Maik Lang

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
175 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Maik Lang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Maik Lang has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Materials Chemistry, 76 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 61 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Maik Lang's work include Nuclear materials and radiation effects (119 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (55 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (43 papers). Maik Lang is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear materials and radiation effects (119 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (55 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (43 papers). Maik Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Maik Lang's co-authors include Rodney C. Ewing, Fuxiang Zhang, C. Trautmann, Cameron L. Tracy, Jie Lian, Ronny Neumann, William J. Weber, Jiaming Zhang, Udo Becker and Sulgiye Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Maik Lang

173 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

High pressure synthesis of a hexagonal close-packed phase of the high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi

2017 281 citations Cameron L. Tracy, Sulgiye Park et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maik Lang United States	42	3.7k	1.5k	975	790	754	175	4.8k
Jean-Paul Crocombette France	36	3.0k 0.8×	494 0.3×	450 0.5×	270 0.3×	673 0.9×	109	3.7k
Kurt E. Sickafus United States	44	8.0k 2.2×	2.0k 1.3×	924 0.9×	820 1.0×	2.1k 2.8×	248	9.7k
L. Thomé France	37	3.9k 1.1×	509 0.3×	725 0.7×	1.9k 2.4×	1.5k 2.0×	268	5.3k
M. Nastasi United States	38	4.6k 1.3×	389 0.3×	354 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	1.6k 2.1×	250	6.8k
A. Iwase Japan	29	2.0k 0.5×	453 0.3×	171 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	536 0.7×	267	3.3k
Robin W. Grimes United Kingdom	61	10.2k 2.8×	1.9k 1.2×	885 0.9×	367 0.5×	2.9k 3.8×	307	12.3k
Gianguido Baldinozzi France	36	2.9k 0.8×	622 0.4×	216 0.2×	111 0.1×	533 0.7×	135	3.5k
W. Kockelmann United Kingdom	38	3.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	465 0.5×	81 0.1×	1.3k 1.8×	327	6.7k
Wolfgang Windl United States	40	5.1k 1.4×	461 0.3×	454 0.5×	195 0.2×	3.1k 4.1×	186	7.2k
D. Nguyen-Manh United Kingdom	44	4.3k 1.2×	444 0.3×	300 0.3×	387 0.5×	495 0.7×	186	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maik Lang

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20 of 20 papers shown

O’Quinn, Eric C., Xiaofeng Guo, Jöerg C. Neuefeind, et al.. (2025). Atomic-scale structure of ZrO ₂ : Formation of metastable polymorphs. Science Advances. 11(1). eadq5943–eadq5943. 4 indexed citations

O’Quinn, Eric C., et al.. (2025). Neutron Total Scattering Analysis of Materials for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 1–15.

Naamneh, Muntaser, Eric C. O’Quinn, E. Paris, et al.. (2025). Persistence of small polarons into the superconducting doping range of Ba1−xKxBiO3. Physical Review Research. 7(4).

Zhang, Fuxiang, Pengfei Zhai, Yingxin Liu, et al.. (2024). Zircon-to-reidite phase transition enhanced by minor radiation damage: Implications for hypervelocity impacts. Chemical Geology. 654. 122041–122041. 3 indexed citations

Fuentes, Antonio F., Eric C. O’Quinn, Sagrario M. Montemayor, et al.. (2024). Pyrochlore-type lanthanide titanates and zirconates: Synthesis, structural peculiarities, and properties. Applied Physics Reviews. 11(2). 13 indexed citations

O’Quinn, Eric C., et al.. (2024). Response of Lanthanide Sesquioxides to High‐Energy Ball Milling. Advanced Engineering Materials. 27(6). 1 indexed citations

O’Quinn, Eric C., Xiaofeng Guo, T. Matsuoka, et al.. (2023). Grain size dependence of thermally induced oxidation in zirconium carbide. Journal of Materials Science. 58(6). 2439–2455. 4 indexed citations

O’Quinn, Eric C., J. Matthew Kurley, Rodney D. Hunt, et al.. (2023). Response of ZrC to swift heavy ion irradiation. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(18). 2 indexed citations

Niu, Min, K. Jayanthi, Hongfei Gao, et al.. (2022). Structural and thermodynamic evolution of an amorphous SiOC ceramic after swift heavy ion irradiation. Acta Materialia. 242. 118475–118475. 2 indexed citations

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O’Quinn, Eric C., et al.. (2022). Cation Short-Range Ordering of MgAl₂O₄ and NiAl₂O₄ Spinel Oxides at High Temperatures via In Situ Neutron Total Scattering. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(42). 16822–16830. 6 indexed citations

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O’Quinn, Eric C., Cameron L. Tracy, Ritesh Sachan, et al.. (2021). Multi-scale investigation of heterogeneous swift heavy ion tracks in stannate pyrochlore. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(31). 16982–16997. 13 indexed citations

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Tracy, Cameron L., et al.. (2021). Transformations to amorphous and X-type phases in swift heavy ion-irradiated Ln2O3 and Mn2O3. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(22). 6 indexed citations

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Lu, Xiaonan, Benjamin Parruzot, Lu Deng, et al.. (2020). Effects of Al:Si and (Al + Na):Si ratios on the properties of the international simple glass, part II: Structure. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 104(1). 183–207. 31 indexed citations

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O’Quinn, Eric C., Kurt E. Sickafus, Rodney C. Ewing, et al.. (2020). Predicting short-range order and correlated phenomena in disordered crystalline materials. Science Advances. 6(35). eabc2758–eabc2758. 47 indexed citations

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O’Quinn, Eric C., Tamilarasan Subramani, Kristina Lilova, et al.. (2020). Disorder in Ho₂Ti_2−xZr_xO₇: pyrochlore to defect fluorite solid solution series. RSC Advances. 10(57). 34632–34650. 37 indexed citations

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Tracy, Cameron L., Sulgiye Park, Dylan Rittman, et al.. (2017). High pressure synthesis of a hexagonal close-packed phase of the high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15634–15634. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Maik, Cameron L. Tracy, Raul I. Palomares, et al.. (2015). Characterization of ion-induced radiation effects in nuclear materials using synchrotron x-ray techniques. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 30(9). 1366–1379. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fuxiang, et al.. (2010). Pressure-induced structural transformations in lanthanide titanates: La₂TiO₅ and Nd₂TiO₅. Civil War Book Review. 34 indexed citations

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Lang, Maik, Fuxiang Zhang, Jie Lian, et al.. (2009). Combined high pressure and heavy-ion irradiation: a novel approach. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 16(6). 773–777. 7 indexed citations

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Glasmacher, Ulrich A., Maik Lang, Hans Keppler, et al.. (2006). Phase Transitions in Solids Stimulated by Simultaneous Exposure to High Pressure and Relativistic Heavy Ions. Physical Review Letters. 96(19). 195701–195701. 44 indexed citations

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