A. K. Sood

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
213 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

A. K. Sood is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, A. K. Sood has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Materials Chemistry, 57 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 51 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in A. K. Sood's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (33 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (32 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (30 papers). A. K. Sood is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (33 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (32 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (30 papers). A. K. Sood collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and France. A. K. Sood's co-authors include Biswanath Chakraborty, D. V. S. Muthu, C. N. R. Rao, Umesh V. Waghmare, Achintya Bera, Somnath Bhowmick, N. Chandrabhas, H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte, Rajesh Ganapathy and Anushree Roy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

A. K. Sood

205 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Symmetry-dependent phonon renormalization in monolayer Mo... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Symmetry-dependent phonon renormalization in monolayer MoS2transistor
    2012 924 citations Biswanath Chakraborty, Achintya Bera et al. profile →
  2. Layer‐dependent resonant Raman scattering of a few layer MoS2
    2012 421 citations Biswanath Chakraborty, A. K. Sood et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. K. Sood India 34 4.0k 1.5k 1.0k 1.0k 785 213 5.7k
John V. Badding United States 41 3.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.8× 849 0.8× 651 0.6× 430 0.5× 172 6.1k
Nestor J. Zaluzec United States 38 2.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 594 0.6× 736 0.7× 738 0.9× 191 4.6k
Alessandro De Vita United Kingdom 33 3.8k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 519 0.5× 1.8k 1.8× 365 0.5× 117 6.2k
Paul G. Kotula United States 40 2.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.4× 804 0.8× 899 0.9× 356 0.5× 241 6.2k
Zhongwu Wang United States 50 5.9k 1.5× 2.6k 1.7× 1.6k 1.5× 707 0.7× 381 0.5× 140 7.1k
Siyuan Zhang China 44 3.5k 0.9× 3.3k 2.1× 1.2k 1.2× 523 0.5× 174 0.2× 211 6.5k
W. D. Luedtke United States 38 3.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 401 0.5× 51 6.9k
Colin Ophus United States 45 4.2k 1.1× 2.0k 1.3× 869 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 433 0.6× 292 7.8k
Yong Liu China 34 4.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.7× 541 0.5× 936 1.2× 395 6.2k
Michael Engel Germany 40 5.0k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 104 7.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Watanabe, Kenji, et al.. (2025). Anomalies in G and 2D Raman modes of twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle. Physical review. B.. 112(4).
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Singh, Surjeet, et al.. (2024). Magnon excitation and spin-phonon coupling in A2Ir2O7 (A=Gd, Dy, and Er). Physical review. B.. 109(18). 4 indexed citations
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Nandi, Saroj Kumar, et al.. (2024). A shape-driven reentrant jamming transition in confluent monolayers of synthetic cell-mimics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5645–5645. 8 indexed citations
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Joseph, Boby, et al.. (2023). Pressure tuning of structure, magnetic frustration, and carrier conduction in the Kitaev spin liquid candidate Cu2IrO3. Physical review. B.. 107(8). 4 indexed citations
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Paul, Arpita, Achintya Bera, D. V. S. Muthu, et al.. (2023). Pressure-induced superconductivity in the weak topological insulator BiSe. Physical review. B.. 107(2). 8 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Susmita, et al.. (2022). Trapping the carrier in the spin-locked MoS2 atomic valley by absorption of chiral L-cysteine. AIP Advances. 12(7). 1 indexed citations
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Sundaresan, A., et al.. (2022). Raman fingerprints of fractionalized Majorana excitations in the honeycomb iridate Ag3LiIr2O6. Physical review. B.. 105(23). 2 indexed citations
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Soni, Harsh, et al.. (2022). Active nonreciprocal attraction between motile particles in an elastic medium. Physical review. E. 105(6). 64602–64602. 27 indexed citations
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Bera, Pradip, et al.. (2021). Shear-Induced Ordering of Nanopores and Instabilities in Concentrated Surfactant Mesh Phases. Langmuir. 37(23). 6874–6886. 2 indexed citations
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Gupta, Satyendra Nath, et al.. (2021). Pressure-induced 1T to 3R structural phase transition in metallic VSe2: X-ray diffraction and first-principles theory. Physical review. B.. 104(1). 8 indexed citations
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Harnagea, Luminita, et al.. (2020). Pressure-induced suppression of charge density wave and emergence of superconductivity in 1T−VSe2. Physical review. B.. 101(1). 46 indexed citations
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Narasimhan, Shobhana, et al.. (2020). Cooperative particle rearrangements facilitate the self-organized growth of colloidal crystal arrays on strain-relief patterns. Science Advances. 6(10). eaay8418–eaay8418. 14 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Biswanath, Anjali Singh, Shivani Grover, et al.. (2020). Symmetry induced phonon renormalization in few layers of 2H-MoTe 2 transistors: Raman and first-principles studies. Nanotechnology. 32(4). 45202–45202. 1 indexed citations
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Bera, Pradip, Sayantan Majumdar, Guy Ouillon, Didier Sornette, & A. K. Sood. (2020). Quantitative earthquake-like statistical properties of the flow of soft materials below yield stress. Nature Communications. 11(1). 9–9. 115 indexed citations
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Zakhidov, Dante, Eilam Yalon, Sanchit Deshmukh, et al.. (2020). Uncovering the Effects of Metal Contacts on Monolayer MoS2. ACS Nano. 14(11). 14798–14808. 109 indexed citations
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Bera, Pradip, et al.. (2019). Experimental signatures of a nonequilibrium phase transition near the crossover point of a Langmuir monolayer. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(50). 504004–504004. 1 indexed citations

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