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Researcher · Freiberger Compound Materials (Germany) · Germany

Ralf Hammer

Ralf Hammer publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Metal and Thin Film Mechanics, Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques and Semiconductor materials and devices.

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World rank
#7,125,278
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#347,127
of 364,343
Works
24
Citations
206
Citations per work
8.6
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 50% in Mechanics of Materials
Ralf Hammer

What does Ralf Hammer research?

Ralf Hammer's work is mostly in Engineering (53%), Materials Science (9%), Chemistry (6%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 67.7% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 53.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 20.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 works · 14.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 11.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 5.9% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 8.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 8.8% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 5.9% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 1 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 32.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRalf Hammer24works
Physical Sciences68%

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. Engineering1353.0%
    2. Materials Science28.8%
    3. Chemistry15.9%
  2. Everything else832.3%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials21% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry9% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Inorganic Chemistry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralf Hammer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanocomposites, Thin Films, Tool Wear, Coatings, Nanoindentation, Atomic Layer Deposition, Chemical Mechanical Planarization and High-k Dielectrics.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanocomposites122 topics
  2. Thin Films112 topics
  3. Tool Wear102 topics
  4. Coatings81 topic
  5. Nanoindentation81 topic
  6. Atomic Layer Deposition61 topic
  7. Chemical Mechanical Planarization61 topic
  8. High-k Dielectrics61 topic
  9. Material Removal Mechanism61 topic
  10. Defect Identification41 topic
  11. Graphene41 topic
  12. Machining41 topic
  13. Positron Annihilation41 topic
  14. Surface Integrity41 topic
  15. Two-Dimensional Materials41 topic
  16. Failure Analysis31 topic
  17. Integrated Circuits31 topic
  18. Low-k Dielectrics31 topic
  19. Microelectronics31 topic

Where does Ralf Hammer work?

Ralf Hammer's main affiliation in the publication record is Freiberger Compound Materials (Germany), Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ralf Hammer have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 206 citations for Ralf Hammer, an h-index of 10, ranking #7,125,278 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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