Michael Watson

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Watson is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Watson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 12 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Watson's work include Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (7 papers), Railway Engineering and Dynamics (6 papers) and Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (4 papers). Michael Watson is often cited by papers focused on Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (7 papers), Railway Engineering and Dynamics (6 papers) and Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (4 papers). Michael Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Michael Watson's co-authors include Jeffrey R. Simpson, András Kis, Jacopo Brivio, Rusen Yan, Xufei Wu, Tengfei Luo, Simone Bertolazzi, Huili Grace Xing, Angela R. Hight Walker and Matthew Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Wear.

In The Last Decade

Michael Watson

24 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Thermal Conductivity of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Ob... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 200 400 600
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. Thermal Conductivity of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Obtained from Temperature-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy
    2013 694 citations Rusen Yan, Jeffrey R. Simpson et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Watson United Kingdom 15 737 306 233 221 134 25 1.2k
Pierre Chévrier France 18 283 0.4× 482 1.6× 333 1.4× 210 1.0× 248 1.9× 51 880
Z. Zhang China 13 259 0.4× 202 0.7× 174 0.7× 74 0.3× 39 0.3× 27 655
F. Felli Italy 13 269 0.4× 399 1.3× 346 1.5× 103 0.5× 92 0.7× 97 874
S.H. Carpenter United States 16 236 0.3× 290 0.9× 307 1.3× 187 0.8× 53 0.4× 58 730
Fangjing Hu China 15 106 0.1× 139 0.5× 400 1.7× 308 1.4× 114 0.9× 62 888
Eleftherios Gdoutos United States 12 366 0.5× 172 0.6× 167 0.7× 170 0.8× 100 0.7× 18 733
Semyon Vaynman United States 19 530 0.7× 1.1k 3.5× 581 2.5× 211 1.0× 37 0.3× 60 1.4k
Rajeev Ahluwalia Singapore 21 1.0k 1.4× 259 0.8× 108 0.5× 168 0.8× 63 0.5× 56 1.2k
Michael C. Halbig United States 13 610 0.8× 951 3.1× 76 0.3× 150 0.7× 10 0.1× 48 1.3k
L. Donzel Switzerland 13 713 1.0× 128 0.4× 515 2.2× 41 0.2× 37 0.3× 23 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Watson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Watson. Michael Watson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2025). A field methodology to assess the performance of rail cleaning, using a new portable tribometer. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit. 239(5). 421–430.
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Nadimi, Sadegh, et al.. (2022). Quantifying the effect of particle characteristics on wheel/rail adhesion & damage through high pressure torsion testing. Tribology International. 179. 108190–108190. 7 indexed citations
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Hu, Yue, Michael Watson, M. Maiorino, et al.. (2021). Experimental study on wear properties of wheel and rail materials with different hardness values. Wear. 477. 203831–203831. 49 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2021). In situ evaluation of contact stiffness in a slip interface with different roughness conditions using ultrasound reflectometry. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 477(2255). 20210442–20210442. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2020). The composition and friction-reducing properties of leaf layers. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 476(2239). 20200057–20200057. 11 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2020). Influence of temperature on adhesion coefficient and bonding strength of leaf films: A twin disc study. Wear. 454-455. 203330–203330. 10 indexed citations
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Guerra, Valentina, Chaoying Wan, Volkan Degirmenci, et al.. (2019). Characterisation of graphite nanoplatelets (GNP) prepared at scale by high-pressure homogenisation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(21). 6383–6390. 31 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael & Matthew Marshall. (2018). Wear mechanisms at the blade tip seal interface. Wear. 404-405. 176–193. 37 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael & Matthew Marshall. (2017). A Novel Image Segmentation Approach for Microstructure Modelling. Coatings. 7(10). 166–166. 5 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2016). The influence of material properties on the wear of abradable materials. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J Journal of Engineering Tribology. 231(2). 240–253. 30 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2015). Effects of blade surface treatments in tip–shroud abradable contacts. Wear. 338-339. 268–281. 28 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2014). An investigation of the relationship between wear and contact force for abradable materials. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J Journal of Engineering Tribology. 229(2). 136–150. 33 indexed citations
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Watson, Michael & H. Long. (2014). Wrinkling Failure Mechanics in Metal Spinning. Procedia Engineering. 81. 2391–2396. 20 indexed citations
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Yan, Rusen, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Simone Bertolazzi, et al.. (2013). Thermal Conductivity of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Obtained from Temperature-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 8(1). 986–993. 694 indexed citations breakdown →
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Watson, Michael, et al.. (2012). Effects of dryland salinity on shear and tensile strength of road pavement materials. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, Edward & Michael Watson. (2000). Charging of silica particles in an argon dusty plasma. Physics of Plasmas. 7(8). 3194–3197. 29 indexed citations
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Thomas, Edward & Michael Watson. (1999). First experiments in the Dusty Plasma Experiment device. Physics of Plasmas. 6(10). 4111–4117. 66 indexed citations
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Thomas, Edward, et al.. (1998). Measurements of the Plasma Parameters and Low Frequency Oscillations in the Fisk Plasma Source. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, Edward & Michael Watson. (1998). The vertical confinement of a dusty plasma in the Fisk Plasma Source. AIP conference proceedings. 60–66. 1 indexed citations
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Zienkiewicz, O. C., Michael Watson, & Y.K. Cheung. (1968). 35 Stress analysis by the finite element method—thermal effects. 357–362. 2 indexed citations

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