Esteban Samaniego

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Esteban Samaniego is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Esteban Samaniego has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 14 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Esteban Samaniego's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Numerical methods in engineering (15 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Esteban Samaniego is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Numerical methods in engineering (15 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Esteban Samaniego collaborates with scholars based in Ecuador, Germany and United States. Esteban Samaniego's co-authors include Timon Rabczuk, Cosmin Anitescu, Khader M. Hamdia, Somdatta Goswami, Hongwei Guo, Xiaoying Zhuang, Lenin Campozano, Ted Belytschko, J. Oliver and Alfredo E. Huespe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Esteban Samaniego

47 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

An energy approach to the solution of partial differential equations in computational mechanics via machine learning: Concepts, implementation and applications

2020 1.4k citations Esteban Samaniego, Cosmin Anitescu et al. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Esteban Samaniego Ecuador	21	1.3k	724	492	488	419	48	2.7k
Muneo Hori Japan	29	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.9×	257 0.5×	440 0.9×	381 0.9×	286	4.0k
Bijan Mohammadi Iran	32	2.0k 1.5×	708 1.0×	1.2k 2.5×	823 1.7×	524 1.3×	241	4.2k
Qiushi Chen United States	26	306 0.2×	710 1.0×	375 0.8×	336 0.7×	175 0.4×	102	2.1k
W.J. Mansur Brazil	28	1.5k 1.1×	663 0.9×	509 1.0×	408 0.8×	78 0.2×	201	3.0k
Sunil Saigal United States	33	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	646 1.3×	710 1.5×	284 0.7×	126	3.2k
Ehsan Haghighat United States	19	659 0.5×	535 0.7×	400 0.8×	426 0.9×	138 0.3×	41	2.1k
Kenjiro Terada Japan	33	2.9k 2.2×	1.3k 1.8×	594 1.2×	799 1.6×	559 1.3×	293	4.2k
Bernardino Chiaia Italy	37	1.6k 1.2×	2.8k 3.9×	216 0.4×	541 1.1×	788 1.9×	207	4.5k
Zhi Zong China	32	875 0.7×	453 0.6×	2.3k 4.7×	312 0.6×	769 1.8×	201	3.7k

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Ulloa, Jacinto, et al.. (2025). Exploring energy minimization to model strain localization as a strong discontinuity using Physics Informed Neural Networks. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 436. 117724–117724. 3 indexed citations

Muñoz, Paúl, et al.. (2025). Advancing timely satellite precipitation for IMERG-ER using GOES-16 data and a U-net convolutional neural network modelling approach. Environmental Modelling & Software. 189. 106457–106457.

Romero‐Martínez, Leonardo, et al.. (2023). Comparative Study of UV Radiation Resistance and Reactivation Characteristics of E. coli ATCC 8739 and Native Strains: Implications for Water Disinfection. Sustainability. 15(12). 9559–9559. 4 indexed citations

Sánchez, Esteban Morcillo, et al.. (2022). Physics-Informed Neural Network water surface predictability for 1D steady-state open channel cases with different flow types and complex bed profile shapes. Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences. 9(1). 17 indexed citations

Samaniego, Esteban, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of causality-based predictor selection for statistical downscaling: a case study of rainfall in an Ecuadorian Andes basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 150(3-4). 987–1013. 2 indexed citations

Sánchez, Esteban Morcillo, et al.. (2021). Patterns of Difference between Physical and 1-D Calibrated Effective Roughness Parameters in Mountain Rivers. Water. 13(22). 3202–3202. 2 indexed citations

Samaniego, Cristóbal, et al.. (2021). A phase-field model for ductile fracture with shear bands: A parallel implementation. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 200. 106424–106424. 36 indexed citations

Sánchez, Esteban Morcillo, et al.. (2021). Resistance Analysis of Morphologies in Headwater Mountain Streams. Water. 13(16). 2207–2207. 2 indexed citations

Samaniego, Esteban, Cosmin Anitescu, Somdatta Goswami, et al.. (2020). An energy approach to the solution of partial differential equations in computational mechanics via machine learning: Concepts, implementation and applications. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 362. 112790–112790. 1392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samaniego, Esteban, et al.. (2020). Variational Modelling of Strain Localization in Solids: A Computational Mechanics Point of View. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. 28(3). 1183–1203. 6 indexed citations

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Ballari, Daniela, Lenin Campozano, Esteban Samaniego, & Daniel Orellana. (2020). Spatial Association To Characterize The Climate Teleconnection Patterns In Ecuador Based On Satellite Precipitation Estimates. Repositorio Institucional (Universidad de Cuenca). 219–224. 1 indexed citations

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Campozano, Lenin, et al.. (2020). The Pacific decadal oscillation modulates the relation of ENSO with the rainfall variability in coast of Ecuador. International Journal of Climatology. 40(13). 5801–5812. 15 indexed citations

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Campozano, Lenin, Katja Trachte, Rolando Célleri, et al.. (2018). Climatology and Teleconnections of Mesoscale Convective Systems in an Andean Basin in Southern Ecuador: The Case of the Paute Basin. Advances in Meteorology. 2018. 1–13. 32 indexed citations

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Ulloa, Jacinto, et al.. (2018). A variational approach to the phase field modeling of brittle and ductile fracture. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 144. 502–517. 59 indexed citations

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Timbe, Luis, et al.. (2018). Unidimensional, non-stationary modeling of a high mountain river in southern Ecuador. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(2). 67–74. 1 indexed citations

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Samaniego, Esteban, et al.. (2018). Finding teleconnections from decomposed rainfall signals using dynamic harmonic regressions: a Tropical Andean case study. Climate Dynamics. 52(7-8). 4643–4670. 7 indexed citations

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Campozano, Lenin, et al.. (2016). Comparison of Statistical Downscaling Methods for Monthly Total Precipitation: Case Study for the Paute River Basin in Southern Ecuador. Advances in Meteorology. 2016. 1–13. 57 indexed citations

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Samaniego, Cristóbal, Guillaume Houzeaux, Esteban Samaniego, & Mariano Vázquez. (2015). Parallel embedded boundary methods for fluid and rigid-body interaction. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 290. 387–419. 14 indexed citations

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Campozano, Lenin, Esteban Morcillo Sánchez, Álex Avilés, & Esteban Samaniego. (2014). Evaluation of infilling methods for time series of daily precipitation and temperature: The case of the Ecuadorian Andes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 99–115. 53 indexed citations

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Vázquez, Raúl F., et al.. (2013). Aplicabilidad de los modelos NAM y DBM para estimar caudales en subcuencas alto andinas de Ecuador. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 85–103. 2 indexed citations

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