OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Friction is 38. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Insights into the microstructure transformation and ultra-low tribological behavior of WS ₂ coating	184
A robust membrane with dual superlyophobicity for solving water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination	182
Bioinspired self-adhesive coating for surface functionalization of medical devices with lubrication and antibacterial properties	161
Probing the intriguing frictional behavior of hydrogels during alternative sliding velocity cycles	153
Electrostatic charging at the solid–liquid interface: Strategies for liquid flow sensing	134
Status and prospects of tribology in the Republic of Korea	132
Toward lithium-free tribology: Design and performance of plant oil-based greases thickened with functionalized nanoclays	131
Stochastic uncertain lubrication in gear transmission subjected to tribodynamic loading	108
Surfactant-free CuO nanoball-based nanolubricants: Experimental insights into dispersion stability, thermo-rheological properties, and tribological behavior	102
Fabrication of PMMA nanocomposite biomaterials reinforced by cellulose nanocrystals extracted from rice husk for dental applications	99
Environmental limitations of PTFE for ultralow friction composites and alternatives to using liquid lubricants	87
A new method to solve the Reynolds equation including mass-conserving cavitation by physics informed neural networks (PINNs) with both soft and hard constraints	86
Structural insights into 2D materials for tribology	82
Macro-superlubricity in sputtered MoS2-based films by decreasing edge pinning effect	82
Modeling and analysis for material removal and surface roughness in fluid jet polishing of optical glass	80
Predicting the coefficient of friction in a sliding contact by applying machine learning to acoustic emission data	79
An overview of functional biolubricants	72
Electrically promoted tribological changes at diamond-like carbon/steel interface under lubrication conditions	67
Academic and industrial tribology research in India—Current status	64
Roughness induced variation as a new mechanism for hydrodynamic lubrication between parallel surfaces	61
Oxygen-induced contact evolution enables friction reduction in MoS ₂/Ag composite films	61
Dynamic friction torque modelling and experimental study of ball screw actuators under high frequency reciprocating motion	57
Monitoring of lubrication and wear in-situ by triboelectrification under grease lubrication	53
Modelling acoustic emission generated by microslip friction between bolted joint interfaces	53
Subsurface deformation mechanism and the interplay relationship between strength-ductility and fretting wear resistance during fretting of a high-strength titanium alloy	49

Characterization of ultrafine particles from hardfacing coated brake rotors	48
Carbon-based solid lubricants: An overview	47
Effect of superficial collagen fibre orientation of articular cartilage on its anisotropic tribological behaviour	46
Unlocking wear resistance in an ultrastrong dual-phase high-entropy alloy by interface-constrained deformation of brittle Laves phases	45
Electron transfer dominated triboelectrification at the hydrophobic/slippery substrate—water interfaces	42
Large-scale fabrication of decoupling coatings with promising robustness and superhydrophobicity for antifouling, drag reduction, and organic photodegradation	41
Experimental investigation of drag reduction induced by hydrogels crosslinked with Fe ³⁺ in water-soluble and -insoluble liquid oils	41
Effect of functional groups on tribological properties of lubricants and mechanism investigation	40
Ultralow friction PTFE/PEEK heterolayer: A new solid lubrication approach toward simplicity	40
Starved lubrication analysis of angular contact ball bearing based on a multi-degree-of-freedom tribo-dynamic model	40
Dual in-situ observation of tribochemical and morphological evolution of single-layer WS2 and multi-layer WS2/C coatings	40
Decomposing of lubricating oil caused the blackening wear of porous polyimide—Or is it?	39
Semi-analytical calculation model for friction of polymers on the example of POM ∣ PE-UHMW and steel ∣ PE-UHMW	38
In memoriam: Shizhu Wen (1932–2023)	38