Dirk Ponge

24.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
205 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Dirk Ponge is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Metals and Alloys. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Ponge has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 168 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 138 papers in Materials Chemistry and 63 papers in Metals and Alloys. Recurrent topics in Dirk Ponge's work include Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (111 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (67 papers) and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (63 papers). Dirk Ponge is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (111 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (67 papers) and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (63 papers). Dirk Ponge collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United Kingdom. Dirk Ponge's co-authors include Dierk Raabe, M. Calcagnotto, Baptiste Gault, Eralp Demir, Rongjie Song, Cemal Cem Taşan, Stefanie Sandlöbes, Pyuck‐Pa Choi, Wenjun Lu and Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Ponge

200 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary disloca... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2010 2017 2010 2014 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary dislocations in ultrafine grained dual-phase steels studied by 2D and 3D EBSD
    2010 1.8k citations Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe et al. profile →
  2. Ultrastrong steel via minimal lattice misfit and high-density nanoprecipitation
    2017 1.1k citations Baptiste Gault, Dirk Ponge et al. profile →
  3. Deformation and fracture mechanisms in fine- and ultrafine-grained ferrite/martensite dual-phase steels and the effect of aging
    2010 651 citations Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  4. Grain boundary segregation engineering in metallic alloys: A pathway to the design of interfaces
    2014 557 citations Dierk Raabe, Michael Herbig et al. profile →
  5. An Overview of Dual-Phase Steels: Advances in Microstructure-Oriented Processing and Micromechanically Guided Design
    2015 503 citations Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe et al. profile →
  6. Overview of processing, microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grained bcc steels
    2006 491 citations Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe et al. profile →
  7. Ultrastrong Medium‐Entropy Single‐Phase Alloys Designed via Severe Lattice Distortion
    2018 462 citations Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Wenjun Lu et al. profile →
  8. Machine learning–enabled high-entropy alloy discovery
    2022 461 citations Ziyuan Rao, Prithiv Thoudden Sukumar et al. profile →
  9. Design of a novel Mn-based 1GPa duplex stainless TRIP steel with 60% ductility by a reduction of austenite stability
    2011 450 citations Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  10. Strain hardening by dynamic slip band refinement in a high-Mn lightweight steel
    2016 372 citations Dirk Ponge, Stefanie Sandlöbes et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  11. Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high-strength Al alloys
    2022 222 citations Huan Zhao, Dirk Ponge et al. profile →
  12. Ultrastrong lightweight compositionally complex steels via dual-nanoprecipitation
    2020 215 citations Wenjun Lu, Huan Zhao et al. Science Advances profile →
  13. Multifunctional high-entropy materials
    2024 87 citations Ziyuan Rao, Dirk Ponge et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk Ponge Germany 70 16.8k 11.9k 4.6k 4.4k 3.7k 205 19.5k
Cemal Cem Taşan United States 51 14.4k 0.9× 6.2k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 6.7k 1.8× 146 16.2k
Sunghak Lee South Korea 61 12.9k 0.8× 8.1k 0.7× 4.1k 0.9× 2.3k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 476 14.5k
Reinhard Pıppan Austria 70 14.1k 0.8× 12.5k 1.1× 7.7k 1.6× 1.1k 0.2× 2.7k 0.7× 494 18.7k
Tadashi Furuhara Japan 60 11.9k 0.7× 9.2k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 295 13.0k
Kaneaki Tsuzaki Japan 68 12.4k 0.7× 11.8k 1.0× 4.6k 1.0× 7.5k 1.7× 1.5k 0.4× 400 16.0k
Hüseyin Şehitoğlu United States 72 10.3k 0.6× 10.9k 0.9× 6.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 337 16.7k
Thomas Pardoen Belgium 62 8.9k 0.5× 6.3k 0.5× 5.7k 1.2× 843 0.2× 1.9k 0.5× 346 13.7k
W.A. Curtin United States 78 13.0k 0.8× 10.6k 0.9× 6.1k 1.3× 1.8k 0.4× 5.1k 1.4× 289 20.9k
Stefan Zaefferer Germany 51 8.5k 0.5× 6.3k 0.5× 2.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 1.7k 0.5× 194 10.9k
H. Mughrabi Germany 60 9.9k 0.6× 8.3k 0.7× 5.2k 1.1× 1.4k 0.3× 2.1k 0.6× 175 12.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shi, Hao, et al.. (2025). Improving hydrogen embrittlement resistance of martensitic steel via interface B segregation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 164. 150954–150954. 1 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Waleed S., et al.. (2025). Thermodynamics-guided design of sustainable secondary Al-Si alloys for enhanced Fe-impurity tolerance and optimized Mn doping. Acta Materialia. 289. 120932–120932. 7 indexed citations
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Saksena, Aparna, Ali Tehranchi, Baptiste Gault, et al.. (2024). Interfacial boron segregation in a high-Mn and high-Al multiphase lightweight steel. Acta Materialia. 283. 120568–120568. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Huan, Y. Yin, Yuxiang Wu, et al.. (2024). How solute atoms control aqueous corrosion of Al-alloys. Nature Communications. 15(1). 561–561. 28 indexed citations
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Moon, Joonoh, G.T. Bae, Bo‐Young Jeong, et al.. (2024). Ultrastrong and ductile steel welds achieved by fine interlocking microstructures with film-like retained austenite. Nature Communications. 15(1). 16 indexed citations
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Morsdorf, Lutz, Iván Gónzalez, Michael Kölling, et al.. (2023). Influence of MnS inclusion characteristics on generation of white etching cracks in 100Cr6 bearing steel. Wear. 534-535. 205129–205129. 5 indexed citations
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Ponge, Dirk, et al.. (2023). Hydrogen-induced hardening of a high-manganese twinning induced plasticity steel. Materialia. 28. 101776–101776. 8 indexed citations
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Sukumar, Prithiv Thoudden, Baptiste Gault, Yujiao Li, et al.. (2023). Austenite grain boundary segregation and precipitation of boron in low-C steels and their role on the heterogeneous nucleation of ferrite. Acta Materialia. 252. 118947–118947. 39 indexed citations
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Shi, Hao, Supriya Nandy, Huijie Cheng, Binhan Sun, & Dirk Ponge. (2023). In-situ investigation of the interaction between hydrogen and stacking faults in a bulk austenitic steel. Acta Materialia. 262. 119441–119441. 8 indexed citations
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Saksena, Aparna, et al.. (2023). Optimizing site-specific specimen preparation for atom probe tomography by using hydrogen for visualizing radiation-induced damage. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 50. 165–174. 10 indexed citations
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Sun, Binhan, et al.. (2022). The dual role of martensitic transformation in fatigue crack growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(9). 49 indexed citations
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Sun, Binhan, et al.. (2022). Hydrogen-assisted decohesion associated with nanosized grain boundary κ-carbides in a high-Mn lightweight steel. Acta Materialia. 241. 118392–118392. 27 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xuyang, Jaber Rezaei Mianroodi, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, et al.. (2021). The hidden structure dependence of the chemical life of dislocations. Science Advances. 7(16). 38 indexed citations
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Rao, Ziyuan, Aslı Çakır, Dirk Ponge, et al.. (2021). 3d transition-metal high-entropy Invar alloy developed by adjusting the valence-electron concentration. Physical Review Materials. 5(4). 10 indexed citations
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Ding, Ran, Yingjie Yao, Binhan Sun, et al.. (2020). Chemical boundary engineering: A new route toward lean, ultrastrong yet ductile steels. Science Advances. 6(13). eaay1430–eaay1430. 201 indexed citations
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Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski da, Reza Darvishi Kamachali, Dirk Ponge, et al.. (2019). Thermodynamics of grain boundary segregation, interfacial spinodal and their relevance for nucleation during solid-solid phase transitions. Acta Materialia. 168. 109–120. 59 indexed citations
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Dutta, Aniruddha, Dirk Ponge, Stefanie Sandlöbes, & Dierk Raabe. (2019). Strain partitioning and strain localization in medium manganese steels measured by in situ microscopic digital image correlation. Materialia. 5. 100252–100252. 68 indexed citations
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Raabe, Dierk, Zhiming Li, & Dirk Ponge. (2019). Metastability alloy design. MRS Bulletin. 44(4). 266–272. 54 indexed citations
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Tan, Xiaodong, Dirk Ponge, Wenjun Lu, et al.. (2018). Carbon and strain partitioning in a quenched and partitioned steel containing ferrite. Acta Materialia. 165. 561–576. 98 indexed citations
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Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski da, Gerhard Inden, Ankit Kumar, et al.. (2018). Competition between formation of carbides and reversed austenite during tempering of a medium-manganese steel studied by thermodynamic-kinetic simulations and atom probe tomography. Acta Materialia. 147. 165–175. 71 indexed citations

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