George Lauder

30.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
317 papers, 22.1k citations indexed

About

George Lauder is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Lauder has authored 317 papers receiving a total of 22.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 200 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 192 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 73 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in George Lauder's work include Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (198 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (132 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (64 papers). George Lauder is often cited by papers focused on Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (198 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (132 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (64 papers). George Lauder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. George Lauder's co-authors include Eliot G. Drucker, Bruce C. Jayne, Peter G. Madden, James C. Liao, Eric Tytell, Frank E. Fish, Karel F. Liem, Michael S. Triantafyllou, David Beal and Cheryl D. Wilga and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George Lauder

309 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Fish Exploiting Vortices Decrease Muscle Activity

2003 684 citations George Lauder et al. Science profile →
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL BY SWIMMING FISHES AND MAMMALS

2005 598 citations George Lauder et al. profile →
The evolution and interrelationships of the actinopterygian fishes

1983 565 citations George Lauder et al. profile →
Biomimetic shark skin: design, fabrication and hydrodynamic function

2014 342 citations George Lauder et al. Journal of Experimental Biology profile →
Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

2022 264 citations Jessy Lauer, Mu Zhou et al. Nature Methods profile →
Tuna robotics: A high-frequency experimental platform exploring the performance space of swimming fishes

2019 254 citations Dylan K. Wainwright, Valentina Di Santo et al. profile →
An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish designed with human cardiac biophysics

2022 138 citations Keel Yong Lee, David G. Matthews et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Lauder United States	87	11.2k	9.3k	4.2k	3.9k	3.4k	317	22.1k
Frank E. Fish United States	45	3.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.1×	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	1.2k 0.3×	158	6.8k
Michael H. Dickinson United States	75	11.1k 1.0×	1.9k 0.2×	2.0k 0.5×	539 0.1×	4.5k 1.3×	187	20.8k
Paul W. Webb United States	59	3.1k 0.3×	5.7k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	737 0.2×	332 0.1×	216	11.7k
D. Weihs Israel	42	2.4k 0.2×	2.0k 0.2×	1.7k 0.4×	740 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	149	5.7k
Stanislav N. Gorb Germany	82	1.4k 0.1×	690 0.1×	1.9k 0.4×	997 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	867	28.0k
John J. Videler Netherlands	35	2.3k 0.2×	2.1k 0.2×	2.2k 0.5×	467 0.1×	573 0.2×	93	5.1k
Adrian L. R. Thomas United Kingdom	39	5.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.1×	1.4k 0.3×	271 0.1×	2.4k 0.7×	64	6.7k
Robert J. Full United States	62	3.4k 0.3×	475 0.1×	1.3k 0.3×	419 0.1×	331 0.1×	151	17.2k
Robert W. Blake United States	44	1.9k 0.2×	2.3k 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	584 0.2×	230 0.1×	203	6.1k
M. A. R. Koehl United States	47	788 0.1×	700 0.1×	3.2k 0.8×	715 0.2×	244 0.1×	121	8.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Lauder

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Fraser, Gareth J., et al.. (2025). Quantifying the Denticle Multiverse: A Standardized Coding System to Capture Three Dimensional Morphological Variations for Quantitative Evolutionary and Ecological Studies of Elasmobranch Denticles. Integrative Organismal Biology. 7(1). obaf021–obaf021. 1 indexed citations

White, Connor F., et al.. (2025). Function of the tail in myliobatid rays: role in controlling body stability. Royal Society Open Science. 12(11). 251269–251269.

Zhang, Yangfan & George Lauder. (2025). Physics and physiology of fish collective movement. 1(1). 100021–100021. 3 indexed citations

Wainwright, Dylan K., et al.. (2024). Hydrodynamic Function of the Slimy and Scaly Surfaces of Teleost Fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64(2). 480–495. 3 indexed citations

White, Connor F. & George Lauder. (2024). Studying animal locomotion with multiple data loggers: quantifying time drift between tags. Animal Biotelemetry. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

Lauder, George, et al.. (2024). Patterns of dermal denticle loss in sharks. Journal of Morphology. 285(9). e21764–e21764. 1 indexed citations

Han, Pan, et al.. (2023). Vortex dynamics and fin-fin interactions resulting in performance enhancement in fish-like propulsion. Physical Review Fluids. 8(7). 24 indexed citations

Matthews, David G., et al.. (2023). Genes, Morphology, Performance, and Fitness: Quantifying Organismal Performance to Understand Adaptive Evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 63(3). 843–859. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yangfan & George Lauder. (2023). Energetics of collective movement in vertebrates. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(20). 15 indexed citations

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Lauer, Jessy, Mu Zhou, Shaokai Ye, et al.. (2022). Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut. Nature Methods. 19(4). 496–504. 264 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Keel Yong, David G. Matthews, Sean L. Kim, et al.. (2022). An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish designed with human cardiac biophysics. Science. 375(6581). 639–647. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Quinn, Daniel & George Lauder. (2021). Tunable stiffness in fish robotics: mechanisms and advantages. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 17(1). 11002–11002. 53 indexed citations

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Lauder, George, et al.. (2020). Tunabot Flex: a tuna-inspired robot with body flexibility improves high-performance swimming. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 16(2). 26019–26019. 120 indexed citations

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White, Connor F., et al.. (2020). The denticle surface of thresher shark tails: Three‐dimensional structure and comparison to other pelagic species. Journal of Morphology. 281(8). 938–955. 24 indexed citations

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Wainwright, Dylan K., et al.. (2018). Diversity of dermal denticle structure in sharks: Skin surface roughness and three‐dimensional morphology. Journal of Morphology. 279(8). 1132–1154. 67 indexed citations

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Gravish, Nick & George Lauder. (2018). Robotics-inspired biology. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221(7). 107 indexed citations

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Ren, Yan, et al.. (2017). FLM volume 829 Cover and Front matter. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 829. f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

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Feilich, Kara, et al.. (2017). Structure of supporting elements in the dorsal fin of percid fishes. Journal of Morphology. 278(12). 1716–1725. 2 indexed citations

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Borazjani, Iman, et al.. (2016). Hydrodynamics of swimming in stingrays: numerical simulations and the role of the leading-edge vortex. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 788. 407–443. 111 indexed citations

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Lucas, Kelsey, John O. Dabiri, & George Lauder. (2015). Application of PIV-based pressure measurements to the study of aquatic propulsion. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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