Hussein Nassar

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Hussein Nassar is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hussein Nassar has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 9 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hussein Nassar's work include Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (17 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (8 papers). Hussein Nassar is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (17 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (8 papers). Hussein Nassar collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Hussein Nassar's co-authors include Guoliang Huang, Andrew N. Norris, Huan Chen, Yangyang Chen, Chiara Daraio, Michael R. Haberman, Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Xianchen Xu, Xiaopeng Li and Nicolas Auffray and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Nature Reviews Materials.

In The Last Decade

Hussein Nassar

30 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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. Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials
    2020 342 citations Hussein Nassar, Behrooz Yousefzadeh et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hussein Nassar United States 21 1.4k 645 625 390 386 31 2.0k
Bernard Bonello France 30 1.8k 1.3× 610 0.9× 542 0.9× 591 1.5× 281 0.7× 79 2.4k
Yu‐Gui Peng China 27 1.1k 0.8× 891 1.4× 1.5k 2.4× 139 0.4× 121 0.3× 77 2.6k
Stefano Gonella United States 20 1.1k 0.8× 269 0.4× 180 0.3× 298 0.8× 649 1.7× 48 1.5k
Daniel Torrent Spain 34 2.9k 2.1× 1.8k 2.7× 813 1.3× 447 1.1× 351 0.9× 96 3.6k
Hong-xiang Sun China 24 1.2k 0.9× 703 1.1× 942 1.5× 190 0.5× 108 0.3× 112 2.1k
Vicente Romero‐García France 32 3.1k 2.2× 807 1.3× 472 0.8× 296 0.8× 385 1.0× 124 3.4k
Olivier Richoux France 21 1.3k 1.0× 512 0.8× 393 0.6× 95 0.2× 154 0.4× 56 1.7k
Xu Ni China 13 1.5k 1.1× 968 1.5× 1.3k 2.1× 185 0.5× 102 0.3× 32 2.4k
Jiujiu Chen China 24 1.0k 0.7× 416 0.6× 561 0.9× 216 0.6× 105 0.3× 81 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hussein Nassar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hussein Nassar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nassar, Hussein, et al.. (2024). Effective isometries of periodic shells. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 185. 105553–105553. 3 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, et al.. (2024). Curved-Crease Origami for Morphing Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters. 132(10). 108201–108201. 15 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, et al.. (2023). Willis elasticity from microcontinuum field theories: Asymptotics, microstructure-property relationships, and cloaking. Wave Motion. 122. 103206–103206. 1 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein. (2023). Isometric deformations of surfaces of translation. 12(1). 1–17. 3 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, et al.. (2023). Frustration propagation in tubular foldable mechanisms. Frontiers in Physics. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Yangyang, Hussein Nassar, & Guoliang Huang. (2021). Discrete transformation elasticity: An approach to design lattice-based polar metamaterials. International Journal of Engineering Science. 168. 103562–103562. 18 indexed citations
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Xu, Xianchen, Wan Shou, Zongliang Du, et al.. (2020). Physical Realization of Elastic Cloaking with a Polar Material. Physical Review Letters. 124(11). 114301–114301. 63 indexed citations
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Xu, Xianchen, Qian Wu, Hui Chen, et al.. (2020). Physical Observation of a Robust Acoustic Pumping in Waveguides with Dynamic Boundary. Physical Review Letters. 125(25). 253901–253901. 57 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, Yangyang Chen, & Guoliang Huang. (2020). Polar Metamaterials: A New Outlook on Resonance for Cloaking Applications. Physical Review Letters. 124(8). 84301–84301. 46 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Romain Fleury, et al.. (2020). Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials. Nature Reviews Materials. 5(9). 667–685. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nassar, Hussein, Hui Chen, & Guoliang Huang. (2020). Microtwist elasticity: A continuum approach to zero modes and topological polarization in Kagome lattices. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 144. 104107–104107. 22 indexed citations
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Chen, Yangyang, Xiaopeng Li, Hussein Nassar, et al.. (2019). Nonreciprocal Wave Propagation in a Continuum-Based Metamaterial with Space-Time Modulated Resonators. Physical Review Applied. 11(6). 128 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, Yangyang Chen, & Guoliang Huang. (2019). Isotropic polar solids for conformal transformation elasticity and cloaking. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 129. 229–243. 46 indexed citations
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Chen, Hui, Hussein Nassar, Andrew N. Norris, Gengkai Hu, & Guoliang Huang. (2018). Elastic quantum spin Hall effect in kagome lattices. Physical review. B.. 98(9). 79 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Hui Chen, et al.. (2018). Observation of Nonreciprocal Wave Propagation in a Dynamic Phononic Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 121(19). 194301–194301. 165 indexed citations
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Chen, Yangyang, Xiaopeng Li, Hussein Nassar, Gengkai Hu, & Guoliang Huang. (2018). A programmable metasurface for real time control of broadband elastic rays. Smart Materials and Structures. 27(11). 115011–115011. 112 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, Yangyang Chen, & Guoliang Huang. (2018). A degenerate polar lattice for cloaking in full two-dimensional elastodynamics and statics. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 474(2219). 30 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, et al.. (2017). Curvature, metric and parametrization of origami tessellations: theory and application to the eggbox pattern. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 473(2197). 20160705–20160705. 42 indexed citations
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Nassar, Hussein, Huan Chen, Andrew N. Norris, Michael R. Haberman, & Guoliang Huang. (2017). Non-reciprocal wave propagation in modulated elastic metamaterials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 473(2202). 20170188–20170188. 128 indexed citations
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Wierda, M, et al.. (2007). Early Reflections on Local Perceptions, Legitimacy and Legacy of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Journal of International Criminal Justice. 5(5). 1065–1081. 11 indexed citations

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