2026 Levente Vitos: 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	67	5015	4852	49	47	443	22430

Levente Vitos 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 Levente Vitos sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 443 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Levente Vitos 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 Levente Vitos sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Levente Vitos is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions to mechanical engineering and materials chemistry. Additionally, their work encompasses aerospace engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and atomic and molecular physics.

The scientist's research topics include:

High Entropy Alloys Studies
High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
High Temperature Alloys and Creep
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Some of their recent papers are:

Unprecedented non-hysteretic superelasticity of [001]-oriented NiCoFeGa single crystals, 2020, Nature Materials
Can experiment determine the stacking fault energy of metastable alloys?, 2020, Materials & Design
Ductile and brittle crack-tip response in equimolar refractory high-entropy alloys, 2020, Acta Materialia
Experimental and theoretical investigations on the phase stability and mechanical properties of Cr7Mn25Co9Ni23Cu36 high-entropy alloy, 2021, Acta Materialia
Dissociated dislocation-mediated carbon transport and diffusion in austenitic iron, 2020, Acta Materialia

Levente Vitos frequently publishes in several scientific venues including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Acta Materialia
Physical Review B
Applied Physics Letters
Computational Materials Science

The scientist collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors such as:

Song Lu
Stephan Schönecker
Shuo Huang
Zhihua Dong
Olle Eriksson

Best Publications

The surface energy of metals

L. Vitos;A.V. Ruban;H.L. Skriver;J. Kollár

3264
Citations
Total-energy method based on the exact muffin-tin orbitals theory

Levente Vitos

709
Citations
Anisotropic Lattice Distortions in Random Alloys from First-Principles Theory

Levente Vitos;I. A. Abrikosov;Börje Johansson;Börje Johansson

702
Citations
Computational Quantum Mechanics for Materials Engineers: The EMTO Method and Applications

Levente Vitos

653
Citations
Temperature dependent stacking fault energy of FeCrCoNiMn high entropy alloy

Shuo Huang;Wei Li;Song Lu;Fuyang Tian

559
Citations
Application of the exact muffin-tin orbitals theory: the spherical cell approximation

Levente Vitos;H. L. Skriver;Börje Johansson;J. Kollar

412
Citations
Local lattice distortion in high-entropy alloys

Hongquan Song;Fuyang Tian;Qing-Miao Hu;Levente Vitos;Levente Vitos

367
Citations
Stainless steel optimization from quantum mechanical calculations

Levente Vitos;Pavel A. Korzhavyi;Börje Johansson;Börje Johansson

351
Citations
Ab initio formation energies of Fe-Cr alloys

Pär Olsson;Igor A. Abrikosov;Levente Vitos;Janne Wallenius;Janne Wallenius

346
Citations
Experimental and theoretical study of Ti20Zr20Hf20Nb20X20 (X = V or Cr) refractory high-entropy alloys

E. Fazakas;E. Fazakas;V. Zadorozhnyy;L. K. Varga;A. Inoue

311
Citations
Alloying effects on the stacking fault energy in austenitic stainless steels from first-principles theory

Levente Vitos;Levente Vitos;J. O. Nilsson;Börje Johansson;Börje Johansson

306
Citations
Stacking Fault Energies in austenitic stainless steels

Jun Lu;Lars Hultman;Erik Holmström;Karin H. Antonsson

279
Citations
Empirical design of single phase high-entropy alloys with high hardness

Fuyang Tian;Fuyang Tian;Lajos K. Varga;Nanxian Chen;Nanxian Chen;Jiang Shen

261
Citations
Body-centered cubic iron-nickel alloy in Earth's core.

L. Dubrovinsky;N. Dubrovinskaia;O. Narygina;I. Kantor

258
Citations
Assessing the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof exchange-correlation density functional revised for metallic bulk and surface systems

M. Ropo;M. Ropo;K. Kokko;Levente Vitos;Levente Vitos

248
Citations
Twinning in metastable high-entropy alloys.

Shuo Huang;He Huang;Wei Li;Wei Li;Dongyoo Kim;Dongyoo Kim

247
Citations
Structural stability of NiCoFeCrAlx high-entropy alloy from ab initio theory

Fuyang Tian;Fuyang Tian;Lorand Delczeg;Nanxian Chen;Nanxian Chen;Lajos Karoly Varga

218
Citations
High temperature oxidation of Fe-Al and Fe-Cr-Al alloys: The role of Cr as a chemically active element

E. Airiskallio;E. Nurmi;M. H. Heinonen;I. J. Vayrynen

211
Citations
Effect of temperature on the stacking fault energy and deformation behaviour in 316L austenitic stainless steel

Dávid Sándor Molnár;Dávid Sándor Molnár;Xun Sun;Xun Sun;Song Lu;Wei Li

201
Citations
Ab initio investigation of high-entropy alloys of 3d elements

Fuyang Tian;Fuyang Tian;Lajos Karoly Varga;Nanxian Chen;Nanxian Chen;Lorand Delczeg

186
Citations
Critical stress for twinning nucleation in CrCoNi-based medium and high entropy alloys

He Huang;Xiaoqing Li;Zhihua Dong;Wei Li

159
Citations