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Roland Scholz

Roland Scholz

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
55
Citations
12967
World Ranking
8512
National Ranking
483

Roland Scholz 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 Roland Scholz sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 224 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roland Scholz 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 Roland Scholz sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Roland Scholz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and works primarily within the Social Sciences domain. Their scholarly contributions span multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Information Systems and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses on various interdisciplinary and complex topics. Key areas of study include Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Extraction and Separation Processes, Phosphorus and Nutrient Management, Innovation, Technology, and Society, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development.

Roland Scholz has authored several papers published in recognized academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Systemic Risks from Different Perspectives" (2020) in Risk Analysis
  • "Perceived risks and vulnerabilities of employing digitalization and digital data in agriculture - Socially robust orientations from a transdisciplinary process" (2022) in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Transdisciplinarity: science for and with society in light of the university's roles and functions" (2020) in Sustainability Science
  • "South American Expert Roundtable: Increasing Adaptive Governance Capacity for Coping with Unintended Side Effects of Digital Transformation" (2020) in Sustainability
  • "Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy" (2021) in Sustainability Science

The scientist's work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Sustainability Science
  • Mineral Economics
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Systemic Practice and Action Research
  • Risk Analysis

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research process. Frequent co-authors include Jana Zscheischler, Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer, Cornelia Sindermann, Reiner Brunsch, and Ortwin Renn.

Best Publications

  • Size-controlled highly luminescent silicon nanocrystals: A SiO/SiO2 superlattice approach

    M. Zacharias;J. Heitmann;R. Scholz;U. Kahler

  • Monocrystalline spinel nanotube fabrication based on the Kirkendall effect

    Hong Jin fan;Mato Knez;Roland Scholz;Kornelius Nielsch

  • Single‐Crystalline Copper Nanowires Produced by Electrochemical Deposition in Polymeric Ion Track Membranes

    M. E. Toimil Molares;V. Buschmann;D. Dobrev;R. Neumann

  • Structural engineering of nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide by pulse anodization of aluminium

    Woo Lee;Kathrin Schwirn;Martin Steinhart;Eckhard Pippel

  • Influence of surface diffusion on the formation of hollow nanostructures induced by the Kirkendall effect: the basic concept

    Hong Jin Fan;Mato Knez;Roland Scholz;Dietrich Hesse

  • Nanoporous Pt−Co Alloy Nanowires: Fabrication, Characterization, and Electrocatalytic Properties

    Lifeng Liu;Eckhard Pippel;Roland Scholz;Ulrich Gösele

  • Impact of misfit dislocations on the polarization instability of epitaxial nanostructured ferroelectric perovskites.

    Ming-Wen Chu;Izabela Szafraniak;Izabela Szafraniak;Roland Scholz;Catalin Harnagea;Catalin Harnagea

  • A template-based electrochemical method for the synthesis of multisegmented metallic nanotubes.

    Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Kornelius Nielsch;Ulrich Gösele

  • Formation of cristae and crista junctions in mitochondria depends on antagonism between Fcj1 and Su e/g.

    Regina Rabl;Vincent Soubannier;Vincent Soubannier;Roland Scholz;Frank Vogel

  • A “smarter-cut” approach to low temperature silicon layer transfer

    Q.-Y. Tong;R. Scholz;U. Gösele;T.-H. Lee

  • Template-assisted large-scale ordered arrays of ZnO pillars for optical and piezoelectric applications.

    Hong Jin Fan;Woo Lee;Robert Hauschild;Marin Alexe

  • Si rings, Si clusters, and Si nanocrystals—different states of ultrathin SiOx layers

    L. X. Yi;J. Heitmann;R. Scholz;M. Zacharias

  • Carbon-induced undersaturation of silicon self-interstitials

    R. Scholz;U. Gösele;J.-Y. Huh;T. Y. Tan

  • Enhanced surface-excitonic emission in ZnO/Al(2)O(3) core-shell nanowires.

    Richters Jp;Voss T;Kim Ds;Scholz R

  • Arrays of vertically aligned and hexagonally arranged ZnO nanowires: a new template-directed approach

    Hong Jin Fan;Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Armin Dadgar

  • The contribution of vacancies to carbon out-diffusion in silicon

    R. F. Scholz;P. Werner;U. Gösele;T. Y. Tan

  • A continuous process for structurally well-defined Al2O3 nanotubes based on pulse anodization of aluminum.

    Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Ulrich Gösele

  • Mo/Si multilayers with different barrier layers for applications as extreme ultraviolet mirrors

    Stefan Braun;Hermann Mai;Matthew Moss;Roland Scholz

  • Multilevel charge storage in silicon nanocrystal multilayers

    T. Z. Lu;M. Alexe;R. Scholz;V. Talelaev

  • Ferroelectric epitaxial nanocrystals obtained by a self-patterning method

    I. Szafraniak;C. Harnagea;R. Scholz;S. Bhattacharyya

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Gösele
Ulrich Gösele Max Planck Society
Margit Zacharias
Margit Zacharias University of Freiburg
Kornelius Nielsch
Kornelius Nielsch Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Marin Alexe
Marin Alexe University of Warwick
Woo Lee
Woo Lee Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
Hong Jin Fan
Hong Jin Fan Nanyang Technological University
Eckhard Pippel
Eckhard Pippel Max Planck Society
Dietrich Hesse
Dietrich Hesse Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Martin Steinhart
Martin Steinhart Osnabrück University
Mato Knez
Mato Knez CIC nanoGUNE

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