2026 Joseph N. Grima: 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	58	7664	7410	1	1	186	12551

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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

817
Citations
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

712
Citations
A novel mechanism for generating auxetic behaviour in reticulated foams: missing rib foam model

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

518
Citations
Auxetic behaviour from rotating rigid units

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

425
Citations
Auxetic behavior from rotating triangles

Joseph N. Grima;Kenneth E. Evans

409
Citations
Do Zeolites Have Negative Poisson's Ratios?

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

364
Citations
Tailoring Graphene to Achieve Negative Poisson's Ratio Properties

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

359
Citations
Novel honeycombs with auxetic behaviour

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

323
Citations
Hierarchical auxetic mechanical metamaterials.

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

321
Citations
Auxetic Perforated Mechanical Metamaterials with Randomly Oriented Cuts

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

245
Citations
Perforated sheets exhibiting negative Poisson's ratios

Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt

216
Citations
Hexagonal Honeycombs with Zero Poisson's Ratios and Enhanced Stiffness†

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

216
Citations
Mechanical metamaterials with star-shaped pores exhibiting negative and zero Poisson’s ratio

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

186
Citations
Negative Poisson's ratios in tendons: An unexpected mechanical response.

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

186
Citations
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

174
Citations
Negative Poisson's ratios in cellular foam materials

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

171
Citations
Smart metamaterials with tunable auxetic and other properties

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

171
Citations
Negative Poisson's ratios from rotating rectangles

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

167
Citations
Auxetic behaviour from connected different-sized squares and rectangles

Joseph N. Grima;Elaine Manicaro;Daphne Attard

162
Citations
Auxetic metamaterials exhibiting giant negative Poisson's ratios

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

159
Citations