Kai Willner

179 total papers · 1.5k total citations
81 papers, 948 citations indexed

About

Kai Willner is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Willner has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 948 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 46 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 11 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Willner’s work include Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (31 papers), Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (24 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (19 papers). Kai Willner is often cited by papers focused on Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (31 papers), Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (24 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (19 papers). Kai Willner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Kai Willner's co-authors include Olivier Dulieu, F. Masnou-Seeuws, Barbara Wohlmuth, Hartmut Hetzler, Michael Hanss, Paul Steinmann, F. A. Gianturco, Loïc Salles, Christoph Schwingshackl and Jason Armand and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical Review A.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Willner

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

Kai Willner

74 papers receiving 907 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Willner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kai Willner. 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 Kai Willner. The network helps show where Kai Willner may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Willner

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