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D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 54 982 902 405 348 303 8370
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 50 2865 2749 1080 1008 275 7220

Jianbo Lu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Jianbo Lu between 1992 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Jianbo Lu published across 34 years, from 1992 to 2025, averaging 12.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 33 publications in 2003. 28 of the 421 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 33. Peak 33 publications in 2003. 1992: 3 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 3 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 12 publications 2003: 33 publications 2004: 22 publications 2005: 15 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 27 publications 2010: 15 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 25 publications 2014: 33 publications 2015: 23 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 15 publications
1992 2025

421 publications in total across all disciplines

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Jianbo Lu: publications per year, 1992 to 2025
Year Publications
1992 3
1993 1
1994 3
1995 1
1996 2
1997 4
1998 3
1999 2
2000 2
2001 4
2002 12
2003 33
2004 22
2005 15
2006 9
2007 14
2008 8
2009 27
2010 15
2011 13
2012 14
2013 25
2014 33
2015 23
2016 25
2017 23
2018 11
2019 8
2020 11
2021 10
2022 7
2023 10
2024 13
2025 15
Total 421
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Jianbo Lu 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 Jianbo Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 297–306 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 303 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74 303
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Jianbo Lu 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 Jianbo Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 54 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58 54
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Fellow of SAE International
  • 2023 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2023 - Fellow of SAE International
  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the control of automotive systems with applications in vehicle safety and performance

Overview

Jianbo Lu is affiliated with Ford Motor Company in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Computer Science, and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, their work concentrates on several subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Water Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The topics of Jianbo Lu's research focus on advanced water treatment technologies and environmental remediation, with key areas including:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Robotics and sensor-based localization
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Advanced neural network applications
  • Advanced image and video retrieval techniques
  • Privacy-preserving technologies in data

Jianbo Lu has published extensively, with recent papers reflecting a strong orientation toward environmental management and water purification technologies as well as applications of machine learning in engineering. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Electrocoagulation technology for water purification: An update review on reactor design and some newly concerned pollutants removal," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Efficient removal of Tetracycline-Cu complexes from water by electrocoagulation technology," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Road Anomaly Detection Through Deep Learning Approaches," 2020, IEEE Access
  • "Simultaneous removal of Cr(VI) and Cu(II) from acid wastewater by electrocoagulation using sacrificial metal anodes," 2022, Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • "An Adaptive PI Controller by Particle Swarm Optimization for Angle Tracking of Steer-by-Wire," 2022, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Jianbo Lu frequently publishes in venues that focus on intelligent transportation systems, instrumentation and measurement, and environmental engineering, including:

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Collaborations form an important part of Jianbo Lu's research, with frequent co-authors including Ke Wang, Xintong Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hongwei Sun, and Mengying Zhao.

Their professional recognition includes being named an IEEE Fellow in 2020 for contributions to the control of automotive systems with applications in vehicle safety and performance.

Best Publications

  • Advanced planning for autonomous vehicles using reinforcement learning and deep inverse reinforcement learning

    Changxi You;Jianbo Lu;Dimitar P. Filev;Panagiotis Tsiotras

  • Review of rice–fish-farming systems in China — One of the Globally Important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

    Jianbo Lu;Xia Li

  • Integrated vehicle control system using dynamically determined vehicle conditions

    Jianbo Lu;Jeffrey Dan Rupp

  • Feedback control logic for spacecraft eigenaxis rotations under slew rate and control constraints

    Bong Wie;Jianbo Lu

  • Attitude sensing system for an automotive vehicle relative to the road

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown

  • Method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a trailer using rear axle slip angle

    Jianbo Lu;Timothy G. Offerle

  • Multiobjective optimal suspension control to achieve integrated ride and handling performance

    Jianbo Lu;M. DePoyster

  • Method and apparatus for compensating misalignments of a sensor system used in a vehicle dynamic control system

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown

  • Integrated sensing system

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown;Li Xu;Joseph Carr Meyers

  • Method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a trailer

    Jianbo Lu

  • Attitude sensing system for an automotive vehicle

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown

  • Control system for brake-steer assisted parking and method therefor

    Jianbo Lu;Timothy G. Offerle;Hongtei E. Tseng;Douglas S. Rhode

  • Enhanced system for yaw stability control system to include roll stability control function

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown;Joseph Carr Meyers

  • Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine lateral velocity

    Todd Brown;Joseph C. Meyers;Jianbo Lu

  • Rollover stability control for an automotive vehicle using rear wheel steering and brake control

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Allen Brown

  • Brake-steering a vehicle

    Jianbo Lu;Timothy G Offerle;Eric E Tseng;Douglas Scott Rhode

  • Roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle using an external environmental sensing system

    Liwen Xu;Samir M. Beydoun;Gerald H. Engelman;Aaron L. Mills

  • Active safety system

    Jianbo Lu;Jeffrey Rupp;Douglas S. Rhode;Michael Lopez

  • Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system with pitch information

    Jianbo Lu;Todd Brown

  • Integrating animal manure-based bioenergy production with invasive species control: A case study at Tongren Pig Farm in China

    Jianbo Lu;Lei Zhu;Guoliang Hu;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitar Petrov Filev
Dimitar Petrov Filev Ford Motor Company (United States)
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante Ford Motor Company (United States)
Todd Allen Brown
Todd Allen Brown Ford Motor Company (United States)
Davor Hrovat
Davor Hrovat University of California, San Diego
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Ilya Kolmanovsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert E. Skelton
Robert E. Skelton Texas A&M University
Panagiotis Tsiotras
Panagiotis Tsiotras Georgia Institute of Technology
Efstathios Velenis
Efstathios Velenis Cranfield University
Bong Wie
Bong Wie Iowa State University
Huei Peng
Huei Peng University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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