R. Hill

46.7k total citations · 15 hit papers
191 papers, 33.4k citations indexed

About

R. Hill is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Hill has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 33.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 59 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. Hill's work include Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency (35 papers), Elasticity and Material Modeling (32 papers) and Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (31 papers). R. Hill is often cited by papers focused on Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency (35 papers), Elasticity and Material Modeling (32 papers) and Metal Forming Simulation Techniques (31 papers). R. Hill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. R. Hill's co-authors include J. R. Rice, J.F.W. Bishop, John W. Hutchinson, L. Eaves, D.C. Carpenter, F. Milstein, Kerry S. Havner, M.G. Stout, S.S. Hecker and Raúl Herranz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

R. Hill

183 papers receiving 31.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate 1951 2026 1976 2001 1952 1998 1963 1965 1958 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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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.

  1. The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate
    1952 9.0k citations R. Hill profile →
  2. The Mathematical Theory Of Plasticity
    1998 3.8k citations R. Hill profile →
  3. Elastic properties of reinforced solids: Some theoretical principles
    1963 3.6k citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  4. A self-consistent mechanics of composite materials
    1965 2.8k citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  5. A general theory of uniqueness and stability in elastic-plastic solids
    1958 1.1k citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  6. On discontinuous plastic states, with special reference to localized necking in thin sheets
    1952 1.1k citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  7. Continuum micro-mechanics of elastoplastic polycrystals
    1965 1.1k citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  8. XLVI. A theory of the plastic distortion of a polycrystalline aggregate under combined stresses.
    1951 1.0k citations R. Hill et al. profile →
  9. Constitutive analysis of elastic-plastic crystals at arbitrary strain
    1972 878 citations R. Hill et al. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  10. Theory of mechanical properties of fibre-strengthened materials: I. Elastic behaviour
    1964 800 citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  11. Acceleration waves in solids
    1962 628 citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  12. The essential structure of constitutive laws for metal composites and polycrystals
    1967 617 citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  13. Generalized constitutive relations for incremental deformation of metal crystals by multislip
    1966 603 citations R. Hill Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  14. Bifurcation phenomena in the plane tension test
    1975 507 citations R. Hill, John W. Hutchinson Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →
  15. Ground-Based Facilities for Simulation of Microgravity: Organism-Specific Recommendations for Their Use, and Recommended Terminology
    2012 362 citations Raúl Herranz, Ralf Anken et al. Astrobiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. Hill United Kingdom 46 18.5k 13.5k 12.1k 4.2k 3.7k 191 33.4k
Sia Nemat‐Nasser United States 69 10.2k 0.5× 7.4k 0.5× 4.0k 0.3× 5.4k 1.3× 4.3k 1.2× 297 24.9k
Zvi Hashin Israel 47 19.7k 1.1× 3.8k 0.3× 6.6k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 5.3k 1.5× 80 26.1k
J. R. Rice United States 97 33.3k 1.8× 16.0k 1.2× 19.2k 1.6× 3.3k 0.8× 7.2k 2.0× 324 58.0k
J. D. Eshelby United Kingdom 32 10.5k 0.6× 6.8k 0.5× 5.0k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 46 18.4k
John W. Hutchinson United States 119 31.3k 1.7× 24.0k 1.8× 27.6k 2.3× 7.6k 1.8× 9.2k 2.5× 347 58.8k
M. Ortíz United States 79 13.9k 0.7× 8.7k 0.6× 5.7k 0.5× 4.5k 1.1× 4.1k 1.1× 399 25.4k
S. Timoshenko United States 19 12.7k 0.7× 3.9k 0.3× 6.7k 0.5× 4.2k 1.0× 7.6k 2.1× 34 25.5k
A. Cemal Eringen United States 57 17.4k 0.9× 15.4k 1.1× 3.4k 0.3× 6.2k 1.5× 1.7k 0.5× 182 26.0k
S. Shtrikman Israel 47 5.5k 0.3× 3.8k 0.3× 2.5k 0.2× 1.9k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 221 16.6k
J. P. Hirth United States 76 10.5k 0.6× 24.7k 1.8× 16.4k 1.4× 2.5k 0.6× 398 0.1× 423 33.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hill, R., Krista L. Plett, Johanna Wong‐Bajracharya, et al.. (2025). Eucalyptus grandis MYB‐Like and RAN‐Like Zinc Finger Proteins Display Dual Roles in Regulating Plant Immunity and Symbiosis Pathways. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(4). e70454–e70454.
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Hill, R., et al.. (2025). The Fermi function and the neutron's lifetime. Physics Letters B. 868. 139678–139678. 2 indexed citations
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Hill, R. & Ryan Plestid. (2024). All orders factorization and the Coulomb problem. Physical review. D. 109(5). 13 indexed citations
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Scase, Matthew M., et al.. (2024). Using an electrically charged mist to visualize the potential wells in “sonomaglev,” a combined diamagnetic-acoustic levitator. Applied Physics Letters. 125(17). 1 indexed citations
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Turyanska, Lyudmila, R. Hill, O. Makarovsky, et al.. (2014). Tuneable paramagnetic susceptibility and exciton g-factor in Mn-doped PbS colloidal nanocrystals. Nanoscale. 6(15). 8919–8925. 23 indexed citations
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Herranz, Raúl, R. Hill, Camelia Dijkstra, et al.. (2013). The behavioural-driven response of the Drosophila imago transcriptome to different types of modified gravity. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Manzano, Ana I., Oliver Larkin, Camelia Dijkstra, et al.. (2013). Meristematic cell proliferation and ribosome biogenesis are decoupled in diamagnetically levitated Arabidopsis seedlings. BMC Plant Biology. 13(1). 124–124. 37 indexed citations
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Hill, R., Oliver Larkin, Camelia Dijkstra, et al.. (2012). Effect of magnetically simulated zero-gravity and enhanced gravity on the walk of the common fruitfly. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9(72). 1438–1449. 16 indexed citations
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Herranz, Raúl, Ralf Anken, Johannes Boonstra, et al.. (2012). Ground-Based Facilities for Simulation of Microgravity: Organism-Specific Recommendations for Their Use, and Recommended Terminology. Astrobiology. 13(1). 1–17. 362 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hill, R.. (2005). Traction drives and converters. 2005. 14–14. 1 indexed citations
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Hill, R., et al.. (2002). Space vector PWM strategy for 3-level inverters with direct self-control. European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications. 152–157. 12 indexed citations
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Hill, R., et al.. (2002). Portable measurement equipment for site determination of rail track parameters. 5. 59–64. 2 indexed citations
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Stoddart, S.T., R. Hill, Alexander Neumann, et al.. (2000). Phase coherence and size effects in double quantum well mesoscopic wires. Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. 6(1-4). 672–675. 1 indexed citations
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Hill, R.. (1997). Electric railway traction. Part 7: Electromagnetic interference in traction systems. Power Engineering Journal. 11(6). 259–266. 16 indexed citations
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Hill, R. & John W. Hutchinson. (1992). Differential Hardening in Sheet Metal Under Biaxial Loading: A Theoretical Framework. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 59(2S). S1–S9. 118 indexed citations
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Hill, R., et al.. (1970). Railway Traction Vehicle Electromechanical Simulation Using SIMULINK. WIT transactions on the built environment. 21. 5 indexed citations
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Hill, R., et al.. (1970). A Feeding Impedance Model For Electrified RailTrack. WIT transactions on the built environment. 21.
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Hill, R., et al.. (1970). Computer Modelling And Simulation Of Jointless Audio-frequency Track Circuits. WIT transactions on the built environment. 6. 1 indexed citations
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Hill, R.. (1962). Uniqueness criteria and extremum principles in self-adjoint problems of continuum mechanics. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 10(3). 185–194. 62 indexed citations

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