Levente Vitos

19.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
393 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Levente Vitos is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Levente Vitos has authored 393 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 175 papers in Materials Chemistry and 117 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Levente Vitos's work include High Entropy Alloys Studies (84 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (71 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (66 papers). Levente Vitos is often cited by papers focused on High Entropy Alloys Studies (84 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (71 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (66 papers). Levente Vitos collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Hungary and China. Levente Vitos's co-authors include Janós Kollár, H. L. Skriver, A. V. Ruban, Börje Johansson, Song Lu, Qing‐Miao Hu, B. Johansson, Igor A. Abrikosov, Fuyang Tian and L.K. Varga and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Levente Vitos

383 papers receiving 15.8k 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.

The surface energy of metals

1998 2.4k citations Levente Vitos et al. profile →
Total-energy method based on the exact muffin-tin orbitals theory

2001 558 citations Levente Vitos profile →
Anisotropic Lattice Distortions in Random Alloys from First-Principles Theory

2001 557 citations Levente Vitos et al. profile →
Temperature dependent stacking fault energy of FeCrCoNiMn high entropy alloy

2015 491 citations Shuo Huang, Wei Li et al. profile →
Local lattice distortion in high-entropy alloys

2017 301 citations Qing‐Miao Hu, Levente Vitos et al. Physical Review Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Levente Vitos Sweden	57	9.3k	7.5k	4.3k	2.7k	2.6k	393	16.1k
Bo Sundman Sweden	55	12.5k 1.3×	8.3k 1.1×	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	184	17.4k
Gerhard Wilde Germany	59	7.9k 0.8×	7.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	623 0.2×	446	11.9k
Gregory S. Rohrer United States	67	5.5k 0.6×	10.1k 1.3×	1.4k 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	332	14.3k
Y. Mishin United States	53	7.6k 0.8×	11.6k 1.5×	1.8k 0.4×	768 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	160	14.4k
Y. A. Chang United States	56	8.3k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	796 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	472	12.9k
K. Ishida Japan	77	10.0k 1.1×	13.4k 1.8×	2.1k 0.5×	7.8k 2.9×	1.8k 0.7×	404	20.7k
Shun‐Li Shang United States	59	5.7k 0.6×	7.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	962 0.4×	341	11.8k
Amit Misra United States	79	12.2k 1.3×	17.7k 2.4×	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	400	22.0k
Blazej Grabowski Germany	46	3.9k 0.4×	6.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	146	9.4k
A. V. Ruban Sweden	51	3.7k 0.4×	7.0k 0.9×	803 0.2×	1.7k 0.6×	3.5k 1.3×	188	12.7k

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Wang, Cuihong, Zhihua Dong, Bin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Low thermal expansion in conjunction with improved mechanical properties achieved in Mg-Gd solid solutions. Materials & Design. 251. 113685–113685. 2 indexed citations

Cedervall, Johan, Shuo Huang, Tore Ericsson, et al.. (2025). Design of thermal hysteresis in nonstoichiometric Fe2P−type alloys with giant magnetocaloric effect. Physical review. B.. 111(22).

Wei, Shijie, Hongxian Shen, Lunyong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Microstructure and magnetocaloric behavior of GdDyCoAl-based high-entropy metallic glass microwires. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1006. 176308–176308. 2 indexed citations

Lu, Song, et al.. (2024). Magneto-chemical effects in the elastic properties of Co3Al-based compounds. Materials Today Communications. 41. 110507–110507. 1 indexed citations

Varga, L.K., et al.. (2024). Ductility Index for Refractory High Entropy Alloys. Crystals. 14(10). 838–838. 3 indexed citations

Laukkanen, P., M. Punkkinen, P. Paturi, et al.. (2024). Polycrystalline silicon, a molecular dynamics study: I. Deposition and growth modes. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(6). 65025–65025. 3 indexed citations

Laukkanen, P., M. Punkkinen, P. Paturi, et al.. (2024). Polycrystalline silicon, a molecular dynamics study: II. Grains, grain boundaries and their structure. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(6). 65026–65026. 4 indexed citations

Nießen, Frank, Wei Li, Song Lu, et al.. (2023). Ab initio study of the effect of interstitial alloying on the intrinsic stacking fault energy of paramagnetic γ-Fe and austenitic stainless steel. Acta Materialia. 253. 118967–118967. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Hailong, Dandan Cai, Xun Sun, et al.. (2022). Solid solution strengthening of high-entropy alloys from first-principles study. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 121. 105–116. 34 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhihua, et al.. (2022). Density Functional Theory Description of Paramagnetic Hexagonal Close-Packed Iron. Materials. 15(4). 1276–1276. 2 indexed citations

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Lu, Song, et al.. (2022). Effects of composition and magnetism on interfacial energy in Cu-Co alloys. Physical Review Materials. 6(5). 4 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhihua, Wei Li, Stephan Schönecker, Bin Jiang, & Levente Vitos. (2021). Invariant plastic deformation mechanism in paramagnetic nickel–iron alloys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(14). 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Shuo, Zhihua Dong, Wangzhong Mu, et al.. (2021). Magnetocaloric properties of melt-spun MnFe-rich high-entropy alloy. Applied Physics Letters. 119(14). 12 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhihua, Wei Li, Bin Jiang, et al.. (2021). Thermo-mechanical properties of Cr–Co–Ni alloys from longitudinal spin fluctuation theory. Applied Physics Letters. 119(8). 4 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqing, Daixiu Wei, Levente Vitos, & Raquel Lizárraga. (2019). Micro-mechanical properties of new alternative binders for cemented carbides: CoCrFeNiW high-entropy alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 820. 153141–153141. 27 indexed citations

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Liu, Lei, Shuo Huang, Levente Vitos, et al.. (2019). Pressure-induced magnetovolume effect in CoCrFeAl high-entropy alloy. Communications Physics. 2(1). 20 indexed citations

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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2018). Assessing elastic property and solid-solution strengthening of binary Ni–Co, Ni–Cr, and ternary Ni–Co–Cr alloys from first-principles theory. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 33(18). 2763–2774. 21 indexed citations

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Xie, Ruiwen, Wei Li, Song Lu, Yan Song, & Levente Vitos. (2018). Generalized stacking fault energy of carbon-alloyed paramagnetic $ \gamma $ -Fe. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(6). 65703–65703. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Shuo, Wei Li, Erik Holmström, & Levente Vitos. (2018). Phase-transition assisted mechanical behavior of TiZrHfTax high-entropy alloys. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16 indexed citations

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Koči, L., Levente Vitos, & Rajeev Ahuja. (2007). Ab initio calculations of the elastic properties of ferropericlase Mg1−xFexO (). Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 164(3-4). 177–185. 9 indexed citations

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