Alper Ertürk

21.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
274 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Alper Ertürk is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alper Ertürk has authored 274 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 175 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alper Ertürk's work include Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies (192 papers), Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (106 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (72 papers). Alper Ertürk is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies (192 papers), Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (106 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (72 papers). Alper Ertürk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Türkiye. Alper Ertürk's co-authors include Daniel J. Inman, Dan Inman, Massimo Ruzzene, Carlos De Marqui, Stephen Leadenham, Christopher Sugino, J. A. Hoffmann, Yiwei Xia, Ravindra Masana and D. Dane Quinn and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alper Ertürk

262 papers receiving 16.4k citations

Hit Papers

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting 2008 2026 2014 2020 2011 2009 2008 2009 2010 400 800 1.2k
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. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
    2011 1.5k citations Alper Ertürk, Daniel J. Inman profile →
  2. An experimentally validated bimorph cantilever model for piezoelectric energy harvesting from base excitations
    2009 1.1k citations Alper Ertürk, Daniel J. Inman Smart Materials and Structures profile →
  3. A Distributed Parameter Electromechanical Model for Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters
    2008 958 citations Alper Ertürk et al. profile →
  4. A piezomagnetoelastic structure for broadband vibration energy harvesting
    2009 811 citations Alper Ertürk, Daniel J. Inman et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
  5. Broadband piezoelectric power generation on high-energy orbits of the bistable Duffing oscillator with electromechanical coupling
    2010 665 citations Alper Ertürk, Daniel J. Inman Journal of Sound and Vibration profile →
  6. On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion
    2013 661 citations Mohammed F. Daqaq, Ravindra Masana et al. Applied Mechanics Reviews profile →
  7. On Mechanical Modeling of Cantilevered Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters
    2008 528 citations Alper Ertürk, Daniel J. Inman profile →
  8. A piezoelectric bistable plate for nonlinear broadband energy harvesting
    2010 406 citations Andres F. Arrieta, Peter Hagedorn et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
  9. Enhanced broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting using rotatable magnets
    2013 326 citations Shengxi Zhou, Alper Ertürk et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
  10. Nanoscale flexoelectric energy harvesting
    2014 319 citations Alper Ertürk et al. profile →
  11. Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods
    2013 294 citations Alper Ertürk et al. profile →
  12. Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives
    2022 177 citations Shengxi Zhou, Mickaël Lallart et al. Journal of Sound and Vibration profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alper Ertürk United States 65 13.3k 10.3k 6.5k 5.0k 1.9k 274 16.9k
Daniel Guyomar France 51 6.5k 0.5× 6.4k 0.6× 4.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 302 10.6k
Steve Beeby United Kingdom 55 7.7k 0.6× 7.4k 0.7× 8.6k 1.3× 1.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 391 14.0k
Seung‐Bok Choi South Korea 56 4.9k 0.4× 3.5k 0.3× 1.5k 0.2× 11.2k 2.3× 972 0.5× 855 16.0k
Shengxi Zhou China 51 8.0k 0.6× 4.3k 0.4× 4.5k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 332 0.2× 205 9.9k
Chiara Daraio United States 64 4.2k 0.3× 6.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 2.0k 0.4× 563 0.3× 262 13.8k
Wenming Zhang China 49 3.2k 0.2× 2.6k 0.3× 2.4k 0.4× 2.1k 0.4× 879 0.5× 277 8.3k
Massimo Ruzzene United States 67 5.7k 0.4× 8.6k 0.8× 486 0.1× 3.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 357 14.1k
Jean W. Zu Canada 49 4.1k 0.3× 3.2k 0.3× 2.0k 0.3× 2.2k 0.4× 312 0.2× 251 9.0k
Weiqiu Chen China 65 3.7k 0.3× 6.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.2× 5.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 638 18.3k
Jinhao Qiu China 42 1.8k 0.1× 3.2k 0.3× 1.5k 0.2× 1.4k 0.3× 1.0k 0.6× 306 6.2k

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All Works

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Ertürk, Alper, et al.. (2025). Topological interface modes in 3D-printed triply periodic minimal surface phononic crystals. Materials & Design. 252. 113749–113749. 4 indexed citations
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Moore, Nathan W., et al.. (2025). High intensity focused ultrasound for high strain rate material testing and delamination. Ultrasonics. 154. 107689–107689.
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Allam, Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Portable through-metal ultrasonic power transfer using a dry-coupled detachable transmitter. Ultrasonics. 141. 107339–107339. 6 indexed citations
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Rosa, Matheus I. N., et al.. (2024). Experimental realization of tunable exceptional points in a resonant non-Hermitian piezoelectrically coupled waveguide. Applied Physics Letters. 124(6). 6 indexed citations
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Riva, Emanuele, et al.. (2024). Topological modes, vibration attenuation, and energy harvesting in electromechanical metastructures. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 284. 109763–109763. 4 indexed citations
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Lossouarn, Boris, et al.. (2023). Analogous piezoelectric network for multimodal vibration attenuation of a thin circular ring. Smart Materials and Structures. 32(11). 115024–115024. 3 indexed citations
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Beli, Danilo, et al.. (2023). Programmable Moving Defect for Spatiotemporal Wave Localization in Piezoelectric Metamaterials. Physical Review Applied. 19(6). 12 indexed citations
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Corigliano, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear phenomena in magnetic plucking of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 362. 114667–114667. 8 indexed citations
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Sugino, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Digital programming of reciprocity breaking in resonant piezoelectric metamaterials. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 11 indexed citations
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Zhou, Shengxi, Mickaël Lallart, & Alper Ertürk. (2022). Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 528. 116886–116886. 177 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allam, Ahmed, Karim G. Sabra, & Alper Ertürk. (2022). Piezoelectric transducer design for simultaneous ultrasonic power transfer and backscatter communication. Smart Materials and Structures. 31(9). 95003–95003. 11 indexed citations
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Sugino, Christopher, et al.. (2022). Duffing-type digitally programmable nonlinear synthetic inductance for piezoelectric structures. Smart Materials and Structures. 31(9). 95044–95044. 18 indexed citations
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Ertürk, Alper, et al.. (2022). Hydrodynamic performance of oscillating elastic propulsors with tapered thickness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 944. 9 indexed citations
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Allam, Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Detachable Dry-Coupled Ultrasonic Power Transfer Through Metallic Enclosures. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations
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Ertürk, Alper & Mevlüt Gül. (2018). Analysis of production and trade of chickpea in Turkey and the world.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18(2). 179–186. 1 indexed citations
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Daqaq, Mohammed F., Ravindra Masana, Alper Ertürk, & D. Dane Quinn. (2014). Closure to “Discussion of ‘On the Role of Nonlinearities in Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion’”. Applied Mechanics Reviews. 66(4). 3 indexed citations
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Leadenham, Stephen & Alper Ertürk. (2014). Unified nonlinear electroelastic dynamics of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever for energy harvesting, sensing, and actuation. Nonlinear Dynamics. 79(3). 1727–1743. 155 indexed citations
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Ertürk, Alper, et al.. (2013). Multifunctional double-bimorph piezoelectric composite for bending-twisting actuation, adaptive stiffness change, and energy harvesting. 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference. 1 indexed citations
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Arrieta, Andres F., Peter Hagedorn, Alper Ertürk, & Daniel J. Inman. (2010). A piezoelectric bistable plate for nonlinear broadband energy harvesting. Applied Physics Letters. 97(10). 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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