Nikhil R. Pal

22.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
266 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Nikhil R. Pal is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil R. Pal has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 76 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 43 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Nikhil R. Pal's work include Neural Networks and Applications (87 papers), Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems (59 papers) and Face and Expression Recognition (35 papers). Nikhil R. Pal is often cited by papers focused on Neural Networks and Applications (87 papers), Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems (59 papers) and Face and Expression Recognition (35 papers). Nikhil R. Pal collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and China. Nikhil R. Pal's co-authors include James C. Bezdek, Sankar K. Pal, Rajani K. Mudi, Kuhu Pal, James M. Keller, Raghu Krisnapuram, James F. Keller, Dinabandhu Bhandari, Eric Chen-Kuo Tsao and Jayanta Kumar Das and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil R. Pal

250 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A review on image segmentation techniques

1993 2.5k citations Nikhil R. Pal et al. profile →
On cluster validity for the fuzzy c-means model

1995 1.3k citations Nikhil R. Pal, James C. Bezdek IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems profile →
A possibilistic fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm

2005 917 citations Nikhil R. Pal, Kuhu Pal et al. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems profile →
Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

1999 904 citations James C. Bezdek, Nikhil R. Pal et al. profile →
Some new indexes of cluster validity

1998 799 citations James C. Bezdek, Nikhil R. Pal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikhil R. Pal India	55	7.5k	5.3k	1.7k	1.7k	1.7k	266	15.5k
James M. Keller United States	47	5.6k 0.7×	4.8k 0.9×	698 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	997 0.6×	464	13.1k
Sankar K. Pal India	58	6.9k 0.9×	5.9k 1.1×	932 0.5×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	332	16.5k
John Langford United States	37	7.2k 1.0×	6.0k 1.1×	884 0.5×	977 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	115	15.1k
Alexander J. Smola United States	42	11.8k 1.6×	8.8k 1.7×	2.5k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	998 0.6×	100	25.2k
Christopher J. C. Burges United States	27	9.5k 1.3×	7.4k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	950 0.6×	43	23.5k
Olivier Chapelle United States	45	7.7k 1.0×	5.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	888 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	89	14.1k
Jieping Ye United States	87	7.9k 1.1×	8.7k 1.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	462 0.3×	439	25.3k
Peter L. Bartlett United States	42	7.4k 1.0×	3.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	344 0.2×	1.1k 0.6×	200	12.3k
Joydeep Ghosh United States	48	6.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.7×	547 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	556 0.3×	308	14.9k
Ludmila I. Kuncheva United Kingdom	45	7.5k 1.0×	3.6k 0.7×	608 0.4×	761 0.4×	563 0.3×	128	12.3k

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Chang, Qin, et al.. (2025). Multihead Takagi–Sugeno–Kang Fuzzy System. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 33(8). 2561–2573.

Sheng, Yin, et al.. (2025). Sampled-Data-Based Event-Triggered Output-Feedback Consensus for Uncertain Heterogeneous High-Order Multiagent Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 55(9). 5897–5911.

Wang, Jian, Gai‐Ge Wang, Yong Zhang, et al.. (2025). A two-mode offspring generation selection mechanism with co-evolution for sparse large-scale multiobjective optimization. Information Sciences. 718. 122337–122337. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jian, et al.. (2024). Bi-Level Spectral Feature Selection. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36(4). 6597–6611. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Jian, et al.. (2024). Universal Approximation Abilities of a Modular Differentiable Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36(3). 5586–5600. 5 indexed citations

Chang, Qin, et al.. (2024). Takagi–Sugeno–Kang Fuzzy Systems for High-Dimensional Multilabel Classification. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 32(6). 3790–3804. 7 indexed citations

Chang, Qin, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Nonstationary Fuzzy Neural Network. Knowledge-Based Systems. 288. 111398–111398. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Jian, et al.. (2023). High-Dimensional Fuzzy Inference Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 54(1). 507–519. 15 indexed citations

Chang, Qin, et al.. (2022). An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy System With Integrated Feature Selection and Rule Extraction for High-Dimensional Classification Problems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 31(7). 2167–2181. 63 indexed citations

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Lin, Chin‐Teng, Yuting Liu, Chun‐Hsiang Chuang, et al.. (2019). An Adaptive Subspace Self-Organizing Map (ASSOM) Imbalanced Learning and Its Applications in EEG.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Pal, Nikhil R., et al.. (2019). Deep and Structure-Preserving Autoencoders for Clustering Data With Missing Information. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. 5(4). 639–650. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hao, Nikhil R. Pal, Yin Sheng, & Zhigang Zeng. (2018). Distributed Adaptive Tracking Synchronization for Coupled Reaction–Diffusion Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 30(5). 1462–1475. 50 indexed citations

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Chung, I‐Fang, Yi-Cheng Chen, & Nikhil R. Pal. (2017). Feature Selection With Controlled Redundancy in a Fuzzy Rule Based Framework. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 26(2). 734–748. 40 indexed citations

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Pal, Nikhil R., et al.. (2016). Finding Synergy Networks From Gene Expression Data: A Fuzzy-Rule-Based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 24(6). 1488–1499. 3 indexed citations

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Paul, Samrat, et al.. (2009). NEUROSVM: An Architecture to Reduce the Effect of the Choice of Kernel on the Performance of SVM. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 10(21). 591–622. 15 indexed citations

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Pal, Nikhil R. & Lokesh Jain. (2005). Advanced techniques in data mining and knowledge discovery. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Pal, Nikhil R., et al.. (2003). Connectionist models for approximate solutions of non-linear equations in one variable. Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations archive. 11(3). 185–206. 1 indexed citations

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Pal, Kuhu & Nikhil R. Pal. (1998). Learning of rule importance for fuzzy controllers to deal with inconsistent rules and for rule elimination. Control and Cybernetics. 27(4). 521–543. 1 indexed citations

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Pal, Nikhil R., et al.. (1997). Neural Networks for Dimensionality Reduction.. International Conference on Neural Information Processing. 221–224. 6 indexed citations

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Bezdek, James C., Richard J. Hathaway, & Nikhil R. Pal. (1995). Norm-induced shell-prototypes (NISP) clustering. Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations archive. 3(4). 431–449. 11 indexed citations

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