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D-Index
33
Citations
3553
World Ranking
3073
National Ranking
221

Joao Pombo 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 Joao Pombo sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 124 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joao Pombo 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 Joao Pombo 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: 33 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joao Pombo is affiliated with the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a specialization in mechanical and civil engineering disciplines. The main fields of study in their work include Engineering, encompassing subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and General Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to research topics related to:

  • Railway Engineering and Dynamics
  • Electrical Contact Performance and Analysis
  • Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency
  • Mechanical Stress and Fatigue Analysis
  • Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures

Recent publications by Joao Pombo include:

  • "A methodology to study high-speed pantograph-catenary interaction with realistic contact wire irregularities", 2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • "A three-dimensional approach for contact detection between realistic wheel and rail surfaces for improved railway dynamic analysis", 2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • "Influence of the operational conditions on static and dynamic stiffness of rail pads", 2020, Mechanics of Materials
  • "Prediction of mechanical properties of rail pads under in-service conditions through machine learning algorithms", 2020, Advances in Engineering Software
  • "The importance of sleepers spacing in railways", 2021, Construction and Building Materials

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Pedro Antunes
  • H. Magalhães
  • Jorge Ambrósio
  • José A. Sáinz-Aja
  • Isidro Carrascal

Joao Pombo has published multiple papers in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Civil-comp conferences
  • Construction and Building Materials
  • Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • Advances in Engineering Software

Best Publications

  • A new wheel–rail contact model for railway dynamics

    João Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio;Miguel Silva

  • Influence of the Aerodynamic Forces on the Pantograph-Catenary System for High Speed Trains

    J. Pombo;J. Ambrósio;M. Pereira;F. Rauter

  • Development of a wear prediction tool for steel railway wheels using three alternative wear functions

    João Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio;Manuel Pereira;Roger Lewis

  • Application of a wheel–rail contact model to railway dynamics in small radius curved tracks

    João C. Pombo;Jorge A. C. Ambrósio

  • Influence of pantograph suspension characteristics on the contact quality with the catenary for high speed trains

    J. Pombo;J. AmbróSio

  • Mapping railway wheel material wear mechanisms and transitions

    Roger Lewis;Rob Dwyer-Joyce;Ulf Olofsson;Joao Pombo

  • A COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURE FOR THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE CATENARY-PANTOGRAPH INTERACTION IN HIGH-SPEED TRAINS

    Jorge Ambrósio;João Pombo;Manuel Pereira;Pedro Antunes

  • Environmental and track perturbations on multiple pantograph interaction with catenaries in high-speed trains

    J. Pombo;J. AmbróSio

  • An alternative method to include track irregularities in railway vehicle dynamic analyses

    João Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio

  • A study on wear evaluation of railway wheels based on multibody dynamics and wear computation

    João Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio;Manuel Pereira;Roger Lewis

  • Optimization of high-speed railway pantographs for improving pantograph-catenary contact

    Jorge Ambrósio;João Pombo;Manuel Pereira

  • Railway critical velocity – Analytical prediction and analysis

    Sara Bassam Mezher;David Connolly;Peter Keith Woodward;Omar Laghrouche

  • Recent Developments in Pantograph-Catenary Interaction Modelling and Analysis

    Jorge Ambrosio;Joao Pombo;Manuel Pereira;Pedro Antunes

  • A Memory Based Communication in the Co-simulation of Multibody and Finite Element Codes for Pantograph-Catenary Interaction Simulation

    Jorge Ambrósio;João Pombo;Frederico Rauter;Manuel Pereira

  • General Spatial Curve Joint for Rail Guided Vehicles: Kinematics and Dynamics

    João Pombo;Jorge A. C. Ambrósio

  • Contact Model for The Pantograph-Catenary Interaction *

    Frederico Grases Rauter;Frederico Grases Rauter;João Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio;Jérôme Chalansonnet

  • A unified formulation for mechanical joints with and without clearances/bushings and/or stops in the framework of multibody systems

    Jorge Ambrósio;João Pombo;João Pombo

  • A methodology to study high-speed pantograph-catenary interaction with realistic contact wire irregularities

    Yang Song;Pedro Antunes;Pedro Antunes;Joao Pombo;Joao Pombo;Zhigang Liu

  • A co-simulation approach to the wheel–rail contact with flexible railway track

    P Antunes;P Antunes;H. Magalhães;Jorge Ambrósio;Joao Pombo;Joao Pombo

  • A three-dimensional approach for contact detection between realistic wheel and rail surfaces for improved railway dynamic analysis

    Filipe Marques;Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes;Hugo Pacheco Magalhaes;Joao Pombo;Joao Pombo;Jorge Ambrósio

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge Ambrósio
Jorge Ambrósio Instituto Superior Técnico
Paulo Flores
Paulo Flores University of Minho
Rob Dwyer-Joyce
Rob Dwyer-Joyce University of Sheffield
Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis University of Sheffield
Werner Schiehlen
Werner Schiehlen University of Stuttgart
Simon A Neild
Simon A Neild University of Bristol
Enrico Meli
Enrico Meli University of Florence
Valeri Markine
Valeri Markine Delft University of Technology
Zhigang Liu
Zhigang Liu Southwest Jiaotong University
Rui Calçada
Rui Calçada University of Porto

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