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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Skylar Tibbits

Skylar Tibbits publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies and Advanced Materials and Mechanics.

ORCID 0009-0008-7870-8582 OpenAlex
World rank
#835,579
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#277,709
of 1,627,098
Works
80
Citations
3k
Citations per work
38.0
h-index
16
i10-index 24Top 22% in Mechanical Engineering
Skylar Tibbits

What does Skylar Tibbits research?

Skylar Tibbits's work is mostly in Engineering (53%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 46 works · 57.9% of their workEngineering: 43 works · 53.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 19 works · 24.1% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 8 works · 10.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 7 works · 8.6% of their workArchitecture: 5 works · 6.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 4.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 4.6% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 4 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 34 works · 42.1% of their workTHEIR WORKSkylar Tibbits80works
Physical Sciences58%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4353.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy44.6%
  2. Everything else3442.1%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering24% of their works
  2. 2Automotive Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Architecture6% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Skylar Tibbits's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Modular Robots, Self-Reconfiguration, Sustainability, 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Biomimetic and Polymer Films.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Modular Robots271 topic
  2. Self-Reconfiguration271 topic
  3. Sustainability242 topics
  4. 3D Printing181 topic
  5. Additive Manufacturing181 topic
  6. Artificial Intelligence162 topics
  7. Biomimetic121 topic
  8. Polymer Films121 topic
  9. Digital Fabrication111 topic
  10. Parametricism111 topic
  11. Hydrodynamics81 topic
  12. Micro/Nanomotors81 topic
  13. Craftivism61 topic
  14. Handicraft61 topic
  15. Moisture Management51 topic
  16. Nanogenerators51 topic
  17. Thermal Properties51 topic
  18. Wearable51 topic

Where does Skylar Tibbits work?

Skylar Tibbits's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Skylar Tibbits have?

OpenAlex counts 80 works and 3,037 citations for Skylar Tibbits, an h-index of 16, ranking #835,579 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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