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D-Index
50
Citations
13030
World Ranking
1149
National Ranking
79

John Blake 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 John Blake sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 121 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Blake 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 John Blake 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: 50 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John Blake was affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with notable contributions in agricultural and biological sciences.

The main fields of study in their work included:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their investigations extended into several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

John Blake's research covered a range of topics related to soil and environmental risk management, including:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications

Their recent publications demonstrated a focus on soil moisture measurement, drought science, and community-centered environmental risk approaches. Selected recent papers are:

  • COSMOS-UK: national soil moisture and hydrometeorology data for environmental science research (2021), Earth system science data
  • Towards 'Creative Participatory Science': Exploring Future Scenarios Through Specialist Drought Science and Community Storytelling (2021), Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Using Additional Moderator to Control the Footprint of a COSMOS Rover for Soil Moisture Measurement (2021), Water Resources Research
  • Science-Narrative Explorations of "Drought Thresholds" in the Maritime Eden Catchment, Scotland: Implications for Local Drought Risk Management (2021), Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: a transferable framework for participatory, place-based, narrative-science knowledge exchange (2022), Sustainability Science

They frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Emily Trill
  • Lindsey McEwen
  • Hollie Cooper
  • Ross Morrison
  • Peter Scarlett

John Blake published multiple works in various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues for their research were:

  • Earth system science data
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • E3S Web of Conferences
  • Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • Cavitation Bubbles Near Boundaries

    J. R. Blake;D. C. Gibson

  • A spherical envelope approach to ciliary propulsion

    J. R. Blake

  • A note on the image system for a stokeslet in a no-slip boundary

    J. R. Blake

  • Transient cavities near boundaries. Part 1. Rigid boundary

    J. R. Blake;Bachok Taib;G. Doherty

  • Growth and collapse of a vapour cavity near a free surface

    J. R. Blake;D. C. Gibson

  • The final stage of the collapse of a cavitation bubble close to a rigid boundary

    E. A. Brujan;G. S. Keen;A. Vogel;J. R. Blake

  • Fundamental singularities of viscous flow

    J. R. Blake;A. T. Chwang

  • Mammalian Sperm Motility: Observation and Theory

    E.A. Gaffney;H. Gadêlha;H. Gadêlha;D.J. Smith;D.J. Smith;J.R. Blake

  • Gas bubbles bursting at a free surface

    J. M. Boulton-Stone;J. R. Blake

  • Transient cavities near boundaries Part 2. Free surface

    J. R. Blake;Bachok M. Taib;G. Doherty

  • Mechanics of ciliary locomotion.

    John R. Blake;Michael A. Sleigh

  • Growth and collapse of cavitation bubbles near a curved rigid boundary

    Y. Tomita;P. B. Robinson;R. P. Tong;J. R. Blake

  • Interaction of cavitation bubbles with a free surface

    P. B. Robinson;J. R. Blake;T. Kodama;A. Shima

  • Human sperm accumulation near surfaces: a simulation study

    David Smith;Eamonn Gaffney;John Blake;JC Kirkman-Brown

  • A model for the micro-structure in ciliated organisms

    John Blake

  • Frontiers of chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref;John R. Blake;Marko Budišić;Silvana S.S. Cardoso

  • Bubble interactions near a free surface

    A. Pearson;E. Cox;J.R. Blake;S.R. Otto

  • Modelling mucociliary clearance.

    D.J. Smith;E.A. Gaffney;J.R. Blake

  • The role of ‘splashing’ in the collapse of a laser-generated cavity near a rigid boundary

    R. P. Tong;W. P. Schiffers;S. J. Shaw;J. R. Blake

  • On the movement of mucus in the lung

    John Blake

  • On the movement of slender bodies near plane boundaries at low Reynolds number

    D. F. Katz;J. R. Blake;S. L. Paveri-Fontana

  • Interaction of two cavitation bubbles with a rigid boundary

    J. R. Blake;P. B. Robinson;A. Shima;Y. Tomita

Frequent Co-Authors

Eamonn A. Gaffney
Eamonn A. Gaffney University of Oxford
Andrew J. Szeri
Andrew J. Szeri University of California, Berkeley
Pei Zhong
Pei Zhong Duke University
David J. Mooney
David J. Mooney Harvard University
Pietro Cerone
Pietro Cerone La Trobe University
Igor Mezic
Igor Mezic University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert S. MacKay
Robert S. MacKay University of Warwick
Dean F. Wong
Dean F. Wong Washington University in St. Louis
John Robertson Crawford
John Robertson Crawford University of Aberdeen
Julie D. Henry
Julie D. Henry University of Queensland

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