Gareth H. McKinley

44.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
415 papers, 36.7k citations indexed

About

Gareth H. McKinley is a scholar working on Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gareth H. McKinley has authored 415 papers receiving a total of 36.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 122 papers in Computational Mechanics and 99 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gareth H. McKinley's work include Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (209 papers), Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (69 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (50 papers). Gareth H. McKinley is often cited by papers focused on Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (209 papers), Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (69 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (50 papers). Gareth H. McKinley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Gareth H. McKinley's co-authors include Robert E. Cohen, Randy H. Ewoldt, Joseph M. Mabry, Anish Tuteja, Wonjae Choi, A. E. Hosoi, Kripa K. Varanasi, Gregory C. Rutledge, Minglin Ma and Justin J. Cooper‐White and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gareth H. McKinley

405 papers receiving 35.7k citations

Hit Papers

Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces 2003 2026 2010 2018 2007 2003 2011 2008 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces
    2007 2.6k citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  2. Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Forests
    2003 1.3k citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  3. A review of nonlinear oscillatory shear tests: Analysis and application of large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS)
    2011 1.2k citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  4. Robust omniphobic surfaces
    2008 1.0k citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. New measures for characterizing nonlinear viscoelasticity in large amplitude oscillatory shear
    2008 865 citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. Journal of Rheology profile →
  6. Droplet mobility on lubricant-impregnated surfaces
    2012 828 citations Gareth H. McKinley, Kripa K. Varanasi et al. Soft Matter profile →
  7. Relationships between Water Wettability and Ice Adhesion
    2010 678 citations Kripa K. Varanasi, Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  8. Anti-fatigue-fracture hydrogels
    2019 513 citations Shaoting Lin, Xinyue Liu et al. Science Advances profile →
  9. A modified Cassie–Baxter relationship to explain contact angle hysteresis and anisotropy on non-wetting textured surfaces
    2009 481 citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  10. Nanotextured Silica Surfaces with Robust Superhydrophobicity and Omnidirectional Broadband Supertransmissivity
    2012 362 citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  11. Exploiting Topographical Texture To Impart Icephobicity
    2010 361 citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. profile →
  12. Shear-Thinning Nanocomposite Hydrogels for the Treatment of Hemorrhage
    2014 344 citations Gareth H. McKinley, Bradley D. Olsen et al. profile →
  13. Durable and scalable icephobic surfaces: similarities and distinctions from superhydrophobic surfaces
    2015 287 citations Gareth H. McKinley et al. Soft Matter profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gareth H. McKinley United States 98 11.3k 11.2k 10.6k 9.2k 6.7k 415 36.7k
Ronald G. Larson United States 80 10.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.2× 6.5k 0.6× 4.9k 0.5× 8.3k 1.2× 465 29.8k
Daniel Bonn Netherlands 77 4.3k 0.4× 3.9k 0.4× 4.2k 0.4× 7.7k 0.8× 6.6k 1.0× 386 21.9k
Jacob N. Israelachvili United States 128 1.4k 0.1× 14.0k 1.2× 12.8k 1.2× 2.1k 0.2× 11.3k 1.7× 447 61.1k
Edwin L. Thomas United States 103 1.6k 0.1× 5.4k 0.5× 7.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.2× 22.1k 3.3× 543 38.8k
Robert E. Cohen United States 87 781 0.1× 14.0k 1.3× 7.9k 0.7× 3.1k 0.3× 8.6k 1.3× 326 29.6k
Christopher W. Macosko United States 79 4.0k 0.4× 1.3k 0.1× 7.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.2× 9.9k 1.5× 413 30.5k
Michael Rubinstein United States 78 3.1k 0.3× 4.1k 0.4× 5.4k 0.5× 721 0.1× 8.4k 1.3× 286 26.9k
Alexander L. Yarin United States 74 764 0.1× 4.9k 0.4× 12.5k 1.2× 5.8k 0.6× 3.2k 0.5× 475 28.2k
Hans‐Jürgen Butt Germany 96 405 0.0× 11.5k 1.0× 12.0k 1.1× 4.6k 0.5× 9.9k 1.5× 611 39.3k
Norman J. Wagner United States 68 4.8k 0.4× 715 0.1× 3.7k 0.3× 2.0k 0.2× 7.9k 1.2× 373 19.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McKinley, Gareth H., et al.. (2025). A double exponential chirp waveform for noisy rheology. Rheologica Acta. 64(11). 633–646.
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Stevens, Corey A., Gerardo Cárcamo‐Oyarce, Jake Song, et al.. (2025). Mussel-inspired cross-linking mechanisms enhance gelation and adhesion of multifunctional mucin-derived hydrogels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(8). e2415927122–e2415927122. 7 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H., et al.. (2025). Hyperaging and stress buildup in soft colloidal gels. Journal of Rheology. 69(6). 855–871. 1 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H., et al.. (2024). σOWCh: Optimally Windowed Chirp rheometry using combined motor transducer/single head rheometers. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. 333. 105307–105307. 3 indexed citations
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Song, Jake, David Lundberg, Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, et al.. (2024). Valence can control the nonexponential viscoelastic relaxation of multivalent reversible gels. Science Advances. 10(20). eadl5056–eadl5056. 10 indexed citations
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Geri, Michela, et al.. (2024). High-frequency optimally windowed chirp rheometry for rapidly evolving viscoelastic materials: Application to a crosslinking thermoset. Journal of Rheology. 68(3). 445–462. 7 indexed citations
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Marín‐Santibáñez, Benjamín M., et al.. (2023). Rheo-PIV of yield-stress fluids in a 3D-printed fractal vane-in-cup geometry. Journal of Rheology. 67(4). 891–891. 8 indexed citations
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Headrick, Robert J., Crystal E. Owens, Lauren W. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Versatile acid solvents for pristine carbon nanotube assembly. Science Advances. 8(17). eabm3285–eabm3285. 31 indexed citations
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Rajappan, Anoop & Gareth H. McKinley. (2020). Polymers and Plastrons in Parallel Yield Enhanced Turbulent Drag Reduction. Fluids. 5(4). 197–197. 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Shaoting, Xinyue Liu, Ji Liu, et al.. (2019). Anti-fatigue-fracture hydrogels. Science Advances. 5(1). eaau8528–eaau8528. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jamali, Safa, Robert C. Armstrong, & Gareth H. McKinley. (2019). Multiscale Nature of Thixotropy and Rheological Hysteresis in Attractive Colloidal Suspensions under Shear. Physical Review Letters. 123(24). 248003–248003. 38 indexed citations
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Solomon, Brian, Xinwei Chen, Ahmed Helal, et al.. (2018). Enhancing the Performance of Viscous Electrode-Based Flow Batteries Using Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(8). 3614–3621. 8 indexed citations
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Keshavarz, Bavand, Thibaut Divoux, Sébastien Manneville, & Gareth H. McKinley. (2017). Nonlinear Viscoelasticity and Generalized Failure Criterion for Polymer Gels. ACS Macro Letters. 6(7). 663–667. 37 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhen‐Gang, et al.. (2015). Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th Anniversary: Chain configuration and rate-dependent mechanical properties in transient networks. Soft Matter. 11(11). 2085–2096. 37 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H., et al.. (2014). Interception efficiency in flow of power-law fluids past confined porous bodies. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H. & Simon J. Haward. (2012). Stagnation point flow of wormlike micellar solutions in a microfluidic cross-slot device: Effects of surfactant concentration and ionic environment. APS. 1 indexed citations
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Nijenhuis, K. Te, Gareth H. McKinley, Stephen H. Spiegelberg, et al.. (2007). Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Springer US. 1 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H. & Anubhav Tripathi. (2000). How to extract the Newtonian viscosity from capillary breakup measurements in a filament rheometer. Journal of Rheology. 44(3). 653–670. 329 indexed citations
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Yao, Minwu & Gareth H. McKinley. (1998). Numerical simulation of extensional deformations of viscoelastic liquid bridges in filament stretching devices. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. 74(1-3). 47–88. 108 indexed citations
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McKinley, Gareth H., et al.. (1996). Extensional deformation of Newtonian liquid bridges. Physics of Fluids. 8(10). 2568–2579. 69 indexed citations

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