I have made four peer-reviewed scientific articles about blade steel. Click the name of the article and it opens a link.
“Hardening of 80CrV2 in Bladesmith Forge” ISIJ International 62(11): 2397-2401 (2022)
“Wootz Damascus steel of ancient Orient” Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy 33(2):92-97 (2004)
“Reproduced Wootz Damascus steel” Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy 30(2):65-68 (2002)
I have also written a book “Puukkoteräkset” (knife steels). The text is in Finnish. The book can be freely downloaded from Google Play.