Standout Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion
    2019 373 citations Arda Kotikian, Connor McMahan et al. Science Robotics profile →

Immediate Impact

17 from Science/Nature 62 hit
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Citing Papers

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5 intermediate papers

Works of Connor McMahan being referenced

Programming temporal morphing of self-actuated shells
2020
Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion
2019 Hit

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Connor McMahan 530 404 119 105 89 7 615
Yael Klein 493 0.9× 238 0.6× 92 0.8× 141 1.3× 23 0.3× 4 558
Michael McEvoy 286 0.5× 375 0.9× 83 0.7× 30 0.3× 86 1.0× 11 628
Shiwei Xu 267 0.5× 369 0.9× 57 0.5× 44 0.4× 86 1.0× 16 556
Dongchang Zheng 186 0.4× 285 0.7× 77 0.6× 51 0.5× 117 1.3× 8 501
Bastiaan Florijn 438 0.8× 218 0.5× 28 0.2× 144 1.4× 63 0.7× 4 554
Raja Annapooranan 371 0.7× 345 0.9× 67 0.6× 50 0.5× 82 0.9× 12 525
Paolo Testa 366 0.7× 356 0.9× 262 2.2× 43 0.4× 81 0.9× 8 582
Sumeet R. Mishra 309 0.6× 404 1.0× 212 1.8× 59 0.6× 108 1.2× 11 628
Youzhou Yang 270 0.5× 460 1.1× 173 1.5× 30 0.3× 94 1.1× 12 643
Melanie Baumgartner 265 0.5× 393 1.0× 126 1.1× 16 0.2× 111 1.2× 7 560

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