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2022

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
67
Citations
16964
World Ranking
1305
National Ranking
428

J. Carlos Santamarina publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Carlos Santamarina sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 230 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

J. Carlos Santamarina D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Carlos Santamarina sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

J. Carlos Santamarina is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and environmental science, with a significant focus on civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, geophysics, ocean engineering, and environmental engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, rock mechanics and modeling, methane hydrates and related phenomena, soil and unsaturated flow, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, as well as groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Scientific Reports
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • Geotechnical Testing Journal

Selected recent papers and their publication details are as follows:

  • Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges, 2021, Géotechnique
  • Electrification at water-hydrophobe interfaces, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The effect of particle shape on discharge and clogging, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Methane hydrate-bearing sediments: Pore habit and implications, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Natural Rock Fractures: From Aperture to Fluid Flow, 2021, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

The scientist collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Junghee Park, Adrian Garcia, Alejandro Cardona, Qi Liu, and Ahmed M. Hafez. These collaborations contribute to the interdisciplinary and applied nature of their work.

Best Publications

  • Particle Shape Effects on Packing Density, Stiffness, and Strength: Natural and Crushed Sands

    Gye-Chun Cho;Gye-Chun Cho;Jake Dodds;Jake Dodds;J. Carlos Santamarina;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Closure to “Particle Shape Effects on Packing Density, Stiffness, and Strength: Natural and Crushed Sands” by Gye-Chun Cho, Jake Dodds, and J. Carlos Santamarina

    Gye-Chun Cho;Gye-Chun Cho;Jake Dodds;Jake Dodds;J. Carlos Santamarina;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Bender Elements: Performance and Signal Interpretation

    Jong Sub Lee;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Biological Considerations in Geotechnical Engineering

    James K. Mitchell;James K. Mitchell;J. Carlos Santamarina;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Soils and Waves: Particulate Materials Behavior, Characterization and Process Monitoring

    J. Carlos Santamarina;A. Klein;Moheb A. Fam

  • Water‐CO2‐mineral systems: Interfacial tension, contact angle, and diffusion—Implications to CO2 geological storage

    D. Nicolas Espinoza;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • UNSATURATED PARTICULATE MATERIALS--PARTICLE-LEVEL STUDIES

    Gye Chun Cho;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists

    J. Carlos Santamarina;Dante Fratta

  • Fabric map for kaolinite: effects of pH and ionic concentration on behavior

    Angelica M. Palomino;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Soil Behavior at the Microscale: Particle Forces

    J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Introduction to Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems in Civil Engineering

    J. Carlos Santamarina;Dante Fratta

  • Behavior of Rigid-Soft Particle Mixtures

    Jong Sub Lee;Jong Sub Lee;Jake Dodds;Jake Dodds;J. Carlos Santamarina;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Seismic-Wave-Based Testing In Geotechnical Engineering

    Kenneth H. Stokoe;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Why coal ash and tailings dam disasters occur

    J. Carlos Santamarina;Luis A. Torres-Cruz;Robert C. Bachus

  • CO2 breakthrough—Caprock sealing efficiency and integrity for carbon geological storage

    D. Nicolas Espinoza;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Properties and phenomena relevant to CH4‐CO2 replacement in hydrate‐bearing sediments

    J. W. Jung;D. Nicolas Espinoza;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Mechanical effects of biogenic nitrogen gas bubbles in soils

    Veronica Rebata-Landa;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Gas hydrate dissociation in sediments: Pressure-temperature evolution

    Tae-Hyuk Kwon;Gye-Chun Cho;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Interparticle contact behavior and wave propagation

    Giovanni Cascante;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Stress anisotropy and wave propagation: a micromechanical view

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  • Thermal conductivity of hydrate‐bearing sediments

    Douglas D. Cortes;Ana I. Martin;Tae Sup Yun;Franco M. Francisca

Frequent Co-Authors

Tae Sup Yun
Tae Sup Yun Yonsei University
Gye-Chun Cho
Gye-Chun Cho Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Carolyn D. Ruppel
Carolyn D. Ruppel United States Geological Survey
James K. Mitchell
James K. Mitchell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joe Cartwright
Joe Cartwright University of Oxford
Kenichi Soga
Kenichi Soga University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth H. Stokoe
Kenneth H. Stokoe The University of Texas at Austin
Hak-Sung Kim
Hak-Sung Kim Hanyang University
Xixiang Zhang
Xixiang Zhang King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University

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