2026 Jaroslav Polák: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	48	10941	22	264	6966

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Overview

Jaroslav Polák is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. The research work undertaken primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, Metals and Alloys, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research topics encompass the following areas:

Fatigue and fracture mechanics
Microstructure and mechanical properties
High Temperature Alloys and Creep
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
High Entropy Alloys Studies

Jaroslav Polák has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers, including:

Role of Persistent Slip Bands and Persistent Slip Markings in Fatigue Crack Initiation in Polycrystals, 2023, published in Crystals
On the mechanism of fatigue crack initiation in high-angle grain boundaries, 2022, published in International Journal of Fatigue
Intergranular fatigue crack initiation in polycrystalline copper, 2022, published in Materials Science and Engineering A
Role of deformation twinning in fatigue of CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy at room temperature, 2021, published in Scripta Materialia
Surface relief evolution and fatigue crack initiation in René 41 superalloy cycled at room temperature, 2021, published in Materials Science and Engineering A

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Jaroslav Polák include:

Tomáš Kruml
Ivo Šulák
Tomáš Babinský
Ivo Kuběna
Alice Chlupová

Key publication venues for Jaroslav Polák's work are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Fatigue
Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
Materials Science and Engineering A
Acta Materialia

Best Publications

Cyclic Plasticity and Low Cycle Fatigue Life of Metals

Jaroslav Polák

319
Citations
Extrusions and intrusions in fatigued metals. Part 1. State of the art and history

Jiri Man;Karel Obrtlik;Jaroslav Polak

243
Citations
On the role of point defects in fatigue crack initiation

J. Polák

196
Citations
Atomic force microscopy of surface relief in individual grains of fatigued 316L austenitic stainless steel

J. Man;K. Obrtlík;C. Blochwitz;J. Polák

177
Citations
Study of surface relief evolution in fatigued 316L austenitic stainless steel by AFM

J Man;K Obrtlı́k;J Polák

156
Citations
Dislocation structures in 316L stainless steel cycled with plastic strain amplitudes over a wide interval

Karel Obrtlík;Tomásš Kruml;Jaroslav Polák

154
Citations
Genetic engineering of Plum pox virus resistance: ‘HoneySweet’ plum—from concept to product

Ralph Scorza;Ann Callahan;Chris Dardick;Michel Ravelonandro

135
Citations
Mechanisms of extrusion and intrusion formation in fatigued crystalline materials

J. Polák;J. Man

126
Citations
AFM evidence of surface relief formation and models of fatigue crack nucleation

J. Polák;J. Man;K. Obrtlík

122
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Electrical resistivity of cyclically deformed copper

J. Polák

121
Citations
High cycle fatigue life of metals

P. Lukáš;M. Klesnil;J. Polák

115
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Extrusions and intrusions in fatigued metals. Part 2. AFM and EBSD study of the early growth of extrusions and intrusions in 316L steel fatigued at room temperature

Jiri Man;Petr Klapetek;Ondrej Man;Anja Weidner

114
Citations
Short fatigue crack behaviour in 316L stainless steel

K. Obrtlı́k;J. Polák;M. Hájek;A. Vašek

114
Citations
Study of cyclic strain localization and fatigue crack initiation using FIB technique

J. Man;T. Vystavěl;A. Weidner;I. Kuběna

110
Citations
Short crack growth and fatigue life in austenitic‐ferritic duplex stainless steel

J. Polák;P. Zezulka

104
Citations
Surface topography and crack initiation in emerging persistent slip bands in copper single crystals

J. Polák;T. Lepistö;P. Kettunen

101
Citations
Cyclic stress-strain response and dislocation structures in polycrystalline copper

J. Polák;M. Klesnil

100
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AFM and TEM study of cyclic slip localization in fatigued ferritic X10CrAl24 stainless steel

J. Man;M. Petrenec;K. Obrtlík;J. Polák

99
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Inhomogeneous dislocation structure in fatigued INCONEL 713 LC superalloy at room and elevated temperatures

Martin Petrenec;Karel Obrtlík;Jaroslav Polák

97
Citations
NUCLEATION AND SHORT CRACK GROWTH IN FATIGUED POLYCRYSTALLINE COPPER

J. Polák;P. Liškutían

96
Citations