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D-Index
68
Citations
20149
World Ranking
431
National Ranking
23

John R. Willis 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 R. Willis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 227 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John R. Willis 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 R. Willis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% 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

  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the micromechanics of engineering materials and the establishment of rigorous bounds on the properties of nonlinear composites.
  • 1998 - William Prager Medal
  • 1997 - Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

John R. Willis is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in subfields such as mechanics of materials, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, mathematical physics, and computational theory and mathematics.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, notably acoustic wave phenomena research, composite material mechanics, numerical methods in inverse problems, numerical methods in engineering, advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, and corrosion behavior and inhibition.

Willis has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues. These include:

  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Wave Motion
  • Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The following are examples of Willis's recent research publications:

  • "Transmission and reflection at the boundary of a random two-component composite," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Steady-state growth of an interfacial crack by corrosion," 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Some personal reflections on acoustic metamaterials," 2021, Wave Motion
  • "Transmission and reflection of energy at the boundary of a random two-component composite," 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Energy transmission through and reflection from a layer of random composite," 2024, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Frequent collaborators of Willis include Gal Shmuel, N.A. Fleck, Victoria Turkington, Yasha Kahn, and L. Robin Keller.

Throughout their career, Willis has received several notable awards, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2004) for contributions to the micromechanics of engineering materials and the establishment of rigorous bounds on the properties of nonlinear composites
  • William Prager Medal (1998)
  • Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1997)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (1992)

Best Publications

  • Fracture mechanics for piezoelectric ceramics

    Z. Suo;C.-M. Kuo;D.M. Barnett;J.R. Willis

  • Bounds and self-consistent estimates for the overall properties of anisotropic composites

    J.R. Willis

  • On cloaking for elasticity and physical equations with a transformation invariant form

    Graeme W Milton;Marc Briane;John R Willis

  • A micromechanics-based nonlocal constitutive equation and estimates of representative volume element size for elastic composites

    W.J. Drugan;J.R. Willis

  • Variational and Related Methods for the Overall Properties of Composites

    J.R. Willis

  • The effect of spatial distribution on the effective behavior of composite materials and cracked media

    P.Ponte Castañeda;J.R. Willis

  • On modifications of Newton's second law and linear continuum elastodynamics

    Graeme W Milton;John R Willis

  • Variational Principles for Inhomogeneous Non-linear Media

    D. R. S. Talbot;J. R. Willis

  • Hertzian contact of anisotropic bodies

    J.R. Willis

  • Fracture mechanics of interfacial cracks

    J.R. Willis

  • Variational principles for dynamic problems for inhomogeneous elastic media

    J.R. Willis

  • The overall elastic response of composite materials

    J. R. Willis

  • A comparison of the fracture criteria of griffith and barenblatt

    J.R. Willis

  • On methods for bounding the overall properties of nonlinear composites

    J.R. Willis

  • A mathematical basis for strain-gradient plasticity theory. Part II: Tensorial plastic multiplier

    N.A. Fleck;J.R. Willis

  • A Reformation of the Equations of Anisotropic Poroelasticity

    M. Thompson;J. R. Willis

  • The role of interfaces in enhancing the yield strength of composites and polycrystals

    K.E. Aifantis;J.R. Willis

  • The energy of an array of dislocations: Implications for strain relaxation in semiconductor heterostructures

    J. R. Willis;Suresh c. Jain;R. Bullough

  • Self-Similar Problems in Elastodynamics

    J. R. Willis

  • Effective constitutive relations for waves in composites and metamaterials

    J. R. Willis

  • Polarization approach to the scattering of elastic waves—I. Scattering by a single inclusion

    J.R. Willis

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Movchan
Alexander Movchan University of Liverpool
Raimondo Luciano
Raimondo Luciano Parthenope University of Naples
Norman A. Fleck
Norman A. Fleck University of Cambridge
P. Ponte Castañeda
P. Ponte Castañeda University of Pennsylvania
Graeme W. Milton
Graeme W. Milton University of Utah
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
Vikram Deshpande
Vikram Deshpande Harvard University
J.Th.M. De Hosson
J.Th.M. De Hosson University of Groningen
John W. Hutchinson
John W. Hutchinson Harvard University
Sia Nemat-Nasser
Sia Nemat-Nasser University of California, San Diego

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