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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
79
Citations
19914
World Ranking
230
National Ranking
111

Massimo Ruzzene 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 Massimo Ruzzene sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 485 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Massimo Ruzzene 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 Massimo Ruzzene 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: 79 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Massimo Ruzzene is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans engineering and physics and astronomy, with a primary focus on several subfields including biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, mechanics of materials, statistical and nonlinear physics, and electronic, optical and magnetic materials.

Ruzzene's research topics cover a range of areas such as acoustic wave phenomena research, ultrasonics and acoustic wave propagation, topological materials and phenomena, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, nonlinear photonic systems, ultrasound imaging and elastography, and quasicrystal structures and properties.

Recent publications by Ruzzene include:

  • Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Experimental Observation of Temporal Pumping in Electromechanical Waveguides, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Bistable attachments for wideband nonlinear vibration attenuation in a metamaterial beam, 2020, Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Topological Edge States in Quasiperiodic Locally Resonant Metastructures, 2020, Physical Review Applied
  • Edge states and topological pumping in stiffness-modulated elastic plates, 2020, Physical Review B

Frequent coauthors of Ruzzene include:

  • Matheus I. N. Rosa
  • Alper Ertürk
  • Matteo Mazzotti
  • Eetu Kohtanen
  • Yuning Guo

Common publication venues where Ruzzene's work appears are:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Applied
  • Ultrasonics
  • Advanced Science

Ruzzene was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook

    Mahmoud I. Hussein;Michael J. Leamy;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

    Hussein Nassar;Behrooz Yousefzadeh;Romain Fleury;Massimo Ruzzene

  • NATURAL FREQUENCIES AND DAMPINGS IDENTIFICATION USING WAVELET TRANSFORM: APPLICATION TO REAL DATA

    M. Ruzzene;A. Fasana;L. Garibaldi;B. Piombo

  • Frequency–wavenumber domain filtering for improved damage visualization

    M Ruzzene

  • Phononic properties of hexagonal chiral lattices

    Alessandro Spadoni;Massimo Ruzzene;Stefano Gonella;Fabrizio Scarpa

  • Elasto-static micropolar behavior of a chiral auxetic lattice

    Alessandro Spadoni;M. Ruzzene

  • Wave beaming effects in two-dimensional cellular structures

    Massimo Ruzzene;Fabrizio Scarpa;Francesco Soranna

  • Attenuation and localization of wave propagation in rods with periodic shunted piezoelectric patches

    O Thorp;M Ruzzene;A Baz

  • Frequency-wavenumber domain analysis of guided wavefields.

    Thomas E. Michaels;Jennifer E. Michaels;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Piezoelectric resonator arrays for tunable acoustic waveguides and metamaterials

    Filippo Casadei;Tommaso Delpero;Andrea Bergamini;Paolo Ermanni

  • Design of tunable acoustic metamaterials through periodic arrays of resonant shunted piezos

    L Airoldi;M Ruzzene

  • On the mechanism of bandgap formation in locally resonant finite elastic metamaterials

    Christopher Sugino;Stephen Leadenham;Massimo Ruzzene;Alper Erturk

  • A general theory for bandgap estimation in locally resonant metastructures

    C. Sugino;Y. Xia;S. Leadenham;M. Ruzzene

  • Observation of topological valley modes in an elastic hexagonal lattice

    Javier Vila;Raj Kumar Pal;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Floquet–Bloch decomposition for the computation of dispersion of two-dimensional periodic, damped mechanical systems ☆

    Manuel Collet;Morvan Ouisse;Massimo Ruzzene;Mohamed Ichchou

  • Internally resonating lattices for bandgap generation and low-frequency vibration control

    Emanuele Baravelli;Massimo Ruzzene

  • A Perturbation Approach for Predicting Wave Propagation in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Periodic Structures

    Raj K. Narisetti;Michael J. Leamy;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Analysis of in-plane wave propagation in hexagonal and re-entrant lattices

    Stefano Gonella;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Broadband vibration control through periodic arrays of resonant shunts: experimental investigation on plates

    F. Casadei;M. Ruzzene;Lorenzo Dozio;K. A. Cunefare

  • Graded conventional-auxetic Kirigami sandwich structures: Flatwise compression and edgewise loading

    Yangqing Hou;Robin M Neville;Robin M Neville;Fabrizio Scarpa;Chrystel D L Remillat

  • Non-reciprocal elastic wave propagation in spatiotemporal periodic structures

    G Trainiti;M Ruzzene

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Scarpa
Fabrizio Scarpa University of Bristol
Alper Erturk
Alper Erturk Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael J. Leamy
Michael J. Leamy Georgia Institute of Technology
Amr M. Baz
Amr M. Baz University of Maryland, College Park
Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan
Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan Indian Institute of Science
Jennifer E. Michaels
Jennifer E. Michaels Georgia Institute of Technology
Wieslaw J. Staszewski
Wieslaw J. Staszewski AGH University of Science and Technology
Olivier A. Bauchau
Olivier A. Bauchau University of Maryland, College Park
Paolo Ermanni
Paolo Ermanni ETH Zurich
Francesco Braghin
Francesco Braghin Polytechnic University of Milan

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