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Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Jan P. F. Lagerwall

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 45 11700 11308 4 4 146 8250

Jan P. F. Lagerwall publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Jan P. F. Lagerwall between 1999 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Jan P. F. Lagerwall published across 27 years, from 1999 to 2025, averaging 6.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2016. 13 of the 171 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2016. 1999: 2 publications 2000: 7 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 3 publications
1999 2025

171 publications in total across all disciplines

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Jan P. F. Lagerwall: publications per year, 1999 to 2025
Year Publications
1999 2
2000 7
2001 0
2002 6
2003 2
2004 5
2005 7
2006 6
2007 7
2008 3
2009 6
2010 5
2011 5
2012 11
2013 5
2014 6
2015 4
2016 16
2017 6
2018 12
2019 5
2020 9
2021 11
2022 5
2023 7
2024 10
2025 3
Total 171
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Jan P. F. Lagerwall 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 Jan P. F. Lagerwall sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 50–69 to 1,163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 891. Most scientists, 891, have 190–209 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 130–149 publications, is where this scientist sits. 50–69 publications: 28 scientists 70–89 publications: 152 scientists 90–109 publications: 356 scientists 110–129 publications: 487 scientists 130–149 publications: 723 scientists 150–169 publications: 835 scientists 170–189 publications: 850 scientists 190–209 publications: 891 scientists 210–229 publications: 862 scientists 230–249 publications: 766 scientists 250–269 publications: 726 scientists 270–289 publications: 665 scientists 290–309 publications: 593 scientists 310–329 publications: 537 scientists 330–349 publications: 477 scientists 350–369 publications: 440 scientists 370–389 publications: 356 scientists 390–409 publications: 321 scientists 410–429 publications: 256 scientists 430–449 publications: 246 scientists 450–469 publications: 216 scientists 470–489 publications: 212 scientists 490–509 publications: 174 scientists 510–529 publications: 194 scientists 530–549 publications: 162 scientists 550–569 publications: 131 scientists 570–589 publications: 111 scientists 590–609 publications: 103 scientists 610–629 publications: 99 scientists 630–649 publications: 77 scientists 650–669 publications: 92 scientists 670–689 publications: 56 scientists 690–709 publications: 53 scientists 710–729 publications: 53 scientists 730–749 publications: 38 scientists 750–769 publications: 52 scientists 770–789 publications: 43 scientists 790–809 publications: 38 scientists 810–829 publications: 34 scientists 830–849 publications: 25 scientists 850–869 publications: 18 scientists 870–889 publications: 20 scientists 890–909 publications: 24 scientists 910–929 publications: 27 scientists 930–949 publications: 20 scientists 950–969 publications: 17 scientists 970–989 publications: 10 scientists 990–1,009 publications: 16 scientists 1,010–1,029 publications: 13 scientists 1,030–1,049 publications: 12 scientists 1,050–1,069 publications: 9 scientists 1,070–1,089 publications: 8 scientists 1,090–1,109 publications: 7 scientists 1,110–1,129 publications: 9 scientists 1,130–1,149 publications: 2 scientists 1,150–1,162 publications: 5 scientists 1,163+ publications: 100 scientists
50–69 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 146 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Materials Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
50–69 28
70–89 152
90–109 356
110–129 487
130–149 723 146
150–169 835
170–189 850
190–209 891
210–229 862
230–249 766
250–269 726
270–289 665
290–309 593
310–329 537
330–349 477
350–369 440
370–389 356
390–409 321
410–429 256
430–449 246
450–469 216
470–489 212
490–509 174
510–529 194
530–549 162
550–569 131
570–589 111
590–609 103
610–629 99
630–649 77
650–669 92
670–689 56
690–709 53
710–729 53
730–749 38
750–769 52
770–789 43
790–809 38
810–829 34
830–849 25
850–869 18
870–889 20
890–909 24
910–929 27
930–949 20
950–969 17
970–989 10
990–1,009 16
1,010–1,029 13
1,030–1,049 12
1,050–1,069 9
1,070–1,089 8
1,090–1,109 7
1,110–1,129 9
1,130–1,149 2
1,150–1,162 5
1,163+ 100
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Jan P. F. Lagerwall 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 Jan P. F. Lagerwall sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 165+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 667. Most scientists, 667, have 52–53 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44–45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Materials Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 211
42–43 450
44–45 612 45
46–47 612
48–49 598
50–51 657
52–53 667
54–55 621
56–57 597
58–59 610
60–61 587
62–63 606
64–65 533
66–67 490
68–69 469
70–71 378
72–73 421
74–75 359
76–77 323
78–79 299
80–81 230
82–83 210
84–85 195
86–87 203
88–89 175
90–91 175
92–93 142
94–95 121
96–97 117
98–99 107
100–101 88
102–103 85
104–105 68
106–107 62
108–109 57
110–111 45
112–113 49
114–115 50
116–117 34
118–119 38
120–121 37
122–123 29
124–125 28
126–127 24
128–129 33
130–131 28
132–133 21
134–135 20
136–137 23
138–139 17
140–141 12
142–143 17
144–145 21
146–147 13
148–149 11
150–151 14
152–153 13
154–155 9
156–157 10
158–159 7
160–161 4
162–163 4
164 3
165+ 98
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Overview

Jan P. F. Lagerwall is a researcher affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable contributions in subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

Lagerwall has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as Default Digital Object Group, Crystals, arXiv (Cornell University), Programmable Materials, and Liquid Crystals.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Robust cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibres for mechanochromic textiles, 2022, Nature Materials
  • From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals, 2020, Crystals
  • Multiresponsive Cylindrically Symmetric Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers Templated by Tubular Confinement, 2023, Advanced Science
  • Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Interrogating helical nanorod self-assembly with fractionated cellulose nanocrystal suspensions, 2020, Communications Materials

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors including Anjali Sharma, A. M. Stoffel, Yong Geng, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, and Apala Majumdar. These collaborations have produced multiple publications across various topics in materials science and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self-assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films

    Jan P F Lagerwall;Christina Schütz;Michaela Salajkova;JungHyun Noh

  • A new era for liquid crystal research: Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology

    Jan P.F. Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia

  • Current topics in smectic liquid crystal research.

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Frank Giesselmann

  • Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia

  • Nanotube Alignment Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

    Jan Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia;Miroslav Haluska;Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska

  • Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction

    Christina Schütz;Michael Agthe;Andreas B. Fall;Korneliya Gordeyeva

  • Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

    Martin Urbanski;Catherine G Reyes;JungHyun Noh;Anshul Sharma

  • The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response

    Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall;M. Buivydas;F. Gouda

  • One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

    Eva-Kristina Fleischmann;Hsin-Ling Liang;Nadia Kapernaum;Frank Giesselmann

  • High-fidelity spherical cholesteric liquid crystal Bragg reflectors generating unclonable patterns for secure authentication.

    Yong Geng;JungHyun Noh;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Romano Rupp

  • Macroscopic control of helix orientation in films dried from cholesteric liquid-crystalline cellulose nanocrystal suspensions.

    Ji Hyun Park;JungHyun Noh;Christina Schütz;German Salazar‐Alvarez

  • Antiferroelectric liquid crystals with 45° tilt - a new class of promising electro-optic materials

    K. D’havé;A Dahlgren;Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall

  • Optical and x-ray evidence of the "de Vries" Sm-A*-Sm-C* transition in a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation.

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Frank Giesselmann;Marc D. Radcliffe

  • Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response

    Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath;Yong Geng;Yong Geng;Venkata Subba Rao Jampani;Cyrine Charni

  • Tuneable multicoloured patterns from photonic cross-communication between cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

    JungHyun Noh;Hsin-Ling Liang;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Jan P. F. Lagerwall

  • Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells as Enabling Material for Information-Rich Design and Architecture.

    Mathew Schwartz;Gabriele Lenzini;Yong Geng;Peter B. Rønne

  • Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

    Camila Honorato Rios;Anja Kuhnhold;Johanna Bruckner;Rick Dannert

  • Nematic-Smectic Transition under Confinement in Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Shells

    Hsin-Ling Liang;Stefan Schymura;Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall

  • Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Jesse T. McCann;Eric Formo;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia

  • From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals

    Christina Schütz;Johanna R. Bruckner;Camila Honorato-Rios;Zornitza Tosheva

  • Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance

    Martin Urbanski;Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Siegmar Roth
Siegmar Roth Wake Forest University
David M. Walba
David M. Walba University of Colorado Boulder
Lennart Bergström
Lennart Bergström Stockholm University
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Peter Y. A. Ryan
Peter Y. A. Ryan University of Luxembourg
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University
German Salazar-Alvarez
German Salazar-Alvarez Uppsala University

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