Stefan Zaefferer

13.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
194 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Stefan Zaefferer is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Zaefferer has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 103 papers in Materials Chemistry and 36 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stefan Zaefferer's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (65 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (60 papers) and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (28 papers). Stefan Zaefferer is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (65 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (60 papers) and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (28 papers). Stefan Zaefferer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United States. Stefan Zaefferer's co-authors include Dierk Raabe, I. Gutiérrez‐Urrutia, Stefanie Sandlöbes, S. Yi, Igor Schestakow, Rodolfo González-Martínez, Peter Joachim Konijnenberg, Wolfgang Bleck, Franz Roters and Joachim Ohlert and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Zaefferer

189 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

On the role of non-basal deformation mechanisms for the ductility of Mg and Mg–Y alloys

2010 749 citations Stefanie Sandlöbes, Stefan Zaefferer et al. Acta Materialia profile →
The effect of grain size and grain orientation on deformation twinning in a Fe–22wt.% Mn–0.6wt.% C TWIP steel

2010 647 citations Stefan Zaefferer, Dierk Raabe et al. profile →
The relation between ductility and stacking fault energies in Mg and Mg–Y alloys

2012 526 citations Stefanie Sandlöbes, Martin Friák et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Theory and application of electron channelling contrast imaging under controlled diffraction conditions

2014 427 citations Stefan Zaefferer et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Strain hardening by dynamic slip band refinement in a high-Mn lightweight steel

2016 372 citations Emanuel David Welsch, Dirk Ponge et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Assessment of geometrically necessary dislocation levels derived by 3D EBSD

2015 345 citations Stefan Zaefferer, Dierk Raabe et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy

2020 209 citations Zhongji Sun, Eric A. Jägle et al. Acta Materialia profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Zaefferer

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Interfacial segregation of carbon atoms: the competition between grain boundaries and phase boundaries 2025 ·Scripta Materialia ·(unknown), (unknown), Binhan Sun, (unknown), Ali Tehranchi, Tilmann Hickel, Stefan Zaefferer, Dirk Ponge	0
2	The Role of Dislocation Type in the Thermal Stability of Cellular Structures in Additively Manufactured Austenitic Stainless Steel 2024 ·Advanced Science ·Dayong An, Yao Xiao, (unknown), Xu Zhang, Zan Li, Yan Ma, Rui Li, (unknown), Xifeng Li, Jun Chen, Stefan Zaefferer	18
3	Hydrogen-induced hardening of a high-manganese twinning induced plasticity steel 2023 ·Materialia ·(unknown), Dirk Ponge, Stefan Zaefferer, Baptiste Gault	8
4	Electroplasticity Mechanisms in hcp Materials 2023 ·Advanced Engineering Materials ·Sebastian Herbst, (unknown), Gregory Gerstein, (unknown), Florian Nürnberger, Stefan Zaefferer, Hans Jürgen Maier	9
5	Combined structural analysis and cathodoluminescence investigations of single Pr3+-doped Ca2Nb3O10 nanosheets 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Stefan Zaefferer, Christian Ziegler, V.V. Romaka, Bettina V. Lotsch, Christina Scheu	0
6	Dislocation-assisted particle dissolution: A new hypothesis for abnormal growth of Goss grains in grain-oriented electrical steels 2023 ·Acta Materialia ·(unknown), (unknown), Ludger Lahn, Dierk Raabe, Stefan Zaefferer	20
7	Hierarchical nature of hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron oxides 2022 ·Scripta Materialia ·Yan Ma, Isnaldi Rodrigues de Souza Filho, Yang Bai, Johannes Schenk, Fabrice Patisson, Arik Beck, (unknown), Marc‐Georg Willinger, Kejiang Li, Degang Xie, Dirk Ponge, Stefan Zaefferer, Baptiste Gault, Jaber Rezaei Mianroodi, Dierk Raabe	101
8	Thermodynamics-guided alloy and process design for additive manufacturing 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Zhongji Sun, Yan Ma, Dirk Ponge, Stefan Zaefferer, Eric A. Jägle, Baptiste Gault, Anthony D. Rollett, Dierk Raabe	101
9	Interacting with current 2021 ·Nature Materials ·Stefan Zaefferer	2
10	The brittle-to-ductile transition in cold-rolled tungsten sheets: Contributions of grain and subgrain boundaries to the enhanced ductility after pre-deformation 2020 ·Nuclear Materials and Energy ·Carsten Bonnekoh, (unknown), Stefan Zaefferer, U. Jäntsch, A. Hoffmann, J. Reiser, M. Rieth	15
11	Direct observation of dislocation nucleation in pyrite using combined electron channelling contrast imaging and electron backscatter diffraction 2018 ·Terra Nova ·(unknown), Stefan Zaefferer, Renelle Dubosq	12
12	Entwicklung schadenstoleranter Dualphasenstähle 2017 ·Max Planck Digital Library ·Dirk Ponge, Martin Diehl, Fady Mamdouh Fawzy Archie, Stefan Zaefferer, Franz Roters, Dierk Raabe	1
13	Strengthening and strain hardening mechanisms in a precipitation-hardened high-Mn lightweight steel 2017 ·Acta Materialia ·Mengji Yao, Emanuel David Welsch, Dirk Ponge, Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat, Stefanie Sandlöbes, Pyuck‐Pa Choi, Michael Herbig, Ivan Bleskov, Tilmann Hickel, Marta Lipińska-Chwałek, Pratheek Shanthraj, Christina Scheu, Stefan Zaefferer, Baptiste Gault, Dierk Raabe	227
14	Strain hardening by dynamic slip band refinement in a high-Mn lightweight steel breakdown → 2016 ·Acta Materialia ·Emanuel David Welsch, Dirk Ponge, Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat, Stefanie Sandlöbes, Pyuck‐Pa Choi, Michael Herbig, Stefan Zaefferer, Dierk Raabe	372
15	Atomic-Scale Quantification of Grain Boundary Segregation in Nanocrystalline Material 2014 ·Physical Review Letters ·Michael Herbig, Dierk Raabe, Yujiao Li, P. Choi, Stefan Zaefferer, S. Goto	323
16	Interdigitating biocalcite dendrites form a 3-D jigsaw structure in brachiopod shells 2011 ·Acta Biomaterialia ·Andreas J. Goetz, David Steinmetz, Erika Griesshaber, Stefan Zaefferer, Dierk Raabe, Klemens Kelm, Stephan Irsen, (unknown), Wolfgang W. Schmahl	61
17	Overview of the crystal plasticity finite element method 2009 ·Materials science forum ·Dierk Raabe, Franz Roters, Philip Eisenlohr, Stefan Zaefferer, D. D. Tjahjanto, Eralp Demir, Duancheng Ma, Thomas R. Bieler, (unknown), Martin Friák, Jörg Neugebauer	1
18	Microtexture and Grain Boundaries in Freestanding CVD Diamond Films: Growth and Twinning Mechanisms 2009 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Tao Liu, Dierk Raabe, Weimin Mao, Stefan Zaefferer	22
19	Three‐dimensional EBSD study on the relationship between triple junctions and columnar grains in electrodeposited Co–Ni films 2008 ·Journal of Microscopy ·(unknown), Stefan Zaefferer, Dierk Raabe	29
20	Deformation Behaviour of Aluminium-Bicrystals 2003 ·Advanced Engineering Materials ·Jui‐Chao Kuo, Stefan Zaefferer, Ziyue Zhao, Myrjam Winning, Dierk Raabe	3

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