Narayanan Menon

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Narayanan Menon is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Narayanan Menon has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 15 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Narayanan Menon's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (22 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (13 papers). Narayanan Menon is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (22 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (13 papers). Narayanan Menon collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and France. Narayanan Menon's co-authors include Sriraṁ Ramaswamy, Vijay Narayan, Klebert Feitosa, Sidney R. Nagel, Thomas P. Russell, D. J. Durian, Jiangshui Huang, Florence Rouyer, Benny Davidovitch and Enrique Cerda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Narayanan Menon

50 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granul... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 200 400 600
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. Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic
    2007 605 citations Vijay Narayan, Sriraṁ Ramaswamy et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Narayanan Menon United States 29 1.4k 1.0k 910 903 873 53 3.5k
Ralf Seemann Germany 38 1.8k 1.3× 941 0.9× 2.6k 2.8× 685 0.8× 2.5k 2.9× 117 6.4k
Marc Fermigier France 29 679 0.5× 824 0.8× 1.9k 2.1× 2.0k 2.2× 857 1.0× 51 3.7k
Stephen A. Langer United States 27 1.4k 1.1× 577 0.6× 569 0.6× 551 0.6× 582 0.7× 51 3.2k
Bulbul Chakraborty United States 31 1.5k 1.1× 302 0.3× 421 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 964 1.1× 114 3.4k
Axel Voigt Germany 36 2.0k 1.5× 523 0.5× 650 0.7× 729 0.8× 1.8k 2.0× 208 4.7k
Lou Kondic United States 35 952 0.7× 333 0.3× 653 0.7× 329 0.4× 2.6k 2.9× 154 3.6k
Ralf Stannarius Germany 33 1.7k 1.2× 946 0.9× 675 0.7× 335 0.4× 954 1.1× 260 4.6k
Zhengdong Cheng United States 36 2.1k 1.5× 481 0.5× 1.9k 2.1× 378 0.4× 324 0.4× 105 4.3k
Pep Español Spain 33 3.4k 2.5× 159 0.2× 1.5k 1.6× 700 0.8× 1.9k 2.1× 91 6.1k
Christophe Ybert France 35 1.1k 0.8× 520 0.5× 2.6k 2.9× 1.5k 1.7× 1.5k 1.8× 71 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Narayanan Menon

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Narayanan Menon's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Narayanan Menon with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Narayanan Menon more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Narayanan Menon

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Narayanan Menon. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Narayanan Menon. The network helps show where Narayanan Menon may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Narayanan Menon

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Forth, Joe, Yu Chai, Anju Toor, et al.. (2021). The Buckling Spectra of Nanoparticle Surfactant Assemblies. Nano Letters. 21(17). 7116–7122. 14 indexed citations
2.
Marthelot, Joël, et al.. (2021). Shapes of a filament on the surface of a bubble. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 3 indexed citations
3.
Menon, Narayanan, et al.. (2019). Kepler Orbits in Pairs of Disks Settling in a Viscous Fluid. Physical Review Letters. 122(22). 224501–224501. 11 indexed citations
4.
Paulsen, Joseph D., et al.. (2018). Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheets. Science. 359(6377). 775–778. 45 indexed citations
5.
Paulsen, Joseph D., et al.. (2017). Geometry-Driven Folding of a Floating Annular Sheet. Physical Review Letters. 118(4). 48004–48004. 19 indexed citations
6.
Paulsen, Joseph D., Evan Hohlfeld, Hunter King, et al.. (2016). Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(5). 1144–1149. 85 indexed citations
7.
Vella, Dominic, Jiangshui Huang, Narayanan Menon, Thomas P. Russell, & Benny Davidovitch. (2015). Indentation of Ultrathin Elastic Films and the Emergence of Asymptotic Isometry. Physical Review Letters. 114(1). 14301–14301. 47 indexed citations
8.
Paulsen, Joseph D., Vincent Démery, Christian D. Santangelo, et al.. (2015). Optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets. Nature Materials. 14(12). 1206–1209. 55 indexed citations
9.
Schroll, Robert D., Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Enrique Cerda, et al.. (2013). Capillary Deformations of Bendable Films. Physical Review Letters. 111(1). 14301–14301. 62 indexed citations
10.
Huang, Jiangshui, Benny Davidovitch, Christian D. Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, & Narayanan Menon. (2010). Smooth Cascade of Wrinkles at the Edge of a Floating Elastic Film. Physical Review Letters. 105(3). 38302–38302. 95 indexed citations
11.
Wang, Hongqiang, Klebert Feitosa, & Narayanan Menon. (2009). Particle kinematics in a dilute, three-dimensional, vibration-fluidized granular medium. Physical Review E. 80(6). 60304–60304. 10 indexed citations
12.
Wang, Hongqiang & Narayanan Menon. (2008). Heating Mechanism Affects Equipartition in a Binary Granular System. Physical Review Letters. 100(15). 158001–158001. 19 indexed citations
13.
Narayan, Vijay, Sriraṁ Ramaswamy, & Narayanan Menon. (2008). Response to Comment on "Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic". Science. 320(5876). 612–612. 12 indexed citations
14.
Menon, Narayanan, et al.. (2006). Glass transition of glycerol in the volume-temperature plane. Physical Review E. 73(4). 40501–40501. 33 indexed citations
15.
Feitosa, Klebert & Narayanan Menon. (2004). Fluidized Granular Medium as an Instance of the Fluctuation Theorem. Physical Review Letters. 92(16). 164301–164301. 112 indexed citations
16.
Easwar, Nalini, et al.. (2002). Large Force Fluctuations in a Flowing Granular Medium. Physical Review Letters. 89(4). 45501–45501. 44 indexed citations
17.
Easwar, Nalini, et al.. (2000). Force Fluctuations in Flowing Granular Material. APS.
18.
Deegan, Robert D., Robert L. Leheny, Narayanan Menon, Sidney R. Nagel, & David C. Venerus. (1999). Dynamic Shear Modulus of Tricresyl Phosphate and Squalane. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 103(20). 4066–4070. 59 indexed citations
19.
Bitko, D., S. N. Coppersmith, Robert L. Leheny, et al.. (1997). Evidence for glass and spin-glass phase transitions from the dynamic susceptibility. Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 102(2). 207–207. 7 indexed citations
20.
Menon, Narayanan & Sidney R. Nagel. (1993). Comment on ‘‘Scaling of the α relaxation in low-molecular-weight glass-forming liquids and polymers’’. Physical Review Letters. 71(24). 4095–4095. 28 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ralf Seemann Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Marc Fermigier Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Stephen A. Langer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Bulbul Chakraborty Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Axel Voigt Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lou Kondic Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ralf Stannarius Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Zhengdong Cheng Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Pep Español Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Christophe Ybert
Rankless by CCL
2026