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2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
127
Citations
60216
World Ranking
384
National Ranking
20

Peter Fratzl 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 Peter Fratzl sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 675 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Fratzl 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 Peter Fratzl sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 127 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2008 - Max Planck Research Award Biomaterials

Overview

Peter Fratzl is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and medicine with significant contributions in biomaterials and biomedical engineering, particularly related to bone tissue engineering and cellular mechanics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Bone Metabolism and Diseases
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Silk-based biomaterials and applications

Peter Fratzl has published extensively, often contributing to fields like biomaterials and orthopedics, as well as molecular and cell biology. The subfields of study frequently engaged in include biomaterials, biomedical engineering, orthopedics and sports medicine, molecular biology, and cell biology.

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Wolfgang Wagermaier
  • Luca Bertinetti
  • Richard Weinkamer
  • Stéphane Blouin
  • Ernesto Scoppola

Peter Fratzl's work has been published in a variety of venues, with a significant presence in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Important recent papers by Peter Fratzl include:

  • "Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils" (2022) in Science
  • "Curvature in Biological Systems: Its Quantification, Emergence, and Implications across the Scales" (2022) in Advanced Materials
  • "The mechanoresponse of bone is closely related to the osteocyte lacunocanalicular network architecture" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Hierarchically-structured metalloprotein composite coatings biofabricated from co-existing condensed liquid phases" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Natural load-bearing protein materials" (2020) in Progress in Materials Science

In recognition of their contributions, Peter Fratzl has received several awards including being named Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2012, and the Max Planck Research Award in 2008 for work related to biomaterials.

Best Publications

  • Nature’s hierarchical materials

    Peter Fratzl;Richard Weinkamer

  • Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: lessons from nature.

    Huajian Gao;Baohua Ji;Ingomar L. Jäger;Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt

  • Structure and mechanical quality of the collagen–mineral nano-composite in bone

    P. Fratzl;H. S. Gupta;E. P. Paschalis;P. Roschger

  • Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural Hierarchy from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale

    Joanna Aizenberg;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar

  • Collagen: Structure and Mechanics, an Introduction

    P. Fratzl

  • Iron-Clad Fibers: A Metal-Based Biological Strategy for Hard Flexible Coatings

    Matthew J. Harrington;Admir Masic;Niels Holten-Andersen;Niels Holten-Andersen;J. Herbert Waite

  • Mineralized Collagen Fibrils: A Mechanical Model with a Staggered Arrangement of Mineral Particles

    Ingomar Jäger;Peter Fratzl

  • Fibrillar structure and mechanical properties of collagen

    Peter Fratzl;Klaus Misof;Ivo Zizak;Gert Rapp

  • Nucleation and growth of magnetite from solution.

    Jens Baumgartner;Archan Dey;Paul H. H. Bomans;Cécile Le Coadou

  • Collagen : structure and mechanics

    Peter Fratzl

  • Biomimetic materials research: what can we really learn from nature's structural materials?

    Peter Fratzl

  • Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation

    Peter Fratzl;Friedrich G. Barth

  • Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale

    Himadri S. Gupta;Jong Seto;Wolfgang Wagermaier;Paul Zaslansky

  • Reversible Switching of Hydrogel-Actuated Nanostructures into Complex Micropatterns

    Alexander Sidorenko;Tom Krupenkin;Ashley Taylor;Peter Fratzl

  • Cell-wall recovery after irreversible deformation of wood

    Jozef Keckes;Ingo Burgert;Klaus Frühmann;Martin Müller

  • Viscoelastic properties of collagen: synchrotron radiation investigations and structural model

    R. Puxkandl;I. Zizak;O. Paris;J. Keckes

  • The effect of geometry on three-dimensional tissue growth

    Monika Rumpler;Alexander Woesz;John W.C Dunlop;Joost T van Dongen

  • From brittle to ductile fracture of bone

    Herwig Peterlik;Paul Roschger;Klaus Klaushofer;Peter Fratzl

  • Size-controlled hydroxyapatite nanoparticles as self-organized organic-inorganic composite materials

    Viorel Marin Rusu;Chuen-How Ng;Max Wilke;Brigitte Tiersch

  • Mapping amorphous calcium phosphate transformation into crystalline mineral from the cell to the bone in zebrafish fin rays.

    Julia Mahamid;Barbara Aichmayer;Eyal Shimoni;Roy Ziblat

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Klaushofer
Klaus Klaushofer University of Vienna
Oskar Paris
Oskar Paris University of Leoben
Wolfgang Wagermaier
Wolfgang Wagermaier Max Planck Society
Georg N. Duda
Georg N. Duda Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Ingo Burgert
Ingo Burgert ETH Zurich
Franz Dieter Fischer
Franz Dieter Fischer University of Leoben
Dietmar W. Hutmacher
Dietmar W. Hutmacher Queensland University of Technology
Jozef Keckes
Jozef Keckes University of Leoben
Stefan Mundlos
Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society

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