2026 Hans-Rudolf Wenk: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	93	1460	1401	460	430	463	31616
Earth Science	90	265	225	144	120	449	28995

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Hans-Rudolf Wenk is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Geophysics. The subfields they contribute to include Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

High-pressure geophysics and materials
Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Earthquake and tectonic studies
Rock Mechanics and Modeling
Seismic Waves and Analysis
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Planetary Science and Exploration

Wenk has published frequently in several specialized venues, such as:

Geophysical Journal International
Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Journal of Applied Crystallography
Preprints.org
Journal of Structural Geology

Recent publications by Wenk include:

Intrinsic Elastic Anisotropy of Westerly Granite Observed by Ultrasound Measurements, Microstructural Investigations, and Neutron Diffraction, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Deformation heterogeneity and intragrain lattice misorientation in high strength contrast, dual-phase bridgmanite/periclase, 2020, Acta Materialia
Seismic anisotropy, dominant slip systems and phase transitions in the lowermost mantle, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
XtalCAMP: a comprehensive program for the analysis and visualization of scanning Laue X-ray micro-/nanodiffraction data, 2020, Journal of Applied Crystallography
Residual lattice strain in quartzites as a potential palaeo-piezometer, 2020, Geophysical Journal International

Frequent collaborators of Hans-Rudolf Wenk include:

R.N. Vasin
Michelle Devoe
Brian Chandler
Robert Hermes
James P. Kennett

Their scholarly contributions have been recognized by the American Geophysical Union, where they were named a Fellow in 2001.

Best Publications

Texture and Anisotropy: Preferred Orientations in Polycrystals and their Effect on Materials Properties

Ulrich Fred Kocks;Carlos Norberto Tomé;Hans-Rudolf Wenk

2794
Citations
Texture and Anisotropy

Hans-Rudolph Wenk

1458
Citations
Combined texture and structure analysis of deformed limestone from time-of-flight neutron diffraction spectra

L. Lutterotti;S. Matthies;H.-R. Wenk;A. S. Schultz

1000
Citations
Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing

Bradley R. Hacker;Lothar Ratschbacher;Laura Webb;Michael O. McWilliams

932
Citations
Preferred orientation in deformed metals and rocks : an introduction to modern texture analysis

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

768
Citations
MAUD: a friendly Java program for material analysis using diffraction

L. Lutterotti;S. Matthies;H. Wenk

639
Citations
Texture and anisotropy

H. R. Wenk;P. Van Houtte

638
Citations
Exhumation of the ultrahigh‐pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan‐Lu fault

Lothar Ratschbacher;Bradley R. Hacker;Laura E. Webb;Michael McWilliams

556
Citations
Rietveld texture analysis from diffraction images

L. Lutterotti;M. Bortolotti;G. Ischia;I. Lonardelli

468
Citations
Texture analysis with the new HIPPO TOF diffractometer

H.-R. Wenk;L. Lutterotti;S. Vogel

447
Citations
OPERATIONAL TEXTURE ANALYSIS

J.S. Kallend;U.F. Kocks;A.D. Rollett;H.-R. Wenk

443
Citations
BEARTEX: a Windows-based program system for quantitative texture analysis

H.-R. Wenk;S. Matthies;J. Donovan;D. Chateigner

370
Citations
Nanostructure of calcium silicate hydrates in cements.

L. B. Skinner;S. R. Chae;C. J. Benmore;H. R. Wenk

332
Citations
Mollusc shell microstructures and crystallographic textures

D. Chateigner;C. Hedegaard;H.-R. Wenk

298
Citations
Minerals : Their Constitution and Origin

Hans-Rudolf Wenk;Andrei Bulakh

293
Citations
Convection and anisotropy of the inner core

Raymond Jeanloz;Hans-Rudolf Wenk

268
Citations
Electron microscopy in mineralogy

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

260
Citations
Deformation of polycrystalline MgO at pressures of the lower mantle

Sébastien Merkel;Sébastien Merkel;Hans Rudolf Wenk;Jinfu Shu;Guoyin Shen

260
Citations
Fabric-related velocity anisotropy and shear wave splitting in rocks from the Santa Rosa Mylonite Zone, California

H. Kern;H.-R. Wenk

249
Citations
Superplasticity in Earth's Lower Mantle: Evidence from Seismic Anisotropy and Rock Physics

Shun-ichiro Karato;Shuqing Zhang;Hans-Rudolf Wenk

241
Citations
Modelling plastic deformation of peridotite with the self-consistent theory

H.-R. Wenk;K. Bennett;G. R. Canova;A. Molinari

238
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo J.M. Monteiro University of California, Berkeley

Sven C. Vogel Los Alamos National Laboratory

Carlos N. Tomé Los Alamos National Laboratory

Daniel Chateigner Université de Caen Normandie

Hartmut Kern Kiel University

Manuel Sintubin KU Leuven

Ho-kwang Mao Carnegie Institution for Science

Nobumichi Tamura Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

U.F. Kocks Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ricardo A. Lebensohn Los Alamos National Laboratory

External Links

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