P. Shankar

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

P. Shankar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Shankar has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in P. Shankar's work include Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (27 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (26 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (17 papers). P. Shankar is often cited by papers focused on Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (27 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (26 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (17 papers). P. Shankar collaborates with scholars based in India, Japan and Netherlands. P. Shankar's co-authors include John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan, Ganesh Kumar Mani, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi, Baldev Raj, Padmanathan Karthick Kannan, Christopher S. Blackman, Chan‐Hwa Chung, Josephus G. Buijnsters and J. J. ter Meulen and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

P. Shankar

94 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Electronic noses for food quality: A review

2014 591 citations Amy Loutfi, Silvia Coradeschi et al. Journal of Food Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. Shankar India	30	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	778	627	98	3.1k
Ramanathan Srinivasan India	25	709 0.5×	851 0.8×	689 0.7×	523 0.7×	170 0.3×	93	2.6k
Jianxin Zhang China	31	1.3k 0.9×	417 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	277 0.4×	199	3.5k
Perena Gouma United States	24	1.2k 0.8×	724 0.6×	881 0.9×	672 0.9×	76 0.1×	111	2.4k
Siyuan Lu China	27	602 0.4×	458 0.4×	289 0.3×	947 1.2×	224 0.4×	83	2.2k
Fernando Martín Spain	26	759 0.5×	372 0.3×	263 0.3×	1.0k 1.3×	253 0.4×	85	1.9k
V. R. K. Raju India	29	833 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	968 1.2×	241 0.4×	99	4.3k
Daniela Nunes Portugal	31	1.9k 1.3×	783 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	259 0.3×	96 0.2×	114	3.3k
Mei Zhang China	27	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	566 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	593 0.9×	149	3.9k
Walter W. Focke South Africa	28	743 0.5×	851 0.8×	823 0.8×	918 1.2×	258 0.4×	170	3.9k
Long Zhang China	40	1.7k 1.1×	981 0.9×	780 0.8×	2.6k 3.3×	325 0.5×	233	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. Shankar

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shankar, P., et al.. (2025). Green synthesis of LaVO4 nanoparticles using Colocasia esculenta leaf extract for enhanced photocatalytic activity and electrochemical sensing of paracetamol. Ionics. 32(1). 867–885.

Shankar, P., et al.. (2023). Eco-friendly fabrication of V2O5@GO hybrids for direct glucose electrooxidation and sensing: An alternative to noble metals. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 132. 383–394. 2 indexed citations

Shankar, P., Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Arockia Jayalatha Kulandaisamy, et al.. (2022). Boron induced c-axis growth and ammonia sensing signatures of spray pyrolysis deposited ZnO thin films – Relation between crystallinity and sensing. Thin Solid Films. 746. 139126–139126. 13 indexed citations

Shankar, P., Mitsuhiro Honda, Stanislav O. Gurbatov, et al.. (2022). Biodegradable Polymer Nanosheets Incorporated with Zn-Containing Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. Materials. 15(22). 8101–8101. 3 indexed citations

Shankar, P., et al.. (2019). Molecular-Level Interactions between Engineered Materials and Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(17). 4142–4142. 15 indexed citations

Govindan, K., et al.. (2019). Electrocoagulants Characteristics and Application of Electrocoagulation for Micropollutant Removal and Transformation Mechanism. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(1). 1775–1788. 46 indexed citations

Ezhilan, Madeshwari, Ganesh Kumar Mani, P. Shankar, et al.. (2018). Fluorine doped ZnO thin film as acetaldehyde sensor. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 33(9). 95005–95005. 29 indexed citations

Paulraj, R., et al.. (2018). PANI–CdO Nanocomposite Thin Films as a Room Temperature Methanol Sensor. Journal of Electronic Materials. 47(10). 6000–6006. 10 indexed citations

Kulandaisamy, Arockia Jayalatha, et al.. (2018). Nano ceria as xylene sensor – Role of cerium precursor. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 753. 771–780. 26 indexed citations

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Avireddy, Hemesh, Harikishan Kannan, P. Shankar, et al.. (2018). Non-mutually exclusive dual role of hexamethylenetetramine on the growth of ZnO nanostructures and their sensing footprints. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 212. 394–402. 13 indexed citations

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Heo, Jun Hyuk, et al.. (2018). The Effect of ζ‐Potential and Hydrodynamic Size on Nanoparticle Interactions in Hydrogels. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 36(1). 19 indexed citations

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Palani, Kumaran, et al.. (2017). INVESTIGATION OF UREA DECOMPOSITION AND UNIFORM CONCENTRATION OF UREA WATER SOLUTION IN SCR SYSTEM FOR DIESEL ENGINE EXHAUST USING CFD. RASAYAN Journal of Chemistry. 1 indexed citations

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Shankar, P. & John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan. (2017). Room temperature ethanol sensing properties of ZnO nanorods prepared using an electrospinning technique. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(41). 10869–10880. 67 indexed citations

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Shankar, P. & John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan. (2015). Electrospun tailored ZnO nanostructures – role of chloride ions. RSC Advances. 5(104). 85363–85372. 21 indexed citations

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Shankar, P., et al.. (2014). Solvent volume driven ZnO nanopetals thin films: Spray pyrolysis. Materials Letters. 134. 47–50. 30 indexed citations

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Loutfi, Amy, Silvia Coradeschi, Ganesh Kumar Mani, P. Shankar, & John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan. (2014). Electronic noses for food quality: A review. Journal of Food Engineering. 144. 103–111. 591 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shankar, P. & John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan. (2013). Spray Deposited Nanostructured Zinc Oxide Thin Film as Room Temperature Ethanol Sensor—Role of Annealing. Sensor Letters. 11(10). 1956–1959. 11 indexed citations

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Shankar, P., et al.. (2009). Role of disclinations and nanocrystalline state in the formation of quasicrystalline phases on mechanical alloying of Cu-Fe powders. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 16(5). 499–503. 1 indexed citations

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Buijnsters, Josephus G., P. Shankar, P. Gopalakrishnan, et al.. (2003). Diffusion-modified boride interlayers for chemical vapour deposition of low-residual-stress diamond films on steel substrates. Thin Solid Films. 426(1-2). 85–93. 54 indexed citations

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Sundararaman, D., P. Shankar, & V.S. Raghunathan. (1996). Electron microscopic study of cr2n formation in thermally aged 316ln austenitic stainless steels. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 27(5). 1175–1186. 30 indexed citations

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