2026 Jian Wang: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	83	2420	2339	699	659	268	19734

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Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Jian Wang is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States, concentrating research in the fields of engineering and materials science. Their work spans over a thousand publications in engineering disciplines, including substantial contributions to materials science.

The research topics covered by Jian Wang include:

Microstructure and mechanical properties
Aluminum alloys composites properties
High entropy alloys studies
Additive manufacturing materials and processes
Aluminum alloy microstructure properties
Magnesium alloys: properties and applications
High-temperature coating behaviors

Jian Wang has frequently published in these venues:

Acta Materialia
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Materials Science and Engineering A
International Journal of Plasticity
Scripta Materialia

Coauthorship has been common with researchers such as:

Pengfei Yin
Amit Misra
Wenqian Wu
Dongyue Xie
Mingyu Gong

Some notable recent papers include:

Designing structures with combined gradients of grain size and precipitation in high entropy alloys for simultaneous improvement of strength and ductility (2022) published in Acta Materialia
Hydroplastic foaming of graphene aerogels and artificially intelligent tactile sensors (2020) published in Science Advances
Carbide-facilitated nanocrystallization of martensitic laths and carbide deformation in AISI 420 stainless steel during laser shock peening (2021) published in International Journal of Plasticity
Coherent Control of Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Spins in Silicon Carbide at Room Temperature (2020) published in Physical Review Letters
Highly deformable Mg-Al-Ca alloy with Al2Ca precipitates (2020) published in Acta Materialia

Jian Wang has also authored a book titled High Entropy Materials - Microstructures and Properties, published by IntechOpen in 2022.

Awards received by Jian Wang include:

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2020)
ACM Senior Member (2010)

Best Publications

Detwinning mechanisms for growth twins in face-centered cubic metals

J. Wang;N. Li;O. Anderoglu;X. Zhang

631
Citations
An overview of interface-dominated deformation mechanisms in metallic multilayers

J. Wang;A. Misra

518
Citations
Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

Xinghang Zhang;Khalid Hattar;Youxing Chen;Lin Shao

446
Citations
A crystal plasticity model for hexagonal close packed (HCP) crystals including twinning and de-twinning mechanisms

H. Wang;P.D. Wu;J. Wang;C.N. Tomé

445
Citations
(1¯012) Twinning nucleation mechanisms in hexagonal-close-packed crystals

J. Wang;J.P. Hirth;C.N. Tomé

393
Citations
An atomic and probabilistic perspective on twin nucleation in Mg

J. Wang;I.J. Beyerlein;C.N. Tomé

375
Citations
High-strength and thermally stable bulk nanolayered composites due to twin-induced interfaces

Shijian Zheng;Irene J. Beyerlein;John S. Carpenter;Keonwook Kang;Keonwook Kang

370
Citations
Atomistic modeling of the interaction of glide dislocations with “weak” interfaces

J. Wang;R.G. Hoagland;J.P. Hirth;A. Misra

345
Citations
Twin-twin interactions in magnesium

Qin Yu;Qin Yu;Jian Wang;Yanyao Jiang;Rodney J. McCabe

340
Citations
Realizing strength-ductility combination of coarse-grained Al0.2Co1.5CrFeNi1.5Ti0.3 alloy via nano-sized, coherent precipitates

Kaisheng Ming;Xiaofang Bi;Jian Wang

298
Citations
Strength and plasticity of nanolaminated materials

Jian Wang;Qing Zhou;Shuai Shao;Amit Misra

282
Citations
Twinning-like lattice reorientation without a crystallographic twinning plane

Bo-Yu Liu;Jian Wang;Bin Li;Lu-De Lu

279
Citations
Atomistic simulations of the shear strength and sliding mechanisms of copper–niobium interfaces

J. Wang;R.G. Hoagland;J.P. Hirth;A. Misra

268
Citations
Why are {101¯2} twins profuse in magnesium?

Haitham El Kadiri;Christopher D. Barrett;Jian Wang;Carlos N. Tomé

250
Citations
Dislocation structures of Σ3 {112} twin boundaries in face centered cubic metals

J. Wang;O. Anderoglu;J. P. Hirth;A. Misra

245
Citations
Interface defects, reference spaces and the Frank–Bilby equation

J.P. Hirth;R.C. Pond;R.G. Hoagland;X.-Y. Liu

244
Citations
A constitutive model of twinning and detwinning for hexagonal close packed polycrystals

H. Wang;P.D. Wu;C.N. Tomé;J. Wang

243
Citations
Nucleation of a (1¯012) twin in hexagonal close-packed crystals

J. Wang;R.G. Hoagland;J.P. Hirth;L. Capolungo

240
Citations
Pure-Shuffle Nucleation of Deformation Twins in Hexagonal-Close-Packed Metals

J. Wang;S. K. Yadav;J. P. Hirth;C. N. Tomé

233
Citations
Precipitation strengthening of ductile Cr15Fe20Co35Ni20Mo10 alloys

Kaisheng Ming;Xiaofang Bi;Jian Wang

230
Citations
Atomic structures of symmetric tilt grain boundaries in hexagonal close packed (hcp) crystals

Jian Wang;Irene J. Beyerlein

205
Citations