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Rolf Luther

Rolf Luther publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Lubricants and Their Additives, Tribology and Wear Analysis and Biodiesel Production and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,574,579
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#127,532
of 364,343
Works
54
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
19.5
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 40% in Mechanical Engineering
Rolf Luther

What does Rolf Luther research?

Rolf Luther's work is mostly in Engineering (62%), Social Sciences (9%), Materials Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 66.7% of their workEngineering: 34 works · 62.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 22 works · 39.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 7 works · 13.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 8.7% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 4.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 23.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 9.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 9.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 5.8% of their workEducation: 2 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRolf Luther54works
Physical Sciences67%Social Sciences9%

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. Engineering3462.4%
    2. Materials Science24.3%
  2. Everything else1323.9%
    1. Social Sciences59.4%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering40% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rolf Luther's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Lubricants, Tribology, Tribological Performance, Emissions, Polymer Tribology, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Wear Behavior and Biodiesel.

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. Lubricants221 topic
  2. Tribology221 topic
  3. Tribological Performance182 topics
  4. Emissions122 topics
  5. Polymer Tribology101 topic
  6. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse102 topics
  7. Wear Behavior101 topic
  8. Biodiesel81 topic
  9. Friction Reduction81 topic
  10. High-Strength Steels81 topic
  11. Laser Surface Texturing81 topic
  12. Microstructure81 topic
  13. Transesterification81 topic
  14. Bildungsungleichheit51 topic
  15. Competence51 topic
  16. Education51 topic
  17. Governance51 topic
  18. Chemical Kinetics41 topic
  19. Combustion41 topic

Where does Rolf Luther work?

Rolf Luther's main affiliation in the publication record is Fuchs (Germany), Germany.

How many publications and citations does Rolf Luther have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 1,055 citations for Rolf Luther, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,574,579 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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