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81
Citations
25832
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2565
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147

Dirk Ponge publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Ponge sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 335 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Dirk Ponge D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Ponge sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dirk Ponge is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research profile primarily focused on Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Metals and Alloys.

Their research topics cover various aspects of materials behavior and properties, with a notable emphasis on the following areas:

  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
  • Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
  • Metal Alloys Wear and Properties

Ponge has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications in recognized scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scripta Materialia

Some of the recent papers associated with Dirk Ponge's research are:

  • Machine learning-enabled high-entropy alloy discovery, 2022, Science
  • Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: The science of "dirty" alloys, 2022, Progress in Materials Science
  • Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high-strength Al alloys, 2022, Nature
  • Ultrastrong lightweight compositionally complex steels via dual-nanoprecipitation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Chemical boundary engineering: A new route toward lean, ultrastrong yet ductile steels, 2020, Science Advances

Dirk Ponge collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Dierk Raabe
  • Baptiste Gault
  • Binhan Sun
  • Zhiming Li
  • Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva

Best Publications

  • Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary dislocations in ultrafine grained dual-phase steels studied by 2D and 3D EBSD

    Marion Calcagnotto;Dirk Ponge;Eralp Demir;Dierk Raabe

  • Ultrastrong steel via minimal lattice misfit and high-density nanoprecipitation

    Suihe Jiang;Hui Wang;Yuan Wu;Xiongjun Liu

  • Deformation and fracture mechanisms in fine- and ultrafine-grained ferrite/martensite dual-phase steels and the effect of aging

    Marion Calcagnotto;Yoshitaka Adachi;Dirk Ponge;Dierk Raabe

  • Grain boundary segregation engineering in metallic alloys: A pathway to the design of interfaces

    Dierk Raabe;Michael Herbig;Stefanie Sandlöbes;Yujiao Li

  • Overview of processing, microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grained bcc steels

    R. Song;D. Ponge;D. Raabe;J. G. Speer

  • An Overview of Dual-Phase Steels: Advances in Microstructure-Oriented Processing and Micromechanically Guided Design

    Cemal Cem Tasan;Martin Diehl;Dingshun Yan;Marion Bechtold

  • Necklace formation during dynamic recrystallization: mechanisms and impact on flow behavior

    D. Ponge;G. Gottstein

  • Ultrastrong Medium-Entropy Single-Phase Alloys Designed via Severe Lattice Distortion

    Seok Su Sohn;Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva;Yuji Ikeda;Yuji Ikeda;Fritz Körmann;Fritz Körmann

  • Design of a novel Mn-based 1 GPa duplex stainless TRIP steel with 60% ductility by a reduction of austenite stability

    C. Herrera;D. Ponge;D. Raabe

  • Effect of grain refinement to 1 μm on strength and toughness of dual-phase steels

    Marion Calcagnotto;Dirk Ponge;Dierk Raabe

  • Strain hardening by dynamic slip band refinement in a high-Mn lightweight steel

    E. Welsch;D. Ponge;S.M. Hafez Haghighat;S. Sandlöbes;S. Sandlöbes

  • Bone-like crack resistance in hierarchical metastable nanolaminate steels

    Motomichi Koyama;Zhao Zhang;Meimei Wang;Meimei Wang;Dirk Ponge

  • Nanoprecipitate-hardened 1.5 GPa steels with unexpected high ductility

    D. Raabe;D. Ponge;O. Dmitrieva;B. Sander

  • Grain boundary segregation engineering and austenite reversion turn embrittlement into toughness: Example of a 9 wt.% medium Mn steel

    Margarita Kuzmina;Dirk Ponge;Dierk Raabe

  • Segregation engineering enables nanoscale martensite to austenite phase transformation at grain boundaries: A pathway to ductile martensite

    Dierk Raabe;Stefanie Sandlöbes;Julio Millán;Dirk Ponge

  • Chemical gradients across phase boundaries between martensite and austenite in steel studied by atom probe tomography and simulation

    O. Dmitrieva;D. Ponge;G Inden;J. Millán

  • Mechanical properties of an ultrafine grained C-Mn steel processed by warm deformation and annealing

    R. Song;D. Ponge;D. Raabe

  • Linear complexions: Confined chemical and structural states at dislocations

    Margarita Kuzmina;Michael Herbig;Dirk Ponge;Stefanie Sandlöbes

  • Smaller is less stable: Size effects on twinning vs. transformation of reverted austenite in TRIP-maraging steels

    Meimei Wang;Cemal Cem Tasan;Dirk Ponge;Aleksander Kostka

  • Segregation assisted grain boundary precipitation in a model Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy

    Huan Zhao;Frédéric De Geuser;Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva;Agnieszka Szczepaniak

  • Improvement of the work hardening rate of ultrafine grained steels through second phase particles

    R. Song;D. Ponge;D. Raabe

  • Microstructure and crystallographic texture of an ultrafine grained C-Mn steel and their evolution during warm deformation and annealing

    R. Song;D. Ponge;D. Raabe;R. Kaspar

  • Hydrogen enhances strength and ductility of an equiatomic high-entropy alloy

    Hong Luo;Zhiming Li;Dirk Ponge;Dierk Raabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Pyuck-Pa Choi
Pyuck-Pa Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Zhiming Li
Zhiming Li Central South University
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society
Wenjun Lu
Wenjun Lu Southern University of Science and Technology
Tilmann Hickel
Tilmann Hickel Max Planck Society
Stefan Zaefferer
Stefan Zaefferer Max Planck Society

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