Ajay Soni

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Ajay Soni is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ajay Soni has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ajay Soni's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (38 papers), Thermal properties of materials (17 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (14 papers). Ajay Soni is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (38 papers), Thermal properties of materials (17 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (14 papers). Ajay Soni collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and China. Ajay Soni's co-authors include Juhi Pandey, Kanishka Biswas, Yanyuan Zhao, M. S. Dresselhaus, Qihua Xiong, Umesh V. Waghmare, Tanmoy Ghosh, Niraj K. Singh, S. Acharya and Gunadhor Singh Okram and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Ajay Soni

110 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe ₂

2021 495 citations Subhajit Roychowdhury, Tanmoy Ghosh et al. Science profile →
Raman Spectroscopy of Few-Quintuple Layer Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃ Nanoplatelets

2011 427 citations Ajay Soni et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ajay Soni India	29	2.9k	1.4k	687	457	431	117	3.6k
Yimin Chao United Kingdom	32	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	720 1.0×	84 0.2×	506 1.2×	114	3.3k
Teng Yang China	35	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	562 0.8×	78 0.2×	715 1.7×	132	4.0k
Kazuyuki Nishio Japan	34	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	699 1.0×	214 0.5×	370 0.9×	135	3.6k
Catherine Boussard‐Plédel France	40	3.5k 1.2×	2.6k 1.8×	454 0.7×	74 0.2×	388 0.9×	175	4.9k
Johannes Kimling Germany	13	1.3k 0.4×	431 0.3×	419 0.6×	104 0.2×	1.0k 2.4×	16	2.5k
Sijie Yang China	25	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	409 0.6×	58 0.1×	324 0.8×	87	2.8k
R.V. Upadhyay India	30	1.3k 0.5×	518 0.4×	292 0.4×	456 1.0×	652 1.5×	173	2.9k
Hao Jin China	33	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	334 0.5×	42 0.1×	543 1.3×	137	3.5k
Eduardo B. Barros Brazil	29	1.8k 0.6×	551 0.4×	533 0.8×	58 0.1×	348 0.8×	87	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ajay Soni

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Bhui, Animesh, Abdul Ahad, Moinak Dutta, et al.. (2025). s-d Coupling-Induced Dynamic Off-Centering of Cu Drives High Thermoelectric Performance in TlCuS. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(4). 3758–3768. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Jin, et al.. (2025). Surface growth of mixed metal oxide thin rafts and their impact on methane dry reforming. Catalysis Today. 458. 115371–115371.

Rana, Kewal Singh, et al.. (2024). Anharmonic Phonon Vibrations of Ag and Cu for Poor Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Superionic AgCrSe₂ and CuCrSe₂. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(14). 5621–5628. 3 indexed citations

Soni, Ajay, et al.. (2024). Palladium Nanoparticles Stabilized in Ionic Liquid‐Based Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica: An Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for Oxidative Acylation of Ketones. ChemistrySelect. 9(44). 2 indexed citations

Rana, Kewal Singh & Ajay Soni. (2023). Thermoelectricity in Ag/Cu-based complex crystal structure minerals with inherent low thermal conductivity. 3(1). 11 indexed citations

Rana, Kewal Singh, Raveena Gupta, Debattam Sarkar, et al.. (2023). Interaction of acoustic and optical phonons in a soft-bonded Cu-Se framework of large unit cell minerals with anionic disorders. Physical review. B.. 108(4). 13 indexed citations

Acharyya, Paribesh, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, et al.. (2022). Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5053–5053. 82 indexed citations

Patil, Komal, et al.. (2022). Ferrocene anchored activated carbon as a versatile catalyst for the synthesis of 1,5-benzodiazepines via one-pot environmentally benign conditions. RSC Advances. 12(23). 14740–14756. 13 indexed citations

Roychowdhury, Subhajit, Tanmoy Ghosh, Raagya Arora, et al.. (2021). Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe ₂. Science. 371(6530). 722–727. 495 indexed citations breakdown →

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Acharyya, Paribesh, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, et al.. (2020). Intrinsically Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Ruddlesden–Popper 2D Perovskite Cs₂PbI₂Cl₂: Localized Anharmonic Vibrations and Dynamic Octahedral Distortions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(36). 15595–15603. 132 indexed citations

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Thakur, Chandrakant, et al.. (2020). Taguchi Optimization of Adsorptive Treatment of Effluent from Lead-acid Battery Recycling unit Using Pressmud-a Sugar Industry Waste. Pollution. 6(4). 879–892. 3 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pawan, Jayeeta Biswas, Juhi Pandey, et al.. (2019). Selective Oxidation of WS₂ Defect Domain with Sub‐Monolayer Thickness Leads to Multifold Enhancement in Photoluminescence. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 6(20). 9 indexed citations

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Dutta, Moinak, Shidaling Matteppanavar, Juhi Pandey, et al.. (2019). Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Chain-like TlSe Due to Inherent Tl⁺ Rattling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(51). 20293–20299. 95 indexed citations

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Singh, Niraj K., Ganpati Ramanath, & Ajay Soni. (2019). Copper-induced majority charge carrier reversal in bismuth telluride-based nanothermoelectrics. AIP conference proceedings. 2115. 30625–30625. 2 indexed citations

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Yao, Zehan, Lipeng Zhu, Yuanyuan Huang, et al.. (2018). Interface Properties Probed by Active THz Surface Emission in Graphene/SiO₂/Si Heterostructures. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(41). 35599–35606. 18 indexed citations

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Soni, Ajay, et al.. (2012). Removal of Glycolic Acid From Aqueous Solution using Bagasse Flyash. International Journal of Environmental Research. 6(1). 297–308. 14 indexed citations

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Soni, Ajay, Abdul Rehman, Sunanda G. Dastidar, et al.. (2012). Synthesis and evaluation of 4,5-dihydro-5-methylisoxazolin-5-carboxamide derivatives as VLA-4 antagonists. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 23(5). 1482–1485. 10 indexed citations

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Soni, Ajay, et al.. (2011). Bioremediation: an ecological solution to textile effluents.. Asian Journal of Biological Sciences. 6(2). 248–257. 2 indexed citations

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Soni, Ajay, et al.. (2011). TREATMENT OF RICE MILL EFFLUENTS FOR POLLUTION CONTROL. I Control Pollution. 27(1). 4 indexed citations

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Soni, Ajay, et al.. (2007). Proline ureas: Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation as VLA-4 antagonists. Indian Journal of Chemistry Section B-organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry. 46(12). 2004–2020. 1 indexed citations

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