C. Atkinson

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
240 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

C. Atkinson is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Atkinson has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 54 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 37 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in C. Atkinson's work include Numerical methods in engineering (75 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (47 papers) and Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities (25 papers). C. Atkinson is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods in engineering (75 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (47 papers) and Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities (25 papers). C. Atkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. C. Atkinson's co-authors include Ronald Smelser, Dianne F. Jolley, Stuart L. Simpson, Richard V. Craster, J. D. Eshelby, C. Champion, F. G. Leppington, D. L. Clements, G. E. H. Reuter and Taner Akbay and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Applied Physics and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

C. Atkinson

233 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Combined mode fracture via the cracked Brazilian disk test 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400
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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. Combined mode fracture via the cracked Brazilian disk test
    1982 460 citations C. Atkinson 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
C. Atkinson United Kingdom 36 2.5k 1.0k 883 654 383 240 4.5k
Ch. Zhang Germany 43 4.1k 1.6× 682 0.7× 751 0.9× 2.3k 3.5× 156 0.4× 237 6.4k
Alexander H.‐D. Cheng United States 53 5.0k 2.0× 2.4k 2.3× 453 0.5× 2.8k 4.3× 329 0.9× 222 9.3k
Hang Ding China 38 893 0.4× 306 0.3× 694 0.8× 210 0.3× 193 0.5× 132 5.1k
Brian D. Wood United States 34 281 0.1× 314 0.3× 158 0.2× 403 0.6× 498 1.3× 102 3.2k
HongGuang Sun China 33 764 0.3× 537 0.5× 147 0.2× 506 0.8× 139 0.4× 175 5.1k
S. A. Sherif United States 30 308 0.1× 2.3k 2.3× 397 0.4× 339 0.5× 51 0.1× 201 5.5k
Raimund Bürger Chile 35 232 0.1× 383 0.4× 177 0.2× 513 0.8× 455 1.2× 198 4.0k
Longbin Tao United Kingdom 31 358 0.1× 558 0.5× 265 0.3× 280 0.4× 56 0.1× 189 3.1k
Jan Carmeliet Switzerland 53 460 0.2× 581 0.6× 162 0.2× 550 0.8× 93 0.2× 187 7.9k
Bernardino Chiaia Italy 37 1.6k 0.6× 541 0.5× 788 0.9× 2.8k 4.3× 39 0.1× 207 4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Atkinson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (2025). Paediatric ballistic fracture patients: who has poor follow-up and why?. International Orthopaedics. 49(6). 1451–1460. 1 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (2009). The Stress Analysis of Thin Contact Layers: a Viscoelastic Case. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 48(3). 219–240. 2 indexed citations
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Thiercelin, M. & C. Atkinson. (1996). Pressurization of a Fractured Wellbore. 1 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (1996). Hydraulic Fracture Propagation From a Cased, Cemented And Inclined Wellbore. 2 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & C. Champion. (1995). On some boundary value problems for the equation ∇ • ( F (|∇ w |)∇ w ) = 0. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 448(1933). 269–279. 15 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & Paul Wilmott. (1994). Interactions of continuous distributions of ledges. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 446(1927). 277–287. 1 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (1994). An inverse problem method for crack detection in elastic materials under anti-plane strain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 445(1925). 637–652. 9 indexed citations
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Champion, C. & C. Atkinson. (1993). On a crack in a material with a nonlinear stress-strain law. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 441(1912). 377–386. 7 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & J. D. Sherwood. (1992). The torque on a rotating n -bladed vane in a newtonian fluid or linear elastic medium. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 438(1902). 183–196. 13 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & Paul Wilmott. (1992). Multiple ledge and kink interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 437(1900). 451–460.
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Atkinson, C. & Richard V. Craster. (1992). The application of invariant integrals in diffusive elastic solids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 339(1653). 231–263. 8 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & Richard V. Craster. (1991). Plane strain fracture in poroelastic media. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 434(1892). 605–633. 55 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & C. Champion. (1991). Volterra dislocations in power law elastic materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 432(1884). 77–91. 2 indexed citations
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Champion, C. & C. Atkinson. (1991). A crack at the interface between two power-law materials under plane strain loading. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 432(1886). 547–553. 26 indexed citations
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Champion, C. & C. Atkinson. (1990). A mode III crack at the interface between two nonlinear materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 429(1876). 247–257. 23 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C. & Paul Wilmott. (1989). The growth kinetics of ledged interphase boundaries: transient motion, an analytical treatment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 426(1871). 377–389. 6 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (1988). Plastic relaxation at a crack tip by asymmetric slip. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 418(1854). 261–280. 7 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C., et al.. (1988). ADA for Distributed Systems. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C.. (1982). The growth kinetics of ledges during phase transformations: multistep interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 384(1786). 107–133. 29 indexed citations
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Atkinson, C.. (1981). The growth kinetics of individual ledges during solid-solid phase transformations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 378(1774). 351–368. 39 indexed citations

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