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.
20091.9k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Yuri Bazilevs et al.profile →
Improved numerical dissipation for time integration algorithms in structural dynamics
19771.8k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Computational Inelasticity
19981.7k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
A phase-field description of dynamic brittle fracture
20121.4k citationsMichael J. Borden, Clemens V. Verhoosel et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Multiscale phenomena: Green's functions, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann formulation, subgrid scale models, bubbles and the origins of stabilized methods
19951.3k citationsThomas J.R. HughesComputer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element formulation for incompressible viscous flows
19811.2k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
The variational multiscale method—a paradigm for computational mechanics
19981.1k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: V. Circumventing the babuška-brezzi condition: a stable Petrov-Galerkin formulation of the stokes problem accommodating equal-order interpolations
19861.1k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: VIII. The galerkin/least-squares method for advective-diffusive equations
19891.1k citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
1970733 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Finite rotation effects in numerical integration of rate constitutive equations arising in large‐deformation analysis
1980625 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Finite element modeling of blood flow in arteries
1998561 citationsCharles A. Taylor, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Isogeometric shell analysis: The Reissner–Mindlin shell
2009560 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Isogeometric Fluid–structure Interaction Analysis with Applications to Arterial Blood Flow
2006551 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Yongjie Zhang et al.profile →
A simple and efficient finite element for plate bending
1977550 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Studies of refinement and continuity in isogeometric structural analysis
2007539 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Alessandro Reali et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Encyclopedia of computational mechanics
2004535 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Finite Elements Based Upon Mindlin Plate Theory With Particular Reference to the Four-Node Bilinear Isoparametric Element
1981532 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Tayfun E. Tezduyarprofile →
ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS: APPROXIMATION, STABILITY AND ERROR ESTIMATES FOR h-REFINED MESHES
2006527 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Stabilized finite element methods: I. Application to the advective-diffusive model
1992513 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Reduced and selective integration techniques in the finite element analysis of plates
1978501 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Large Eddy Simulation and the variational multiscale method
2000498 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
Isogeometric analysis of the Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model
2008487 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
A phase-field formulation for fracture in ductile materials: Finite deformation balance law derivation, plastic degradation, and stress triaxiality effects
2016484 citationsMichael J. Borden, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Nonlinear finite element analysis of shells: Part I. three-dimensional shells
1981482 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Finite element analysis of incompressible viscous flows by the penalty function formulation
1979456 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
A higher-order phase-field model for brittle fracture: Formulation and analysis within the isogeometric analysis framework
2014441 citationsMichael J. Borden, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Space-time finite element methods for elastodynamics: Formulations and error estimates
1988408 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Efficient quadrature for NURBS-based isogeometric analysis
2008405 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Alessandro Reali et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Isogeometric finite element data structures based on Bézier extraction of NURBS
2010387 citationsMichael J. Borden, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.profile →
An isogeometric design-through-analysis methodology based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of NURBS, immersed boundary methods, and T-spline CAD surfaces
2012380 citationsMichael J. Borden, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Isogeometric finite element data structures based on Bézier extraction of T‐splines
2011376 citationsMichael J. Borden, Clemens V. Verhoosel et al.profile →
An immersogeometric variational framework for fluid–structure interaction: Application to bioprosthetic heart valves
2014355 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Patient-specific vascular NURBS modeling for isogeometric analysis of blood flow
2007325 citationsYongjie Zhang, Yuri Bazilevs et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Patient-specific isogeometric fluid–structure interaction analysis of thoracic aortic blood flow due to implantation of the Jarvik 2000 left ventricular assist device
2009320 citationsYuri Bazilevs, Thomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Isogeometric boundary element analysis using unstructured T-splines
2012310 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
ISOGEOMETRIC COLLOCATION METHODS
2010296 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Alessandro Reali et al.profile →
Local refinement of analysis-suitable T-splines
2011289 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes et al.Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineeringprofile →
Simulating the spread of COVID-19 via a spatially-resolved susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered-deceased (SEIRD) model with heterogeneous diffusion.
2021152 citationsThomas J.R. Hughes, Alessandro Reali et al.profile →
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Hughes, Thomas J.R. & R.L. Taylor. (2017). NEW FINITE ELEMENT FOR PLATE BENDING ANALYSIS.. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries).
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Borden, Michael J., Thomas J.R. Hughes, Chad M. Landis, & Clemens V. Verhoosel. (2014). A higher-order phase-field model for brittle fracture: Formulation and analysis within the isogeometric analysis framework. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 273. 100–118.441 indexed citations breakdown →
Opgenoorth, H. J., Moa Persson, M. Lockwood, et al.. (1997). A new family of geomagnetic disturbance indices. CentAUR (University of Reading). 1198. 49.3 indexed citations
Hughes, Thomas J.R.. (1992). Finite element methods for fluids. In AGARD.2 indexed citations
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Hughes, Thomas J.R. & L.P. Franca. (1988). ライスナー,ミンドリン平板理論に関する混合有限要素定式化 全高次空間の一様収束. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 67(2). 223–240.38 indexed citations
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Tezduyar, Tayfun E. & Thomas J.R. Hughes. (1986). Numerical methods for compressible flows : finite difference, element, and volume techniques : presented at the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Anaheim, California, December 7-12, 1986.1 indexed citations
Hughes, Thomas J.R.. (1981). Lithosphere deformation by continental ice sheets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 378(1775). 507–527.4 indexed citations
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Hughes, Thomas J.R. & Martin Cohen. (1979). ″HETEROSIS″ FAMILY OF PLATE FINITE ELEMENTS.. Marine Geology. 608–617.4 indexed citations
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