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D-Index
44
Citations
8424
World Ranking
5758
National Ranking
1608

Noah J. Cowan 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 Noah J. Cowan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 140 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Noah J. Cowan 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 Noah J. Cowan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Noah J. Cowan is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Neuroscience and Engineering.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Engineering

More specific subfields studied by Cowan involve:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cell Biology

The core topics of Cowan's work cover:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Water Quality Monitoring Technologies

Cowan has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with publications in several venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • eLife
  • Science Robotics
  • Nature Neuroscience

Significant recent publications by Cowan feature the following papers:

  • "De novo learning versus adaptation of continuous control in a manual tracking task," 2021, eLife
  • "Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces," 2022, Science Robotics
  • "The Synergy Between Neuroscience and Control Theory: The Nervous System as Inspiration for Hard Control Challenges," 2020, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • "Cerebellar patients have intact feedback control that can be leveraged to improve reaching," 2020, eLife
  • "Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow," 2024, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Cowan's research include:

  • Manu S. Madhav
  • Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar
  • James Knierim
  • Debojyoti Biswas
  • Siming Deng

Best Publications

  • Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering

    Robert J. Webster;Jin Seob Kim;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian

  • Active cannula for biosensing and surgical intervention

    ロバート, ジェームズ ウェブスター,;Robert James Webster;アリソン, エム. オカムラ,;Allison M Okamura

  • Mechanics of Precurved-Tube Continuum Robots

    R.J. Webster;J.M. Romano;N.J. Cowan

  • Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots

    R.J. Webster;A.M. Okamura;N.J. Cowan

  • Nodal dynamics, not degree distributions, determine the structural controllability of complex networks.

    Noah J. Cowan;Erick J. Chastain;Daril A. Vilhena;James S. Freudenberg

  • Visual servoing via navigation functions

    N.J. Cowan;J.D. Weingarten;D.E. Koditschek

  • Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots

    D. Caleb Rucker;Robert J. Webster;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Noah J. Cowan

  • Robot-Assisted Needle Steering

    K. B. Reed;A. Majewicz;V. Kallem;R. Alterovitz

  • Diffusion-Based Motion Planning for a Nonholonomic Flexible Needle Model

    Wooram Park;Jin Seob Kim;Yu Zhou;N.J. Cowan

  • Distal bevel-tip needle control device and algorithm

    Robert J. Webster;Allison M. Okamura;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory Chirikjian

  • Image Guidance of Flexible Tip-Steerable Needles

    V. Kallem;N.J. Cowan

  • Task-level control of rapid wall following in the American cockroach.

    N. J. Cowan;J. Lee;R. J. Full

  • Robotic Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, Planning, and Image Guidance

    Noah J. Cowan;Ken Goldberg;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Gabor Fichtinger

  • Mutually opposing forces during locomotion can eliminate the tradeoff between maneuverability and stability

    Shahin Sefati;Izaak D. Neveln;Eatai Roth;Terence R. T. Mitchell

  • Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology

    Noah J. Cowan;Mustafa Mert Ankarali;Jonathan P. Dyhr;Manu S. Madhav

  • Modeling and Control of Needles With Torsional Friction

    K.B. Reed;A.M. Okamura;N.J. Cowan

  • Flexible strategies for flight control: an active role for the abdomen

    Jonathan P Dyhr;Kristi A Morgansen;Thomas L Daniel;Noah J Cowan

  • Recalibration of path integration in hippocampal place cells.

    Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar;Manu S. Madhav;Francesco Savelli;Hugh T. Blair

  • A comparative approach to closed-loop computation.

    E Roth;S Sponberg;NJ Cowan

  • Vision-based follow-the-leader

    N. Cowan;O. Shakerina;R. Vidal;S. Sastry

  • Integrated planning and image-guided control for planar needle steering

    K.B. Reed;V. Kallem;R. Alterovitz;K. Goldbergxz

  • Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering.

    Robert J. Webster;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Allison M. Okamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Allison M. Okamura
Allison M. Okamura Stanford University
Amy J. Bastian
Amy J. Bastian Kennedy Krieger Institute
Robert J. Webster
Robert J. Webster Vanderbilt University
Daniel E. Koditschek
Daniel E. Koditschek University of Pennsylvania
Nassir Navab
Nassir Navab Technical University of Munich
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware
Robert J. Full
Robert J. Full University of California, Berkeley
Russell H. Taylor
Russell H. Taylor Johns Hopkins University
Ron Alterovitz
Ron Alterovitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James J. Knierim
James J. Knierim Johns Hopkins University

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