Drexel Materials Faculty Included in Stanford Top Citation Metrics Study

January 15, 2021

Current materials researchers in study
Drexel Materials researchers included in the study are Prof. Michel Barsoum, Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Postdoc Meikang Han, Prof. Christopher Li, Prof. Steven May, Research Assoc. Mykola Seredych, Prof. Jonathan Spanier and Prof. Antonios Zavaliangos, along with five former members of the department.

Researchers at Stanford University recently analyzed citation metrics for more than 160,000 of the world’s most cited (top 2%) researchers in all fields of science to assess career-long impact through 2019, and impact for the year 2019 itself. Thirteen researchers currently or recently affiliated with Drexel Materials including faculty, postdocs, and students, are included in this analysis.

This comprehensive study defines a composite citation index that takes into account total citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted h-index, citations to single-authored papers, citations to first-authored papers and citations to last-authored papers. The authors used Scopus as their information source.

In the study, researchers were assigned to various subfields. For 2019, among researchers with Materials Science assigned as their first subfield, when self-citations are excluded, Distinguished Professor Michel W. Barsoum tops the list. In the aforementioned composite index, Prof. Barsoum ranks 161st in all fields of science for 2019.

Using the same metric, Distinguished University and Bach Professor Yury Gogotsi was ranked 6th among researchers with Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as their first sub-field and 53rd in all fields.

The full study is available here.

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Dr. Barsoum’s Featured Work on Pyramids of Giza

Professor Michel Barsoum and colleagues have found scientific evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete, debunking an age old myth that they were built using only cut limestone blocks. View Dr. Barsoum’s talk on the engineering of the pyramids here!

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PRM Article Selected as Editor’s Choice

Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Maxim Sokol for his work on the high-strain-rate deformation of the MAX phase Ti3SiC2 being featured as an Editor’s Choice article in Physical Review Materials!

Read it on the Publications page!

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Sankalp Kota wins Outstanding PhD student Award

Sankalp Kota, PhD Candidate in the Layered Solids Group, is among three winners of the College of Engineering Outstanding PhD Student Award.

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Ripplocations Making Waves

MaterialsToday featured recent work on ripplocations, published in Physical Review Materials. stemming from Dr.Barsoum’s collaboration between Drexel University and Colorado School of Mines.

https://www.materialstoday.com/mechanical-properties/news/behavior-of-layered-materials-under-pressure-1/

The work showed, using atomisitic simulations on graphite and instrumented indentation on steel sheets, that layered materials confined under pressure ripple, or buckle, to make waves. In turn, the work has far-reaching implications on the deformations occuring during large-scale geologic processes.

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Dr.Barsoum gives Plenary Talk in Poitiers, France

Dr.Barsoum gave the plenary talk covering his decades of research on the MAX phases and more recent work on MXenes, the 2D nanomaterials derived from the former, to start the International Workshop on MAX Phases for Harsh Environments at Poitiers, France, held on Nov. 5-7, 2018. The lecture can be viewed here.

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Dr. Barsoum and LSG Alumni Among Top 1% Cited in 2018

Clarivate Analytics recognizes Dr. Barsoum for his research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for 2018 in the field of Materials Science & Engineering as per Web of Science. Also, among this list are former Layered Solids Group Alumni Prof. Michael Naguib (Assistant Professor, Tulane University) and Dr. Babak Anasori (Research Professor, Drexel University). Other researchers to earn this distinction can be found here.

The distinction derives not from Clarivate Analytics but from his peers, who have time and again acknowledged the influence of research contributions in their publications and citations.

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Mike Ghidiu Successfully defends PhD Thesis!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Ghidu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on the interactions between water and ions with MXenes!

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Roland B. Snow Award

Mike Ghidiu and Sankalp’s SEM images wins 3rd place for the Roland B. Snow contest at MS&T 2017! The images, “Waves of the MXene Ocean” and “Castaway in the Boride Sea” were obtained from cross-sectional micrographs of a free-standing MXene film and the fracture surface of bulk MoAlB.


“Waves of the MXene Ocean”


“Castaway in the Boride Sea”

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Prof. Barsoum elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Congratulations to Dr.Barsoum, for getting elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences as a Foreign Member!

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