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D-Index
67
Citations
20436
World Ranking
1278
National Ranking
417

James T. Kirby 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 James T. Kirby sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 333 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James T. Kirby 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 James T. Kirby 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.

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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

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

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

  • Time-Dependent Numerical Code for Extended Boussinesq Equations

    Ge Wei;James T. Kirby

  • Wave diffraction due to areas of energy dissipation

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

  • 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

  • Observation of undertow and turbulence in a laboratory surf zone

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

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

    Gangfeng Ma;Fengyan Shi;James T. Kirby

  • Generation of waves in Boussinesq models using a source function method

    Ge Wei;James T. Kirby;Amar Sinha

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

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

  • 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

  • A general wave equation for waves over rippled beds

    James T. Kirby

  • Dynamics of surf-zone turbulence in a spilling breaker

    Francis C.K. Ting;James T. Kirby

  • Dynamics of surf-zone turbulence in a strong plunging breaker

    Francis C.K. Ting;James T. Kirby

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

    James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

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

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

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

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

  • Boussinesq modeling of a rip current system

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

  • Propagation of obliquely incident water waves over a trench

    James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

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

    James T. Kirby

  • An approximate model for nonlinear dispersion in monochromatic wave propagation models

    James T. Kirby;Robert A. Dalrymple

Frequent Co-Authors

Fengyan Shi
Fengyan Shi University of Delaware
Stephan T. Grilli
Stephan T. Grilli University of Rhode Island
Robert A. Dalrymple
Robert A. Dalrymple Johns Hopkins University
David R. Tappin
David R. Tappin British Geological Survey
Maurizio Brocchini
Maurizio Brocchini Marche Polytechnic University
Michael L. Banner
Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales
Jim Thomson
Jim Thomson University of Washington
Daniel M. Hanes
Daniel M. Hanes Saint Louis University
Ib A. Svendsen
Ib A. Svendsen University of Delaware
Tian-Jian Hsu
Tian-Jian Hsu University of Delaware

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