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D-Index
54
Citations
10298
World Ranking
963
National Ranking
396

John O. Dabiri 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 O. Dabiri sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 259 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John O. Dabiri 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 O. Dabiri sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Engineering
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to vortex dynamics and biological propulsion, and for pioneering new concepts in wind energy
  • 2010 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

John O. Dabiri is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans 76 publications primarily in the field of Engineering, with significant contributions across subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Paleontology, Environmental Engineering, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's work addresses multiple main topics, notably Wind Energy Research and Development, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Biomimetic Flight and Propulsion Mechanisms, Micro and Nano Robotics, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications.

Frequently publishing venues for John O. Dabiri include arXiv (Cornell University) with 18 papers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics with 6 papers, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and Bioinspiration & Biomimetics with 4 publications each, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 3 papers.

Selected recent papers reflect the breadth of their research interests:

  • Collective wind farm operation based on a predictive model increases utility-scale energy production (2022, Nature Energy)
  • The Hydrodynamics of Jellyfish Swimming (2020, Annual Review of Marine Science)
  • Low-power microelectronics embedded in live jellyfish enhance propulsion (2020, Science Advances)
  • Optimal closed-loop wake steering - Part 1: Conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer conditions (2020, Wind energy science)
  • Near-wake structure of full-scale vertical-axis wind turbines (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including John H. Costello (14 joint publications), Sean P. Colin (11), Brad J. Gemmell (11), Michael F. Howland (10), and Nicole Xu (9).

John O. Dabiri has received multiple awards. In 2020, they were honored with the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award in Engineering. They became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2014, recognized for contributions to vortex dynamics, biological propulsion, and concepts in wind energy. In 2010, they were named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation.

Best Publications

  • A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

    Janna C Nawroth;Hyungsuk Lee;Adam W Feinberg;Crystal M Ripplinger

  • Potential order-of-magnitude enhancement of wind farm power density via counter-rotating vertical-axis wind turbine arrays

    John O. Dabiri

  • Wind farm power optimization through wake steering.

    Michael F. Howland;Sanjiva K. Lele;John O. Dabiri

  • Optimal Vortex Formation as a Unifying Principle in Biological Propulsion

    John O. Dabiri

  • Lagrangian analysis of fluid transport in empirical vortex ring flows

    Shawn C. Shadden;John O. Dabiri;Jerrold E. Marsden

  • Flow patterns generated by oblate medusan jellyfish: field measurements and laboratory analyses.

    John O. Dabiri;Sean P. Colin;John H. Costello;Morteza Gharib

  • Fluid entrainment by isolated vortex rings

    John O. Dabiri;Morteza Gharib

  • Energy exchange in an array of vertical-axis wind turbines

    Matthias Kinzel;Quinn Mulligan;John O. Dabiri

  • A viscosity-enhanced mechanism for biogenic ocean mixing

    Kakani Katija;John O. Dabiri

  • Passive energy recapture in jellyfish contributes to propulsive advantage over other metazoans

    Brad J. Gemmell;Brad J. Gemmell;John H. Costello;John H. Costello;Sean P. Colin;Sean P. Colin;Colin J. Stewart

  • Introduction to Focus Issue: Lagrangian Coherent Structures

    Thomas Peacock;John Dabiri

  • Fish schooling as a basis for vertical axis wind turbine farm design.

    Robert W Whittlesey;Sebastian Liska;John O Dabiri

  • Transport of inertial particles by Lagrangian coherent structures: application to predator–prey interaction in jellyfish feeding

    J. Peng;J. O. Dabiri

  • Starting flow through nozzles with temporally variable exit diameter

    John O. Dabiri;Morteza Gharib

  • The role of optimal vortex formation in biological fluid transport

    John O Dabiri;Morteza Gharib

  • Collective wind farm operation based on a predictive model increases utility-scale energy production

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  • On the estimation of swimming and flying forces from wake measurements

    John O. Dabiri

  • Fast-swimming hydromedusae exploit velar kinematics to form an optimal vortex wake.

    John O. Dabiri;Sean P. Colin;John H. Costello

  • On the estimation of swimming and flying forces from wake measurements

    John O. Dabiri

  • Medusan morphospace: phylogenetic constraints, biomechanical solutions, and ecological consequences

    John H. Costello;Sean P. Colin;John O. Dabiri

  • Bending rules for animal propulsion

    Kelsey N. Lucas;Nathan Johnson;Wesley T. T. Beaulieu;Eric Cathcart

  • Fluid–Structure Interaction Modeling of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

    Y. Bazilevs;A. Korobenko;X. Deng;J. Yan

  • Suction-based propulsion as a basis for efficient animal swimming

    Brad J. Gemmell;Brad J. Gemmell;Sean P. Colin;Sean P. Colin;John H. Costello;John H. Costello;John O. Dabiri

Frequent Co-Authors

Morteza Gharib
Morteza Gharib California Institute of Technology
Jeffrey R. Koseff
Jeffrey R. Koseff Stanford University
George V. Lauder
George V. Lauder Harvard University
Jerrold E. Marsden
Jerrold E. Marsden California Institute of Technology
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shawn C. Shadden
Shawn C. Shadden University of California, Berkeley
Sanjiva K. Lele
Sanjiva K. Lele Stanford University
John K. Eaton
John K. Eaton Stanford University
Filippo Coletti
Filippo Coletti University of Minnesota
Shashank Priya
Shashank Priya Pennsylvania State University

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