2026 Stefan Zaefferer: 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	64	5839	5650	342	330	411	16271

Overview

Stefan Zaefferer is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant focus on Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry as subfields. Additional areas of study include Biomedical Engineering, Metals and Alloys, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass:

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
Microstructure and mechanical properties
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Advanced materials and composites
High Temperature Alloys and Creep

Stefan Zaefferer has been published frequently in several venues including:

Acta Materialia
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Scripta Materialia
Nature Communications

Among recent publications by Stefan Zaefferer are:

"Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy," 2020, Acta Materialia
"Current Challenges and Opportunities in Microstructure-Related Properties of Advanced High-Strength Steels," 2020, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
"Hierarchical nature of hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron oxides," 2022, Scripta Materialia
"Thermodynamics-guided alloy and process design for additive manufacturing," 2022, Nature Communications
"Delineating dislocation structures and residual stresses in additively manufactured alloys," 2023, Acta Materialia

The scholar collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

Dierk Raabe
Baptiste Gault
Dirk Ponge
Binhan Sun
Shao-Pu Tsai

Best Publications

On the role of non-basal deformation mechanisms for the ductility of Mg and Mg–Y alloys

S. Sandlöbes;S. Zaefferer;I. Schestakow;S. Yi

944
Citations
The effect of grain size and grain orientation on deformation twinning in a Fe-22 wt.% Mn-0.6 wt.% C TWIP steel

I. Gutierrez-Urrutia;S. Zaefferer;D. Raabe

795
Citations
The relation between ductility and stacking fault energies in Mg and Mg–Y alloys

S. Sandlöbes;M. Friák;S. Zaefferer;A. Dick

632
Citations
A study of microstructure, transformation mechanisms and correlation between microstructure and mechanical properties of a low alloyed TRIP steel

S. Zaefferer;J. Ohlert;W. Bleck

569
Citations
Micromechanical and macromechanical effects in grain scale polycrystal plasticity experimentation and simulation

Dierk Raabe;Michael I. Sachtleber;Zisu Zhao;Franz Roters

553
Citations
Assessment of geometrically necessary dislocation levels derived by 3D EBSD

Peter Joachim Konijnenberg;Stefan Zaefferer;Dierk Raabe

456
Citations
A study of active deformation systems in titanium alloys: dependence on alloy composition and correlation with deformation texture

S Zaefferer

425
Citations
Atomic-Scale Quantification of Grain Boundary Segregation in Nanocrystalline Material

Michael Herbig;D. Raabe;Yujiao Li;Pyuck-Pa Choi

422
Citations
Strain hardening by dynamic slip band refinement in a high-Mn lightweight steel

E. Welsch;D. Ponge;S.M. Hafez Haghighat;S. Sandlöbes;S. Sandlöbes

422
Citations
Three dimensional investigation of the texture and microstructure below a nanoindent in a Cu single crystal using 3D EBSD and crystal plasticity finite element simulations

Nader Zaafarani;Dierk Raabe;Ripandeep N. Singh;F. Roters

408
Citations
Investigation of the indentation size effect through the measurement of the geometrically necessary dislocations beneath small indents of different depths using EBSD tomography

Eralp Demir;Dierk Raabe;Nader Zaafarani;Stefan Zaefferer

393
Citations
Ductility improvement of Mg alloys by solid solution: Ab initio modeling, synthesis and mechanical properties

Stefanie Sandlöbes;Zongrui Pei;Martin Friák;Li-Fang Zhu

339
Citations
Strengthening and strain hardening mechanisms in a precipitation-hardened high-Mn lightweight steel

Mengji Yao;Emanuel David Welsch;Dirk Ponge;Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat

275
Citations
Three-Dimensional Orientation Microscopy in a Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscope: A New Dimension of Microstructure Characterization

S. Zaefferer;S. I. Wright;D. Raabe

274
Citations
Electron channeling contrast imaging of twins and dislocations in twinning-induced plasticity steels under controlled diffraction conditions in a scanning electron microscope

I. Gutierrez-Urrutia;S. Zaefferer;D. Raabe

267
Citations
Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy

Zhongji Sun;Zhongji Sun;Xipeng Tan;Chengcheng Wang;Marion Descoins

254
Citations
Retention of the Goss orientation between microbands during cold rolling of an Fe3%Si single crystal

Dorothée Dorner;Stefan Zaefferer;Dierk Raabe

246
Citations
On the influence of the grain boundary misorientation on the plastic deformation of aluminum bicrystals

S. Zaefferer;J.-C. Kuo;Z. Zhao;M. Winning

244
Citations
Quantitative multiscale correlative microstructure analysis of additive manufacturing of stainless steel 316L processed by selective laser melting

Matjaž Godec;Stefan Zaefferer;Bojan Podgornik;Mario Šinko

243
Citations
Investigation of orientation gradients around a hard Laves particle in a warm-rolled Fe3Al-based alloy using a 3D EBSD-FIB technique

J. Konrad;S. Zaefferer;D. Raabe

240
Citations
Determination of phase equilibria in the Co-rich Co–Al–W ternary system with a diffusion-couple technique

Satoru Kobayashi;Yuki Tsukamoto;Takayuki Takasugi;Takayuki Takasugi;Hibiki Chinen

215
Citations
Relation between microstructure and mechanical properties of a low-alloyed TRIP steel

K. Davut;S. Zaefferer;D. Raabe;W. Bleck

0
Citations