Robert Connelly

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Robert Connelly is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Connelly has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 30 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 13 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Robert Connelly's work include Structural Analysis and Optimization (30 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (28 papers) and Point processes and geometric inequalities (12 papers). Robert Connelly is often cited by papers focused on Structural Analysis and Optimization (30 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (28 papers) and Point processes and geometric inequalities (12 papers). Robert Connelly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Canada. Robert Connelly's co-authors include Frank H. Stillinger, Salvatore Torquato, Aleksandar Donev, Walter Whiteley, P. M. Chaikin, David Sachs, Evan Variano, Allen Back, Károly Bezdek and Erik D. Demaine and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Robert Connelly

80 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Connelly United States 24 1.2k 1000 859 489 398 83 3.4k
Thorsten Pöschel Germany 41 965 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 1.7k 2.0× 4.7k 9.6× 820 2.1× 229 7.7k
Eliot Fried United States 33 466 0.4× 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 1.0k 2.1× 1.3k 3.4× 163 4.6k
Kenneth A. Brakke United States 22 90 0.1× 636 0.6× 802 0.9× 823 1.7× 990 2.5× 76 3.7k
Raz Kupferman Israel 28 295 0.3× 1.1k 1.1× 371 0.4× 1.2k 2.4× 878 2.2× 79 3.9k
M. Pınar Mengüç United States 34 2.0k 1.7× 657 0.7× 814 0.9× 1.8k 3.7× 1.2k 2.9× 197 5.7k
S. Torquato United States 21 974 0.8× 634 0.6× 545 0.6× 244 0.5× 436 1.1× 34 3.2k
Raymond H. Plaut United States 34 2.6k 2.2× 905 0.9× 197 0.2× 491 1.0× 502 1.3× 253 5.7k
G. W. Hunt United Kingdom 33 1.8k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 284 0.3× 312 0.6× 548 1.4× 122 4.0k
Aleksandar Donev United States 25 335 0.3× 495 0.5× 1.9k 2.2× 899 1.8× 847 2.1× 53 4.0k
Harald Garcke Germany 33 221 0.2× 430 0.4× 2.4k 2.7× 2.1k 4.3× 184 0.5× 156 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sitharam, Meera, Robert Connelly, Steven J. Gortler, et al.. (2021). Realizations of Isostatic Material Frameworks. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, Steven J. Gortler, & Louis Theran. (2016). Generically globally rigid graphs have generic universally rigid\n frameworks. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, Tibor Jordán, & Walter Whiteley. (2013). Generic global rigidity of body–bar frameworks. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 103(6). 689–705. 26 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, et al.. (2013). Periodic planar disc packings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 372(2008). 20120039–20120039. 13 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert. (2009). Comments on generalized Heron polynomials and Robbins’ conjectures. Discrete Mathematics. 309(12). 4192–4196. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jingyao, Simon D. Guest, Robert Connelly, & Makoto Ohsaki. (2009). Dihedral ‘star’ tensegrity structures. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 47(1). 1–9. 35 indexed citations
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Marchant, Gary E., et al.. (2009). Applications and Findings of an Occupational Exposure Database for Synthetic Vitreous Fibers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 6(3). 143–150. 5 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert & Jean‐Marc Schlenker. (2009). On the infinitesimal rigidity of weakly convex polyhedra. European Journal of Combinatorics. 31(4). 1080–1090. 2 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert. (2008). Rigidity of packings. European Journal of Combinatorics. 29(8). 1862–1871. 13 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, Patrick W. Fowler, Simon D. Guest, Bernd Schulze, & Walter Whiteley. (2008). When is a symmetric pin-jointed framework isostatic?. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 46(3-4). 762–773. 49 indexed citations
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Donev, Aleksandar, Robert Connelly, Frank H. Stillinger, & Salvatore Torquato. (2007). Underconstrained jammed packings of nonspherical hard particles: Ellipses and ellipsoids. Physical Review E. 75(5). 51304–51304. 201 indexed citations
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Bezdek, Károly, et al.. (2006). On the Perimeter of the Intersection of Congruent Disks. 4 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, Erik D. Demaine, & Günter Rote. (2000). Every Polygon Can Be Untangled.. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 83. 62–65. 5 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, et al.. (1997). The Bellows conjecture.. 38(1). 1–10. 54 indexed citations
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Ostro, S. J. & Robert Connelly. (1986). What can a Lightcurve Tell us about an Asteroid's Shape?. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 636–637. 1 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert & S. J. Ostro. (1985). Convex-profile inversion of asteroid lightcurves.. 4041. 60–62. 1 indexed citations
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Bloch, Ethan D., Robert Connelly, & David W. Henderson. (1984). The space of simplexwise linear homeomorphisms of a convex 2-disk. Topology. 23(2). 161–175. 11 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert. (1980). The rigidity of certain cabled frameworks and the second-order rigidity of arbitrarily triangulated convex surfaces. Advances in Mathematics. 37(3). 272–299. 58 indexed citations
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Berstein, Israel, Marshall M. Cohen, & Robert Connelly. (1978). Contractible, non-collapsible products with cubes. Topology. 17(2). 183–187. 3 indexed citations
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Connelly, Robert, et al.. (1975). On graphs with a constant link, II. Discrete Mathematics. 11(3). 199–232. 19 indexed citations

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