2026 William J. Weber: 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	97	1193	1143	388	361	725	40424

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Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

William J. Weber is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

High Entropy Alloys Studies
High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Ion-surface interactions and analysis
Nuclear materials and radiation effects
Advanced materials and composites

William J. Weber's publication record includes articles in several frequent venues, reflecting an active contribution to materials science and nuclear materials research. Key publication venues are:

Journal of Nuclear Materials
Acta Materialia
SSRN Electronic Journal
Scripta Materialia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers include the following:

"Ion irradiation and modification: The role of coupled electronic and nuclear energy dissipation and subsequent nonequilibrium processes in materials," 2020, Applied Physics Reviews
"Tunable Chemical Disorder in Concentrated Alloys: Defect Physics and Radiation Performance," 2021, Chemical Reviews
"Segregation of Ni at early stages of radiation damage in NiCoFeCr solid solution alloys," 2020, Acta Materialia
"Irradiation performance of high entropy ceramics: A comprehensive comparison with conventional ceramics and high entropy alloys," 2024, Progress in Materials Science
"Effects of Fe atoms on hardening of a nickel matrix: Nanoindentation experiments and atom-scale numerical modeling," 2022, Materials & Design

Frequent collaborators of William J. Weber include:

Yanwen Zhang
Miguel L. Crespillo
Gihan Velişa
Hongbin Bei
Eva Zarkadoula

Among awards, Weber was named Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2008.

Best Publications

Radiation effects in crystalline ceramics for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste and plutonium

W. J. Weber;R. C. Ewing;C. R. A. Catlow;T. Diaz de la Rubia

1096
Citations
Nuclear waste disposal—pyrochlore (A2B2O7): Nuclear waste form for the immobilization of plutonium and “minor” actinides

Rodney C. Ewing;William J. Weber;Jie Lian

1058
Citations
Radiation effects in nuclear waste forms for high-level radioactive waste

R.C. Ewing;W.J. Weber;F.W. Clinard

904
Citations
Enhancing radiation tolerance by controlling defect mobility and migration pathways in multicomponent single-phase alloys

Chenyang Lu;Liangliang Niu;Nanjun Chen;Ke Jin

804
Citations
Electrochemical Properties of Mixed Conducting Perovskites La1 − x M x Co1 − y Fe y O 3 − δ (M = Sr, Ba, Ca)

J. W. Stevenson;T. R. Armstrong;R. D. Carneim;L. R. Pederson

781
Citations
Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in concentrated solid solution alloys.

Yanwen Zhang;G. Malcolm Stocks;Ke Jin;Ke Jin;Chenyang Lu

666
Citations
Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

Kai Nordlund;Steven J. Zinkle;Steven J. Zinkle;Andrea E. Sand;Fredric Granberg

600
Citations
Alpha-decay event damage in zircon

Takashi Murakami;Bryan C. Chakoumakos;Rodney C. Ewing;Gregory R. Lumpkin

576
Citations
Radiation effects in glasses used for immobilization of high-level waste and plutonium disposition

William J. Weber;Rodney C. Ewing;C. Austen Angell;George W. Arnold

551
Citations
Models and mechanisms of irradiation-induced amorphization in ceramics

W.J Weber

523
Citations
Radiation stability of gadolinium zirconate: A waste form for plutonium disposition

S. X. Wang;B. D. Begg;L. M. Wang;R. C. Ewing

516
Citations
Mechanism of Radiation Damage Reduction in Equiatomic Multicomponent Single Phase Alloys

Fredric Gustaf Granberg;Kai Henrik Nordlund;Mohammad Wali Ullah;K Jin

502
Citations
Radiation effects in SiC for nuclear structural applications

Yutai Katoh;Lance Lewis Snead;Izabela Szlufarska;William J. Weber;William J. Weber

485
Citations
Radiation damage in zircon and monazite

A. Meldrum;L.A. Boatner;W.J. Weber;R.C. Ewing

469
Citations
The radiation-induced crystalline-to-amorphous transition in zircon

William J. Weber;Rodney C. Ewing;Lu-Min Wang

460
Citations
Local Structure and Short-Range Order in a NiCoCr Solid Solution Alloy.

F. X. Zhang;Shijun Zhao;Ke Jin;H. Xue

432
Citations
Zircon: A host-phase for the disposal of weapons plutonium

R.C. Ewing;Werner Lutze;William J. Weber

419
Citations
Materials Science of High-Level Nuclear Waste Immobilization

William J. Weber;Alexandra Navrotsky;Sergey Stefanovsky;Eric R. Vance

414
Citations
Radiation Detector Materials: An Overview

Brian D. Milbrath;Anthony J. Peurrung;Mary Bliss;William J. Weber

403
Citations
Radiation Effects in Zircon

Rodney C. Ewing;Alkiviathes Meldrum;LuMin Wang;William J. Weber

401
Citations