Anil Kumar

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
288 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Anil Kumar is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Anil Kumar has authored 288 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 78 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 75 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Anil Kumar's work include Food Drying and Modeling (69 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (62 papers) and Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (58 papers). Anil Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Food Drying and Modeling (69 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (62 papers) and Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (58 papers). Anil Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, Thailand and China. Anil Kumar's co-authors include Om Prakash, Prashant Baredar, Prashant Singh Chauhan, Perapong Tekasakul, S. Vijayan, T.V. Arjunan, G.N. Tiwari, Geetam Richhariya, Bhupendra Gupta and Ashish Shukla and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Anil Kumar

273 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Exergo-environmental analysis of an indirect forced conve... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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. Exergo-environmental analysis of an indirect forced convection solar dryer for drying bitter gourd slices
    2019 227 citations Anil Kumar 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
Anil Kumar India 50 2.9k 2.9k 2.5k 2.1k 913 288 8.2k
Ahmad Fudholi Malaysia 41 2.2k 0.7× 3.5k 1.2× 1.2k 0.5× 910 0.4× 843 0.9× 328 7.3k
Adnan Mi̇di̇lli̇ Türkiye 38 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.3× 2.6k 1.0× 752 0.4× 983 1.1× 87 6.7k
Arun S. Mujumdar Canada 48 2.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 506 0.2× 1.1k 1.2× 255 7.3k
K.J. Chua Singapore 58 5.3k 1.8× 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 485 0.2× 2.5k 2.7× 253 11.3k
Barat Ghobadian Iran 63 3.8k 1.3× 2.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.5× 662 0.3× 6.5k 7.1× 306 12.8k
Mohammed Farid New Zealand 67 11.3k 3.9× 7.5k 2.6× 2.0k 0.8× 770 0.4× 2.3k 2.5× 295 19.3k
G.N. Tiwari India 81 4.3k 1.5× 16.6k 5.7× 1.0k 0.4× 1.9k 0.9× 875 1.0× 499 20.5k
Milford A. Hanna United States 61 3.7k 1.3× 770 0.3× 3.2k 1.3× 2.0k 1.0× 9.0k 9.8× 301 19.3k
S.A. Tassou United Kingdom 54 6.5k 2.2× 2.2k 0.7× 885 0.4× 244 0.1× 1.8k 2.0× 259 10.3k
N. L. Panwar India 39 1.9k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 364 0.1× 421 0.2× 2.2k 2.4× 181 8.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anil Kumar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anil Kumar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2025). Current trends and future prospects of hydrogen production from coconut waste. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 164. 150782–150782. 1 indexed citations
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Gupta, Bhupendra, et al.. (2025). Global trends in solar latent thermal energy storage research (1975–2023). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 212. 115409–115409. 9 indexed citations
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Sinha, Shailendra, et al.. (2025). Techno-economic and environmental analysis of hybrid SOFC-GT-sCO2 systems for sustainable energy generation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 120. 558–571. 4 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2025). Integrated Crop Production Management. International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology. 13(1). 1250–1255. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2025). Linking financial technology, innovation, and green finance to drive sustainable performance of SMEs of Pakistan. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. 38(6). 30–54.
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Thakur, Vijay Kumar, et al.. (2024). Analytical modeling of spacer-engineered reconfigurable silicon nanowire Schottky barrier transistor for biosensing applications. Micro and Nanostructures. 188. 207799–207799. 11 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2024). Energetic, exergetic, exergoeconomic, and enviroeconomic analysis of solar dish-integrated water desalination system with various nanofluids. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 26. 101207–101207. 6 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2023). Design of solar cement plant for supplying thermal energy in cement production. Journal of Cleaner Production. 426. 139151–139151. 5 indexed citations
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Atheaya, Deepali, et al.. (2023). Performance evaluation of indirect type domestic hybrid solar dryer for tomato drying: Thermal, embodied, economical and quality analysis. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 42. 101882–101882. 44 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2023). Potential of solar thermal calciner technology for cement production in India and consequent carbon mitigation. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 179. 667–676. 5 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2023). Flow and heat transfer characteristics of submerged impinging air-water jets. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 193. 108503–108503. 8 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2023). Potential Use of Biomass Waste as a Sustainable Energy Source in the Future: A Case Study. TEM Journal. 2573–2582. 1 indexed citations
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Richhariya, Geetam, et al.. (2023). Efficient photosensitive light harvesting dye sensitized solar cell using hibiscus and rhodamine dyes. Journal of Power Sources. 572. 233112–233112. 12 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Shahariar, et al.. (2022). Optimization of Biomass Fuel Composition for Rubber Glove Manufacturing in Thailand. Sustainability. 14(19). 12493–12493. 5 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Asim, Om Prakash, Anil Kumar, et al.. (2022). A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review on the Recent Developments in Greenhouse Drying. Energies. 15(24). 9493–9493. 31 indexed citations
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Prakash, Om, Asim Ahmad, Anil Kumar, et al.. (2022). Performance Analysis, and Economic-Feasibility Evaluation of Single-Slope Single-Basin Domestic Solar Still under Different Water-Depths. Energies. 15(22). 8517–8517. 18 indexed citations
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Anyanwu, C.N., et al.. (2021). Solar photovoltaic (PV)‐driven active crop drying system for plantain (MUSA SPP): Design, development, and performance evaluation. Journal of Food Process Engineering. 44(12). 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2021). A Short Review on Oil Palm Biomass as Feedstock for Pyrolysis Process. Lecture notes in mechanical engineering. 531–539. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2021). Thermal characteristics of sensible heat storage materials applicable for concentrated solar power systems. Materials Today Proceedings. 47. 5812–5817. 21 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anil. (2010). Texas twist: why did state's unemployment fall below nation's?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3–7.

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