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Researcher · Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH (Austria) · Austria

Klaus Six

Klaus Six publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions.

ORCID 0000-0002-1005-8041 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,491,118
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#9,015
of 43,330
Works
124
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
12.1
h-index
22
i10-index 42Top 12% in Mechanical Engineering
Klaus Six

What does Klaus Six research?

Klaus Six's work is mostly in Engineering (84%), Materials Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 109 works · 87.9% of their workEngineering: 105 works · 84.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 53 works · 42.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 33 works · 26.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 9 works · 7.6% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 5 works · 4.4% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 works · 3.2% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 3.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 4 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 12.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKlaus Six124works
Physical Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering10584.4%
    2. Materials Science43.5%
  2. Everything else1512.1%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering43% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials26% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Automotive Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Klaus Six's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rolling Contact Fatigue, High-Speed Trains, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Finite Element Simulation, Fretting Wear, Adhesion and Gecko.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Rolling Contact Fatigue1012 topics
  2. High-Speed Trains942 topics
  3. Ground Vibration851 topic
  4. Railway Dynamics851 topic
  5. Finite Element Simulation401 topic
  6. Fretting Wear401 topic
  7. Adhesion271 topic
  8. Gecko271 topic
  9. Gear Dynamics161 topic
  10. Mesh Stiffness161 topic
  11. Electrical Contact Materials91 topic
  12. Engineering91 topic
  13. Pantograph-Catenary Interaction91 topic
  14. Research91 topic
  15. Cryogenic Treatment81 topic
  16. Microstructure81 topic
  17. Railway Timetabling81 topic
  18. Train Scheduling81 topic

Where does Klaus Six work?

Klaus Six's main affiliation in the publication record is Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH (Austria), Austria.

How many publications and citations does Klaus Six have?

OpenAlex counts 124 works and 1,502 citations for Klaus Six, an h-index of 22, ranking #1,491,118 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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