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Materials Science

D-Index
82
Citations
24394
World Ranking
2475
National Ranking
144

Chemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
24804
World Ranking
2943
National Ranking
219

Stefan Mecking 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 Stefan Mecking sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 383 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Mecking 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 Stefan Mecking sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stefan Mecking is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their primary research interests focus on Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions across subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics, and Pollution.

The scientist's main areas of work cover several interconnected topics in polymer science and catalysis. These include biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, synthetic organic chemistry methods, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, microplastics and plastic pollution, and polymer crystallization and properties.

Stefan Mecking has authored numerous papers published in high-impact scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Closed-loop recycling of polyethylene-like materials, 2021, Nature
  • Polyethylene materials with in-chain ketones from nonalternating catalytic copolymerization, 2021, Science
  • Ultrahigh Branching of Main-Chain-Functionalized Polyethylenes by Inverted Insertion Selectivity, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Synthesis and Deconstruction of Polyethylene-type Materials, 2024, Chemical Reviews
  • Neutral Nickel(II) Catalysts: From Hyperbranched Oligomers to Nanocrystal-Based Materials, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with coauthors including Inigo Göttker-Schnetmann, Maria Voccia, Lucia Caporaso, Marcel Eck, and Eva Schiebel, with collaboration counts ranging from 12 to 17 joint publications.

Stefan Mecking often publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Macromolecules, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Best Publications

  • Copolymerization of Ethylene and Propylene with Functionalized Vinyl Monomers by Palladium(II) Catalysts

    Lynda K. Johnson;Stefan Mecking;Maurice Brookhart

  • Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene and α-Olefins with Methyl Acrylate

    Stefan Mecking;Lynda K. Johnson;Lin Wang;Maurice Brookhart

  • Nanoparticles of conjugated polymers.

    Johannes Pecher;Stefan Mecking

  • Nature or Petrochemistry?—Biologically Degradable Materials

    Stefan Mecking

  • Closed-loop recycling of polyethylene-like materials.

    Manuel Häußler;Marcel Eck;Dario Rothauer;Stefan Mecking

  • Olefin Polymerization by Late Transition Metal Complexes-A Root of Ziegler Catalysts Gains New Ground.

    Stefan Mecking

  • Post-metallocenes in the industrial production of polyolefins.

    Moritz C. Baier;Martin A. Zuideveld;Stefan Mecking

  • Ortho-phosphinobenzenesulfonate: a superb ligand for palladium-catalyzed coordination-insertion copolymerization of polar vinyl monomers.

    Akifumi Nakamura;Timo M. J. Anselment;Jerome Claverie;Brian Goodall

  • Cationic nickel and palladium complexes with bidentate ligands for the CC linkage of olefins

    Stefan Mecking

  • Hybrids of silver nanoparticles with amphiphilic hyperbranched macromolecules exhibiting antimicrobial properties.

    Cyril Aymonier;Ulf Schlotterbeck;Lydie Antonietti;Philipp Zacharias

  • Long-Chain Aliphatic Polymers To Bridge the Gap between Semicrystalline Polyolefins and Traditional Polycondensates

    Florian Stempfle;Patrick Ortmann;Stefan Mecking

  • Multiphase homogeneous catalysis

    Boy Cornils;Wolfgang A. Herrmann;István T. Horváth;Walter Leitner

  • Insertion Polymerization of Acrylate

    Damien Guironnet;Philipp Roesle;Thomas Rünzi;Inigo Göttker-Schnetmann

  • Fluorescent conjugated polymer nanoparticles by polymerization in miniemulsion.

    Moritz C. Baier;Johannes Huber;Stefan Mecking

  • Coordination Copolymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers H2C=CHX

    Andreas Berkefeld;Stefan Mecking

  • Long-Chain Linear C19 and C23 Monomers and Polycondensates from Unsaturated Fatty Acid Esters

    Florian Stempfle;Dorothee Quinzler;Ilona Heckler;Stefan Mecking

  • Refining of Plant Oils to Chemicals by Olefin Metathesis

    Samir Chikkali;Stefan Mecking

  • Aqueous Homo- and Copolymerization of Ethylene by Neutral Nickel (II) Complexes

    Florian Martin Bauers;Stefan Mecking

  • Aqueous catalytic polymerization of olefins

    Stefan Mecking;Anke Held;Florian Martin Bauers

  • Polyethylene materials with in-chain ketones from nonalternating catalytic copolymerization.

    Maximilian Baur;Fei Lin;Tobias O. Morgen;Lukas Odenwald

  • Linear Semicrystalline Polyesters from Fatty Acids by Complete Feedstock Molecule Utilization

    Dorothee Quinzler;Stefan Mecking

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Cavallo
Luigi Cavallo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Laura Falivene
Laura Falivene University of Salerno
Ralf Thomann
Ralf Thomann University of Freiburg
Alfred Leitenstorfer
Alfred Leitenstorfer University of Konstanz
Cyril Aymonier
Cyril Aymonier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Karen I. Winey
Karen I. Winey University of Pennsylvania
Günter Reiter
Günter Reiter University of Freiburg
Rolf Mülhaupt
Rolf Mülhaupt University of Freiburg
Matthias Ballauff
Matthias Ballauff Freie Universität Berlin
Walter Richtering
Walter Richtering RWTH Aachen University

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