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Most cited papers in Metals and Alloys
What are the most cited papers in Metals and Alloys?
The most cited paper in Metals and Alloys is "THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY" (Edward S. Reynolds, 1963), with 25,107 citations. Next come "Hall–Petch relation and boundary strengthening" (3,809) and "Semiempirical, Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals" (2,705).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 621 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Edward S. Reynolds · The Journal of Cell Biology | Apr 1963 | 25,107 |
| 2 | Hall–Petch relation and boundary strengthening Niels Hansen · Scripta Materialia | 4 Aug 2004 | 3,809 |
| 3 | Semiempirical, Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals Murray S. Daw, Michael I. Baskes · Physical Review Letters | 25 Apr 1983 | 2,705 |
| 4 | An overview on the use of titanium in the aerospace industry Rodney R. Boyer · Materials Science and Engineering A | Aug 1996 | 2,447 |
| 5 | Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary dislocations in ultrafine grained dual-phase steels studied by 2D and 3D EBSD Marion Calcagnotto, Dirk Ponge, Eralp Demir et al. · Materials Science and Engineering A | 15 Jan 2010 | 2,330 |
| 6 | Recent developments in stainless steels Kin Ho Lo, C.H. Shek, J.K.L. Lai · Materials Science and Engineering R Reports | 27 Apr 2009 | 2,296 |
| 7 | Hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity—a mechanism for hydrogen-related fracture H.K. Birnbaum, Petros Sofronis · Materials Science and Engineering A | Mar 1994 | 2,279 |
| 8 | Pitting Corrosion of Metals: A Review of the Critical Factors G. S. Frankel · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | Jun 1998 | 2,132 |
| 9 | Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry of the Elements Allen J. Bard, Jan A. A. Ketelaar · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | 1974 | 2,062 |
| 10 | Twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steels Bruno Charles De Cooman, Yuri Estrin, Sung Kyu Kim · Acta Materialia | 24 Jun 2017 | 1,641 |
| 11 | Ductile versus brittle behaviour of crystals JAMES R. RICE, Robb Thomson · Philosophical magazine | 1974 | 1,630 |
| 12 | The Point Defect Model for the Passive State Digby D. Macdonald · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | Dec 1992 | 1,570 |
| 13 | Kinetics of strain-induced martensitic nucleation G. B. Olson, Morris Cohen · Metallurgical Transactions A | Apr 1975 | 1,566 |
| 14 | On the relationship between critical tensile stress and fracture toughness in mild steel Robert O. Ritchie, J. F. Knott, JAMES R. RICE · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Nov 1973 | 1,553 |
| 15 | A new model for hydrogen-assisted cracking (hydrogen “embrittlement”) C. D. Beachem · Metallurgical Transactions | Feb 1972 | 1,505 |
| 16 | Ultrastrong steel via minimal lattice misfit and high-density nanoprecipitation Suihe Jiang, Hui Wang, Yuan Wu et al. · Nature | Apr 2017 | 1,462 |
| 17 | Influence of processing on microstructure and mechanical properties of (α+β) titanium alloys G. Lütjering · Materials Science and Engineering A | Mar 1998 | 1,461 |
| 18 | High manganese austenitic twinning induced plasticity steels: A review of the microstructure properties relationships O. Bouaziz, S. Allain, Colin P. Scott et al. · Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science | 8 May 2011 | 1,430 |
| 19 | Application of corrosion inhibitors for steels in acidic media for the oil and gas industry: A review Matjaž Finšgar, Jennifer Jackson · Corrosion Science | 9 May 2014 | 1,412 |
| 20 | Validation of corrosion rates measured by the Tafel extrapolation method E. McCafferty · Corrosion Science | 17 Sep 2005 | 1,392 |
| 21 | Passive films on stainless steels—chemistry, structure and growth C.-O.A. Olsson, D. Landolt · Electrochimica Acta | 11 Feb 2003 | 1,386 |
| 22 | The use of quantum chemical methods in corrosion inhibitor studies Gökhan Gece · Corrosion Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 1,336 |
| 23 | Density functional theory (DFT) as a powerful tool for designing new organic corrosion inhibitors. Part 1: An overview Ime Bassey B. Obot, Digby D. Macdonald, Zuhair M. Gasem · Corrosion Science | 31 Jan 2015 | 1,311 |
| 24 | Cumulative fatigue damage and life prediction theories: a survey of the state of the art for homogeneous materials Ali Fatemi, Lintao Yang · International Journal of Fatigue | 1998 | 1,310 |
| 25 | Effect of Grain Size on Corrosion: A Review K.D. Ralston, N. Birbilis · CORROSION | 22 Jun 2010 | 1,300 |
| 26 | High dislocation density–induced large ductility in deformed and partitioned steels Binbin He, Bin Hu, Hung‐Wei Yen et al. · Science | 24 Aug 2017 | 1,229 |
| 27 | Six decades of the Hall–Petch effect – a survey of grain-size strengthening studies on pure metals Zachary C. Cordero, Bryon Knight, Christopher Allan Schuh · International Materials Reviews | 5 Jul 2016 | 1,214 |
| 28 | Pitting corrosion of aluminum Z. Szklarska‐Śmiałowska · Corrosion Science | Aug 1999 | 1,205 |
| 29 | Revealing the relationship between grain size and corrosion rate of metals K.D. Ralston, N. Birbilis, Chris H. J. Davies · Scripta Materialia | 25 Aug 2010 | 1,147 |
| 30 | The history of the Point Defect Model for the passive state: A brief review of film growth aspects Digby D. Macdonald · Electrochimica Acta | 12 Nov 2010 | 1,108 |
| 31 | Natural products as corrosion inhibitor for metals in corrosive media — A review Pandian Bothi Raja, Mathur Gopalakrishnan Sethuraman · Materials Letters | 7 May 2007 | 1,102 |
| 32 | Thermodynamic characterization of metal dissolution and inhibitor adsorption processes in mild steel/2,5-bis(n-thienyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazoles/hydrochloric acid system Fouad Bentiss, M. Lebrini, M. Lagrenée · Corrosion Science | 26 Aug 2005 | 1,033 |
| 33 | Crystallographic features of lath martensite in low-carbon steel Hiromoto Kitahara, Rintaro Ueji, Nobuhiro Tsuji et al. · Acta Materialia | 7 Jan 2006 | 1,014 |
| 34 | A mechanism for the strain-induced nucleation of martensitic transformations Gregory B. Olson, Morris Cohen · Journal of the Less Common Metals | Jul 1972 | 1,011 |
| 35 | Martensite in steel: strength and structure George Krauss · Materials Science and Engineering A | Dec 1999 | 983 |
| 36 | Hydrogen embrittlement in different materials: A review Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Manish Vishwakarma · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 25 Oct 2018 | 970 |
| 37 | Evaluation of the inhibitor effect of l-ascorbic acid on the corrosion of mild steel Edilson da Silva Ferreira, Cristiano Giacomelli, Fernando Carlos Giacomelli et al. · Materials Chemistry and Physics | 15 Nov 2003 | 918 |
| 38 | Dislocation and twin substructure evolution during strain hardening of an Fe–22wt.% Mn–0.6wt.% C TWIP steel observed by electron channeling contrast imaging I. Gutiérrez‐Urrutia, Dierk Raabe · Acta Materialia | 2 Aug 2011 | 915 |
| 39 | Transport Processes and the Mechanism of Pitting of Metals José R. Galvele · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | Apr 1976 | 909 |
| 40 | Formation of shear bands and strain-induced martensite during plastic deformation of metastable austenitic stainless steels Juho Talonen, Hannu Hänninen · Acta Materialia | 28 Aug 2007 | 901 |
| 41 | Finite deformation analysis of crack-tip opening in elastic-plastic materials and implications for fracture Robert M. McMeeking · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Oct 1977 | 894 |
| 42 | Hydrogen embrittlement phenomena and mechanisms S.P. Lynch · Corrosion Reviews | Jun 2012 | 892 |
| 43 | Embrittlement of interfaces by solute segregation JAMES R. RICE, Jian‐Sheng Wang · Materials Science and Engineering A | 1989 | 892 |
| 44 | Corrosion of Al CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys: Al-content and potential scan-rate dependent pitting behavior Yunzhu Shi, Bin Yang, Xie Xie et al. · Corrosion Science | 16 Feb 2017 | 891 |
| 45 | The morphology and crystallography of lath martensite in alloy steels Shigekazu Morito, Xiaoxu Huang, Tadashi Furuhara et al. · Acta Materialia | 27 Sep 2006 | 881 |
| 46 | Investigation of adsorption and inhibitive effect of 2-mercaptothiazoline on corrosion of mild steel in hydrochloric acid media Ramazan Solmaz, Gülfeza Kardaş, Mustafa Melih Culha et al. · Electrochimica Acta | 31 Mar 2008 | 875 |
| 47 | Hydrogen Embrittlement Understood Ian M. Robertson, Petros Sofronis, Akihide Nagao et al. · Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A | 28 Mar 2015 | 845 |
| 48 | A general mechanism of martensitic nucleation: Part I. General concepts and the FCC → HCP transformation Gregory B. Olson, Morris Cohen · Metallurgical Transactions A | Dec 1976 | 837 |
| 49 | Review of fracture toughness (G, K, J, CTOD, CTOA) testing and standardization Xian-Kui Zhu, James A. Joyce · Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 11 Feb 2012 | 821 |
| 50 | Benzimidazole and its derivatives as corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in 1M HCl solution J. Aljourani, Keyvan RAEISSI, M.A. Golozar · Corrosion Science | 19 May 2009 | 814 |
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