James Lighthill

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

James Lighthill is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Lighthill has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 8 papers in Oceanography and 8 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in James Lighthill's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers), Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows (5 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (5 papers). James Lighthill is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers), Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows (5 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (5 papers). James Lighthill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. James Lighthill's co-authors include Stanley A. Berger, Robert W. Blake, Greg J. Holland, Wayne D. Gray, Chris Landsea, Kerry Emanuel, Peter J. Webster, Huqiang Zhang, A. Henderson‐Sellers and Gerhard Berz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

James Lighthill

39 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Waves in fluids

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Flagellar Hydrodynamics

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Lighthill United Kingdom	22	1.1k	959	921	709	678	40	4.2k
T. Maxworthy United States	42	3.3k 3.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	562 0.8×	1.5k 2.2×	123	6.0k
A. D. D. Craik United Kingdom	23	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	617 0.7×	260 0.4×	309 0.5×	90	3.3k
J. Scott Turner United States	22	1.9k 1.7×	1.7k 1.7×	1.9k 2.1×	627 0.9×	598 0.9×	67	7.2k
Hassan Aref United States	37	2.8k 2.6×	465 0.5×	607 0.7×	1.9k 2.6×	387 0.6×	111	7.2k
P. G. Drazin United Kingdom	29	2.3k 2.2×	824 0.9×	1.6k 1.8×	730 1.0×	374 0.6×	73	6.5k
Daniel H. Rothman United States	39	3.6k 3.3×	510 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	502 0.7×	138 0.2×	103	8.1k
F. H. Busse Germany	25	2.1k 2.0×	724 0.8×	612 0.7×	814 1.1×	199 0.3×	54	4.3k
Antonio Celani Italy	36	2.0k 1.9×	216 0.2×	514 0.6×	491 0.7×	266 0.4×	118	4.1k
J. A. Whitehead United States	39	1.4k 1.3×	1.9k 2.0×	1.9k 2.0×	435 0.6×	93 0.1×	133	7.5k
G. Boffetta Italy	41	3.2k 3.0×	637 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	405 0.6×	186 0.3×	147	6.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Lighthill

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lighthill, James. (1999). Ocean Tpray and the Thermodynamics of Tropical Cyclones. Journal of Engineering Mathematics. 35(1-2). 11–42. 35 indexed citations

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Henderson‐Sellers, A., Huqiang Zhang, Gerhard Berz, et al.. (1998). Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79(1). 19–38. 330 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1996). Internal waves and related initial-value problems. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 23(1-4). 3–17. 21 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1996). Helical distributions of stokeslets. Journal of Engineering Mathematics. 30(1-2). 35–78. 58 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James, Greg J. Holland, Wayne D. Gray, et al.. (1994). Global climate change and tropical cyclones. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 75(11). 2147–2157. 113 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1993). Some aspects of the aeroacoustics of high-speed jets. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 13 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1993). Estimates of pressure differences across the head of a swimming clupeid fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 341(1296). 129–140. 25 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1990). The Inaugural Goldstein Memorial Lecture — Some challenging new applications for basic mathematical methods in the mechanics of fluids that were originally pursued with aeronautical aims. The Aeronautical Journal. 94(932). 41–52. 17 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1990). Emendations to a proof in the general three-dimensional theory of oscillating sources of waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 427(1872). 31–42. 5 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James & Robert W. Blake. (1990). Biofluiddynamics of balistiform and gymnotiform locomotion. Part 1. Biological background, and analysis by elongated-body theory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 212. 183–207. 115 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James & Stanley A. Berger. (1988). An Informal Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics. Physics Today. 41(6). 84–86. 138 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1986). The recently recognized failure of predictability in Newtonian dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 407(1832). 35–50. 80 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1986). Fundamentals concerning wave loading on offshore structures. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 173. 667–681. 175 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1983). The Earth's fluid envelope. Nature. 302(5910). 733–734. 1 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1982). Early Development of an "Acoustic Analogy" Approach to Aeroacoustic Theory. AIAA Journal. 20(4). 449–450. 7 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1981). Energy flow in the cochlea. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 106(-1). 149–149. 153 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1979). A simple fluid-flow model of ground effect on hovering. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 93(4). 781–797. 31 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1978). Waves in fluids. 1495 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lighthill, James. (1977). Multiple Sea Use. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 2(1). 27–35. 1 indexed citations

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Lighthill, James. (1971). Physiological Fluid Mechanics. 13 indexed citations

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