Jason Steck

568 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Jason Steck is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason Steck has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 4 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 4 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Jason Steck's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (4 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Jason Steck is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (4 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Jason Steck collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Jason Steck's co-authors include Zhigang Suo, Junsoo Kim, Jiawei Yang, Yakov Kutsovsky, Guogao Zhang, Christine Heera Ahn, Ruobing Bai, Min Zou, Xuxu Yang and Xiangbo Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science Advances and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

In The Last Decade

Jason Steck

14 papers receiving 440 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.

Multiscale stress deconcentration amplifies fatigue resistance of rubber

2023 120 citations Jason Steck, Junsoo Kim et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason Steck United States	10	227	108	99	94	89	14	446
Mingming Rong China	10	167 0.7×	52 0.5×	90 0.9×	84 0.9×	73 0.8×	12	380
Jay M. Korde India	6	164 0.7×	62 0.6×	70 0.7×	101 1.1×	100 1.1×	6	376
Hanlian Liu China	12	218 1.0×	63 0.6×	39 0.4×	96 1.0×	76 0.9×	43	412
Yaozhong Lu China	9	186 0.8×	78 0.7×	88 0.9×	81 0.9×	79 0.9×	16	368
Yeqiao Meng China	12	247 1.1×	71 0.7×	94 0.9×	79 0.8×	108 1.2×	14	432
Youjun Guan China	11	396 1.7×	171 1.6×	56 0.6×	74 0.8×	112 1.3×	13	530
Junwen Huang China	8	186 0.8×	118 1.1×	24 0.2×	90 1.0×	61 0.7×	12	394
Huiming Ning China	9	381 1.7×	242 2.2×	67 0.7×	115 1.2×	77 0.9×	26	570
Xinxin Qu China	9	228 1.0×	244 2.3×	52 0.5×	52 0.6×	86 1.0×	13	566
Shuangli Li China	14	388 1.7×	215 2.0×	38 0.4×	141 1.5×	139 1.6×	24	712

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason Steck

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Steck, Jason, Christine Heera Ahn, & Zhigang Suo. (2025). Polymers Resist Fatigue Crack Growth by Deconcentrating Stress. Annual Review of Materials Research. 55(1). 333–358. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guogao, Jason Steck, Junsoo Kim, Christine Heera Ahn, & Zhigang Suo. (2023). Hydrogels of arrested phase separation simultaneously achieve high strength and low hysteresis. Science Advances. 9(26). eadh7742–eadh7742. 62 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, Junsoo Kim, Yakov Kutsovsky, & Zhigang Suo. (2023). Multiscale stress deconcentration amplifies fatigue resistance of rubber. Nature. 624(7991). 303–308. 120 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steck, Jason, et al.. (2022). Fracture initiated from corners in brittle soft materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 170. 105115–105115. 5 indexed citations

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Kim, Junsoo & Jason Steck. (2022). Mechanofluorescence reveals fatigue in double-network elastomers. Matter. 5(8). 2545–2547. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Xuxu, Jason Steck, Jiawei Yang, Yecheng Wang, & Zhigang Suo. (2021). Degradable Plastics Are Vulnerable to Cracks. Engineering. 7(5). 624–629. 16 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, et al.. (2020). Topological adhesion. I. Rapid and strong topohesives. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 39. 100803–100803. 62 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiawei, Jason Steck, Ruobing Bai, & Zhigang Suo. (2020). Topological adhesion II. Stretchable adhesion. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 40. 100891–100891. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiawei, Jason Steck, & Zhigang Suo. (2020). Gelation kinetics of alginate chains through covalent bonds. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 40. 100898–100898. 16 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, et al.. (2020). Cracks outrun erosion in degradable polymers. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 40. 100978–100978. 12 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, Jiawei Yang, & Zhigang Suo. (2019). Covalent Topological Adhesion. ACS Macro Letters. 8(6). 754–758. 78 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, et al.. (2018). Fabrication and tribological characterization of deformation-resistant nano-textured surfaces produced by two-photon lithography and atomic layer deposition. Tribology International. 132. 75–84. 18 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason, Robert A. Fleming, Josue A. Goss, & Min Zou. (2017). Deformation and fatigue resistance of Al/a-Si core-shell nanostructures subjected to cyclic nanoindentation. Applied Surface Science. 433. 617–626. 13 indexed citations

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Steck, Jason. (2015). You're in the Army Now! Reforming Military Enlistment Contracts. Digital Commons - Hamline (Hamline University). 38(3). 3. 1 indexed citations

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