Nicole Xu

740 total citations
15 papers, 532 citations indexed

About

Nicole Xu is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Ocean Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Xu has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 532 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 5 papers in Ocean Engineering and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicole Xu's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (6 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (4 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (4 papers). Nicole Xu is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (6 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (4 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (4 papers). Nicole Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Nicole Xu's co-authors include Prue Talbot, Bárbara Davis, Vasundhra Bahl, Yuhuan Wang, Sabrina Lin, John O. Dabiri, Sean P. Colin, John H. Costello, Brad J. Gemmell and Kevin Kit Parker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances and Science Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Xu

12 papers receiving 505 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole Xu United States	8	246	114	84	82	65	15	532
Jinwei Li China	13	87 0.4×	27 0.2×	34 0.4×	5 0.1×	206 3.2×	59	600
Pierre Lemaı̂tre-Auger France	16	31 0.1×	97 0.9×	79 0.9×	4 0.0×	35 0.5×	51	732
Yingfang Wang China	14	127 0.5×	35 0.3×	12 0.1×	7 0.1×	213 3.3×	61	618
Ji-Yoon Kim South Korea	15	29 0.1×	31 0.3×	31 0.4×	16 0.2×	66 1.0×	43	626
Frederic Martini United States	8	41 0.2×	14 0.1×	114 1.4×	4 0.0×	38 0.6×	17	531
Yizhe Zhang China	16	48 0.2×	106 0.9×	86 1.0×	3 0.0×	262 4.0×	42	697
Qingyu Zhu China	16	12 0.0×	82 0.7×	36 0.4×	4 0.0×	180 2.8×	59	690
Emily S. Nelson United States	14	266 1.1×	7 0.1×	61 0.7×	5 0.1×	77 1.2×	37	586
Matthew Godo United States	10	32 0.1×	126 1.1×	187 2.2×	2 0.0×	38 0.6×	17	639
Marek Zmyślony Poland	17	231 0.9×	94 0.8×	164 2.0×		45 0.7×	66	902

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicole Xu

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15 of 15 papers shown

Brown, M., et al.. (2025). Advances in Invertebrate Biohybrid Robotics: Leveraging Nature for Locomotion and Sensing in Engineered Systems. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(10).

Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2025). Ethics of biohybrid robotics and invertebrate research: biohybrid robotic jellyfish as a case study. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 20(3). 33001–33001. 2 indexed citations

Jayaram, Kaushik, et al.. (2025). Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion.

Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2024). Experimental Studies of Bioinspired Shark Denticles for Drag Reduction. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64(3). 742–752. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Nicole. (2024). Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot. Science Robotics. 9(94). eads4127–eads4127. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2022). Flapping Soft Fin Deformation Modeling using Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Xu, Nicole & John O. Dabiri. (2022). Bio-Inspired Ocean Exploration. Oceanography. 35–48. 4 indexed citations

Webster‐Wood, Victoria A., Maria Guix, Nicole Xu, et al.. (2022). Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 18(1). 15001–15001. 72 indexed citations

Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2021). Developing Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) for Free-swimming Tests in the Laboratory and in the Field. BIO-PROTOCOL. 11(7). e3974–e3974. 8 indexed citations

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Hoover, Alexander, Nicole Xu, Brad J. Gemmell, et al.. (2021). Neuromechanical wave resonance in jellyfish swimming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(11). 25 indexed citations

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Xu, Nicole & John O. Dabiri. (2020). Low-power microelectronics embedded in live jellyfish enhance propulsion. Science Advances. 6(5). eaaz3194–eaaz3194. 52 indexed citations

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Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2020). Field Testing of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish to Demonstrate Enhanced Swimming Speeds. Biomimetics. 5(4). 64–64. 23 indexed citations

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Behar, Rachel Z., et al.. (2012). A method for rapid dose–response screening of environmental chemicals using human embryonic stem cells. Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods. 66(3). 238–245. 19 indexed citations

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Bahl, Vasundhra, Sabrina Lin, Nicole Xu, et al.. (2012). Comparison of electronic cigarette refill fluid cytotoxicity using embryonic and adult models. Reproductive Toxicology. 34(4). 529–537. 309 indexed citations

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Xu, Nicole, et al.. (2009). Estimating the Broad‐Sense Heritability of Early Growth of Cowpea. PubMed. 2009(1). 984521–984521. 14 indexed citations

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