2026 Konrad Samwer: 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	66	5245	5074	308	298	375	21809

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Materials Science

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21809

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics

Overview

Konrad Samwer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy, with a substantial contribution to the subfields of materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, mechanical engineering, ceramics and composites, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

Material Dynamics and Properties
Theoretical and Computational Physics
Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys
Glass properties and applications
Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

Konrad Samwer has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
npj Microgravity
Acta Materialia
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Nature Physics

Some of their recent papers cover topics related to glass transition, phase transitions, and correlations in glass-forming liquids:

Thermal expansion and the glass transition, 2023, Nature Physics
Formation of two glass phases in binary Cu-Ag liquid, 2020, Acta Materialia
First-Order Phase Transition in Liquid Ag to the Heterogeneous G-Phase, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Universal correlations between the fragility and interparticle repulsion of glass-forming liquids, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
Universal origin of glassy relaxation as recognized by configuration pattern matching, 2024, National Science Review

Notable frequent co-authors include:

P. Lunkenheimer
A. Loidl
Qi An
William L. Johnson
William A. Goddard

In 2008, Konrad Samwer was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, specializing in physics.

Best Publications

Giant negative magnetoresistance in perovskitelike La2/3Ba1/3MnOx ferromagnetic films.

R. von Helmolt;R. von Helmolt;J. Wecker;J. Wecker;B. Holzapfel;B. Holzapfel;L. Schultz;L. Schultz

5500
Citations
A universal criterion for plastic yielding of metallic glasses with a (T/Tg) 2/3 temperature dependence.

W. L. Johnson;K. Samwer

1617
Citations
Local elastic properties of a metallic glass

Hannes Wagner;Dennis Bedorf;Stefan Küchemann;Moritz Schwabe

460
Citations
The β relaxation in metallic glasses: an overview

Hai-Bin Yu;Wei-Hua Wang;Konrad Samwer

437
Citations
Strain Rate Induced Amorphization in Metallic Nanowires

Hideyuki Ikeda;Yue Qi;Tahir Çağin;Konrad Samwer

375
Citations
Glass transition on long time scales

R. Brüning;K. Samwer

372
Citations
Anelastic to Plastic Transition in Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids

John S. Harmon;Marios D. Demetriou;William L. Johnson;Konrad Samwer

365
Citations
Spin polarization in half-metals probed by femtosecond spin excitation.

Georg M. Müller;Jakob Walowski;Marija Djordjevic;Gou-Xing Miao

332
Citations
The β-relaxation in metallic glasses

Hai Bin Yu;Wei Hua Wang;Hai Yang Bai;Konrad Samwer

304
Citations
Micromechanism for metallic-glass formation by solid-state reactions.

H. Schröder;K. Samwer;U. Köster

300
Citations
Correlation between β relaxation and self-diffusion of the smallest constituting atoms in metallic glasses.

H. B. Yu;K. Samwer;Yue Wu;W. H. Wang

273
Citations
Giant magnetoresistance in melt spun Cu‐Co alloys

J. Wecker;R. von Helmolt;L. Schultz;K. Samwer

266
Citations
Ultrastable Metallic Glass

Hai-Bin Yu;Yuansu Luo;Konrad Samwer

262
Citations
Beating crystallization in glass-forming metals by millisecond heating and processing.

William L. Johnson;Georg Kaltenboeck;Marios D. Demetriou;Joseph P. Schramm

258
Citations
Structural phase transition at the percolation threshold in epitaxial (La0.7Ca0.3MnO3)1-x:(MgO)x nanocomposite films.

V. Moshnyaga;B. Damaschke;O. Shapoval;A. Belenchuk

250
Citations
CHEMICAL VAPOR SYNTHESIS AND LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF NANOCRYSTALLINE CUBIC Y2O3:EU

A. Konrad;T. Fries;A. Gahn;F. Kummer

248
Citations
Rheology and Ultrasonic Properties of Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids: A Potential Energy Landscape Perspective

William L. Johnson;Marios D. Demetriou;John S. Harmon;Mary L. Lind

239
Citations
Intrinsic inhomogeneities in manganite thin films investigated with scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

T. Becker;C. Streng;Y. Luo;V. Moshnyaga

209
Citations
Plastic deformation of metallic glasses: Size of shear transformation zones from molecular dynamics simulations

Mareike Zink;K. Samwer;W. L. Johnson;S. G. Mayr

204
Citations
Chemical influence on β-relaxations and the formation of molecule-like metallic glasses

Hai Bin Yu;Konrad Samwer;Wei Hua Wang;Hai Yang Bai

198
Citations
Rheology and ultrasonic properties of metallic glass-forming liquids

Marios D. Demetriou;William L. Johnson;Konrad Samwer

7
Citations