Alok Kumar

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 726 citations indexed

About

Alok Kumar is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Nutrition and Dietetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alok Kumar has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 726 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 11 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 8 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Alok Kumar's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (10 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (8 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 papers). Alok Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (10 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (8 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 papers). Alok Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and South Korea. Alok Kumar's co-authors include Rahn Kennedy Bailey, Priya Balasubramaniam, Sunil Nandraj, K. Srinath Reddy, Vinod K. Paul, Mirai Chatterjee, Rachana Parikh, Vikram Patel, Rockli Kim and S. V. Subramanian and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alok Kumar

44 papers receiving 697 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.

  1. <p>Racial and ethnic differences in depression: current perspectives</p>
    2019 268 citations Rahn Kennedy Bailey, Alok Kumar et al. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alok Kumar India 10 203 143 136 126 99 58 726
Baridalyne Nongkynrih India 20 202 1.0× 143 1.0× 134 1.0× 161 1.3× 99 1.0× 82 1.2k
Alessandra N. Bazzano United States 22 379 1.9× 383 2.7× 392 2.9× 198 1.6× 38 0.4× 80 1.5k
Michael Otim United Arab Emirates 12 189 0.9× 156 1.1× 57 0.4× 79 0.6× 44 0.4× 30 687
Alexandra Brentani Brazil 15 212 1.0× 212 1.5× 138 1.0× 107 0.8× 15 0.2× 46 773
Andrea Wendt Brazil 20 273 1.3× 122 0.9× 64 0.5× 96 0.8× 30 0.3× 92 1.3k
Thomas Legrand Canada 17 277 1.4× 449 3.1× 157 1.2× 31 0.2× 91 0.9× 65 954
Guillermo González Pérez Mexico 15 194 1.0× 72 0.5× 27 0.2× 88 0.7× 15 0.2× 88 693
Dave Haran United Kingdom 15 235 1.2× 76 0.5× 23 0.2× 67 0.5× 42 0.4× 32 827
Kaipeng Wang United States 15 201 1.0× 85 0.6× 34 0.3× 160 1.3× 13 0.1× 91 778
Linda Irvine United Kingdom 17 476 2.3× 235 1.6× 198 1.5× 164 1.3× 9 0.1× 63 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Alok Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alok Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alok Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alok Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alok Kumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alok Kumar. Alok Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Kumar, Alok, et al.. (2024). BACP-IeFC: designing blockchain-based access control protocol in IoT-enabled fog computing environment. Cluster Computing. 27(10). 13919–13944. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok, et al.. (2024). Experimental study of thermal contacts for the enhancement of interfacial heat transfer. Engineering Research Express. 6(2). 25530–25530. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok & Suneet Singh. (2023). Bifurcation analysis of a pulsating heat pipe. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 192. 108384–108384. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok, et al.. (2022). Heat transfer analysis in thermal energy storage—A comprehensive review‐based latent heat storage system. Energy Storage. 5(6). 9 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok & Suneet Singh. (2022). Bifurcation Analysis of a Pulsating Heat Pipe. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok. (2021). New education policy (NEP) 2020: A roadmap for India 2.0. Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida). 4 indexed citations
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Rajpal, Sunil, Rockli Kim, Rajan Sankar, et al.. (2020). Frequently Asked Questions on Child Anthropometric Failures in India. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Rajpal, Sunil, William Joe, Malavika A. Subramanyam, et al.. (2020). Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services in India: Programmatic Insights from National Family Health Survey, 2016. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(9). 3197–3197. 24 indexed citations
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Rajpal, Sunil, William Joe, Rockli Kim, Alok Kumar, & S. V. Subramanian. (2020). Child Undernutrition and Convergence of Multisectoral Interventions in India: An Econometric Analysis of National Family Health Survey 2015–16. Frontiers in Public Health. 8. 129–129. 7 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok, et al.. (2019). Racial and ethnic differences in depression: current perspectives. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Kumar, Alok, et al.. (2019). An evaluation of women empowerment through microfinance: Factor analysis. International journal of advance research, ideas and innovations in technology. 5(1). 74–78. 1 indexed citations
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Bailey, Rahn Kennedy, et al.. (2019). <p>Racial and ethnic differences in depression: current perspectives</p>. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. Volume 15. 603–609. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Rockli, Akshay Swaminathan, Rakesh Kumar, et al.. (2019). Estimating the burden of child malnutrition across parliamentary constituencies in India: A methodological comparison. SSM - Population Health. 7. 100375–100375. 16 indexed citations
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Kim, Rockli, Praveen Kumar Pathak, Yun Xu, et al.. (2019). Micro-geographic targeting for precision public policy: Analysis of child sex ratio across 587,043 census villages in India, 2011. Health & Place. 57. 92–100. 10 indexed citations
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Debroy, Bibek & Alok Kumar. (2015). The road to universal health coverage in India. The Lancet. 386(10011). e56–e57. 4 indexed citations
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Patel, Vikram, Rachana Parikh, Sunil Nandraj, et al.. (2015). Assuring health coverage for all in India. The Lancet. 386(10011). 2422–2435. 175 indexed citations

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