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most cited papers

MichelleLOyen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:43:20 -0500

Is it because the list represents relatively modern literature that was published as individual papers? I keep wondering why Hertz's original contact mechanics work would not be on this list except that it is most often cited via a chapter reference to his "Miscellaneous papers" in English or indirectly via something like Johnson's contact mechanics.

This list actually was displayed on the screen at a recent symposium on "Future Directions in Solid Mechanics" held at Cambridge in October (where it was noted to have been pulled from iMech!) to illustrate that you had to get to position 17 on the list before you hit the first paper that really qualified as computational mechanics.

elasticity

Baljeet Singh — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:56:13 -0400

The work of Prof. A. C. Eringen on micropolar elasticity should be added in the list.

who is who

Henry Tan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:29:37 -0400

citation number just gives you an idea of who is who; should not be too serious about that.

Timoshenko & Goodier

Robert Paynter — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:50:45 -0400

Timoshenko & Goodier's "Theory of Elasticity" really ought to be in the list.

Google Scholar credits it with almost twice the number of cites (3597) as Eshelby's top paper (1803). If those ratios with your numbers hold up then his other book "Theory of Elastic Stability" with JM Gere should make the list as well.

I notice you used the Web of Science; I have found it dissapointing lately compared with Google Scholar because it doesn't cover books, conference proceedings and other sources at all well. Agreed it does some things better but - I tend to go to Google first nowadays.

the list

Noel ODowd — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:46:08 -0400

It is interesting that 4 of the 'top 18 list' come from the somewhat specialised (?) area of Fracture Mechanics. I wonder why these papers rank so highly.

A list of highly cited papers on poroelasticity

Zhigang Suo — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:43:56 -0500

Following up on a tip given by Michelle Oyen, I found this list of highly cited papers on poroelasticity identified by Alex Cheng of PoroNet.

Deformation and Fracture of Engineering Materials

Henry Tan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:46:26 -0500

In 2002 I taught a course, Deformation and Fracture of Engineering Materials, for senior/graduate student. I encouraged them to read some classic papers:

B. BUDIANSKY, J.W. HUTCHINSON, A.G. EVANS, MATRIX FRACTURE IN FIBER-REINFORCED CERAMICS. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 34, 167-189 (1986). (cited 478 times, by January 2002)

J.R. RICE, ELASTIC FRACTURE-MECHANICS CONCEPTS FOR INTERFACIAL CRACKS. JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 55, 98-103 (1988). (cited 447 times, by January 2002)

W.D. NIX, MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES OF THIN-FILMS. METALLURGICAL TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, 20, 2217-2245 (1989). (cited 416 times, by January 2002)

T. CHRISTMAN, A. NEEDLEMAN, S. SURESH, AN EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF DEFORMATION IN METAL CERAMIC COMPOSITES. ACTA METALLURGICA 37 3029-3050 (1989). (cited 344 times, by January 2002)

J.W. HUTCHINSON, Z. SUO, MIXED-MODE CRACKING IN LAYERED MATERIALS. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MECHANICS, 29, 63-191 (1992). (cited 312 times, by January 2002)

V. PAIDAR, D.P. POPE, V. VITEK, A THEORY OF THE ANOMALOUS YIELD BEHAVIOR IN LL2 ORDERED ALLOYS. ACTA METALLURGICA, 32, 435-448 (1984). (cited 302 times, by January 2002)

V. TVERGAARD and A. NEEDLEMAN, ANALYSIS OF THE CUP-CONE FRACTURE IN A ROUND TENSILE BAR. ACTA METALLURGICA, 32, 157-169 (1984). (cited 267 times, by January 2002)

J.R. RICE, DISLOCATION NUCLEATION FROM A CRACK TIP - AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE PEIERLS CONCEPT. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 40, 239-271 (1992). (cited 246 times, by January 2002)

Z. SUO, C.M. KUO, D.M. BARNETT, J.R. WILLIS, FRACTURE-MECHANICS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 40, 739-765 (1992). (cited 243 times, by January 2002)

R.J. ASARO and A. NEEDLEMAN, OVERVIEW .42. TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT AND STRAIN-HARDENING IN RATE DEPENDENT POLYCRYSTALS. ACTA METALLURGICA, 33, 923-953 (1985). (cited 242 times, by January 2002)

T. CHRISTMAN, S. SURESH, MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN ALUMINUM ALLOY-SIC WHISKER COMPOSITE. ACTA METALLURGICA 36, 1691-1704 (1988). (cited 242 times, by January 2002)

T. BELYTSCHKO, Y.Y. LU and L. GU, ELEMENT-FREE GALERKIN METHODS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, 37, 229-256 (1994). (cited 259 times, by January 2002)

G. BAO, J.W. HUTCHINSON, R.M. MCMEEKING, PARTICLE REINFORCEMENT OF DUCTILE MATRICES AGAINST PLASTIC-FLOW AND CREEP. ACTA METALLURGICA ET MATERIALIA, 39, 1871-1882 (1991). (cited 241 times, by January 2002)

M.F. ASHBY, F.J. BLUNT and M. BANNISTER, FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGHLY CONSTRAINED METAL WIRES. ACTA METALLURGICA, 37, 1847-1857 (1989). (cited 232 times, by January 2002)

N.P. ODOWD, C.F. SHIH, FAMILY OF CRACK-TIP FIELDS CHARACTERIZED BY A TRIAXIALITY PARAMETER .1. STRUCTURE OF FIELDS. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 39, 989-1015 (1991). (cited 220 times, by January 2002)

P.A. FLINN, D.S. GARDNER, W.D. NIX, MEASUREMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF STRESS IN ALUMINUM-BASED METALLIZATION AS A FUNCTION OF THERMAL HISTORY. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, 34, 689-699 (1987). (cited 206 times, by January 2002)

M.F. ASHBY, S.D. HALLAM, THE FAILURE OF BRITTLE SOLIDS CONTAINING SMALL CRACKS UNDER COMPRESSIVE STRESS STATES. ACTA METALLURGICA, 34, 497-510 (1986). (cited 205 times, by January 2002)

J.W. HUTCHINSON, M.E. MEAR, J.R. RICE, CRACK PARALLELING AN INTERFACE BETWEEN DISSIMILAR MATERIALS. JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME , 54 828-832 (1987). (cited 203 times, by January 2002)

C.F. SHIH and R.J. ASARO, ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS OF CRACKS ON BIMATERIAL INTERFACES .1. SMALL-SCALE YIELDING. JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME 55, 299-316 (1988). (cited 202 times, by January 2002)

one more to add

Yueming Liang — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:50:05 -0500

RICE JR, TRACEY DM
ON DUCTILE ENLARGEMENT OF VOIDS IN TRIAXIAL STRESS FIELDS
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 17 (3): 201& 1969
Times Cited: 1035

JKR theory

Mike Ciavarella — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:21:51 -0500

the JKR theory JOHNSON et al P ROY SOC LOND A 324, 301 -- 1971
has even more, at least 1394 documents in the database are related to parent record. (500 shown)

Another paper to be added

Izhak Etsion — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:58:26 -0500

The following paper by Greenwood and Williamson deserves to be on the list

GREENWOO.JA, WILLIAMS.JB
CONTACT OF NOMINALLY FLAT SURFACES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 295 (1442): 300& 1966
Times Cited: 1321

megabytes

Pradeep Sharma — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:45:57 -0500

iAs sometimes Lewis Wheeler points out to me, in the modern age, perhaps we can suggest to our beancounter admin friends to use the total number of megabytes of papers!

I have 2 pounds of papers. How many do you have?

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:16:34 -0500

A former colleague of mine, just as wary of these numbers as you are, once suggested that we weigh the papers each person has. The number may not be more useless than any other such numbers, but perhaps less convenient in this age!

re: h-factor

John E. Dolbow — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:54:46 -0500

This same topic has come up here at Duke of late. ISI (through Web of Knowledge) now includes the capability to calculate this for an author automatically.

I think these metrics are just one piece of information that shed light into the quality/impact of someone's body of work. I'm a little wary of them being weighted too heavily by administrators in promotion and hiring cases.

Additional paper to be in the list

Qunyang Li — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:18:20 -0500

This year's Timoshenko medalist KL Johnson and his collaborators (Johnson, K.L.; Kendall, K.; Roberts, A.D.) have more than 1855 citations for the JKR theory of adhesion, based on the ISI web of Knowledge.

An observation

Mogadalai Gururajan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:21:13 -0500

Taylor appears thrice, while Eshelby, Rice, and Biot appear twice in the list--if the exact number of citations are counted, the order is still Taylor, Eshelby, Biot, and Rice. However, if we remove the papers on fluids which Prof. Konstantin pointed out, the order is reversed to Eshelby, Rice, Biot, Taylor... So, I guess, I will go with Prof. Konstantin with the following understanding--not that Taylor is less of a solid-mechanician, but, he is more of a continuum mechanician!

THE MOST CITED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN SOLID AND COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

shaofan li — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:00:11 -0500

I posted this survey in Applied Mechanics Research and Researchers on 16 April 2006, based on a survey of Web of Science. A paper making the list satisfied the following conditions:

It is in the areas of solid mechanics, mechanics of materials, or computational mechanics, and
It has at least 1000 citations.

This list may not be complete. If anyone finds a missing entry, please leave a comment below.

The cited number has been updated up to 18 Dec. 2006.

ESHELBY JD, The determination of the elastic field of an ellipsoidal inclusion, and related problems. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 241 (1226): 376-396, 1957. Times Cited: 3945
WILLIAMS ML, Mechanical properties of substances of high molecular weight .19. The temperature dependence of relaxation mechanism in amorphous polymers and other glass-forming liquids. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 77(14), 3701-3707, 1955. Times Cited: 3180
GRIFFITH AA, The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Sereis A, 221:163-198, 1921. Times Cited: 2646
MATTHEWS JW and BLAKESLEE AE, Defects and epitaxial multilayers: 1. Misfit dislocations. JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH 27 (DEC): 118-125, 1974. Times Cited 2486
RICE JR, A path independent integral and approximate analysis of strain concentration by notches and cracks, JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS 35 (2): 379-386, 1968. Times Cited: 2089
JOHNSON KL, KENDALL K, ROBERTS AD
SURFACE ENERGY AND CONTACT OF ELASTIC SOLIDS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 324 (1558): 301& 1971 Times Cited: 1877
Taylor GI, Plastic strain in metals. JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF METALS 62: 307-324, 1938. Times Cited: 1817
DUGDALE DS, Yielding of steel sheets containing slits. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 8 (2): 100-104, 1960. Times Cited: 1746
BIOT MA, Theory of propagation of elastic waves in a fluid-saturated porous solid. 1. Low-frequency range. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 28 (2): 168-178, 1956. Times Cited: 1737
MINDLIN RD, Influence of rotatory inertia and shear on flexural motions of isotropic elastic plates. JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME 18 (1): 31-38, 1951. Times Cited: 1437
Biot MA, General theory of three-dimensional consolidation. Source: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 12 (2): 155-164, FEB 1941. Times Cited: 1447
GREENWOO.JA, WILLIAMS.JB
CONTACT OF NOMINALLY FLAT SURFACES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 295 (1442): 300& 1966 ,Times Cited: 1321
ESHELBY JD, The continuum theory of lattice defects. SOLID STATE PHYSICS-ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS 3: 79-144, 1956. Times Cited: 1223
RICE JR, ROSENGRE GF, Plane strain deformation near a crack tip in a power-law hardening material. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 16 (1): 1-12, 1968. Times Cited: 1224
HUTCHINSON JW, Singular behavior at end of a tensile crack in a hardening material. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 16 (1): 13-31, 1968. Times Cited: 1220
MORI T, TANAKA K, Average stress in matrx and average elastic energy of materials with misfitting inclusions. ACTA METALLURGICA 21 (5): 571-574, 1973. Times Cited: 1270
BROOKS AN, HUGHES TJR, Streamline upwind Petrov-Galerkin formulations for convection dominated flows with particular emphasis on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING 32 (1-3): 199-259, 1982. Times Cited: 1180
RICE JR, TRACEY DM ON DUCTILE ENLARGEMENT OF VOIDS IN TRIAXIAL STRESS FIELDS JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 17 (3): 201& 1969 Times Cited: 1069.
GURSON AL, Continuum theory of ductile rupture by void nucleation and growth, 1. Yield criteria and flow rules for porous ductile media. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME 99 (1): 2-15, 1977. Times Cited: 1109