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Tobias Mertens

Tobias Mertens publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Surfaces, Coatings and Films, on topics such as Material Properties and Applications, Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity and Metal and Thin Film Mechanics.

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World rank
#6,296,866
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#319,173
of 364,343
Works
15
Citations
97
Citations per work
6.5
h-index
5
i10-index 4Top 81% in Mechanical Engineering
Tobias Mertens

What does Tobias Mertens research?

Tobias Mertens's work is mostly in Materials Science (30%), Engineering (25%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 9 works · 60.0% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 30.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 15.0% of their workGeneral Materials Science: 1 works · 7.5% of their workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 25.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 17.5% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 7.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 5.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 40.0% of their workTHEIR WORKTobias Mertens15works
Physical Sciences60%

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 Science430.0%
    2. Engineering425.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy15.0%
  2. Everything else640.0%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry15% of their works
  3. 3Surfaces, Coatings and Films8% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials8% of their works
  5. 5General Materials Science8% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tobias Mertens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bioinspired Design, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics, Nanostructures, Polymer Composite Materials, Solar Cells, Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Metal-Semiconductor Contacts and Nanoindentation.

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. Bioinspired Design31 topic
  2. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics31 topic
  3. Nanostructures32 topics
  4. Polymer Composite Materials31 topic
  5. Solar Cells32 topics
  6. Superhydrophobic Surfaces31 topic
  7. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts21 topic
  8. Nanoindentation21 topic
  9. Porous Alumina21 topic
  10. Schottky Barrier21 topic
  11. Template Synthesis21 topic
  12. Thin Films21 topic
  13. Biosynthesis11 topic
  14. Cuticular Wax11 topic
  15. Machine Learning11 topic
  16. Photocatalysis11 topic
  17. Smart Cities11 topic
  18. Titanium Dioxide11 topic

Where does Tobias Mertens work?

Tobias Mertens's main affiliation in the publication record is Airbus (Germany), Germany.

How many publications and citations does Tobias Mertens have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 97 citations for Tobias Mertens, an h-index of 5, ranking #6,296,866 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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