Mircea Sofonea

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
250 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Mircea Sofonea is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Mechanics of Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mircea Sofonea has authored 250 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 243 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 214 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mircea Sofonea's work include Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities (241 papers), Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (193 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (55 papers). Mircea Sofonea is often cited by papers focused on Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities (241 papers), Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (193 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (55 papers). Mircea Sofonea collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Poland. Mircea Sofonea's co-authors include Weimin Han, Stanisław Migórski, Meir Shillor, Anna Ochał, Andaluzia Matei, Yi‐bin Xiao, Józef Joachim Telega, Mikaël Barboteu, Ioan R. Ionescu and José R. Fernández and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and International Journal of Solids and Structures.

In The Last Decade

Mircea Sofonea

238 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Quasistatic Contact Problems in Viscoelasticity and Viscoplasticity

2002 503 citations Weimin Han, Mircea Sofonea profile →
Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities

2012 402 citations Stanisław Migórski, Mircea Sofonea et al. profile →
Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities: Models and Analysis of Contact Problems

2012 298 citations Mircea Sofonea et al. profile →
Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

2012 275 citations Mircea Sofonea et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mircea Sofonea France	37	5.5k	4.9k	838	739	695	250	5.9k
Matti Schneider Germany	28	716 0.1×	2.0k 0.4×	236 0.3×	417 0.6×	41 0.1×	111	2.4k
Massimo Guiggiani Italy	24	74 0.0×	1.3k 0.3×	136 0.2×	873 1.2×	296 0.4×	73	2.4k
Robert Lipton United States	25	776 0.1×	1.8k 0.4×	145 0.2×	157 0.2×	19 0.0×	122	2.2k
Youcef Amirat France	22	485 0.1×	221 0.0×	93 0.1×	120 0.2×	178 0.3×	91	1.2k
Ivan Hlaváček Czechia	16	956 0.2×	802 0.2×	163 0.2×	75 0.1×	12 0.0×	126	1.3k
J. R. Whiteman United Kingdom	23	428 0.1×	819 0.2×	205 0.2×	111 0.2×	9 0.0×	98	1.6k
Pierre Alart France	14	681 0.1×	720 0.1×	92 0.1×	250 0.3×	63 0.1×	48	1.3k
Carlo Lovadina Italy	30	797 0.1×	1.9k 0.4×	294 0.4×	293 0.4×	4 0.0×	78	3.0k
Haitao Ma China	18	185 0.0×	1.3k 0.3×	130 0.2×	193 0.3×	23 0.0×	50	2.0k
Noureddine Damil Morocco	27	165 0.0×	1.4k 0.3×	269 0.3×	543 0.7×	10 0.0×	92	2.2k

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Sofonea, Mircea & Stanisław Migórski. (2024). Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications, Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.

Sofonea, Mircea & Domingo A. Tarzia. (2024). Well-Posedness and Convergence Results for History-Dependent Inclusions. Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization. 46(1). 45–67.

Sofonea, Mircea & Domingo A. Tarzia. (2024). Convergence Criteria for Fixed Point Problems and Differential Equations. Mathematics. 12(3). 395–395. 2 indexed citations

Barboteu, Mikaël & Mircea Sofonea. (2023). Well-posed constrainted problems with applications in contact mechanics. Nonlinear Analysis Real World Applications. 72. 103841–103841. 1 indexed citations

Han, Weimin & Mircea Sofonea. (2022). Numerical analysis of a general elliptic variational-hemivariational inequality. Journal of Nonlinear and Variational Analysis. 6. 3 indexed citations

Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (2020). Generalized penalty method for semilinear differential variational inequalities. Applicable Analysis. 101(2). 437–453. 2 indexed citations

Migórski, Stanisław, Mircea Sofonea, & Shengda Zeng. (2019). Well-Posedness of History-Dependent Sweeping Processes. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. 51(2). 1082–1107. 24 indexed citations

Han, Weimin, et al.. (2015). Advances in Variational and Hemivariational Inequalities: Theory, Numerical Analysis, and Applications. Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University). 18 indexed citations

Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (2012). A HISTORY-DEPENDENT CONTACT PROBLEM WITH UNILATERAL CONSTRAINT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Barboteu, Mikaël, et al.. (2012). An Elastic Contact Problem with Normal Compliance and Memory Term. 24–34. 1 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea & Dan Tiba. (2010). THE CONTROL VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR ELASTIC CONTACT PROBLEMS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Barboteu, Mikaël & Mircea Sofonea. (2008). A Dynamic Piezoelectric Contact Problem. Machine Dynamics Problems. 23–32. 2 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (2007). Analysis of two dynamic frictionless contact problems for elastic-visco-plastic materials. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (2007). Analysis of the dependence between a temperature and working parameters of the MR damper. 26(4). 149–155. 6 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (2006). A Model for Adhesive Frictional Contact. Machine Dynamics Problems. 158–168. 1 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea. (2004). A piezoelectric contact problem with slip dependent coefficient of friction. Mathematical Modelling and Analysis. 9(3). 229–242. 48 indexed citations

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Fernández, José R., Weimin Han, Meir Shillor, & Mircea Sofonea. (2001). Numerical analysis and simulations of quasistatic frictionless contact problems. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. 11(1). 205–222. 4 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea, et al.. (1999). Variational Analysis of a Frictional Contact Problem for the Bingham Fluid. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. 9(2). 371–385. 2 indexed citations

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Ionescu, Ioan R. & Mircea Sofonea. (1993). Functional and Numerical Methods in Viscoplasticity. 142 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea. (1989). Quasistatic processes for elastic-viscoplastic materials with internal state variables. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 94(25). 47–60. 4 indexed citations

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