Ian McCue

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Ian McCue is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian McCue has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Materials Chemistry, 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Ian McCue's work include Nanoporous metals and alloys (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (7 papers). Ian McCue is often cited by papers focused on Nanoporous metals and alloys (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (7 papers). Ian McCue collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Ian McCue's co-authors include Jonah Erlebacher, Bernard Gaskey, Ellen Benn, Joshua Snyder, Alain Karma, Ken Livi, Pierre-Antoine Geslin, Michael J. Demkowicz, K. Sieradzki and Qing Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ian McCue

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Materials design for hypersonics 2024 2026 2025 2024 40 80 120
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. Materials design for hypersonics
    2024 148 citations Adam B. Peters, Dajie Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ian McCue United States 18 1.4k 835 439 361 264 39 1.8k
J. R. Hayes United States 13 1.5k 1.1× 743 0.9× 358 0.8× 238 0.7× 229 0.9× 19 1.8k
Yinkai Lei United States 19 772 0.5× 484 0.6× 124 0.3× 224 0.6× 440 1.7× 45 1.3k
Sean G. Corcoran United States 17 1.2k 0.9× 679 0.8× 216 0.5× 195 0.5× 245 0.9× 35 1.6k
Bernard Gaskey United States 15 812 0.6× 448 0.5× 234 0.5× 366 1.0× 177 0.7× 24 1.2k
Akhilesh Kumar Singh India 20 1.1k 0.7× 436 0.5× 447 1.0× 183 0.5× 721 2.7× 107 1.6k
Bo Wu China 23 1.4k 1.0× 391 0.5× 269 0.6× 305 0.8× 786 3.0× 109 2.0k
Guling Zhang China 23 1.2k 0.9× 229 0.3× 192 0.4× 385 1.1× 481 1.8× 93 1.8k
Kan Luo China 24 3.0k 2.1× 615 0.7× 472 1.1× 332 0.9× 1.6k 6.0× 54 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian McCue

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian McCue

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ian McCue. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ian McCue. The network helps show where Ian McCue may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian McCue

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ian McCue. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ian McCue 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 Ian McCue. Ian McCue is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Price, Samuel C., et al.. (2025). On-the-fly path planning for the design of compositional gradients in high dimensions. Materials & Design. 254. 113983–113983.
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Li, Yawei, James L. Hart, Zhiyong Xia, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Origin of Morphological Instability in Topologically Complex Electrocatalytic Nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(37). 33482–33494. 1 indexed citations
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Snyder, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Coarsening kinetics of alloy-doped nanoporous metals. Scripta Materialia. 255. 116373–116373. 4 indexed citations
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Cunningham, William, Eric Lang, David Sprouster, et al.. (2024). Alloying effects on the microstructure and properties of laser additively manufactured tungsten materials. Materials Science and Engineering A. 914. 147110–147110. 5 indexed citations
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Anber, Elaf A., et al.. (2024). Interfacial Phase Evolution during In Situ TEM Dealloying Approach of Ti30Cr/Ni. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1).
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Peters, Adam B., Dajie Zhang, Samuel Chen, et al.. (2024). Materials design for hypersonics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3328–3328. 148 indexed citations breakdown →
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McElroy, K., Nam Q. Le, Ian McCue, et al.. (2023). Closed-loop superconducting materials discovery. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 11 indexed citations
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Croom, Brendan P., et al.. (2023). Contributions of porosity and laser parameter drift to inter-build variation of mechanical properties in additively manufactured 316 L stainless steel. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 317. 117998–117998. 4 indexed citations
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Barr, Christopher M., et al.. (2022). Influence of laser processing parameters on the density-ductility tradeoff in additively manufactured pure tantalum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100117–100117. 6 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, et al.. (2021). Additive manufacturing of NiZnCu-ferrite soft magnetic composites. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 36(18). 3579–3590. 6 indexed citations
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Xiang, Sisi, Ian McCue, Yongqiang Wang, et al.. (2020). Comparative study of helium bubbles in a Ti-Ta alloy and a Ti/Ta nanocomposite. Philosophical Magazine Letters. 100(7). 307–318. 4 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, Sisi Xiang, Kelvin Y. Xie, & Michael J. Demkowicz. (2020). The Effect of Microstructure Morphology on Indentation Response of Ta/Ti Nanocomposite Thin Films. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 51(11). 5677–5690. 6 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, Alain Karma, & Jonah Erlebacher. (2018). Pattern formation during electrochemical and liquid metal dealloying. MRS Bulletin. 43(1). 27–34. 84 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, Joshua Stuckner, Mitsuhiro Murayama, & Michael J. Demkowicz. (2018). Gaining new insights into nanoporous gold by mining and analysis of published images. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6761–6761. 37 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, Ellen Benn, Bernard Gaskey, & Jonah Erlebacher. (2016). Dealloying and Dealloyed Materials. Annual Review of Materials Research. 46(1). 263–286. 394 indexed citations
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Geslin, Pierre-Antoine, Ian McCue, Bernard Gaskey, Jonah Erlebacher, & Alain Karma. (2015). Topology-generating interfacial pattern formation during liquid metal dealloying. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8887–8887. 153 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoqian, Qing Chen, Ian McCue, et al.. (2014). Dealloying of Noble-Metal Alloy Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 14(5). 2569–2577. 161 indexed citations
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Erlebacher, Jonah & Ian McCue. (2012). Geometric characterization of nanoporous metals. Acta Materialia. 60(17). 6164–6174. 33 indexed citations
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McCue, Ian, et al.. (2012). Apparent Inverse Gibbs-Thomson Effect in Dealloyed Nanoporous Nanoparticles. Physical Review Letters. 108(22). 225503–225503. 47 indexed citations

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