M. A. Biot

34.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
93 papers, 25.1k citations indexed

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M. A. Biot is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, M. A. Biot has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 25.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 36 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in M. A. Biot's work include Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena (22 papers), Elasticity and Wave Propagation (19 papers) and Elasticity and Material Modeling (18 papers). M. A. Biot is often cited by papers focused on Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena (22 papers), Elasticity and Wave Propagation (19 papers) and Elasticity and Material Modeling (18 papers). M. A. Biot collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. M. A. Biot's co-authors include D. C. Drucker, H. Odé, I. Tolstoy, W. L. Medlin, L. Massé, Stuart A. Rice, J. H. Rosenbaum, Dexter Johnson, R. E. D. Bishop and W.J. Duncan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Applied Physics and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

M. A. Biot

91 papers receiving 23.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Theory of Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid. I. Low-Frequency Range

1956 6.0k citations M. A. Biot The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →
Theory of Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid. II. Higher Frequency Range

1956 3.2k citations M. A. Biot The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →
Mechanics of Deformation and Acoustic Propagation in Porous Media

1962 2.9k citations M. A. Biot profile →
Thermoelasticity and Irreversible Thermodynamics

1956 2.4k citations M. A. Biot profile →
Theory of Elasticity and Consolidation for a Porous Anisotropic Solid

1955 1.6k citations M. A. Biot profile →
The Elastic Coefficients of the Theory of Consolidation

1957 1.5k citations M. A. Biot et al. profile →
Mechanics of Incremental Deformation

1965 1.5k citations M. A. Biot et al. profile →
Generalized Theory of Acoustic Propagation in Porous Dissipative Media

1962 830 citations M. A. Biot The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →
General Solutions of the Equations of Elasticity and Consolidation for a Porous Material

1956 622 citations M. A. Biot profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. A. Biot United States	35	11.5k	9.6k	5.5k	5.2k	4.8k	93	25.1k
O. C. Zienkiewicz United Kingdom	86	14.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.1×	10.5k 1.9×	5.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.2×	257	32.7k
C. J. Tranter Canada	13	3.5k 0.3×	1.5k 0.2×	1.8k 0.3×	4.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.2×	25	15.2k
J. R. Rice United States	97	33.3k 2.9×	14.6k 1.5×	7.2k 1.3×	19.2k 3.7×	1.6k 0.3×	324	58.0k
Jacob Bear Israel	38	2.3k 0.2×	2.1k 0.2×	4.2k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	109	16.8k
James G. Berryman United States	45	3.1k 0.3×	3.9k 0.4×	867 0.2×	2.0k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	148	8.1k
Paul A. Johnson United States	54	5.4k 0.5×	5.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	2.8k 0.6×	273	10.8k
J. D. Achenbach United States	44	8.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.1×	3.0k 0.5×	2.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	318	10.5k
Alexander H.‐D. Cheng United States	53	5.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.1×	2.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	222	9.3k
G. K. Batchelor United Kingdom	48	2.3k 0.2×	702 0.1×	984 0.2×	3.4k 0.7×	4.3k 0.9×	84	30.0k
Bernard Budiansky United States	41	8.1k 0.7×	2.3k 0.2×	2.2k 0.4×	3.5k 0.7×	986 0.2×	95	12.0k

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Biot, M. A.. (1982). Thermodynamic principle of virtual dissipation and the dynamics of physical-chemical fluid mixtures including radiation pressure. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 39(4). 517–540. 6 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1977). New fundamental concepts and results in thermodynamics 'namics with chemical applications. Chemical Physics. 22(2). 183–198. 9 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1977). Variational Lagrangian-thermodynamics of nonisothermal finite strain mechanics of porous solids and thermomolecular diffusion. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 13(6). 579–597. 134 indexed citations

Biot, M. A. & Stuart A. Rice. (1971). Variational Principles in Heat Transfer: A Unified Lagrangian Analysis of Dissipative Phenomena. Physics Today. 24(10). 57–57. 32 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1968). Generalized Boundary Condition for Multiple Scatter in Acoustic Reflection. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 44(6). 1616–1622. 25 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1966). Three-dimensional gravity instability derived from two-dimensional solutions. Geophysics. 31(1). 153–166. 20 indexed citations

Biot, M. A. & H. Odé. (1965). Theory of gravity instability with variable overburden and compaction. Geophysics. 30(2). 213–227. 99 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1965). FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF INTERNAL BUCKLING OF MULTILAYERS. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 76(7). 833–833. 48 indexed citations

Biot, M. A.. (1965). THEORY OF SIMILAR FOLDING OF THE FIRST AND SECOND KIND. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 76(2). 251–251. 49 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1963). Exact theory of buckling of a thick slab. Applied Scientific Research. 12(2). 183–198. 25 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1962). Fundamentals of Boundary-Layer Heat Transfer With Streamwise Temperature Variations. Journal of the aerospace sciences. 29(5). 558–567. 9 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1959). The influence of gravity on the folding of a layered viscoelastic medium under compression. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 267(3). 211–228. 34 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1959). New Thermomechanical Reciprocity Relations with Application to Thermal Stress Analysis. Journal of the aerospace sciences. 26(7). 401–408. 15 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1958). On the Reflection of Acoustic Waves on a Rough Surface. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(5). 479–480. 7 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1957). A new approach to the non-linear problems of FM circuits. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 15(1). 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A. & I. Tolstoy. (1957). Formulation of Wave Propagation in Infinite Media by Normal Coordinates with an Application to Diffraction. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(3). 381–391. 123 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1957). New Methods in Heat Flow Analysis With Application to Flight Structures. Journal of the aeronautical sciences. [REQUEST TITLE]. 24(12). 857–873. 114 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1957). Influence of Thermal Stresses on the Aeroelastic Stability of Supersonic Wings. Journal of the aeronautical sciences. [REQUEST TITLE]. 24(6). 418–420. 14 indexed citations

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Biot, M. A.. (1956). Theory of Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid. I. Low-Frequency Range. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 28(2). 168–178. 6040 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biot, M. A.. (1955). Variational Principles in Irreversible Thermodynamics with Application to Viscoelasticity. Physical Review. 97(6). 1463–1469. 329 indexed citations

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