Ajit Mal

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
173 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Ajit Mal is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ajit Mal has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 63 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 57 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ajit Mal's work include Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (104 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (47 papers) and Non-Destructive Testing Techniques (42 papers). Ajit Mal is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (104 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (47 papers) and Non-Destructive Testing Techniques (42 papers). Ajit Mal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and South Korea. Ajit Mal's co-authors include Hongbin Shen, Fred Wudl, Steven Nutt, Matheus A. Dam, Kanji Ono, Xiangxu Chen, L. Knopoff, Santanu Bose, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen and Sauvik Banerjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ajit Mal

163 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Thermally Re-mendable Cross-Linked Polymeric Material

2002 2.2k citations Ajit Mal, Fred Wudl et al. profile →
New Thermally Remendable Highly Cross-Linked Polymeric Materials

2003 544 citations Fred Wudl, Ajit Mal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ajit Mal United States	38	3.2k	2.3k	1.5k	1.5k	1.2k	173	7.1k
N. Takeda Japan	47	1.8k 0.6×	425 0.2×	912 0.6×	436 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	284	7.2k
Zheng Zhang China	40	1.1k 0.4×	618 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	824 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	201	7.3k
V.B.C. Tan Singapore	48	4.3k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	197 0.1×	1.6k 1.3×	227	8.3k
Pengwan Chen China	39	1.8k 0.6×	617 0.3×	705 0.5×	118 0.1×	2.1k 1.7×	292	6.0k
Lifeng Wang United States	47	1.1k 0.3×	971 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	166 0.1×	3.7k 3.0×	139	7.0k
Daniele Dini United Kingdom	46	3.5k 1.1×	183 0.1×	487 0.3×	136 0.1×	3.5k 2.9×	383	8.1k
Tian Tang Canada	38	1.9k 0.6×	438 0.2×	211 0.1×	299 0.2×	732 0.6×	246	5.3k
Richard O. Claus United States	34	484 0.2×	360 0.2×	2.2k 1.4×	122 0.1×	526 0.4×	358	7.0k
Chun‐Gon Kim South Korea	49	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	51 0.0×	1.8k 1.5×	334	8.3k
Sungho Jin United States	47	554 0.2×	469 0.2×	440 0.3×	245 0.2×	779 0.6×	201	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ajit Mal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ajit Mal

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schaal, Christoph & Ajit Mal. (2016). Lamb wave propagation in a plate with step discontinuities. Wave Motion. 66. 177–189. 45 indexed citations

Ricci, Fabrizio, et al.. (2013). Guided Waves in a Disbonded Honeycomb Composite Structure. Structural Health Monitoring. 3 indexed citations

Chien, Aichi, et al.. (2007). Human cardiac wall stress analysis with patient-specific myocardial material properties. WIT transactions on biomedicine and health. 1 indexed citations

Murphy, Erin B., Ajit Mal, Fred Wudl, et al.. (2006). Multifunctional Self-Healing and Morphing Composites. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 490(1-2). 39–46. 2 indexed citations

Mal, Ajit, et al.. (2006). Pelvic injury potential and motorcycle gas tanks. Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference. 34. 2 indexed citations

Mal, Ajit, Sauvik Banerjee, Fabrizio Ricci, Ernesto Monaco, & Leonardo Lecce. (2006). Autonomous health monitoring of a stiffened composite plate. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6177. 617701–617701. 3 indexed citations

Mal, Ajit, et al.. (2003). Acoustic emission waveforms in composite laminates under low velocity impact. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5047. 1–1. 28 indexed citations

Zheng, Dawei, et al.. (2002). Stress Relaxation of a Patterned Microstructure on a Diaphragm. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 17(7). 1795–1802. 1 indexed citations

Bar‐Cohen, Yoseph, et al.. (1999). Composite Materials Stiffness Determination and Defects Characterization Using Leaky Lamb Wave (LLW) Dispersion Data. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. 25(42). 7716–7720. 1 indexed citations

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Bar‐Cohen, Yoseph, et al.. (1999). <title>NDE of hidden flaws in aging aircraft structures using obliquely backscattered ultrasonic signals (OBUS)</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3586. 347–353. 1 indexed citations

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Ravi, Rajani, Erich Weber, Martin McMahon, et al.. (1998). Activated Raf-1 causes growth arrest in human small cell lung cancer cells.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 101(1). 153–159. 125 indexed citations

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Yang, Ruey‐Bin & Ajit Mal. (1996). Elastic waves in a composite containing inhomogeneous fibers. International Journal of Engineering Science. 34(1). 67–79. 24 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit, et al.. (1996). Cyclin-dependent kinases phosphorylate the adenovirus E1A protein, enhancing its ability to bind pRb and disrupt pRb-E2F complexes. Journal of Virology. 70(5). 2911–2921. 20 indexed citations

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Bar‐Cohen, Yoseph, et al.. (1993). NDE of composite materials using ultrasonic oblique insonification. Materials Evaluation. 51(11). 1285–1295. 21 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit, Md. Rezaul Karim, & Yoseph Bar‐Cohen. (1990). Determination of the properties of composite interfaces by an ultrasonic method. Materials Science and Engineering A. 126(1-2). 155–164. 6 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit, et al.. (1990). Inversion of leaky Lamb wave data to determine cohesive properties of bonds. International Journal of Engineering Science. 28(4). 331–346. 32 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit, et al.. (1989). In Memoriam C. Martin Duke. Earthquake Spectra. 5(2). 451–452. 1 indexed citations

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Knopoff, L., Ajit Mal, L. E. Alsop, & Robert A. Phinney. (1970). A property of long-period Love waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 75(20). 4084–4086. 8 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit. (1968). Diffraction of elastic waves by a penny-shaped crack. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 26(2). 231–238. 17 indexed citations

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Mal, Ajit. (1962). On the frequency equation for love waves due to abrupt thickening of the crustal layer. Geofisica pura e applicata. 52(1). 59–68. 29 indexed citations

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