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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
91
Citations
29817
World Ranking
106
National Ranking
55

Materials Science

D-Index
93
Citations
30916
World Ranking
1464
National Ranking
461

H. Jerry Qi publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where H. Jerry Qi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 228 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

H. Jerry Qi D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where H. Jerry Qi sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

H. Jerry Qi is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, focusing on research within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several important subfields, including Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Organic Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a variety of advanced materials and technologies. These include:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Photopolymerization techniques and applications
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research

H. Jerry Qi has contributed multiple publications in well-recognized venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Among recent papers authored by H. Jerry Qi are:

  • "3D-Printed Anisotropic Polymer Materials for Functional Applications," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Integrating digital light processing with direct ink writing for hybrid 3D printing of functional structures and devices," 2021, Additive manufacturing
  • "Magnetic Dynamic Polymers for Modular Assembling and Reconfigurable Morphing Architectures," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Magnetic Multimaterial Printing for Multimodal Shape Transformation with Tunable Properties and Shiftable Mechanical Behaviors," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Recent Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Shape-Morphing Hydrogels," 2022, Advanced Functional Materials

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Liang Yue
  • Kun Zhou
  • Frédéric Demoly
  • Xiao Kuang
  • S. Macrae Montgomery

H. Jerry Qi has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

    Qian Zhao;H. Jerry Qi;Tao Xie

  • Advances in 4D Printing: Materials and Applications

    Xiao Kuang;Devin J. Roach;Jiangtao Wu;Craig M. Hamel

  • Stress–strain behavior of thermoplastic polyurethanes

    H.J. Qi;H.J. Qi;M.C. Boyce

  • Heat- or water-driven malleability in a highly recyclable covalent network polymer.

    Philip Taynton;Kai Yu;Richard K. Shoemaker;Yinghua Jin

  • Active materials by four-dimension printing

    Qi Ge;H. Jerry Qi;Martin L. Dunn

  • Active origami by 4D printing

    Qi Ge;Qi Ge;Qi Ge;Conner K Dunn;H Jerry Qi;H Jerry Qi;Martin L Dunn;Martin L Dunn

  • Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulation.

    Qiji Ze;Xiao Kuang;Shuai Wu;Janet Wong

  • Direct 4D printing via active composite materials

    Zhen Ding;Chao Yuan;Chao Yuan;Xirui Peng;Tiejun Wang

  • Repairable Woven Carbon Fiber Composites with Full Recyclability Enabled by Malleable Polyimine Networks.

    Philip Taynton;Huagang Ni;Huagang Ni;Chengpu Zhu;Kai Yu

  • Sequential Self-Folding Structures by 3D Printed Digital Shape Memory Polymers

    Yiqi Mao;Kai Yu;Michael S. Isakov;Jiangtao Wu

  • Grayscale digital light processing 3D printing for highly functionally graded materials.

    Xiao Kuang;Jiangtao Wu;Kaijuan Chen;Zeang Zhao;Zeang Zhao

  • Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoset Composite with Near 100% Recyclability

    Kai Yu;Qian Shi;Martin L. Dunn;Tiejun Wang

  • 3D Printing of Highly Stretchable, Shape-Memory, and Self-Healing Elastomer toward Novel 4D Printing.

    Xiao Kuang;Kaijuan Chen;Conner K. Dunn;Jiangtao Wu

  • Finite deformation thermo-mechanical behavior of thermally induced shape memory polymers

    H. Jerry Qi;Thao D. Nguyen;Francisco Castro;Christopher M. Yakacki

  • A thermoviscoelastic model for amorphous shape memory polymers: Incorporating structural and stress relaxation

    Thao. D. Nguyen;H. Jerry Qi;Francisco Castro;Kevin N. Long

  • Recyclable 3D printing of vitrimer epoxy

    Qian Shi;Kai Yu;Kai Yu;Xiao Kuang;Xiaoming Mu

  • Digital light processing 3D printing of conductive complex structures

    Quanyi Mu;Quanyi Mu;Lei Wang;Conner K. Dunn;Xiao Kuang

  • Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers.

    Jiangtao Wu;Chao Yuan;Zhen Ding;Michael Isakov

  • 3D Printed Reversible Shape Changing Components with Stimuli Responsive Materials.

    Yiqi Mao;Zhen Ding;Chao Yuan;Shigang Ai

  • Shape Memory Polymers for Body Motion Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Mechanosensing.

    Ruiyuan Liu;Ruiyuan Liu;Xiao Kuang;Jianan Deng;Yi-Cheng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Yu
Kai Yu University of Colorado Denver
Xiao Kuang
Xiao Kuang University of Wisconsin–Madison
Martin L. Dunn
Martin L. Dunn University of Colorado Denver
Daining Fang
Daining Fang Beijing Institute of Technology
Tiejun Wang
Tiejun Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Qi Ge
Qi Ge Southern University of Science and Technology
Jiangtao Wu
Jiangtao Wu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Kurt R. Stenmark
Kurt R. Stenmark University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Patrick T. Mather
Patrick T. Mather Pennsylvania State University
Ruike Zhao
Ruike Zhao Stanford University

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