Valery I. Levitas

12.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
257 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

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Valery I. Levitas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Valery I. Levitas has authored 257 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 199 papers in Materials Chemistry, 115 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 98 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Valery I. Levitas's work include Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (59 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (57 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (48 papers). Valery I. Levitas is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (59 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (57 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (48 papers). Valery I. Levitas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Ukraine. Valery I. Levitas's co-authors include Mahdi Javanbakht, Dean L. Preston, Michelle L. Pantoya, A. Idesman, Biao Feng, B. W. Asay, Yanzhang Ma, Kasra Momeni, Dong-Wook Lee and Steven F. Son and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Valery I. Levitas

251 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing

2019 322 citations Huilong Hou, Emrah Simsek et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valery I. Levitas United States	57	7.4k	4.3k	3.0k	1.4k	1.1k	257	9.5k
Y. Mishin United States	53	11.6k 1.6×	7.6k 1.8×	2.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	702 0.6×	160	14.4k
Shun‐Li Shang United States	59	7.4k 1.0×	5.7k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	571 0.5×	341	11.8k
Gregory S. Rohrer United States	67	10.1k 1.4×	5.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	326 0.3×	332	14.3k
Diana Farkas United States	52	7.2k 1.0×	5.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	235 0.2×	224	9.2k
Axel van de Walle United States	43	5.2k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	710 0.2×	988 0.7×	557 0.5×	129	8.0k
W. Gust Germany	39	3.5k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.3×	1.6k 1.1×	527 0.5×	242	6.0k
V. Vítek United States	65	11.0k 1.5×	8.1k 1.9×	3.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	919 0.8×	281	14.6k
Karsten Albe Germany	63	10.3k 1.4×	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	707 0.5×	443 0.4×	238	13.9k
J. W. Morris United States	61	6.5k 0.9×	7.5k 1.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	378 0.3×	256	11.5k
Mats Hillert Sweden	51	7.6k 1.0×	9.7k 2.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.3k 1.6×	404 0.4×	241	13.9k

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Levitas, Valery I.. (2025). Strain-induced phase transformations, chemical reactions, microstructure evolution, and severe plastic deformations under high pressure. Progress in Materials Science. 158. 101625–101625.

Chen, Hao & Valery I. Levitas. (2025). Virtual melting and cyclic transformations between amorphous Si, Si I, and Si IV in a shear band at room temperature. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 2 indexed citations

Edalati, Kaveh, Nariman A. Enikeev, Gerda Rogl, et al.. (2025). Severe Plastic Deformation of Ceramics by High-Pressure Torsion: Review of Principles and Applications. Annual Review of Materials Research. 55(1). 89–124. 10 indexed citations

Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2025). Scale-free phase-field and analytical studies of α – ω phase transformation in single crystal Zr under nonhydrostatic stresses. Acta Materialia. 299. 121388–121388. 1 indexed citations

Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2024). Quantitative kinetic rules for plastic strain-induced α - ω phase transformation in Zr under high pressure. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 6 indexed citations

Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2023). Simulations of multivariant Si I to Si II phase transformation in polycrystalline silicon with finite-strain scale-free phase-field approach. Acta Materialia. 254. 118996–118996. 4 indexed citations

Ji, Rigelesaiyin, et al.. (2023). Effect of a micro-scale dislocation pileup on the atomic-scale multi-variant phase transformation and twinning. Computational Materials Science. 230. 112508–112508. 8 indexed citations

Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2023). Tensorial stress-plastic strain fields in α - ω Zr mixture, transformation kinetics, and friction in diamond-anvil cell. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5955–5955. 13 indexed citations

Chen, Hao, Nikolai A. Zarkevich, Valery I. Levitas, D. D. Johnson, & Xian‐Cheng Zhang. (2020). Fifth-degree elastic energy for predictive continuum stress–strain relations and elastic instabilities under large strain and complex loading in silicon. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 16 indexed citations

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Hou, Huilong, Emrah Simsek, Tao Ma, et al.. (2019). Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing. Science. 366(6469). 1116–1121. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williams, Alan, Valery I. Levitas, Nobumichi Tamura, et al.. (2019). Highly reactive energetic films by pre-stressing nano-aluminum particles. RSC Advances. 9(69). 40607–40617. 7 indexed citations

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Javanbakht, Mahdi & Valery I. Levitas. (2015). Interaction between phase transformations and dislocations at the nanoscale. Part 2: Phase field simulation examples. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 82. 164–185. 77 indexed citations

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Levin, V. A., et al.. (2013). Phase-field simulation of stress-induced martensitic phase transformations at large strains. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 50(19). 2914–2928. 65 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2013). Multiple twinning and variant-variant transformations in martensite: Phase-field approach. Physical Review B. 88(5). 109 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I.. (2013). Interface stress for nonequilibrium microstructures in the phase field approach: Exact analytical results. Physical Review B. 87(5). 29 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I. & R. Ravelo. (2012). Virtual melting as a new mechanism of stress relaxation under high strain rate loading. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(33). 13204–13207. 88 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I., et al.. (2012). Thermodynamics and kinetics of nucleation of a spherical gas bubble inside an elastoplastic material due to sublimation. International Journal of Plasticity. 34. 12–40. 5 indexed citations

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Pantoya, Michelle L. & Valery I. Levitas. (2008). MECHANOCHEMICAL MECHANISM FOR FAST REACTION OF METASTABLE INTERMOLECULAR COMPOSITES BASED ON DISPERSION OF LIQUID METAL. International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion. 7(1). 17–37. 1 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I., Dean L. Preston, & Dong-Wook Lee. (2003). Three-dimensional Landau theory for multivariant stress-induced martensitic phase transformations. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 66 indexed citations

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Levitas, Valery I. & A. Idesman. (1986). Solution of thermoelastoplastic problems in contact interaction by the finite-element method. Strength of Materials. 18(11). 1518–1525. 1 indexed citations

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