2026 James T. Kirby: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	67	1277	1211	416	372	333	20436

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Engineering and Technology

1277

1211

416

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333

20436

Engineering and Technology

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20436

World Ranking

1277

National Ranking

416

Overview

James T. Kirby is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on several subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in Kirby's work include:

Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
Earthquake and tectonic studies
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Landslides and related hazards

Kirby has published research in several frequent venues, including:

Ocean Modelling
Coastal Engineering
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Physics of Fluids

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kirby are:

"Modeling of the Dec. 22nd 2018 Anak Krakatau volcano lateral collapse and tsunami based on recent field surveys: Comparison with observed tsunami impact" (2021, Marine Geology)
"FUNWAVE-GPU: Multiple-GPU Acceleration of a Boussinesq-Type Wave Model" (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
"Validation and inter-comparison of models for landslide tsunami generation" (2022, Ocean Modelling)
"A two-layer non-hydrostatic landslide model for tsunami generation on irregular bathymetry. 2. Numerical discretization and model validation" (2021, Ocean Modelling)
"Assessing coastal hazard from extreme storms with a phase resolving wave model: Case study of Narragansett, RI, USA" (2020, Coastal Engineering)

Kirby frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

Fengyan Shi
Stéphan T. Grilli
Cheng Zhang
Morteza Derakhti
Mithun Deb

Best Publications

A fully nonlinear Boussinesq model for surface waves. Part 1. Highly nonlinear unsteady waves

Ge Wei;James T. Kirby;Stephan T. Grilli;Ravishankar Subramanya

1427
Citations
BOUSSINESQ MODELING OF WAVE TRANSFORMATION, BREAKING, AND RUNUP. II: 2D

Qin Chen;James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple;Andrew B. Kennedy

1013
Citations
Time-Dependent Numerical Code for Extended Boussinesq Equations

Ge Wei;James T. Kirby

923
Citations
Wave diffraction due to areas of energy dissipation

Robert A. Dalrymple;James T. Kirby;Paul A. Hwang

821
Citations
A high-order adaptive time-stepping TVD solver for Boussinesq modeling of breaking waves and coastal inundation

Fengyan Shi;James T. Kirby;Jeffrey C. Harris;Joseph D. Geiman

740
Citations
Observation of undertow and turbulence in a laboratory surf zone

F. C. K. Ting;J. T. Kirby

629
Citations
Shock-capturing non-hydrostatic model for fully dispersive surface wave processes

Gangfeng Ma;Fengyan Shi;James T. Kirby

533
Citations
Generation of waves in Boussinesq models using a source function method

Ge Wei;James T. Kirby;Amar Sinha

492
Citations
A fully nonlinear Boussinesq model for surface waves. Part 2. Extension to O(kh)4

Maurício F. Gobbi;James T. Kirby;Ge Wei

439
Citations
Landslide tsunami case studies using a Boussinesq model and a fully nonlinear tsunami generation model

P. Watts;Stephan Grilli;J. T. Kirby;G. J. Fryer

438
Citations
A general wave equation for waves over rippled beds

James T. Kirby

390
Citations
Dynamics of surf-zone turbulence in a spilling breaker

Francis C.K. Ting;James T. Kirby

382
Citations
Dynamics of surf-zone turbulence in a strong plunging breaker

Francis C.K. Ting;James T. Kirby

363
Citations
A parabolic equation for the combined refraction-diffraction of Stokes waves by mildly varying topography

James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

340
Citations
Funwave 1.0: Fully Nonlinear Boussinesq Wave Model - Documentation and User's Manual

J.T. Kirby;G. Wei;Q. Chen;A.B. Kennedy

325
Citations
Source constraints and model simulation of the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami

Stéphan T. Grilli;Mansour Ioualalen;Jack Asavanant;Fengyan Shi

303
Citations
Boussinesq modeling of a rip current system

Qin Chen;Robert A. Dalrymple;James T. Kirby;Andrew B. Kennedy

296
Citations
Propagation of obliquely incident water waves over a trench

James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

286
Citations
A note on linear surface wave‐current interaction over slowly varying topography

James T. Kirby

282
Citations
An approximate model for nonlinear dispersion in monochromatic wave propagation models

James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

277
Citations