2026 Ralph H. Colby: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	85	2167	2093	640	601	373	25451
Chemistry	84	2823	2540	961	805	358	25181

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

2167

2093

640

601

373

25451

Chemistry

2823

2540

961

805

358

25181

Materials Science

D-Index

Citations

25451

World Ranking

2167

National Ranking

640

Chemistry

D-Index

Citations

25181

World Ranking

2823

National Ranking

961

Overview

Ralph H. Colby is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work involves significant contributions to subfields including Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to polymer science and materials technologies. Main themes include:

Polymer crystallization and properties
Conducting polymers and applications
Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
Polymer Foaming and Composites
Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties

Colby has published extensively in several prominent journals. These frequent publication venues are:

Macromolecules
Journal of Polymer Science
Journal of Rheology
ACS Macro Letters
ACS Applied Polymer Materials

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Colby are:

"Room Temperature to 150 °C Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by a Rigid Molecular Ionic Composite Electrolyte," 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
"Rheology of Entangled Polyelectrolyte Solutions," 2021, Macromolecules
"Uncorrelated Lithium-Ion Hopping in a Dynamic Solvent-Anion Network," 2023, ACS Energy Letters
"Predicting the Plateau Modulus from Molecular Parameters of Conjugated Polymers," 2022, ACS Central Science
"Ion Transport and Mechanical Properties of Non-Crystallizable Molecular Ionic Composite Electrolytes," 2020, Macromolecules

They frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

Alicyn M. Rhoades
Daniele Parisi
Jiho Seo
Aijie Han
Louis A. Madsen

Best Publications

Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles

Pinar Akcora;Hongjun Liu;Sanat K. Kumar;Joseph Moll

1181
Citations
Scaling theory of polyelectrolyte solutions

Andrey V. Dobrynin;Ralph H. Colby;Michael Rubinstein

1177
Citations
Correlations of solution rheology with electrospun fiber formation of linear and branched polyesters

Matthew G. McKee;Garth L. Wilkes;Ralph H. Colby;Timothy Edward Long

871
Citations
Dynamics of reversible networks

Ludwik Leibler;Ludwik Leibler;J Michael Rubinstein;Ralph H. Colby;Ralph H. Colby

828
Citations
Structure and linear viscoelasticity of flexible polymer solutions: comparison of polyelectrolyte and neutral polymer solutions

Ralph H. Colby

546
Citations
Modeling electrode polarization in dielectric spectroscopy: Ion mobility and mobile ion concentration of single-ion polymer electrolytes

Robert J. Klein;Shihai Zhang;Shichen Dou;Brad H. Jones

536
Citations
The melt viscosity-molecular weight relationship for linear polymers

Ralph H. Colby;Lewis J. Fetters;William W. Graessley

531
Citations
Lamellae orientation in dynamically sheared diblock copolymer melts

Kurt A. Koppi;Matthew Tirrell;Frank S. Bates;Kristoffer Almdal

448
Citations
Two-parameter scaling for polymers in Θ solvents

Ralph H. Colby;Michael Rubinstein

431
Citations
Chain Dimensions and Entanglement Spacings

L. J. Fetters;D. J. Lohse;R. H. Colby

416
Citations
Elastic modulus and equilibrium swelling of poly(dimethylsiloxane) networks

Suman K. Patel;Shawn Malone;Claude Cohen;Jeffrey R. Gillmor

358
Citations
Elastic Modulus and Equilibrium Swelling of Polyelectrolyte Gels

Michael Rubinstein;Ralph H. Colby;Andrey V. Dobrynin;Jean Francois Joanny

338
Citations
DIAGNOSING LONG-CHAIN BRANCHING IN POLYETHYLENES

J. Janzen;R.H. Colby

325
Citations
Network Modulus and Superelasticity

Sergei P. Obukhov;Michael Rubinstein;Ralph H. Colby

320
Citations
Dielectric spectroscopy and conductivity of polyelectrolyte solutions

F Bordi;C Cametti;R H Colby

315
Citations
Breakdown of time-temperature superposition in miscible polymer blends

Ralph H. Colby

315
Citations
Reinforcement of rubber by fractal aggregates

T. A. Witten;M. Rubinstein;R. H. Colby

287
Citations
Self‐consistent theory of polydisperse entangled polymers: Linear viscoelasticity of binary blends

Michael Rubinstein;Ralph H. Colby

284
Citations
Constraint release in polymer melts: tube reorganization versus tube dilation

Jean Louis Viovy;Michael Rubinstein;Ralph H. Colby

284
Citations
Effects of concentration and thermodynamic interaction on the viscoelastic properties of polymer solutions

Ralph H. Colby;Lewis J. Fetters;Walter G. Funk;William W. Graessley;William W. Graessley

277
Citations
Concentration fluctuation induced dynamic heterogeneities in polymer blends

Sanat K. Kumar;Ralph H. Colby;Spiros H. Anastasiadis;George Fytas

271
Citations