Roberto Camassa

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Roberto Camassa is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Camassa has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Computational Mechanics, 31 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 23 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Roberto Camassa's work include Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (22 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (22 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (20 papers). Roberto Camassa is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (22 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (22 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (20 papers). Roberto Camassa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Roberto Camassa's co-authors include Darryl D. Holm, Wooyoung Choi, Jerrold E. Marsden, Mark Alber, Richard M. McLaughlin, Stephen Wiggins, Long Lee, Tianmin Wu, Gregor Kovačič and Jingfang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Camassa

79 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

An integrable shallow water equation with peaked solitons 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. An integrable shallow water equation with peaked solitons
    1993 2.5k citations Roberto Camassa, Darryl D. Holm profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto Camassa United States 26 3.3k 1.3k 1.2k 917 563 80 4.7k
R. S. Johnson United Kingdom 33 3.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 582 0.5× 1.7k 1.9× 513 0.9× 90 5.7k
Joachim Escher Germany 36 3.9k 1.2× 2.8k 2.2× 1.5k 1.3× 892 1.0× 352 0.6× 139 6.4k
G. F. Carnevale United States 24 1.9k 0.6× 267 0.2× 501 0.4× 632 0.7× 868 1.5× 63 3.5k
Jerry L. Bona United States 45 5.5k 1.7× 5.4k 4.1× 214 0.2× 821 0.9× 756 1.3× 147 8.0k
Yury Stepanyants Australia 29 1.5k 0.4× 557 0.4× 96 0.1× 900 1.0× 185 0.3× 137 2.6k
D. J. Benney United States 29 1.6k 0.5× 542 0.4× 111 0.1× 1.3k 1.4× 1.6k 2.8× 60 4.2k
Catherine Sulem Canada 30 2.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.6× 50 0.0× 781 0.9× 635 1.1× 78 4.2k
Walter Craig Canada 30 1.3k 0.4× 1.1k 0.9× 62 0.1× 1.3k 1.4× 312 0.6× 73 3.2k
Noel F. Smyth United Kingdom 31 2.5k 0.7× 461 0.4× 59 0.0× 382 0.4× 338 0.6× 144 3.4k
K. Stewartson United Kingdom 46 1.2k 0.4× 449 0.3× 111 0.1× 1.1k 1.2× 5.1k 9.1× 173 8.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Camassa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Hamiltonian shocks. Studies in Applied Mathematics.
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Self-induced flow over a cylinder in a stratified fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 964. 2 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Simple two-layer dispersive models in the Hamiltonian reduction formalism. Nonlinearity. 36(9). 4523–4552. 1 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2019). A first-principle mechanism for particulate aggregation and self-assembly in stratified fluids. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5804–5804. 17 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, Gregorio Falqui, G. Ortenzi, & Marco Pedroni. (2019). On the Geometry of Extended Self-Similar Solutions of the Airy Shallow Water Equations. Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications. 1 indexed citations
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Bernardi, Francesca, et al.. (2018). The Diffusion of Passive Tracers in Laminar Shear Flow. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, Gregorio Falqui, G. Ortenzi, Marco Pedroni, & C. J. Thomson. (2018). Hydrodynamic Models and Confinement Effects by Horizontal Boundaries. Journal of Nonlinear Science. 29(4). 1445–1498. 7 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2017). Viscous film-flow coating the interior of a vertical tube. Part 2. Air-driven flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 825. 1056–1090. 18 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, Gregorio Falqui, & G. Ortenzi. (2016). Two-layer interfacial flows beyond the Boussinesq approximation: a Hamiltonian approach. Nonlinearity. 30(2). 466–491. 7 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2015). On viscous film flows coating the interior of a tube: thin-film and long-wave models. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 772. 569–599. 17 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2014). Viscous film flow coating the interior of a vertical tube. Part 1. Gravity-driven flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 745. 682–715. 35 indexed citations
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Ziervogel, Kai, et al.. (2013). Delayed settling of marine snow at sharp density transitions driven by fluid entrainment and diffusion-limited retention. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 487. 185–200. 44 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto & Claudio Viotti. (2013). Transient dynamics by continuous-spectrum perturbations in stratified shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 717. 2 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2012). Ring waves as a mass transport mechanism in air-driven core-annular flows. Physical Review E. 86(6). 66305–66305. 25 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, et al.. (2008). Blocking effects of a sphere or spheroid immersed in linear shear flows in the Stoke's regime. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 61. 1 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto, Jingfang Huang, & Long Lee. (2005). On a Completely Integrable Numerical Scheme for a Nonlinear Shallow-Water Wave Equation. Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics. 12(Supplement 1). 146–146. 34 indexed citations
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Choi, Wooyoung & Roberto Camassa. (1999). Fully nonlinear internal waves in a two-fluid system. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 396. 1–36. 369 indexed citations
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Choi, Wooyoung & Roberto Camassa. (1999). Exact Evolution Equations for Surface Waves. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 125(7). 756–760. 59 indexed citations
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Alber, Mark, Roberto Camassa, Darryl D. Holm, & Jerrold E. Marsden. (1995). On the link between umbilic geodesics and soliton solutions of nonlinear PDEs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 450(1940). 677–692. 48 indexed citations
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Camassa, Roberto & Tianmin Wu. (1991). Stability of forced steady solitary waves. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 337(1648). 429–466. 50 indexed citations

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