Michael Ferry

7.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
197 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Ferry is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ferry has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 140 papers in Materials Chemistry and 57 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Ferry's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (73 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (58 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (51 papers). Michael Ferry is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (73 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (58 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (51 papers). Michael Ferry collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Michael Ferry's co-authors include Kevin J. Laws, P. Manohar, T. Chandra, Nicholas E. Hamilton, F.J. Humphreys, Wanqiang Xu, Zakaria Quadir, N. Birbilis, Weitao Xu and J. Daniels and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ferry

193 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy

2015 655 citations Wanqiang Xu, N. Birbilis et al. Nature Materials profile →
Five Decades of the Zener Equation.

1998 595 citations Michael Ferry et al. profile →
ggtern: Ternary Diagrams Using ggplot2

2018 315 citations Michael Ferry et al. profile →
Ultrahigh specific strength in a magnesium alloy strengthened by spinodal decomposition

2021 261 citations Tongzheng Xin, Yuhong Zhao et al. Science Advances profile →
Phase transformations in an ultralight BCC Mg alloy during anisothermal ageing

2022 205 citations Tongzheng Xin, Song Tang et al. Acta Materialia profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Ferry Australia	36	4.7k	3.7k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	197	6.3k
Norbert Schell Germany	51	7.1k 1.5×	4.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	546 0.4×	1.8k 1.7×	386	9.6k
M.A. Morris Switzerland	43	4.8k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	489 0.4×	754 0.7×	203	5.8k
Yue Liu China	43	3.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.1×	779 0.5×	537 0.4×	1.4k 1.3×	269	6.3k
Martin Friák Czechia	35	3.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.8×	688 0.5×	1.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	158	4.9k
Dongyang Li Canada	41	3.3k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	687 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	292	5.7k
Eugen Rabkin Israel	43	2.7k 0.6×	4.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	530 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	303	6.7k
François Brisset France	39	2.5k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	625 0.4×	584 0.5×	986 0.9×	221	5.4k
Yves Bréchet France	40	4.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	374 0.3×	1.9k 1.8×	191	6.5k
Q. Wei United States	48	5.3k 1.1×	6.4k 1.8×	725 0.5×	710 0.6×	2.9k 2.7×	161	8.3k
W.M. Rainforth United Kingdom	51	7.0k 1.5×	5.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	3.0k 2.8×	356	10.1k

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Liu, Qian, Wenliang Chen, Richard F. Webster, et al.. (2025). Significant enhancement of room-temperature shape recovery properties of Ta-modified Fe-Mn-Si shape memory alloys fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. Additive manufacturing. 111. 104956–104956.

Jin, Yan, Simiao Sha, Jianjiao Ni, et al.. (2025). Design strategies for high entropy materials in water electrolysis: Enhancing activity, stability, and reaction kinetics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics. 14(10). 9221152–9221152.

Li, Chenze, Manish Jain, Qian Liu, et al.. (2024). Multi-Scale Microstructure Manipulation of an Additively Manufactured CoCrNi Medium Entropy Alloy for Superior Mechanical Properties and Tunable Mechanical Anisotropy. 31(4). 1–2. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Yixuan, Haowei Jia, Yuan Yu, et al.. (2024). Cutting‐Edge Progress in Aqueous Zn‐S Batteries: Innovations in Cathodes, Electrolytes, and Mediators. Small. 21(7). e2405810–e2405810. 5 indexed citations

Yakubov, Vladislav, et al.. (2023). Microstructure evolution in laser powder bed fusion-built Fe-Mn-Si shape memory alloy. Microstructures. 5 indexed citations

Shaw, Adam L., Gregory Pomrehn, Michael Ferry, et al.. (2022). Assessing Mg–Sc–(rare earth) ternary phase stability via constituent binary cluster expansions. Computational Materials Science. 207. 111240–111240. 5 indexed citations

Jia, Haowei, Yingze Zhou, Jiajun Fan, et al.. (2022). A facile approach to enhance the hydrogen evolution reaction of electrodeposited MoS₂ in acidic solutions. New Journal of Chemistry. 46(48). 23344–23350. 7 indexed citations

Bassman, Lori, et al.. (2021). Thermodynamic modelling to predict phase stability in BCC + B2 Al–Ti–Co–Ni–Fe–Cr high entropy alloys. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 276. 125395–125395. 8 indexed citations

He, Peidong, Richard F. Webster, Vladislav Yakubov, et al.. (2021). Fatigue and dynamic aging behavior of a high strength Al-5024 alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. Acta Materialia. 220. 117312–117312. 116 indexed citations

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Xin, Tongzheng, Yuhong Zhao, Reza Mahjoub, et al.. (2021). Ultrahigh specific strength in a magnesium alloy strengthened by spinodal decomposition. Science Advances. 7(23). 261 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Qijing, David M. Miskovic, & Michael Ferry. (2021). Film thickness effect on formation of ultrastable metallic glasses. Materials Today Physics. 18. 100370–100370. 6 indexed citations

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Tang, Song, Tongzheng Xin, Wanqiang Xu, et al.. (2019). Precipitation strengthening in an ultralight magnesium alloy. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1003–1003. 149 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, Chunguang Tang, Kevin J. Laws, Qiang Zhu, & Michael Ferry. (2019). Zr-Co-Al bulk metallic glass composites containing B2 ZrCo via rapid quenching and annealing. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 820. 153079–153079. 20 indexed citations

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Xu, Wanqiang, N. Birbilis, Gang Sha, et al.. (2015). A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy. Nature Materials. 14(12). 1229–1235. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ferry, Michael, et al.. (2015). Segmentation of 3D EBSD data for subgrain boundary identification and feature characterization. Ultramicroscopy. 161. 83–89. 10 indexed citations

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Ferry, Michael, Kevin J. Laws, Chris White, et al.. (2013). Recent developments in ductile bulk metallic glass composites. MRS Communications. 3(1). 1–12. 28 indexed citations

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Guo, Wei, Zakaria Quadir, & Michael Ferry. (2013). The Mode of Deformation in a Cold-Swaged Multifunctional Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr-O Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 44(5). 2307–2318. 7 indexed citations

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Martens, Penny J., et al.. (2012). Quantitative in vitro assessment of Mg₆₅Zn₃₀Ca₅ degradation and its effect on cell viability. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 101B(1). 43–49. 22 indexed citations

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Ferry, Michael & Paul Munroe. (2003). Recrystallized grain size prediction in a particulate reinforced metal matrix composite. Journal of Materials Science. 38(9). 1925–1930. 3 indexed citations

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Ferry, Michael & Paul Munroe. (1995). Microstructure and kinetics of recrystallisation of hot deformed Al-Al ₂ O ₃ particulate reinforced metal matrix composite. Materials Science and Technology. 11(8). 734–740. 7 indexed citations

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