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Researcher · University of Bayreuth · Germany

Rainer Völkl

Rainer Völkl publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as High Temperature Alloys and Creep, Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques and Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties.

OpenAlex
World rank
#505,748
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#24,891
of 364,343
Works
117
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
30.1
h-index
30
i10-index 66Top 5.4% in Mechanical Engineering
Rainer Völkl

What does Rainer Völkl research?

Rainer Völkl's work is mostly in Engineering (70%), Materials Science (14%).

Physical Sciences: 99 works · 84.5% of their workEngineering: 82 works · 70.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 52 works · 44.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 12 works · 10.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 12 works · 10.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 5.1% of their workMaterials Science: 16 works · 14.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 13 works · 11.1% of their workGeneral Materials Science: 4 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 15.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRainer Völkl117works
Physical Sciences84%

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. Engineering8270.4%
    2. Materials Science1614.1%
  2. Everything else1815.5%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering45% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry11% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials5% of their works
  6. 6General Materials Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer Völkl's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, Phase Stability, High-Temperature Alloys, Superalloys, Atom Probe Tomography, Three-Dimensional Analysis and Intermetallic Alloys.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Microstructure1265 topics
  2. Mechanical Properties855 topics
  3. Phase Stability662 topics
  4. High-Temperature Alloys541 topic
  5. Superalloys541 topic
  6. Atom Probe Tomography351 topic
  7. Three-Dimensional Analysis351 topic
  8. Intermetallic Alloys341 topic
  9. TiAl Alloys341 topic
  10. Gas Turbine Engines291 topic
  11. Thermal Barrier Coatings291 topic
  12. Cemented Carbides141 topic
  13. Sintering141 topic
  14. Nanoindentation131 topic
  15. Thin Films131 topic
  16. Additive Manufacturing121 topic
  17. High-Entropy Alloys121 topic
  18. Metallic Components121 topic
  19. Multi-Component Alloys121 topic

Where does Rainer Völkl work?

Rainer Völkl's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bayreuth, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Rainer Völkl have?

OpenAlex counts 117 works and 3,522 citations for Rainer Völkl, an h-index of 30, ranking #505,748 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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