Thale R. Smith

933 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 759 citations indexed

About

Thale R. Smith is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thale R. Smith has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 759 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 6 papers in Automotive Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thale R. Smith's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (8 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (6 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (4 papers). Thale R. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (8 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (6 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (4 papers). Thale R. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Thale R. Smith's co-authors include Joshua D. Sugar, Julie M. Schoenung, Christopher W. San Marchi, E. M. Schulson, H.J. Frost, Kaka Ma, Enrique J. Lavernia, Lauren L. Beghini, Michael Veilleux and Arthur A. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, Materials Science and Engineering A and Journal of Materials Science.

In The Last Decade

Thale R. Smith

17 papers receiving 717 citations

Hit Papers

Strengthening mechanisms in directed energy deposited aus... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Strengthening mechanisms in directed energy deposited austenitic stainless steel
    2018 244 citations Thale R. Smith, Joshua D. Sugar et al. Acta Materialia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thale R. Smith United States 13 534 235 138 132 122 18 759
Paul DuBois United States 11 97 0.2× 56 0.2× 44 0.3× 120 0.9× 221 1.8× 24 415
Bing Ma China 14 713 1.3× 14 0.1× 80 0.6× 257 1.9× 79 0.6× 36 929
M. Fitzka Austria 16 442 0.8× 24 0.1× 70 0.5× 139 1.1× 429 3.5× 39 654
Shuai Sun China 13 214 0.4× 27 0.1× 31 0.2× 87 0.7× 246 2.0× 59 585
D. Imbault France 7 191 0.4× 11 0.0× 12 0.1× 61 0.5× 127 1.0× 13 321
Xin Hou China 11 278 0.5× 14 0.1× 10 0.1× 101 0.8× 266 2.2× 24 526
Adrian V. Catalina United States 10 269 0.5× 21 0.1× 33 0.2× 169 1.3× 43 0.4× 20 397
Tao Meng China 12 196 0.4× 51 0.2× 4 0.0× 40 0.3× 293 2.4× 18 468
Xiangjun Bi China 12 152 0.3× 8 0.0× 209 1.5× 19 0.1× 67 0.5× 29 441
Philipp L. Rosendahl Germany 12 114 0.2× 42 0.2× 44 0.3× 49 0.4× 220 1.8× 35 386

Countries citing papers authored by Thale R. Smith

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Thale R. Smith's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Thale R. Smith with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Thale R. Smith more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Thale R. Smith

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thale R. Smith. 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 Thale R. Smith. The network helps show where Thale R. Smith may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thale R. Smith

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
1.
Sugar, Joshua D., Bonnie R. Antoun, Christopher W. San Marchi, et al.. (2020). Three-dimensional Analysis of Materials at Multiple Length Scales. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 26(S2). 1680–1682.
2.
Smith, Thale R., Joshua D. Sugar, Christopher W. San Marchi, & Julie M. Schoenung. (2020). Microstructural development in DED stainless steels: applying welding models to elucidate the impact of processing and alloy composition. Journal of Materials Science. 56(1). 762–780. 40 indexed citations
3.
Smith, Thale R., Joshua D. Sugar, Julie M. Schoenung, & Christopher W. San Marchi. (2019). Relationship between manufacturing defects and fatigue properties of additive manufactured austenitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering A. 765. 138268–138268. 54 indexed citations
4.
Smith, Thale R., et al.. (2019). Improving build quality in Directed Energy Deposition by cross-hatching. Materials Science and Engineering A. 765. 138269–138269. 30 indexed citations
5.
Smith, Thale R., Christopher W. San Marchi, Joshua D. Sugar, & Dorian K. Balch. (2019). Effects of Extreme Hydrogen Environments on the Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Stainless Steels. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 6 indexed citations
6.
Smith, Thale R., Joshua D. Sugar, Christopher W. San Marchi, & Julie M. Schoenung. (2018). Strengthening mechanisms in directed energy deposited austenitic stainless steel. Acta Materialia. 164. 728–740. 244 indexed citations breakdown →
7.
Beghini, Lauren L., Joshua D. Sugar, Michael Veilleux, et al.. (2018). A thermal-mechanical finite element workflow for directed energy deposition additive manufacturing process modeling. Additive manufacturing. 21. 556–566. 67 indexed citations
8.
Smith, Thale R., Joshua D. Sugar, Julie M. Schoenung, & Christopher W. San Marchi. (2018). Anomalous Annealing Response of Directed Energy Deposited Type 304L Austenitic Stainless Steel. JOM. 70(3). 358–363. 41 indexed citations
9.
Smith, Thale R., Joshua D. Sugar, Christopher W. San Marchi, & Julie M. Schoenung. (2017). Orientation Effects on Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 17 indexed citations
10.
Ma, Kaka, Thale R. Smith, Enrique J. Lavernia, & Julie M. Schoenung. (2016). Environmental Sustainability of Laser Metal Deposition: The Role of Feedstock Powder and Feedstock Utilization Factor. Procedia Manufacturing. 7. 198–204. 25 indexed citations
11.
Ma, Kaka, Thale R. Smith, Tao Hu, et al.. (2014). Distinct Hardening Behavior of Ultrafine-Grained Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 45(11). 4762–4765. 15 indexed citations
12.
13.
Smith, Thale R. & E. M. Schulson. (1994). Brittle compressive failure of salt-water columnar ice under biaxial loading. Journal of Glaciology. 40(135). 265–276. 35 indexed citations
14.
Smith, Thale R. & E. M. Schulson. (1994). Brittle compressive failure of salt-water columnar ice under biaxial loading. Journal of Glaciology. 40(135). 265–276. 14 indexed citations
15.
Smith, Thale R. & E. M. Schulson. (1993). The brittle compressive failure of fresh-water columnar ice under biaxial loading. Acta Metallurgica et Materialia. 41(1). 153–163. 62 indexed citations
16.
Schulson, E. M., et al.. (1990). Wing cracks and brittle compressive fracture. Acta Metallurgica et Materialia. 38(10). 1955–1962. 92 indexed citations
17.
Nine, Harmon D. & Thale R. Smith. (1981). Urethane drawstrips: A new method to control sheet metal flow during forming. 2(1). 19–27. 3 indexed citations
18.
Smith, Thale R. & M. J. Owen. (1969). Fatigue properties of RP.. 46(4). 124–126. 7 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Paul DuBois Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Bing Ma Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by M. Fitzka Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shuai Sun Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by D. Imbault Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xin Hou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Adrian V. Catalina Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tao Meng Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xiangjun Bi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Philipp L. Rosendahl
Rankless by CCL
2026