Adrian Constantin

22.4k total citations · 13 hit papers
213 papers, 16.2k citations indexed

About

Adrian Constantin is a scholar working on Oceanography, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian Constantin has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 16.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Oceanography, 65 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 44 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Adrian Constantin's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (73 papers), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (59 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (42 papers). Adrian Constantin is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (73 papers), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (59 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (42 papers). Adrian Constantin collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and Sweden. Adrian Constantin's co-authors include Joachim Escher, Walter A. Strauss, Alberto Bressan, R. S. Johnson, David Lannes, Rossen I. Ivanov, Luc Molinet, H. P. McKean, Boris Kolev and Eugen Vărvărucă and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Adrian Constantin

201 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2000 2008 2000 2006 250 500 750 1000
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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations
    1998 1.0k citations Adrian Constantin, Joachim Escher profile →
  2. Stability of peakons
    2000 694 citations Adrian Constantin et al. profile →
  3. The Hydrodynamical Relevance of the Camassa–Holm and Degasperis–Procesi Equations
    2008 691 citations Adrian Constantin et al. profile →
  4. Existence of permanent and breaking waves for a shallow water equation: a geometric approach
    2000 655 citations Adrian Constantin profile →
  5. Global Conservative Solutions of the Camassa–Holm Equation
    2006 585 citations Alberto Bressan, Adrian Constantin profile →
  6. The trajectories of particles in Stokes waves
    2006 581 citations Adrian Constantin profile →
  7. A shallow water equation on the circle
    1999 505 citations Adrian Constantin et al. profile →
  8. On the scattering problem for the Camassa-Holm equation
    2001 498 citations Adrian Constantin profile →
  9. Well-posedness, global existence, and blowup phenomena for a periodic quasi-linear hyperbolic equation
    1998 494 citations Adrian Constantin, Joachim Escher profile →
  10. Global existence and blow-up for a shallow water equation
    1998 463 citations Adrian Constantin, Joachim Escher French digital mathematics library (Numdam) profile →
  11. Global Weak Solutions for a Shallow Water Equation
    2000 383 citations Adrian Constantin, Luc Molinet Communications in Mathematical Physics profile →
  12. GLOBAL DISSIPATIVE SOLUTIONS OF THE CAMASSA–HOLM EQUATION
    2006 366 citations Alberto Bressan, Adrian Constantin profile →
  13. On an integrable two-component Camassa–Holm shallow water system
    2008 312 citations Adrian Constantin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adrian Constantin Austria 59 10.8k 6.3k 5.0k 4.0k 2.9k 213 16.2k
В. Е. Захаров Russia 67 10.8k 1.0× 3.2k 0.5× 4.6k 0.9× 1.4k 0.4× 2.3k 0.8× 302 18.5k
Joachim Escher Germany 36 3.9k 0.4× 2.8k 0.4× 892 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 591 0.2× 139 6.4k
Harvey Segur United States 33 9.8k 0.9× 2.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.2× 1.8k 0.5× 476 0.2× 70 11.5k
Darryl D. Holm United States 45 6.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.5× 981 0.2× 2.2k 0.5× 163 0.1× 262 11.6k
R. S. Johnson United Kingdom 33 3.5k 0.3× 1.1k 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 582 0.1× 799 0.3× 90 5.7k
Jerry L. Bona United States 45 5.5k 0.5× 5.4k 0.9× 821 0.2× 214 0.1× 521 0.2× 147 8.0k
Roger Grimshaw United Kingdom 48 4.2k 0.4× 1.2k 0.2× 4.2k 0.9× 234 0.1× 1.6k 0.5× 373 8.6k
Roberto Camassa United States 26 3.3k 0.3× 1.3k 0.2× 917 0.2× 1.2k 0.3× 471 0.2× 80 4.7k
Richard Fowler United States 14 2.2k 0.2× 939 0.1× 989 0.2× 176 0.0× 580 0.2× 39 6.8k
Efim Pelinovsky Russia 49 3.2k 0.3× 588 0.1× 3.9k 0.8× 137 0.0× 2.5k 0.9× 395 8.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Predescu, Dragoş, et al.. (2025). Boerhaave Syndrome—Narrative Review. Diagnostics. 15(19). 2463–2463. 1 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & R. S. Johnson. (2025). On hurricane dynamics. Journal of Differential Equations. 431. 113193–113193.
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Predescu, Dragoş, et al.. (2024). From Caustic Stenosis to Esophageal Cancer, a Challenging Evolution - Narrative Review. Chirurgia. 119(5). 515–515. 1 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian, et al.. (2023). Giant Gallbladder Tumor, Unusual Cancer—Case Report and Short Review of Literature. Diagnostics. 13(2). 194–194.
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Constantin, Adrian, et al.. (2023). Esophageal diverticula: from diagnosis to therapeutic management—narrative review. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 15(2). 759–779. 9 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian. (2023). On Saturn's six-sided polar jet stream. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 117(5). 279–291. 3 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & Luc Molinet. (2023). Global Existence and Finite-Time Blow-Up for a Nonlinear Nonlocal Evolution Equation. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 402(3). 3233–3252.
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Constantin, Adrian, et al.. (2023). Pregnancy and Gastric Cancer: A Narrative Review. Diagnostics. 13(11). 1909–1909. 3 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian. (2022). Comments on: nonlinear wind-drift ocean currents in arctic regions. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 116(2). 116–121. 5 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian, et al.. (2021). Idiopathic Megacolon—Short Review. Diagnostics. 11(11). 2112–2112. 4 indexed citations
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Bressan, Alberto & Adrian Constantin. (2019). The Deflection Angle of Surface Ocean Currents From the Wind Direction. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(11). 7412–7420. 31 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & R. S. Johnson. (2015). The dynamics of waves interacting with the Equatorial Undercurrent. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 109(4). 311–358. 180 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & Pierre Germain. (2013). Instability of some equatorially trapped waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 118(6). 2802–2810. 111 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & Gabriele Villari. (2007). Particle Trajectories in Linear Water Waves. 1. 5 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian, et al.. (2000). Note on irreducible approach to reducible second-class constraints. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 50(2). 169–174. 3 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian & Joachim Escher. (1998). Global existence and blow-up for a shallow water equation. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 26(2). 303–328. 463 indexed citations breakdown →
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Constantin, Adrian. (1994). Stability of Solution Sets of Differential Equations with Multivalued Right-Hand Side. Journal of Differential Equations. 114(1). 243–252. 8 indexed citations
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Constantin, Adrian. (1991). Some observations on a Conti's result. Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni. 2(2). 137–145. 9 indexed citations

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