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Researcher · Université de Montpellier · France

Walter Kob

Walter Kob publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Ceramics and Composites and Condensed Matter Physics, on topics such as Material Dynamics and Properties, Glass properties and applications and Theoretical and Computational Physics.

ORCID 0000-0001-7405-2178 OpenAlex
World rank
#220,585
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#13,869
of 324,115
Works
344
Citations
18k
Citations per work
51.3
h-index
63
i10-index 149Top 1.4% in Materials Chemistry
Walter Kob

What does Walter Kob research?

Walter Kob's work is mostly in Materials Science (43%), Physics and Astronomy (18%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 239 works · 69.4% of their workMaterials Science: 148 works · 43.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 105 works · 30.4% of their workCeramics and Composites: 44 works · 12.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 61 works · 17.7% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 44 works · 12.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 works · 5.0% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 5.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 19 works · 5.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 works · 3.0% of their workGeophysics: 10 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 105 works · 30.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter Kob344works
Physical Sciences69%

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 Science14843.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy6117.7%
    3. Engineering195.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences103.0%
  2. Everything else10530.6%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry30% of their works
  2. 2Ceramics and Composites13% of their works
  3. 3Condensed Matter Physics13% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Kob's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Glass Transition, Supercooled Liquids, Monte Carlo Simulation, Glass Science, Structural Analysis, Critical Phenomena, Phase Transitions and Nanoparticles.

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. Glass Transition2291 topic
  2. Supercooled Liquids2291 topic
  3. Monte Carlo Simulation1522 topics
  4. Glass Science1151 topic
  5. Structural Analysis1151 topic
  6. Critical Phenomena1131 topic
  7. Phase Transitions1131 topic
  8. Nanoparticles572 topics
  9. Extraction391 topic
  10. Supercritical Fluids391 topic
  11. Photosynthesis261 topic
  12. Quantum Coherence261 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction191 topic
  14. Mantle Dynamics191 topic
  15. Liquid Crystals181 topic
  16. Self-Organization181 topic
  17. Biodeterioration141 topic
  18. Geomycology141 topic

Where does Walter Kob work?

Walter Kob's main affiliation in the publication record is Université de Montpellier, France.

How many publications and citations does Walter Kob have?

OpenAlex counts 344 works and 17,644 citations for Walter Kob, an h-index of 63, ranking #220,585 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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