George Langford

811 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 673 citations indexed

About

George Langford is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, George Langford has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 673 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in George Langford's work include Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (7 papers), Metallurgy and Material Forming (4 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (3 papers). George Langford is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (7 papers), Metallurgy and Material Forming (4 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (3 papers). George Langford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. George Langford's co-authors include Morris Cohen, W. C. Leslie, R. J. Sober, Robert E. Cunningham, Diran Apelian, Manas Paliwal, S. C. Moss and David W. Hoffman and has published in prestigious journals such as SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series, Metallurgical Transactions A and JOM.

In The Last Decade

George Langford

12 papers receiving 635 citations

Hit Papers

Deformation of pearlite 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300
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.

  1. Deformation of pearlite
    1977 345 citations George Langford Metallurgical Transactions A profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Langford United States 8 587 521 280 81 75 12 673
V.F. Zackay United States 14 633 1.1× 443 0.9× 333 1.2× 46 0.6× 199 2.7× 38 733
Y. Bergström Sweden 14 704 1.2× 640 1.2× 524 1.9× 24 0.3× 83 1.1× 24 868
A. Turner 2 583 1.0× 434 0.8× 231 0.8× 34 0.4× 159 2.1× 3 675
Masaharu Tokizane Japan 14 504 0.9× 404 0.8× 176 0.6× 19 0.2× 57 0.8× 64 587
Shrikant P. Bhat United States 9 518 0.9× 417 0.8× 288 1.0× 18 0.2× 102 1.4× 12 599
J. J. Urcola Spain 16 698 1.2× 463 0.9× 314 1.1× 25 0.3× 112 1.5× 45 768
G. Reisner Austria 9 582 1.0× 435 0.8× 298 1.1× 24 0.3× 69 0.9× 11 698
B. P. J. Sandvik United States 10 711 1.2× 553 1.1× 193 0.7× 56 0.7× 152 2.0× 13 737
D. Coutsouradis Belgium 8 585 1.0× 247 0.5× 171 0.6× 69 0.9× 33 0.4× 23 675
Joacim Hagström Sweden 8 511 0.9× 457 0.9× 185 0.7× 40 0.5× 143 1.9× 25 652

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Langford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Langford

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Langford. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Langford based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with George Langford. George Langford is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Paliwal, Manas, Diran Apelian, & George Langford. (1980). Performance of porous refractory valve for liquid metals. Metallurgical Transactions B. 11(1). 39–50. 3 indexed citations
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Langford, George & Diran Apelian. (1980). Diffusion Solidification. JOM. 32(9). 28–33. 8 indexed citations
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Langford, George & Robert E. Cunningham. (1978). Steel casting by diffusion solidification. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B. 9(2). 5–19. 1 indexed citations
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Langford, George & Robert E. Cunningham. (1978). Steel casting by diffusion solidification. Metallurgical Transactions B. 9(1). 5–19. 14 indexed citations
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Langford, George. (1977). High speed steel made by liquid infiltration. Materials Science and Engineering. 28(2). 275–284. 8 indexed citations
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Langford, George. (1977). Deformation of pearlite. Metallurgical Transactions A. 8(6). 861–875. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Langford, George & Morris Cohen. (1975). Microstructural analysis by high-voltage electron diffraction of severely drawn iron wires. Metallurgical Transactions A. 6(4). 901–910. 81 indexed citations
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Langford, George, et al.. (1972). Plastic flow in binary substitutional alloys of BCC iron-effects of wire drawing and alloy content on work hardening and ductility. Metallurgical Transactions. 3(7). 1843–1849. 37 indexed citations
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Langford, George & Morris Cohen. (1970). Calculation of cell-size strengthening of wire-drawn iron. Metallurgical Transactions. 1(5). 1478–1480. 47 indexed citations
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Langford, George. (1970). A study of the deformation of patented steel wire. Metallurgical Transactions. 1(2). 465–477. 124 indexed citations
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Langford, George. (1966). Plasma Arc Welding for Large Titanium Aerospace Structures. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 3 indexed citations
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Cohen, Morris, et al.. (1966). STRENGTHENING MECHANISMS IN STEEL.. 2 indexed citations

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