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Joachim Maier

Joachim Maier

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Chemistry
Germany
2026
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Materials Science
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 166 95 91 5 5 1290 101800
Chemistry 165 80 68 5 5 1248 101223

Joachim Maier publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Joachim Maier between 1959 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Joachim Maier published across 68 years, from 1959 to 2026, averaging 23.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 121 publications in 2023. 29 of the 1,580 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75 100
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1959 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 121. Peak 121 publications in 2023. 1959: 1 publication 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 0 publications 1963: 1 publication 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 2 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 6 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 5 publications 1983: 2 publications 1984: 4 publications 1985: 8 publications 1986: 6 publications 1987: 4 publications 1988: 15 publications 1989: 19 publications 1990: 19 publications 1991: 13 publications 1992: 20 publications 1993: 29 publications 1994: 14 publications 1995: 37 publications 1996: 26 publications 1997: 32 publications 1998: 18 publications 1999: 31 publications 2000: 57 publications 2001: 25 publications 2002: 34 publications 2003: 34 publications 2004: 41 publications 2005: 49 publications 2006: 51 publications 2007: 43 publications 2008: 56 publications 2009: 44 publications 2010: 55 publications 2011: 44 publications 2012: 38 publications 2013: 43 publications 2014: 50 publications 2015: 44 publications 2016: 41 publications 2017: 47 publications 2018: 46 publications 2019: 30 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 36 publications 2022: 73 publications 2023: 121 publications 2024: 107 publications 2025: 24 publications 2026: 5 publications
1959 2026

1,580 publications in total across all disciplines

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Joachim Maier: publications per year, 1959 to 2026
Year Publications
1959 1
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 1
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 2
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 6
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 2
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 5
1983 2
1984 4
1985 8
1986 6
1987 4
1988 15
1989 19
1990 19
1991 13
1992 20
1993 29
1994 14
1995 37
1996 26
1997 32
1998 18
1999 31
2000 57
2001 25
2002 34
2003 34
2004 41
2005 49
2006 51
2007 43
2008 56
2009 44
2010 55
2011 44
2012 38
2013 43
2014 50
2015 44
2016 41
2017 47
2018 46
2019 30
2020 28
2021 36
2022 73
2023 121
2024 107
2025 24
2026 5
Total 1,580
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Joachim Maier publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joachim Maier sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000 1,250
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 61–80 to 1,295+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,350. Most scientists, 1,350, have 161–180 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 1,241–1,260 publications, is where this scientist sits. 61–80 publications: 66 scientists 81–100 publications: 302 scientists 101–120 publications: 623 scientists 121–140 publications: 918 scientists 141–160 publications: 1,218 scientists 161–180 publications: 1,350 scientists 181–200 publications: 1,344 scientists 201–220 publications: 1,281 scientists 221–240 publications: 1,216 scientists 241–260 publications: 1,100 scientists 261–280 publications: 979 scientists 281–300 publications: 939 scientists 301–320 publications: 764 scientists 321–340 publications: 643 scientists 341–360 publications: 628 scientists 361–380 publications: 522 scientists 381–400 publications: 459 scientists 401–420 publications: 397 scientists 421–440 publications: 327 scientists 441–460 publications: 270 scientists 461–480 publications: 265 scientists 481–500 publications: 252 scientists 501–520 publications: 201 scientists 521–540 publications: 185 scientists 541–560 publications: 148 scientists 561–580 publications: 148 scientists 581–600 publications: 132 scientists 601–620 publications: 114 scientists 621–640 publications: 104 scientists 641–660 publications: 91 scientists 661–680 publications: 92 scientists 681–700 publications: 73 scientists 701–720 publications: 57 scientists 721–740 publications: 54 scientists 741–760 publications: 67 scientists 761–780 publications: 45 scientists 781–800 publications: 46 scientists 801–820 publications: 39 scientists 821–840 publications: 32 scientists 841–860 publications: 36 scientists 861–880 publications: 29 scientists 881–900 publications: 26 scientists 901–920 publications: 24 scientists 921–940 publications: 14 scientists 941–960 publications: 23 scientists 961–980 publications: 28 scientists 981–1,000 publications: 15 scientists 1,001–1,020 publications: 29 scientists 1,021–1,040 publications: 12 scientists 1,041–1,060 publications: 19 scientists 1,061–1,080 publications: 12 scientists 1,081–1,100 publications: 6 scientists 1,101–1,120 publications: 8 scientists 1,121–1,140 publications: 12 scientists 1,141–1,160 publications: 5 scientists 1,161–1,180 publications: 6 scientists 1,181–1,200 publications: 14 scientists 1,201–1,220 publications: 7 scientists 1,221–1,240 publications: 2 scientists 1,241–1,260 publications: 6 scientists 1,261–1,280 publications: 4 scientists 1,281–1,294 publications: 6 scientists 1,295+ publications: 100 scientists
61–80 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,248 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
61–80 66
81–100 302
101–120 623
121–140 918
141–160 1,218
161–180 1,350
181–200 1,344
201–220 1,281
221–240 1,216
241–260 1,100
261–280 979
281–300 939
301–320 764
321–340 643
341–360 628
361–380 522
381–400 459
401–420 397
421–440 327
441–460 270
461–480 265
481–500 252
501–520 201
521–540 185
541–560 148
561–580 148
581–600 132
601–620 114
621–640 104
641–660 91
661–680 92
681–700 73
701–720 57
721–740 54
741–760 67
761–780 45
781–800 46
801–820 39
821–840 32
841–860 36
861–880 29
881–900 26
901–920 24
921–940 14
941–960 23
961–980 28
981–1,000 15
1,001–1,020 29
1,021–1,040 12
1,041–1,060 19
1,061–1,080 12
1,081–1,100 6
1,101–1,120 8
1,121–1,140 12
1,141–1,160 5
1,161–1,180 6
1,181–1,200 14
1,201–1,220 7
1,221–1,240 2
1,241–1,260 6 1,248
1,261–1,280 4
1,281–1,294 6
1,295+ 100
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Joachim Maier D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 159+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,051. Most scientists, 1,051, have 56–57 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 159+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 165 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 289
42–43 612
44–45 808
46–47 776
48–49 835
50–51 861
52–53 872
54–55 933
56–57 1,051
58–59 930
60–61 882
62–63 834
64–65 731
66–67 775
68–69 683
70–71 646
72–73 561
74–75 501
76–77 437
78–79 388
80–81 354
82–83 292
84–85 275
86–87 254
88–89 235
90–91 185
92–93 192
94–95 155
96–97 163
98–99 125
100–101 105
102–103 105
104–105 112
106–107 88
108–109 68
110–111 69
112–113 65
114–115 79
116–117 61
118–119 44
120–121 37
122–123 40
124–125 33
126–127 26
128–129 34
130–131 35
132–133 25
134–135 27
136–137 17
138–139 16
140–141 20
142–143 20
144–145 15
146–147 9
148–149 9
150–151 16
152–153 11
154–155 9
156–157 3
158 3
159+ 98 165
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2019 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2005 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Joachim Maier is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive research record primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work focuses on various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Polymers and Plastics, and Automotive Engineering.

Their research touches on several specialized topics, notably:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Joachim Maier has contributed to various scientific publications with several notable recent papers, including:

  • Guidelines and trends for next-generation rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries (2020), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries (2021), published in Nature Reviews Materials
  • Roadmap on organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite semiconductors and devices (2021), published in APL Materials
  • Ion Transport, Defect Chemistry, and the Device Physics of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells (2021), published in ACS Energy Letters
  • Oxides with Mixed Protonic and Electronic Conductivity (2021), published in Annual Review of Materials Research

Their frequent coauthors include Rotraut Merkle, Davide Moia, Thomas Schleid, Jovana V. Milić, and Markus Joos.

Joachim Maier regularly publishes in key venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Solid State Ionics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The scientist has been recognized by awards including membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2019 in the field of Chemistry and has been a Member of Academia Europaea since 2005.

Best Publications

  • Nanoionics: ion transport and electrochemical storage in confined systems.

    J. Maier

  • Mixed‐Organic‐Cation Perovskite Photovoltaics for Enhanced Solar‐Light Harvesting

    Norman Pellet;Peng Gao;Giuliano Gregori;Tae-Youl Yang

  • Bevformer: learning bird's-eye-view representation from lidar-camera via spatiotemporal transformers

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  • Ionic conduction in space charge regions

    Joachim Maier

  • Efficient Synthesis of Heteroatom (N or S)‐Doped Graphene Based on Ultrathin Graphene Oxide‐Porous Silica Sheets for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Shubin Yang;Linjie Zhi;Kun Tang;Xinliang Feng

  • Lithium Storage in Carbon Nanostructures

    Nitin A. Kaskhedikar;Joachim Maier

  • New horizons for inorganic solid state ion conductors

    Zhizhen Zhang;Zhizhen Zhang;Yuanjun Shao;Bettina V. Lotsch;Yong-Sheng Hu

  • Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries

    R Usiskin;Y Lu;J Popovic;M Law

  • Hollow Carbon Nanospheres with Superior Rate Capability for Sodium‐Based Batteries

    Kun Tang;Lijun Fu;Lijun Fu;Robin J. White;Linghui Yu

  • Superior storage performance of a Si@SiOx/C nanocomposite as anode material for lithium-ion batteries

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Rezan Demir-Cakan;Maria-Magdalena Titirici;Jens-Oliver Müller

  • High lithium electroactivity of nanometer-sized rutile TiO2

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Lorenz Kienle;Yu-Guo Guo;Joachim Maier

  • Mesoscopic fast ion conduction in nanometre-scale planar heterostructures

    N. Sata;K. Eberman;K. Eberl;J. Maier

  • Single-layered ultrasmall nanoplates of MoS2 embedded in carbon nanofibers with excellent electrochemical performance for lithium and sodium storage.

    Changbao Zhu;Xiaoke Mu;Peter A. van Aken;Yan Yu

  • Nanocrystallinity effects in lithium battery materials Aspects of nano-ionics. Part IV

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  • Proton conducting alkaline earth zirconates and titanates for high drain electrochemical applications

    K.D. Kreuer;St. Adams;W. Münch;A. Fuchs

  • Synthesis of hierarchically porous carbon monoliths with highly ordered microstructure and their application in rechargeable lithium batteries with high-rate capability

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Philipp Adelhelm;Bernd M. Smarsly;Sarmimala Hore

  • Imidazole and pyrazole-based proton conducting polymers and liquids

    K.D. Kreuer;A. Fuchs;M. Ise;M. Spaeth

  • Li-Storage via Heterogeneous Reaction in Selected Binary Metal Fluorides and Oxides

    Hong Li;Palani Balaya;Joachim Maier

  • Physical Chemistry of Ionic Materials: Ions and Electrons in Solids

    Joachim Maier

  • Planning-oriented autonomous driving

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  • Fully reversible homogeneous and heterogeneous Li storage in RuO2 with high capacity

    P. Balaya;H. Li;L. Kienle;J. Maier

  • Challenges and Perspectives for NASICON-Type Electrode Materials for Advanced Sodium-Ion Batteries

    Shuangqiang Chen;Chao Wu;Laifa Shen;Changbao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Yu
Yan Yu University of Science and Technology of China
Eugene A. Kotomin
Eugene A. Kotomin University of Latvia
Rotraut Merkle
Rotraut Merkle Max Planck Society
Klaus-Dieter Kreuer
Klaus-Dieter Kreuer Max Planck Society
Peter A. van Aken
Peter A. van Aken Max Planck Society
Yong-Sheng Hu
Yong-Sheng Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wilfried Sigle
Wilfried Sigle Max Planck Society
Palani Balaya
Palani Balaya National University of Singapore
Yu-Guo Guo
Yu-Guo Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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