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Joseph N. Grima

Joseph N. Grima

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
58
Citations
12551
World Ranking
7662
National Ranking
1

Joseph N. Grima 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 Joseph N. Grima sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 186 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph N. Grima 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 Joseph N. Grima sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joseph N. Grima is affiliated with the University of Malta in Malta. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within engineering and materials science. The scientist has a significant number of publications centered around mechanical engineering and materials chemistry, among other related subfields.

The main fields of study for Joseph N. Grima include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Their work also involves several subfields such as:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biomaterials
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The research topics addressed cover a range of subjects, notably:

  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Joseph N. Grima has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • physica status solidi (b)
  • Materials
  • physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters
  • Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Recent representative publications demonstrate the focus on mechanical metamaterials, auxetic structures, and advanced materials design:

  • Implementation of periodic boundary conditions for loading of mechanical metamaterials and other complex geometric microstructures using finite element analysis, 2020, Engineering With Computers
  • Starchirals-A novel class of auxetic hierarchal structures, 2020, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Auxetic Behavior and Other Negative Thermomechanical Properties from Rotating Rigid Units, 2021, physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters
  • A novel design method to produce 3D auxetic metamaterials with continuous pores exemplified through 3D rotating auxetic systems, 2023, Materials & Design
  • Auxetic mechanical metamaterials with diamond and elliptically shaped perforations, 2020, Acta Mechanica

Joseph N. Grima collaborates often with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ruben Gatt
  • James N. Grima-Cornish
  • Pierre-Sandre Farrugia
  • Daphne Attard
  • Krzysztof K. Dudek

Best Publications

  • Auxetic behavior from rotating squares

    Joseph N. Grima;Kenneth E. Evans

  • Elastic constants of 3-, 4- and 6-connected chiral and anti-chiral honeycombs subject to uniaxial in-plane loading

    Andrew Alderson;K.L. Alderson;D. Attard;K.E. Evans

  • A novel mechanism for generating auxetic behaviour in reticulated foams: missing rib foam model

    C.W Smith;J.N Grima;K.E Evans

  • Auxetic behaviour from rotating rigid units

    Joseph N. Grima;Andrew Alderson;Kenneth A. Evans

  • Auxetic behavior from rotating triangles

    Joseph N. Grima;Kenneth E. Evans

  • Do Zeolites Have Negative Poisson's Ratios?

    Joseph N. Grima;Rosie Jackson;Andrew Alderson;Kenneth E. Evans

  • Tailoring Graphene to Achieve Negative Poisson's Ratio Properties

    Joseph N. Grima;Szymon Winczewski;Luke Mizzi;Michael C. Grech

  • Novel honeycombs with auxetic behaviour

    N. Gaspar;X.J. Ren;C.W. Smith;J.N. Grima

  • Hierarchical auxetic mechanical metamaterials.

    Ruben Gatt;Luke Mizzi;Joseph I. Azzopardi;Keith M. Azzopardi

  • Auxetic Perforated Mechanical Metamaterials with Randomly Oriented Cuts

    Joseph N. Grima;Luke Mizzi;Keith M. Azzopardi;Ruben Gatt

  • Perforated sheets exhibiting negative Poisson's ratios

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt

  • Hexagonal Honeycombs with Zero Poisson's Ratios and Enhanced Stiffness†

    Joseph N. Grima;Ludovica Oliveri;Daphne Attard;Brian Ellul

  • Mechanical metamaterials with star-shaped pores exhibiting negative and zero Poisson’s ratio

    Luke Mizzi;E.M. Mahdi;Kirill Titov;Ruben Gatt

  • Negative Poisson's ratios in tendons: An unexpected mechanical response.

    Ruben Gatt;Michelle Vella Wood;Alfred Gatt;Alfred Gatt;Francis Zarb

  • A novel process for the manufacture of auxetic foams and for their re-conversion to conventional form

    Joseph N. Grima;Daphne Attard;Ruben Gatt;Richard N. Cassar

  • Negative Poisson's ratios in cellular foam materials

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt;Naveen Ravirala;Andrew Alderson

  • Smart metamaterials with tunable auxetic and other properties

    Joseph N Grima;Roberto Caruana-Gauci;Mirosław R Dudek;Krzysztof W Wojciechowski

  • Negative Poisson's ratios from rotating rectangles

    Joseph N. Grima;Andrew Alderson;Kenneth E. Evans

  • Auxetic behaviour from connected different-sized squares and rectangles

    Joseph N. Grima;Elaine Manicaro;Daphne Attard

  • Auxetic metamaterials exhibiting giant negative Poisson's ratios

    Luke Mizzi;Keith M. Azzopardi;Daphne Attard;Joseph N. Grima

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruben Gatt
Ruben Gatt University of Malta
Kenneth E. Evans
Kenneth E. Evans University of Exeter
Andrew Alderson
Andrew Alderson Sheffield Hallam University
Fabrizio Scarpa
Fabrizio Scarpa University of Bristol
Victor A. Zammit
Victor A. Zammit University of Warwick
Stefan Kaskel
Stefan Kaskel TU Dresden
Ian Hamerton
Ian Hamerton University of Bristol
Jin-Chong Tan
Jin-Chong Tan University of Oxford
Richard I. Walton
Richard I. Walton University of Warwick
Andrew L. Goodwin
Andrew L. Goodwin University of Oxford

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