N. Tolou

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

N. Tolou is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Tolou has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in N. Tolou's work include Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (20 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (13 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (13 papers). N. Tolou is often cited by papers focused on Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (20 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (13 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (13 papers). N. Tolou collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Iran and Italy. N. Tolou's co-authors include Just L. Herder, Mark Schenk, S. Abolfazl Zahedi, Amin Barari, D.D. Ganji, Mohammad Vaezi, P. A. Estévez, A. Kimiaeifar, Francesco Guido and U. Staufer and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Nano Energy and Materials & Design.

In The Last Decade

N. Tolou

51 papers receiving 977 citations

Hit Papers

Bistable vibration energy harvesters: A review 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 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. Bistable vibration energy harvesters: A review
    2012 353 citations N. Tolou, Just L. Herder et al. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
N. Tolou Netherlands 17 465 430 364 301 256 52 1.0k
Sébastien Baguet France 19 442 1.0× 171 0.4× 464 1.3× 268 0.9× 333 1.3× 32 1.0k
Kourosh Heidari Shirazi Iran 16 182 0.4× 120 0.3× 254 0.7× 75 0.2× 187 0.7× 61 807
Marek Borowiec Poland 19 453 1.0× 168 0.4× 120 0.3× 178 0.6× 349 1.4× 50 875
Utz von Wagner Germany 21 458 1.0× 250 0.6× 217 0.6× 126 0.4× 486 1.9× 93 1.1k
Benjamin Dobson United States 6 304 0.7× 285 0.7× 283 0.8× 232 0.8× 475 1.9× 11 1.2k
S. Chatterjee India 19 451 1.0× 103 0.2× 414 1.1× 69 0.2× 442 1.7× 86 1.2k
Farbod Alijani Netherlands 28 292 0.6× 425 1.0× 689 1.9× 400 1.3× 809 3.2× 87 2.2k
Xiang Xie China 17 183 0.4× 262 0.6× 353 1.0× 64 0.2× 440 1.7× 36 993
Samir A. Nayfeh United States 20 398 0.9× 199 0.5× 655 1.8× 99 0.3× 988 3.9× 45 1.5k
M. G. Prasad United States 16 952 2.0× 711 1.7× 77 0.2× 698 2.3× 296 1.2× 69 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by N. Tolou

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Fields of papers citing papers by N. Tolou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. Tolou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of N. Tolou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of N. Tolou 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 N. Tolou. N. Tolou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ostayen, Ron A.J. van, et al.. (2021). A Statically Balanced Compliant Ortho-Planar Mechanism for Low-Frequency Energy Harvesting. Journal of Mechanical Design. 144(7). 3 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2019). On the efficiency of energy harvesters: A classification of dynamics in miniaturized generators under low-frequency excitation. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. 30(16). 2436–2446. 21 indexed citations
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Herder, Just L., et al.. (2019). Permanent Stiffness Reduction by Thermal Oxidation of Silicon. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 28(5). 900–909. 13 indexed citations
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Herder, Just L., et al.. (2018). Swiss watch featuring Dutch precision. 58(5). 30–34. 1 indexed citations
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Herder, Just L., et al.. (2018). Vibration Energy Harvesting from Multi-Directional Motion Sources. 1–9. 2 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2017). A statically balanced fully compliant power transmission mechanism between parallel rotational axes. Mechanism and Machine Theory. 119. 51–60. 18 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2017). A Fully Compliant Homokinetic Coupling. Journal of Mechanical Design. 140(1). 13 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2016). A Fully Compliant Force Balanced Oscillator. 5 indexed citations
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Herder, Just L., et al.. (2016). Compliant continuous-locking micro mechanism. 1–7.
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2016). A Monolithic Force-Balanced Oscillator. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. 9(2). 1 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2015). A Fully Compliant Constant Velocity Universal Joint. 5 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2010). Statically Balanced Compliant Micro Mechanisms (SB-MEMS): Concepts and Simulation. 447–454. 39 indexed citations
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Zahedi, S. Abolfazl, et al.. (2008). Assessment of Modified Variational Iteration Method in BVPs High-Order Differential Equations. Journal of Applied Sciences. 8(22). 4192–4197. 26 indexed citations
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Sadighi, Ali, D.D. Ganji, M. Gorji, & N. Tolou. (2008). Numerical simulation of heat-like models with variable coefficients by the variational iteration method. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 96. 12083–12083. 3 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2008). Application of Homotopy Analysis Method and Variational Iteration Method for Shock Wave Equation. Journal of Applied Sciences. 8(5). 848–853. 13 indexed citations
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Tolou, N., et al.. (2008). Comparative Vibration Analysis of a Parametrically Nonlinear Excited Oscillator Using HPM and Numerical Method. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2008(1). 11 indexed citations

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