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Miguel Onorato

Miguel Onorato

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
60
Citations
12704
World Ranking
2205
National Ranking
53

Miguel Onorato publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel Onorato sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 221 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Miguel Onorato D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel Onorato sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Miguel Onorato is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Their research intersects several subfields including Oceanography, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Nonlinear Photonic Systems, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons.

Their publication record includes articles in prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Physical review. E

Frequent collaborators of Miguel Onorato include:

  • Francesco De Vita
  • Alessandro Toffoli
  • Giovanni Dematteis
  • Yuri V. Lvov
  • Davide Proment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Onorato cover diverse areas of fluid dynamics, optics, and ice floe behavior, including:

  • "Optimized structures for vibration attenuation and sound control in nature: A review," 2022, Matter
  • "Extraordinary" modulation instability in optics and hydrodynamics, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Drift of Pancake Ice Floes in the Winter Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone During Polar Cyclones, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • On the Deterministic Prediction of Water Waves, 2020, Fluids
  • Three-dimensional imaging of waves and floes in the marginal ice zone during a cyclone, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Rogue waves and their generating mechanisms in different physical contexts

    M. Onorato;S. Residori;U. Bortolozzo;A. Montina

  • Freak Waves in Random Oceanic Sea States

    Miguel Onorato;Alfred R. Osborne;Marina Serio;Serena Bertone

  • Wave Modelling - The State of the Art

    L. Cavaleri;Jose H. G. M. Alves;F. Ardhuin;Alexander V. Babanin

  • Super Rogue Waves: Observation of a Higher-Order Breather in Water Waves

    A Chabchoub;N P Hoffmann;M Onorato;M Onorato;Nail Akhmediev

  • The nonlinear dynamics of rogue waves and holes in deep-water gravity wave trains

    Alfred Richard Osborne;Miguel Onorato;Marina Serio

  • Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime

    Fabio Baronio;Matteo Conforti;Antonio Degasperis;Sara Lombardo

  • Modulational instability in crossing sea states: a possible mechanism for the formation of freak waves.

    M. Onorato;A. R. Osborne;M. Serio

  • Statistical properties of directional ocean waves: the role of the modulational instability in the formation of extreme events.

    M Onorato;T Waseda;A Toffoli;L Cavaleri

  • Extreme waves, modulational instability and second order theory: wave flume experiments on irregular waves

    M. Onorato;A.R. Osborne;M. Serio;L. Cavaleri

  • Observation of a hierarchy of up to fifth-order rogue waves in a water tank.

    A Chabchoub;N P Hoffmann;M Onorato;A Slunyaev

  • Statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity waves: a laboratory experiment in a three-dimensional wave basin

    M Onorato;L Cavaleri;S Fouques;O Gramstad

  • Extreme wave events in directional, random oceanic sea states

    M. Onorato;A. R. Osborne;M. Serio

  • Unsteady behavior of back-facing step flow

    P. G. Spazzini;G. Iuso;M. Onorato;N. Zurlo

  • Evolution of weakly nonlinear random directional waves: laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

    Alessandro Toffoli;O Gramstad;K Trulsen;Jaak Monbaliu

  • Triggering Rogue Waves in Opposing Currents

    Miguel Onorato;Davide Proment;Alessandro Toffoli

  • On the Estimation of the Kurtosis in Directional Sea States for Freak Wave Forecasting

    Nobuhito Mori;Miguel Onorato;Peter A. E. M. Janssen

  • Maximum steepness of oceanic waves: Field and laboratory experiments

    A. Toffoli;A. Babanin;M. Onorato;T. Waseda

  • Modulational instability and non-Gaussian statistics in experimental random water-wave trains

    M. Onorato;A. R. Osborne;M. Serio;L. Cavaleri

  • Route to thermalization in the α-Fermi–Pasta–Ulam system

    Miguel Onorato;Lara Vozella;Davide Proment;Yuri V. Lvov

  • The Intermediate Water Depth Limit of the Zakharov Equation and Consequences for Wave Prediction

    Peter A. E. M. Janssen;Miguel Onorato

  • Rogue Waves: From Nonlinear Schrödinger Breather Solutions to Sea-Keeping Test

    Miguel Onorato;Davide Proment;Günther Clauss;Marco Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Nail Akhmediev
Nail Akhmediev Australian National University
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne
Luigi Cavaleri
Luigi Cavaleri National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Norbert Hoffmann
Norbert Hoffmann Hamburg University of Technology
Peter A. E. M. Janssen
Peter A. E. M. Janssen European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Sergey Nazarenko
Sergey Nazarenko Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stefano Trillo
Stefano Trillo University of Ferrara
Vladimir E. Zakharov
Vladimir E. Zakharov Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Stefan Wabnitz
Stefan Wabnitz Sapienza University of Rome

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