Manish Ram

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Manish Ram is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Manish Ram has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Pollution and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Manish Ram's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (16 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (14 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (10 papers). Manish Ram is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (16 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (14 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (10 papers). Manish Ram collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Spain and Brazil. Manish Ram's co-authors include Christian Breyer, Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Ashish Gulagi, Ayobami Solomon Oyewo, Siavash Khalili, Michael Child, Mahdi Fasihi, Larissa de Souza Noel Simas Barbosa and Upeksha Caldera and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Manish Ram

22 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Low-cost renewable electricity as the key driver of the global energy transition towards sustainability

2021 613 citations Dmitrii Bogdanov, Manish Ram et al. Energy profile →
Job creation during the global energy transition towards 100% renewable power system by 2050

2019 305 citations Manish Ram, Arman Aghahosseini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manish Ram Finland	19	999	745	671	635	379	25	2.2k
Ayobami Solomon Oyewo Finland	18	1.1k 1.1×	637 0.9×	783 1.2×	608 1.0×	304 0.8×	37	2.0k
Upeksha Caldera Finland	23	1.0k 1.1×	785 1.1×	801 1.2×	558 0.9×	312 0.8×	32	2.3k
Ashish Gulagi Finland	24	1.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	782 1.2×	492 1.3×	32	3.1k
Max Wei United States	24	735 0.7×	562 0.8×	399 0.6×	341 0.5×	449 1.2×	36	2.0k
Sofia G. Simões Portugal	23	728 0.7×	510 0.7×	352 0.5×	436 0.7×	358 0.9×	64	1.8k
Md. Alam Hossain Mondal United States	27	739 0.7×	588 0.8×	842 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	256 0.7×	35	2.1k
Siavash Khalili Finland	15	792 0.8×	525 0.7×	552 0.8×	316 0.5×	254 0.7×	19	1.5k
René Benders Netherlands	24	642 0.6×	585 0.8×	342 0.5×	359 0.6×	435 1.1×	57	2.0k
Noah Kittner United States	21	956 1.0×	550 0.7×	322 0.5×	409 0.6×	180 0.5×	49	2.0k
Tom Kober Switzerland	27	723 0.7×	742 1.0×	299 0.4×	351 0.6×	548 1.4×	54	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Manish Ram

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manish Ram

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Manish Ram. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Manish Ram 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 Manish Ram. Manish Ram is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Osorio-Aravena, Juan Carlos, Manish Ram, Arman Aghahosseini, & Christian Breyer. (2025). Evaluation of employment effects during the transition of the Chilean energy system. Energy. 318. 134839–134839. 3 indexed citations

Bogdanov, Dmitrii, Manish Ram, Rasul Satymov, et al.. (2025). Costs and benefits of highly ambitious energy transition pathways for Europe. Energy. 336. 138477–138477. 1 indexed citations

Ram, Manish, et al.. (2025). Engineering the nonlinear optical and electrical properties of Sn-doped CuO thin films via controlled doping. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 36(24).

Bogdanov, Dmitrii, Manish Ram, Siavash Khalili, et al.. (2024). Effects of direct and indirect electrification on transport energy demand during the energy transition. Energy Policy. 192. 114205–114205. 21 indexed citations

Gulagi, Ashish, et al.. (2022). The role of renewables for rapid transitioning of the power sector across states in India. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5499–5499. 52 indexed citations

Ram, Manish, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Arman Aghahosseini, et al.. (2022). Global energy transition to 100% renewables by 2050: Not fiction, but much needed impetus for developing economies to leapfrog into a sustainable future. Energy. 246. 123419–123419. 58 indexed citations

Breyer, Christian, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Manish Ram, et al.. (2022). Reflecting the energy transition from a European perspective and in the global context—Relevance of solar photovoltaics benchmarking two ambitious scenarios. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 31(12). 1369–1395. 69 indexed citations

Ram, Manish, Ashish Gulagi, Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, & Christian Breyer. (2022). Energy transition in megacities towards 100% renewable energy: A case for Delhi. Renewable Energy. 195. 578–589. 49 indexed citations

Galimova, Tansu, Manish Ram, Dmitrii Bogdanov, et al.. (2022). Global demand analysis for carbon dioxide as raw material from key industrial sources and direct air capture to produce renewable electricity-based fuels and chemicals. Journal of Cleaner Production. 373. 133920–133920. 95 indexed citations

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Bogdanov, Dmitrii, Manish Ram, Arman Aghahosseini, et al.. (2021). Low-cost renewable electricity as the key driver of the global energy transition towards sustainability. Energy. 227. 120467–120467. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oyewo, Ayobami Solomon, A.A. Solomon, Dmitrii Bogdanov, et al.. (2021). Just transition towards defossilised energy systems for developing economies: A case study of Ethiopia. Renewable Energy. 176. 346–365. 28 indexed citations

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Ram, Manish, et al.. (2021). Sustainable energy strategies for micro, small, and medium enterprises in India: a review. International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. 37(3). 283–283.

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Ram, Manish, Juan Carlos Osorio-Aravena, Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, & Christian Breyer. (2021). Job creation during a climate compliant global energy transition across the power, heat, transport, and desalination sectors by 2050. Energy. 238. 121690–121690. 145 indexed citations

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Azzuni, Abdelrahman, Arman Aghahosseini, Manish Ram, et al.. (2020). Energy Security Analysis for a 100% Renewable Energy Transition in Jordan by 2050. Sustainability. 12(12). 4921–4921. 74 indexed citations

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Oyewo, Ayobami Solomon, Arman Aghahosseini, Manish Ram, & Christian Breyer. (2020). Transition towards decarbonised power systems and its socio-economic impacts in West Africa. Renewable Energy. 154. 1092–1112. 57 indexed citations

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Gulagi, Ashish, et al.. (2020). Current energy policies and possible transition scenarios adopting renewable energy: A case study for Bangladesh. Renewable Energy. 155. 899–920. 70 indexed citations

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Ram, Manish, Michael Child, Arman Aghahosseini, et al.. (2019). Authors’ reply to the letter to the editor: Response to ‘A comparative analysis of electricity generation costs from renewable, fossil fuel and nuclear sources in G20 countries for the period 2015–2030’. Journal of Cleaner Production. 242. 118530–118530.

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Oyewo, Ayobami Solomon, Arman Aghahosseini, Manish Ram, Alena Lohrmann, & Christian Breyer. (2019). Pathway towards achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2050 for South Africa. Solar Energy. 191. 549–565. 63 indexed citations

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Gulagi, Ashish, Manish Ram, & Christian Breyer. (2019). Role of the transmission grid and solar wind complementarity in mitigating the monsoon effect in a fully sustainable electricity system for India. IET Renewable Power Generation. 14(2). 254–262. 19 indexed citations

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Keiner, Dominik, Manish Ram, Larissa de Souza Noel Simas Barbosa, Dmitrii Bogdanov, & Christian Breyer. (2019). Cost optimal self-consumption of PV prosumers with stationary batteries, heat pumps, thermal energy storage and electric vehicles across the world up to 2050. Solar Energy. 185. 406–423. 111 indexed citations

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