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Researcher · Research Institute Bioactive Polymer Systems · Germany

Steffen Kelch

Steffen Kelch publishes mostly in Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Polymer composites and self-healing, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,474,155
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#72,664
of 364,343
Works
80
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
43.5
h-index
24
i10-index 34Top 16% in Polymers and Plastics
Steffen Kelch

What does Steffen Kelch research?

Steffen Kelch's work is mostly in Materials Science (42%), Chemistry (13%), Engineering (8%).

Physical Sciences: 50 works · 63.1% of their workMaterials Science: 34 works · 41.9% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 16 works · 19.7% of their workBiomaterials: 12 works · 14.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 6 works · 7.4% of their workChemistry: 10 works · 12.8% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 10 works · 12.8% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 8.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 7 works · 8.4% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 30.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 6.9% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 6.9% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKSteffen Kelch80works
Physical Sciences63%Health Sciences7%

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. Materials Science3441.9%
    2. Chemistry1012.8%
    3. Engineering78.4%
  2. Everything else2430.0%
    1. Medicine66.9%
  1. 1Polymers and Plastics20% of their works
  2. 2Biomaterials15% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry13% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Surgery7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steffen Kelch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodegradable Polymers, Polymer Composites, Self-Healing, Biomedical Applications, Nanocomposites, Tissue Engineering, Polyhydroxyalkanoates and Polylactic Acid.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodegradable Polymers492 topics
  2. Polymer Composites331 topic
  3. Self-Healing331 topic
  4. Biomedical Applications232 topics
  5. Nanocomposites232 topics
  6. Tissue Engineering172 topics
  7. Polyhydroxyalkanoates161 topic
  8. Polylactic Acid161 topic
  9. Click Chemistry121 topic
  10. Living Radical Polymerization121 topic
  11. Biomaterials101 topic
  12. Scaffolds101 topic
  13. Molecular Switches91 topic
  14. Photochromic91 topic
  15. Photoinitiation91 topic
  16. Polymerization91 topic
  17. Electrospinning71 topic
  18. Nanofibers71 topic
  19. Marine Natural Products61 topic
  20. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms61 topic

Where does Steffen Kelch work?

Steffen Kelch's main affiliation in the publication record is Research Institute Bioactive Polymer Systems, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Steffen Kelch have?

OpenAlex counts 80 works and 3,476 citations for Steffen Kelch, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,474,155 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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