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D-Index
38
Citations
4726
World Ranking
2315
National Ranking
172

Steven M. Tobias 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 Steven M. Tobias sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 164 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven M. Tobias 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 Steven M. Tobias sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Steven M. Tobias is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Within these domains, Tobias has contributed extensively to subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their research topics cover a range of scientific areas with significant publication counts in Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Geological formations and processes.

Frequent co-authors in Tobias's work include:

  • J. B. Marston
  • C. A. Jones
  • Adrian J. Barker
  • Anton Pershin
  • Cédric Beaume

Tobias has published in various venues, notably including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Nature Astronomy

Selected recent papers by Tobias include:

  • "Topological Gaseous Plasmon Polariton in Realistic Plasma," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Scaling behaviour in spherical shell rotating convection with fixed-flux thermal boundary conditions," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence," 2022, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Nontrivial topology in the continuous spectrum of a magnetized plasma," 2020, Physical Review Research
  • "The effect of Schmidt number on gravity current flows: The formation of large-scale three-dimensional structures," 2021, Physics of Fluids

The body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach that often intersects fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and planetary science. Tobias's contributions demonstrate engagement in theoretical and computational studies on turbulence, magnetized plasmas, convection, and gravity current flows. Their research outputs are found across both specialized physics journals and broader astrophysics and fluid mechanics publications.

Best Publications

  • Transport and Storage of Magnetic Field by Overshooting Turbulent Compressible Convection

    Steven M. Tobias;Steven M. Tobias;Nicholas H. Brummell;Thomas L. Clune;Thomas L. Clune;Juri Toomre

  • Pumping of Magnetic Fields by Turbulent Penetrative Convection

    Steven M. Tobias;Nicholas H. Brummell;Thomas L. Clune;Juri Toomre

  • The solar cycle: parity interactions and amplitude modulation.

    S. M. Tobias

  • A Multiscale Dynamo Model Driven by Quasi-geostrophic Convection

    Michael A. Calkins;Keith Julien;Steven M. Tobias;Jonathan M. Aurnou

  • Convective and absolute instabilities of fluid flows in finite geometry

    S. M. Tobias;S. M. Tobias;M. R. E. Proctor;E. Knobloch

  • Downward pumping of magnetic flux as the cause of filamentary structures in sunspot penumbrae

    John H. Thomas;John H. Thomas;Nigel O. Weiss;Steven M. Tobias;Nicholas H. Brummell

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Heliophysics and Astrophysics

    Mark Miesch;William Matthaeus;Axel Brandenburg;Arakel Petrosyan;Arakel Petrosyan

  • Direct Statistical Simulation of Out-of-Equilibrium Jets

    S. M. Tobias;J. B. Marston

  • β-Plane Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Solar Tachocline

    Steven M. Tobias;Patrick H. Diamond;David W. Hughes

  • The Origin of Penumbral Structure in Sunspots: Downward Pumping of Magnetic Flux

    Nigel O. Weiss;John H. Thomas;Nicholas H. Brummell;Steven M. Tobias

  • The solar dynamo.

    S. M. Tobias

  • ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS VIA DIRECT STATISTICAL SIMULATION

    S. M. Tobias;K. Dagon;J. B. Marston

  • Grand minimia in nonlinear dynamos.

    S. M. Tobias

  • Generalized Quasilinear Approximation: Application to Zonal Jets

    J. B. Marston;G. P. Chini;S. M. Tobias

  • Sensitivity of stratified turbulence to the buoyancy Reynolds number

    P. Bartello;S. M. Tobias

  • Diffusivity Quenching as a Mechanism for Parker's Surface Dynamo

    S. M. Tobias

  • Dynamo properties of the turbulent velocity field of a saturated dynamo

    Fausto Cattaneo;Steven M. Tobias

  • Shear-driven dynamo waves at high magnetic Reynolds number

    Steven M. Tobias;Fausto Cattaneo

  • The Turbulent Dynamo

    Steven Tobias

  • Linear and nonlinear dynamo properties of time-dependent ABC flows

    N H Brummell;F Cattaneo;S M Tobias;S M Tobias

  • Breakup of Spiral Waves into Chemical Turbulence

    S. M. Tobias;E. Knobloch

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Julien
Keith Julien University of Colorado Boulder
Edgar Knobloch
Edgar Knobloch University of California, Berkeley
Michael R. E. Proctor
Michael R. E. Proctor University of Cambridge
Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Rainer Hollerbach
Rainer Hollerbach University of Leeds
Juerg Beer
Juerg Beer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Geoffrey K. Vallis
Geoffrey K. Vallis University of Exeter
Christopher W. Jones
Christopher W. Jones Georgia Institute of Technology
Eric Priest
Eric Priest University of St Andrews

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