K. Samwer

17.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
331 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

K. Samwer is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Samwer has authored 331 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Materials Chemistry, 175 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 146 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in K. Samwer's work include Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (161 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (102 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (81 papers). K. Samwer is often cited by papers focused on Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (161 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (102 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (81 papers). K. Samwer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. K. Samwer's co-authors include William L. Johnson, J. Wecker, R. von Helmolt, L. Schultz, B. Holzäpfel, Hai‐Bin Yu, Marios D. Demetriou, M. Moske, V. Moshnyaga and Ralf Brüning and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

K. Samwer

327 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Giant negative magnetoresistance in perovskitelikeLa2/3Ba1/3MnOxferromagnetic films

1993 3.5k citations R. von Helmolt, J. Wecker et al. profile →
A Universal Criterion for Plastic Yielding of Metallic Glasses with a(T/Tg)2/3Temperature Dependence

2005 1.1k citations William L. Johnson, K. Samwer profile →
Local elastic properties of a metallic glass

2011 360 citations K. Samwer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Samwer Germany	56	8.7k	6.5k	6.0k	6.0k	2.9k	331	14.9k
M. J. Kramer United States	53	6.4k 0.7×	6.0k 0.9×	2.2k 0.4×	3.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	390	11.8k
S. J. Poon United States	61	8.1k 0.9×	6.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.4×	3.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	275	12.4k
F.R. de Boer Netherlands	51	7.3k 0.8×	5.8k 0.9×	9.4k 1.6×	11.6k 1.9×	672 0.2×	616	20.2k
Igor A. Abrikosov Sweden	72	12.5k 1.4×	4.2k 0.6×	3.1k 0.5×	3.1k 0.5×	530 0.2×	378	18.7k
H. W. Sheng United States	44	7.5k 0.9×	7.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.3×	708 0.1×	2.4k 0.8×	106	10.8k
H. Y. Bai China	48	5.6k 0.6×	7.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.3×	1.0k 0.2×	3.4k 1.1×	257	8.9k
Uichiro Mizutani Japan	46	4.7k 0.5×	3.3k 0.5×	2.8k 0.5×	3.1k 0.5×	408 0.1×	395	8.7k
Karsten Albe Germany	63	10.3k 1.2×	4.1k 0.6×	710 0.1×	2.3k 0.4×	772 0.3×	238	13.9k
David E. Laughlin United States	57	6.2k 0.7×	7.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.2×	6.2k 1.0×	236 0.1×	446	14.4k
K.H.J. Buschow Netherlands	70	7.0k 0.8×	3.7k 0.6×	9.5k 1.6×	13.3k 2.2×	461 0.2×	520	18.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Samwer

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Zaccone, Alessio & K. Samwer. (2025). Fragility and thermal expansion control crystal melting and the glass transition. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(11).

Shen, Yidi, K. Samwer, William L. Johnson, William A. Goddard, & Qi An. (2025). Phase formation and phase stability for the homogenous and heterogeneous amorphous metals versus the crystalline phase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2404489122–e2404489122. 2 indexed citations

Lunkenheimer, P., K. Samwer, & A. Loidl. (2024). Crystal melting influenced by particle cooperativity of the liquid. Physical review. B.. 110(13). 3 indexed citations

Lunkenheimer, P., A. Loidl, Birte Riechers, Alessio Zaccone, & K. Samwer. (2023). Thermal expansion and the glass transition. Nature Physics. 19(5). 694–699. 71 indexed citations

Sun, Peihao, Manfred Burghammer, Jerzy Antonowicz, et al.. (2023). Observation of long-range anisotropy in a vapor-deposited metallic glass. Materialia. 30. 101847–101847.

Luo, Yi, et al.. (2022). Examining the influence of turbulence on viscosity measurements of molten germanium under reduced gravity. npj Microgravity. 8(1). 53–53. 3 indexed citations

Schmidt, Hendrik, et al.. (2020). Switching friction at a manganite surface using electric fields. Physical Review Materials. 4(11). 4 indexed citations

Luo, Yuansu, B. Damaschke, G. Lohöfer, & K. Samwer. (2020). Thermophysical properties of a Si50Ge50 melt measured on board the International Space Station. npj Microgravity. 6(1). 10–10. 8 indexed citations

An, Qi, et al.. (2020). The first order L-G phase transition in liquid Ag and Ag-Cu alloys is driven by deviatoric strain. Scripta Materialia. 194. 113695–113695. 14 indexed citations

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Lunkenheimer, P., et al.. (2020). Universal correlations between the fragility and interparticle repulsion of glass-forming liquids. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(12). 124507–124507. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Chong Yang, Ran Li, et al.. (2019). Anomalous nonlinear damping in metallic glasses: Signature of elasticity breakdown. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(11). 111104–111104. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Hai‐Bin, Yang Sun, Feng Zhang, et al.. (2018). Fundamental Link between β Relaxation, Excess Wings, and Cage-Breaking in Metallic Glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(19). 5877–5883. 51 indexed citations

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Yu, Hai‐Bin, Ranko Richert, & K. Samwer. (2017). Structural rearrangements governing Johari-Goldstein relaxations in metallic glasses. Science Advances. 3(11). e1701577–e1701577. 158 indexed citations

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Hettler, Simón, W. Send, Erich Müller, et al.. (2016). Thin-Film Phase Plates for Transmission Electron Microscopy Fabricated from Metallic Glasses. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 22(5). 955–963. 11 indexed citations

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Cohen, Y., Smarajit Karmakar, Itamar Procaccia, & K. Samwer. (2013). The nature of the $\beta$-peak in the loss modulus of amorphous solids. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Mayr, Stefan G., et al.. (2003). 斜め入射粒子を受けている非晶質Zr 65 Al 7.5 Cu 27.5 蒸着膜成長の実験及びシミュレーション研究. Physical Review B. 68(20). 1–205425. 14 indexed citations

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Moske, M., et al.. (1996). Magnetization, magnetoresistance, and x-ray diffraction measurements of discontinuous [Ni80Fe20/Ag] multilayers (abstract). Journal of Applied Physics. 79(8). 4765–4765. 4 indexed citations

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Krill, Carl E., et al.. (1995). Precursors of amorphization in supersaturated Nb-Pd solid solutions. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 10(2). 280–291. 14 indexed citations

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Matthée, Th., et al.. (1995). Epitaxial and thermal strains in oxidic thin films on Si(001). Thin Solid Films. 258(1-2). 264–267. 2 indexed citations

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Wecker, J., R. von Helmolt, L. Schultz, & K. Samwer. (1993). Magnetoresistance In Bulk Cu-co Based Alloys. AR–AR. 1 indexed citations

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