in Al-alloys during directional melting and the impact of surface tension	179
Rapid discovery of high hardness multi-principal-element alloys using a generative adversarial network model	176
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Effect of leakage current on magnetoelectric effect of 0–3 multiferroic composites based on an equivalent circuit model	161
Effects of Y solutes on the activation of the {11<	160
Passivating oxidation behavior of Ti0.12Al0.21B0.67 coatings investigated by scanning transmission electron microscopy and chemical environment dependent density functional theory simulations	159
Disordered mechanical metamaterials with programmable properties	158
Hydrogen-assisted spinodal decomposition in a TiNbZrHfTa complex concentrated alloy	152
Predicting and understanding vacancy-modified oxygen diffusion in dilute Ni-based alloys by first-principles calculations	152
A novel two-step grain boundary diffusion process using TaF5 and Pr70Cu15Al10Ga5 for realizing high-coercivity in Nd-Fe-B-sintered magnets without use of heavy rare-earth	139
Predicted aluminum monoxide phases and their structural evolution under pressure	138
Insights into the surface tension and superficial density peak of molten metals from molecular dynamics	133
Locally off-centered Ge atoms contribute to high thermoelectric performance of globally averaged cubic MnGeTe2 alloys	133
The microstructural dependence of ionic transport in bi-continuous nanoporous metal	129
Abnormal grain growth behavior in gradient nanostructured titanium investigated by coupled quasi-in-situ EBSD experiments and phase-field simulations	129
The importance of fracture toughness evaluation for additively manufactured metals	125
Alloying effects on the transport properties of refractory high-entropy alloys	119
First-principles and cluster expansion study of the effect of magnetism on short-range order in Fe–Ni–Cr austenitic stainless steels	119
On the shear strain associated with T1 precipitation in Al-Cu-Li(-Mg-Ag) alloys	118
Plastic deformation delocalization at cryogenic temperatures in a nickel-based superalloy	116
Tuning metastable austenite in a phase-transforming ceramic via matrix constraint	115
High polarization stability induced by light-activated defect engineering in ferroelectric single crystals	111
Hierarchical anisotropic material response of directed energy deposited (DED) Ti-6Al-4V alloy	109

Atomistically informed mesoscale modelling of deformation behavior of bulk metallic glasses	106
Stabilization and control of weakly correlated polar skyrmions in ferroelectric thin films	106
The toughening effect of twins on fracture in nanotwinned Cu during cyclic loading	104
Editorial Board	104
Unveiling yield strength of metallic materials using physics-enhanced machine learning under diverse experimental conditions	99
Predicting yield stress in a nano-precipitate strengthened austenitic steel by integrating multi length-scale simulations and experiments	98
Mechanisms of grain boundary α precipitation in the metastable β-titanium Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-3Cr	98
Editorial Board	96
Texture development in Cu-Ag-Fe triphase immiscible nanocomposites with superior thermal stability	94
Short-range order and its impacts on the BCC MoNbTaW multi-principal element alloy by the machine-learning potential	94
Hydrogen penetration into the NiTi superelastic alloy investigated in-situ by synchrotron diffraction experiments	93
Understanding imprint formation, plastic instabilities and hardness evolutions in FCC, BCC and HCP metal surfaces	93
Effects of Mg and Al doping on the desorption energetics and electronic structure of a Ti-V-Zr-Nb alloy hydride	92
High thermoelectric performance and anisotropy studies of n-type Mg3Bi2-based single crystal	91
Phase-field investigation on the microstructural evolution of eutectic transformation and four-phase reaction in Mo-Si-Ti system	91
Formation and self-organisation of nano-porosity in swift heavy ion irradiated amorphous Ge	91
A spall and diffraction study of nanosecond pressure release across the iron ε-α phase boundary	87
Sliding wear-induced compositional lamination in a VCoNi alloy at elevated temperatures, and its implications for reduced friction and wear	86
Mechanical properties and thermal stability of ZrCuAlx thin film metallic glasses: Experiments and first-principle calculations	84
Natural and artificial ageing in aluminium alloys – the role of excess vacancies	84
Impact of Aliovalent Alkaline-Earth metal solutes on Ceria Grain Boundaries: A density functional theory study	83
High-throughput microstructure and composition characterisation of microplatelet reinforced composites using directional reflectance microscopy	83
On the role of the electric field in the last-stage sintering of ceramics: A phase-field modelling approach	82
Competition of core-shell and Janus morphology in bimetallic nanoparticles: Insights from a phase-field model	82
Electric-field-induced annihilation of localized gap defect states in amorphous phase-change memory materials	82
Room-temperature plasticity and size-dependent mechanical responses in small-scale B1-NbC(001) single-crystals	79
Effect of Li on the intrinsic and extrinsic contributions of the piezoelectric response in Lix(Na0.5K0.5)1-xNbO3 piezoelectric ceramics across the polymorphic phase boundary	79
Effect of substitutional doping and disorder on the phase stability, magnetism, and half-metallicity of Heusler alloys	79
Engineered periodic quadrupole superstructure in ferroelectric thin films via flexoelectricity	78
Diffusion-assisted growth of periodic patterns on metal surfaces	78
ω-Strengthened Ti-23Nb alloy with twinning-induced plasticity developed via reverse martensitic transformation	78
Kawin: An open source Kampmann–Wagner Numerical (KWN) phase precipitation and coarsening model	77
A generalized 3D elastic model for nanoscale, self-assembled oxide-metal thin films with pillar-in-matrix configurations	76
On the vibrational properties of transition metal doped ZnO: Surface, defect, and bandgap engineering	76
Electronic effects on the radiation damage in high-entropy alloys	75
High-throughput screening of half-antiperovskites with a stacked kagome lattice	75
Quantitative description of the role of Cr on the ordering characteristics of a single phase Ni-16 wt.% Mo- 7wt.% Cr alloy	75
Self-toughening mechanism of the ZrO2 scale and the precipitation of Sn during the steam oxidation of ZIRLO™ at 1200 °C	74
Growth of faceted, monolayer-coated nanovoids in aluminium	74
The concept of axial weak twins	73
Anisotropic mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of nanotwinned Ni and Ni alloys with extremely fine twin boundary spacings	73
On the transition of failure control from material-intrinsic defects to defects forming during monotonically increasing and cyclic mechanical loading in WC-Co hard metal at elevated temperature	72
The kinetics of reentrant glass transition in metallic liquids	71
On the origin of the Hall–Petch law: A 3D-dislocation dynamics simulation investigation	71
Evolution of elastic constants of the NiTi shape memory alloy during a stress-induced martensitic transformation	71
J-integral analysis of the elastic strain fields of ferrite deformation twins using electron backscatter diffraction	70
The evolution of local stress during deformation twinning in a Mg-Gd-Y-Zn alloy	70
Complex multi-step martensitic twinning process during plastic deformation of the superelastic Ti-20Zr-3Mo-3Sn alloy	70
Effects of electric current on the plastic deformation behavior of pure copper, iron, and titanium	70