Iain Todd

9.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
174 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Iain Todd is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain Todd has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 57 papers in Materials Chemistry and 47 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Iain Todd's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (76 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (47 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (40 papers). Iain Todd is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (76 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (47 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (40 papers). Iain Todd collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Iain Todd's co-authors include Samuel Tammas‐Williams, P.B. Prangnell, Kamran Mumtaz, Philip J. Withers, N J Harrison, Meurig Thomas, Wei Zhang, Russell Goodall, F. Derguti and Everth Hernández-Nava and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Iain Todd

170 papers receiving 7.4k citations

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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.

The Origin of Microstructural Diversity, Texture, and Mechanical Properties in Electron Beam Melted Ti-6Al-4V

2010 668 citations Iain Todd et al. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A profile →
Reduction of micro-cracking in nickel superalloys processed by Selective Laser Melting: A fundamental alloy design approach

2015 550 citations Iain Todd, Kamran Mumtaz et al. profile →
Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure

2019 516 citations Iain Todd et al. profile →
XCT analysis of the influence of melt strategies on defect population in Ti–6Al–4V components manufactured by Selective Electron Beam Melting

2015 468 citations Samuel Tammas‐Williams, Hao Zhao et al. Materials Characterization profile →
The use of high-entropy alloys in additive manufacturing

2014 414 citations Iain Todd et al. Scripta Materialia profile →
The Influence of Porosity on Fatigue Crack Initiation in Additively Manufactured Titanium Components

2017 377 citations Samuel Tammas‐Williams, Philip J. Withers et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Iain Todd	6.9k	3.1k	2.0k	1.1k	658	174	7.6k
Thomas Niendorf	9.0k 1.3×	3.9k 1.2×	4.0k 2.0×	957 0.9×	573 0.9×	344	10.3k
Paolo Fino	5.9k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	782 0.7×	501 0.8×	177	7.2k
Tobias A. Schaedler	5.3k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	847 0.8×	1.6k 2.4×	44	7.5k
J.P. Oliveira	10.1k 1.5×	2.9k 0.9×	3.4k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	501 0.8×	271	11.6k
J. W. Elmer	10.3k 1.5×	4.4k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	567 0.9×	121	11.2k
Moataz M. Attallah	11.0k 1.6×	6.2k 2.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	967 1.5×	197	12.1k
Christian Leinenbach	5.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	2.9k 1.4×	663 0.6×	602 0.9×	206	7.3k
Diego Manfredi	4.6k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	923 0.5×	766 0.7×	769 1.2×	143	6.4k
Ming Gao	7.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	331 0.5×	201	8.3k
Allison M. Beese	12.0k 1.7×	6.6k 2.1×	3.1k 1.5×	895 0.8×	876 1.3×	122	13.2k

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Todd, Iain, et al.. (2025). Influence of heat treatment on microstructure and magnetic properties of laser powder bed fusion generated NdFeB magnets. Progress in Additive Manufacturing. 10(8). 5743–5759. 1 indexed citations

Leung, Chu Lun Alex, Samy Hocine, Alexander Rack, et al.. (2025). Laser additive manufacturing of lunar regolith simulant: New insights from in situ synchrotron X-ray imaging. Additive manufacturing. 101. 104711–104711. 6 indexed citations

Galindo-Nava, E.I., et al.. (2024). Laser powder bed fusion of NdFeB and influence of powder bed heating on density and magnetic properties. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 132(9-10). 5017–5038. 9 indexed citations

Atkins, Carolyn, Iain Todd, Tom Walsh, et al.. (2024). Targeting low micro-roughness for 3D printed aluminium mirrors using a hot isostatic press. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 10566. 141–141.

Todd, Iain, et al.. (2023). Dynamic Regulatory Assessment: Unpacking the Process Reveals Readiness to Pilot for Europe—An EFPIA View. Clinical Therapeutics. 45(11). 1142–1147. 2 indexed citations

Nishanth, FNU, et al.. (2023). Characterization of an Axial Flux Machine With an Additively Manufactured Stator. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 38(4). 2717–2729. 28 indexed citations

Chechik, Lova, et al.. (2023). Tools for the Assessment of the Laser Printability of Nickel Superalloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 54(6). 2421–2437. 8 indexed citations

Chechik, Lova & Iain Todd. (2023). Inconel 718 Two Ways: Powder Bed Fusion vs. Directed Energy Deposition. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Hernández-Nava, Everth, et al.. (2022). The joining of CP-vanadium and Ti–6Al–4V using the Electron Beam Melting Additive Manufacturing method. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100102–100102. 4 indexed citations

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Huang, Yuhe, Everth Hernández-Nava, Xiaogang Hu, Iain Todd, & Qiang Zhu. (2022). Unusual martensitic strain accommodation mechanism in an electron beam processed metastable β-Ti alloy. Scripta Materialia. 223. 115069–115069. 3 indexed citations

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Chechik, Lova, et al.. (2022). Calibrated closed-loop control to reduce the effect of geometry on mechanical behaviour in directed energy deposition. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 311. 117823–117823. 7 indexed citations

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Lyle, A.R., Matthew A. Davies, Magnus Anderson, et al.. (2021). Reconstruction of Microscopic Thermal Fields from Oversampled Infrared Images in Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion. Sensors. 21(14). 4859–4859. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunhui, Samuel J. Clark, Chu Lun Alex Leung, et al.. (2020). In-situ Synchrotron imaging of keyhole mode multi-layer laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. Applied Materials Today. 20. 100650–100650. 98 indexed citations

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Smith, C.J.M., et al.. (2018). 3D printing a jet engine: An undergraduate project to exploit additive manufacturing now and in the future. Materials Today Communications. 16. 22–25. 7 indexed citations

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Gao, Junheng, et al.. (2017). Atomic structure of Mg-based metallic glasses from molecular dynamics and neutron diffraction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(12). 8504–8515. 21 indexed citations

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Tammas‐Williams, Samuel, Philip J. Withers, Iain Todd, & P.B. Prangnell. (2016). Porosity regrowth during heat treatment of hot isostatically pressed additively manufactured titanium components. Scripta Materialia. 122. 72–76. 230 indexed citations

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Tammas‐Williams, Samuel & Iain Todd. (2016). Design for additive manufacturing with site-specific properties in metals and alloys. Scripta Materialia. 135. 105–110. 115 indexed citations

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Tammas‐Williams, Samuel, Philip J. Withers, Iain Todd, & P.B. Prangnell. (2016). The Effectiveness of Hot Isostatic Pressing for Closing Porosity in Titanium Parts Manufactured by Selective Electron Beam Melting. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 47(5). 1939–1946. 212 indexed citations

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Tammas‐Williams, Samuel, Hao Zhao, Fabien Léonard, et al.. (2015). XCT analysis of the influence of melt strategies on defect population in Ti–6Al–4V components manufactured by Selective Electron Beam Melting. Materials Characterization. 102. 47–61. 468 indexed citations breakdown →

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Figueroa, I.A., et al.. (2012). A detailed study of metallic glass formation in copper-hafnium-titanium alloys. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters). 25(6). 409–419. 1 indexed citations

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