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Researcher · MRIGlobal · United States

Melvin T. Lavik

Melvin T. Lavik publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Lubricants and Their Additives, Metal and Thin Film Mechanics and Tribology and Wear Analysis.

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World rank
#4,401,543
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,176,935
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
263
Citations per work
15.5
h-index
7
i10-index 4Top 72% in Mechanics of Materials
Melvin T. Lavik

What does Melvin T. Lavik research?

Melvin T. Lavik's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Materials Science (19%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Physical Sciences: 13 works · 76.6% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 48.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 21.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 19.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 8.5% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 19.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 14.9% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 works · 4.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 8.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 8.5% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 23.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMelvin T. Lavik17works
Physical Sciences77%

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. Engineering848.9%
    2. Materials Science319.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy18.5%
  2. Everything else423.4%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials21% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry15% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melvin T. Lavik's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mechanical Properties, Nanocomposites, Lubricants, Tribology, Nanoindentation, Polymer Tribology, Thin Films and Wear Behavior.

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. Mechanical Properties103 topics
  2. Nanocomposites82 topics
  3. Lubricants71 topic
  4. Tribology71 topic
  5. Nanoindentation41 topic
  6. Polymer Tribology41 topic
  7. Thin Films41 topic
  8. Wear Behavior41 topic
  9. Cryogenic Treatment21 topic
  10. Elemental Sulfur21 topic
  11. Finite Element Simulation21 topic
  12. Fretting Wear21 topic
  13. Inorganic Clusters21 topic
  14. Microstructure21 topic
  15. Molecular Electronics21 topic
  16. Oxynitride Perovskites21 topic
  17. Polyimides21 topic
  18. Self-Assembled Monolayers21 topic

Where does Melvin T. Lavik work?

Melvin T. Lavik's main affiliation in the publication record is MRIGlobal, United States.

How many publications and citations does Melvin T. Lavik have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 263 citations for Melvin T. Lavik, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,401,543 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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