The Impact of Bulk Nanostructured Materials in Modern Research

An analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of the broad field of severe plastic deformation, ultrafine-grained materials and nanostructured materials on modern Materials Science. Although this research area was first introduced only two decades ago, citation data are used for major journals in Materials Science to demonstrate that the field has had a remarkable impact. Specifically, the all-time two most-cited articles in the major review journal are from this area and more than one-half of the top ten all-time most cited papers are from this area for the four major research journals.